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November 22, 2019
Mashery IEEE Xplore API - Advancing Technology for Humanity
IEEE uses Tibco Mashery API to deliver metadata and full-text content on scholarly and academic works from a repository of more than 4.6 million artifacts within the domain of electronics and electrical engineers. The IEEE Xplore API is utilized internally and externally by our customer base to obtain data from discovery, text, and data mining (TDM) functions to save time and effort to do research.
- Logging of transactions.
- Reporting.
- Authentication.
- Monitoring.
- Documentation.
- Flexibility to modify the user interface.
- More robust statistics without buying Spotfire as the software solution.
December 12, 2018
TIBCO Mashery Cloud review
TIBCO Mashery is our core API management platform. We use it to manage our API's hosted on-premise as well in the cloud. Mashery is used across the whole organization by different teams and departments. Mashery allows us to manage access to our API's and gives us insights about how our API's are used by API consumers.
- TIBCO Mashery is a very stable platform. We run on-premise version without any major outages for more than 1.5 years.
- Hybrid deployment model of Mashery is a big plus. Traffic can be routed through local gateways or through gateways hosted on Mashery cloud.
- Mashery allows combining multiple API into packages which can be consumed by different applications. Even multiple API's can be combined into the single package and consumed by single API credentials.
- Mashery organizational model is exceptional. It allows us to limit users to manage just their API's within suborganizations. It's great as multiple DevOps teams can independently manage API by themselves without talking to central API team and it keeps them in boundary of their suborganization.
- Containerization is a big topic nowadays. Mashery has a container version for the local gateway, but there is some space for improvements. For example, docker images are too big. Mashery version 4 has also some limitations when it comes to autoscaling on Kubernetes. Version 5 should improve the situation.
- Configuration management is a bit difficult without CLI interface. Support for terraform would be nice. Better support for CICD processes would help. We solved it by implementing own CLI component on top of Admin API, but one would expect such feature out of the box.
- Some features which are present today like JWT token validation are possible only via plugins which are hard to get. Would be nice to open source them.
November 23, 2018
My TIBCO Cloud Mashery Review
We use Mashery in the Engineering department as an API Gateway for a client-facing RESTful API that has thousands of unique endpoints. We use it because we didn't want to have to reinvent the wheel on security, authentication, permissions, access rights, and things of that nature.
- The platform is solid. The product's uptime is excellent and Mashery has not struggled to handle the volume of requests our clients have thrown at it.
- Configuration is straightforward and intuitive. It's easy to create a new endpoint, a new package, a new API Key, etc.
- Mashery is good at communicating with us when new features, or enhancements to existing features, are rolled out.
- The "Control Center" admin dashboard is not performant. We have a lot of configuration data in Mashery (many endpoints, many plans, many users, many keys, etc.) and the website struggles with the volume of data it has to deal with.
- Their systems have limitations that make it more difficult for us to operate the way we would like. For example, there is a limit to the number of API Definitions we can create, as well as a limit to the number of Endpoints we can define in a Plan.
- Their support organization leaves a lot to be desired. Responses are slow, and when they do come they are often inadequate. We have to re-phrase the question to get them to answer it differently, or we have to repeatedly follow up to ask for additional clarifying information.
Mashery has been our API management tool across all of Cox Automotive (over 26 business units including companies like Manheim, AutoTrader, KBB, ..). The main problem it solves is proper access to hundreds of APIs built by our teams.
- A mostly GUI access to quickly setup 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.
- Scoping of APIs can be a bit burdensome. Need more tooling from Mashery.
- Better stability and monitoring.
- Work on allowing cross API package access via the same package keys, even across Mashery instances.
November 24, 2018
Mashery at a Glance
We use TIBCO's Mashery to be our API gateway to surface data and a way for our partners to interact with our business services.
- It is really easy to use and the developer portal looks very professional without a lot of work.
- The security and package set up for your customers is easy to set up and change based on your clients.
- It was very easy to integrate into our systems and had very good uptime with the solution.
- Mashery should allow orchestration and transformation out of the box rather than it being a service or having to buy additional services.
- The dashboard is easy to use but I think it needs a face lift and it needs to start using TIBCO Spotfire to make it more of a analytical engine.
November 24, 2018
TIBCO Mashery acts as an API Gateway to drive digital transformation
Mashery acts as our API Gateway in our digital transformation program. Currently, it's being used as a pilot to serve internal API consumers, but soon it will be extended to be used IN the whole organization.
The API Gateway helps us to decrease the time required for API consumer/clients onboarding and applying different QoS and security options per client/consumers.
The API Gateway helps us to decrease the time required for API consumer/clients onboarding and applying different QoS and security options per client/consumers.
- On-premise implementation. Due to regulation policy, we need to deploy an API Gateway on our data center. Mashery supports the preferred deployment through the use of Mashery local. Mashery local integrates seamlessly with the Mashery configuration portal on the cloud.
- Built-in API packaging and offering through API plan and package
- Support several API security options, which can be configured per API basis.
- The analytics and monitoring dashboard of Mashery is not good. We currently implement a proper dashboard outside the Mashery solution, by getting a raw access log from Mashery and process it on our own.
- No built-in support JWT token API security
- The documentation of Mashery in the portal are not easy to learn, and sometimes are not being updated.
November 07, 2018
Best of API Management Platforms
At Cisco, we externalize API services using TIBCO Mashery, which is one of the best API management solutions.
- It allows the partners to onboard and configure their APIs .
- Provides OAuth based authentication using various grant types
- Developer portal is very useful to get to know the APIs and publish their documentation to do mock API calls.
- Mashery is good in providing customized features/solutions to address the needs. Currently exploring the new features that are introduced recently.
- Allowing the same configuration to be cloned from Dev--> Stage--->Prod, would be a great feature to have.
December 06, 2018
API Management at its core, without bells and whistles
TIBCO Cloud Mashery enables connectivity for mobile applications. It serves as connector for startups and partners as well as for internal and partner airlines. It is used in the key area of the enterprise. The services offered on TIBCO Cloud Mashery enable new businesses. They are used for data sharing. Finally they allow IT solutions to be created by business departments without the need to have bespoke development and interaction with the IT departments.
- Easy integration of the TIBCO Cloud Mashery developer portal allows simple onboarding and user and application management.
- Configuration of TIBCO Cloud Mashery is both flexible and focused to address the main tasks for an API Management solution.
- The built-in OAuth Token capabilities provide a quick start to properly manage application access.
- The API technology is advancing fast. Capability enhancements for message-driven APIs are not yet available in TIBCO Cloud Mashery.
- While TIBCO Cloud Mashery features OAuth Token capabilities, integration with major OAuth and OpenID Providers is not straight forward.
- TIBCO has enhanced the features on managing the platform using TIBCO APIs. Still, not all features are provided as APIs and require manual configuration in management portal.
November 14, 2018
Mashery -- solid performance; clunky administration
We use Mashery to help authenticate and cache users for our business-to-business data delivery API.
- Service and uptime has been acceptable.
- Proactive communication and engagement with account reps is strong. I believe Mashery values our feedback.
- Administration / documentation portals have been buggy / slow to the point of aggravation
- Better client-facing performance metrics and dashboards. Help us help ourselves :)
October 28, 2015
Mashing the Mashery Techniques
Mashery's API is being integrated in into the backend development of our company. It is being used throughout the entire organization across the market sectors, front end development, as well as the back end side of our projects. We integrate Mashery into the Ruby code and utilize this in order to address the problems of server capacity as well as the server side analytics being done at our marketing firm.
- Simple to use
- Very effective in what it does
- All around product that allows for QoL to be improved
- Revolutionary in terms of features
- I didn't like some of the features that were hard to understand.
- I wish it was more user friendly.
- Hard for new hires to implement or use.
TIBCO Cloud Mashery Scorecard Summary
Feature Scorecard Summary
About TIBCO Cloud Mashery
The platform provides API creation, packaging, testing, security via an embedded gateway, management of all APIs, auto-scaling, administration of a user community via a public portal, and advanced performance analytics. Mashery promises to enable enterprises to evolve to an API-led and event-driven architecture to drive more innnovation, agility, and connected intelligence. TIBCO calls Mashery a key enabler for digital business, helping businesses manage APIs as products securely, and at enterprise scale.
Categories: API Management
TIBCO Cloud Mashery Screenshots
TIBCO Cloud Mashery Integrations
TIBCO Spotfire, TIBCO Cloud Integration (including BusinessWorks and Scribe), TIBCO Cloud Live Apps, TIBCO Cloud Integration (including Scribe), Flogo Enterprise
TIBCO Cloud Mashery Competitors
Apigee Edge, CA, Mulesoft
Pricing
- Has featureFree Trial Available?Yes
- Does not have featureFree or Freemium Version Available?No
- Has featurePremium Consulting/Integration Services Available?Yes
- Entry-level set up fee?No
TIBCO Cloud Mashery Support Options
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TIBCO Cloud Mashery Technical Details
| Deployment Types: | On-premise, SaaS |
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| Operating Systems: | SaaS deployment does not require OS |
| Mobile Application: | No |
| Supported Countries: | All |
| Supported Languages: | English |