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Mashery (now part of Boomi)

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What is Mashery (now part of Boomi)?

Mashery, for a time sold as TIBCO Cloud API Management, was an API management solution whose former capabilities have been added to Boomi's enterprise platform.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Mashery (now part of Boomi) has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 39 ratings of Mashery (now part of Boomi)'s features
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Top Performing Features

  • API access control

    Authentication and authorization systems to ensure that users of the API have permission

    Category average: 8.7

  • Rate limits and usage policies

    Usage quotas to restrict traffic volumes to keep traffic loads manageable

    Category average: 8.3

  • API user onboarding

    Systems to allow users to sign up, receive access credentials and be assigned usage rights

    Category average: 8.4

Areas for Improvement

  • API versioning

    There are mechanisms to roll out new versions of the API and the ability to migrate applications to new versions.

    Category average: 8.4

  • API monitoring and logging

    Regular test cycles to check that APIs are operating as expected and log analysis providing deeper analysis on system usage

    Category average: 8

  • Usage billing and payments

    Support for payment mechanisms such as monthly fees, or other payment patterns

    Category average: 8.1

Reviews

What users are saying about Mashery (now part of Boomi).
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Mashery: fast track to the API market

Incentivized
Harry VytView profile
IT Product Manager in Information Technology at CARREFOUR BELGIUM (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Seamless operation, maintained without downtime.
  • Around the clock operation and support.
  • Supports advanced security measures.

Cons

  • Traffic monitoring has limited usefulness.
  • Conceptual design is not intuitive, complicating administration.
  • Hardly any integration with other Tibco products.
  • Some throttling changes require intervention by support.

Return on Investment

  • Fast access to the API market - production ready in just a few months.
  • Quick and easy compliance with security standards.
  • Excellent partnership, in line with other Tibco agreements.

Other Software Used

TIBCO Spotfire, TIBCO Enterprise Message Service

API Gateway for Enterprise

Incentivized
Dejan Pust
Development Team Lead in Information Technology at Petrol d.d. (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Traffic management at scale
  • Security for APIs
  • API mashups

Cons

  • CI/CD integrations
  • Support for open API
  • Documentation portal

Return on Investment

  • Increase of agility in development process
  • Faster time to market
  • Operational insight and monitoring

Alternatives Considered

Tyk, Apigee Edge and Red Hat JBoss Fuse

Other Software Used

IBM UrbanCode Deploy, Jenkins, TIBCO Enterprise Message Service

Tibco Mashery: a platform that allows us to focus on our customers.

Incentivized
Joe Cunetta
Product Manager in Product Management at Brivo Systems (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • Easy to onboard customers.
  • Proper usage analytics.
  • Simple process to customize and deploy a landing page.

Cons

  • More granular API logs. The logs provided today are hard to follow when calls cannot be filtered by keys.
  • There is no way to set an automatic block of keys which hit a certain limit.

Return on Investment

  • Mashery has allowed us to focus on selling our API services to potential customers without the need to manually monitor services such as when a customer runs over the limit they have subscribed to.

Other Software Used

Amazon Web Services, Kubernetes, Docker

TIBCO Mashery Cloud Review

Incentivized
Jyotheeswar Achari PView profile
Tech Lead in Information Technology at ACE (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

  • GUI access to quickly set up new APIs and clients of APIs
  • Easy to use throttle controls on API usage.
  • Cache-ing on APIs that do not need to hit our servers if Mashery can take care of the request, including allowing for specific exceptions to cache-ing.

Cons

  • Can Implement better UI interface for connectors
  • Configuration management is a bit difficult to configure.

Return on Investment

  • Mashery becoming a front gate for APIs for different modules across the organization.
  • Mashery is much faster than before to implement API lifecycle.

Alternatives Considered

Apigee Edge and IBM DataPower Gateway

Other Software Used

TIBCO Data Virtualization, TIBCO Enterprise Message Service, TIBCO Clarity

TIBCO Cloud Mashery - fair price value ratio

Incentivized
Mateusz Dampc
Sr. DevOps Engineer in Engineering at Egnyte (501-1000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Manages API routing.
  • Provides authorisation.

Cons

  • Lack of API to define configuration.
  • Not compliant with modern API specification.
  • Web interface.

Return on Investment

  • We had some problems with it.
  • Competition is much more expensive.

Alternatives Considered

Apigee Edge

Other Software Used

Google Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, New Relic

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