Skip to main content
TrustRadius
IBM API Management

IBM API Management

Overview

What is IBM API Management?

IBM API management enables creation and management of web application programming interfaces (API).

Read more
Recent Reviews
Read all reviews

Awards

Products that are considered exceptional by their customers based on a variety of criteria win TrustRadius awards. Learn more about the types of TrustRadius awards to make the best purchase decision. More about TrustRadius Awards

Return to navigation

Pricing

View all pricing
N/A
Unavailable

What is IBM API Management?

IBM API management enables creation and management of web application programming interfaces (API).

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Would you like us to let the vendor know that you want pricing?

2 people also want pricing

Alternatives Pricing

What is SAP Integration Suite?

SAP Integration Suite is an integration platform-as-a-service (iPaaS) that helps quickly integrate on-premises and cloud-based processes, services, applications, events, and data. It is used to accelerate innovation, automate more processes, and realize a faster time to value.

What is Boomi?

Boomi is a cloud-based, on-premise, or hybrid integration platform. It offers a low-code/no-code interface with the capacity for API and EDI connections for integrating with external organizations and systems, as well as compliance with data protection regulations.

Return to navigation

Product Demos

IBM IOT Android Demo

YouTube

Fast Track Demo on IBM API Management in IBM Bluemix - Trifork Tech Talk Series - Zurich 19.4.16

YouTube

Part 1: Rest API, Mobile App, IBM API Management v3.0 end to end demo

YouTube
Return to navigation

Product Details

What is IBM API Management?

IBM API Management Competitors

IBM API Management Technical Details

Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Return to navigation

Comparisons

View all alternatives
Return to navigation

Reviews and Ratings

(33)

Reviews

(1-1 of 1)
Companies can't remove reviews or game the system. Here's why
Brent Heezen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM API Management is used for API lifecycle management - for creating, managing and securing APIs. It is an extension of the DataPower gateway used to manage cross-functional APIs and services. Used as an enterprise tool for socializing APIs through its discoverability and cataloging features. Performance, scaling and operational statistics are used to help identify hiccups or trends in service disruption.
  • Import APIs - We have an existing inventory of APIs and services, so having an easy import process was required. IBM provides the ability to import Swagger so the process was quick and easy.
  • Service Offerings - Can create plans to control various model offerings for varying clients depending on the need. You are not locked into a tier structure and can customize if a need arises.
  • API Usage - visibility into the use of an API with a wealth of reporting information allows you to support an API from a production use to trending and forecasting any future growth.
  • Troubleshooting deployment pipeline - identifying issues with your api based on restrictions through a deployment pipeline is difficult. If a quality assurance environment is less stringent than a production environment, making sure your api is accessible and configured appropriately is tough.
  • Code level scripting is limited to javascript and xslt. so if any complex fanning needs to occur, you are limited in tooling.
  • Administration is more cumbersome than it needs to be. There are roles/profiles that are defined, but to use a group email for the approval or use of an api needs to managed better. A more thorough thought process needs to be defined - which I think IBM is tackling as an improvement.
If you are truly using IBM API Management for an API gateway, you will be ok. if you start trying to build custom scripts to transform messages complex in nature, it will soon become unmanageable.
API Management (7)
68.57142857142857%
6.9
API access control
80%
8.0
Rate limits and usage policies
90%
9.0
API usage data
90%
9.0
API user onboarding
70%
7.0
API versioning
70%
7.0
Usage billing and payments
N/A
N/A
API monitoring and logging
80%
8.0
  • Centralizing on an API management platform was imperative. Being able to support SOAP UIs as well as REST APIs was required. Because of the tooling, service inventory and provisioning can be managed - regardless of the pricing and cost structures are used.
  • Constructing plans that provide tiering options based on rate limits help in onboarding new consumers. The lesser cost in onboarding through an API gateway outweighs the cost of modifying/configuring an API to handle multiple clients.
  • Defining guidance and onboarding practices while rolling out the product also helps in the adoption, reference architecture, and governance that can save your company money.

There are a lot of similarities between Apigee Edge and IBM API Management. Some of the differences at the time of this posting is...

1) IBM APIM/C integrates better with other products. Dynatrace is used to track API and service specifics with the ability to offload those statistics for operational reporting.

2) If you are evolving from DataPower, IBM API Management is a logical choice to support additional REST APIs.

3) Generating keys is simple. Integration of those keys with a secure data vault is easy as well for your consumer.

Return to navigation