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Oracle API Manager

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What is Oracle API Manager?

Oracle's API Manager is the company's offering for API lifecycle management.

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  • API usage data (15)
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  • API monitoring and logging (15)
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  • Usage billing and payments (15)
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  • API access control (15)
    7.9
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API management handles technical things like user permissions, version control,and security, in addition to business items like documentation and pricing

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What is Oracle API Manager?

The Oracle API Manager facilitates the creation of APIs that expose the functionality of backend systems and services. These APIs are published for use by application developers and are managed and monitored at runtime.

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Oracle's API Manager is the company's offering for API lifecycle management.

Reviewers rate API usage data and API versioning and API monitoring and logging highest, with a score of 9.

The most common users of Oracle API Manager are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Jared Jacobson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It has been used in my department for over 5 years.
  • Create proxy services to publish as APIs
  • Add decorative metadata to APIs
  • Manager Portal to search for APIs of interest
  • Access the backend service API's could be faster
  • Configuring the WebLogic Domain was a little confusing
  • Creating Proxy Services to be published
It's a great tool when you are creating Oracle APIs. The instructions given for accessing the Oracle Service Bus Console, creating Proxy Services to be published as API's, how to Activate the session, adding metadata, and publishing APIs to the API Manager Portal are very precise. Instructions on how to edit the metadata of an API are also very good.
Jatel Desai | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Oracle API Manager is used by my department. It helps with our team's backend problems. When endpoints change in external APIs, this tool helps in modifying our system and testing. We use the developer tool to create proxy services that are later published as APIs. Service Bus also works nicely with this tool.
  • This tool helps create APIs that are efficient.
  • This tool makes testing endpoints simple.
  • This tool is excellent for beginners in backend technology.
  • Oracle API Manager has worked great for our department so far. One suggesting would be to add a tool to include testing of multiple APIs linearly.
Oracle API Manager is well suited for small teams with systems that are changing. When using external APIs, our team must quickly modify our backend jobs and APIs to communicate with external parties. Oracle API Manager is an excellent tool for that. When developing a system does not require too much maintenance, this tool may not be needed.
prabhakar srivastava | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Oracle API Manager helps us to manage our Oracle Cloud Platform. It manages the resources of Oracle DB. But the performance is relatively slower compared to other DB. In our organisation it is being used by mainly IT department whose responsibility it is to manage data and application. For our front-end application we required a strong database and chose to implement this.
  • Provides the customization to manage the Oracle DB.
  • Better security mechanism provided which secures our data.
  • Manages concurrent user login at the same time and distributes the resources as per requirements.
  • It is slow as compared to other databases because of its high functionality.
  • Sometimes it hangs due to network overuse.
  • More features need to be added in terms of reporting.
It is well suited where the security of data is the major concern. For small applications with less data it is not recommended. It is suitable for enterprise-level applications. But the performance is low as compared to other databases. It supports both rest and soap API. Authentication process needs to be improved.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Our core software engineering team is making use of Oracle API Manager. We have many applications that need to call our main servers for accessing various types of data. We ended up with a total of 170 different API routes, and we needed a way to monitor and manage them efficiently. For this reason, we chose to use Oracle API Manager.
  • Mature and Reliable. Last year, Oracle API Manager was quite buggy, and couldn't be used at production-level. Fortunately, almost all of the problems that it had previously are now patched.
  • Offloads Most of the Workload of Developing APIs. While defining APIs, Oracle API Manager does a great job in providing suggestions and error checks in our logic.
  • Supports SOAP and REST. Not only can you create APIs that can query for data, but you can also create API endpoints that can manipulate the data in your back-end databases.
  • Absence of Role-Based Access. A finer grain control on what type of users can call certain API Endpoints is needed.
  • Performance with third-party databases isn't as fast as using Oracle Database.
  • Long learning curve. Although Oracle API Manager provides performance and a vast deal of features, a certain level of expertise is required to effectively make use of them.
Oracle API Manager is a perfect match for you if your entire infrastructure is already using Oracle Cloud, and your primary database is Oracle Database. Like many of Oracle's products, Oracle API Manager also has high costs and a strict compliance requirement that your organization needs to be willing to accept. Organizations that aren't like this probably shouldn't think about using Oracle API Manager.
Christine Hailey | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
With expanding the utilization of use programming interfaces to reveal the functionalities of back-end frameworks and remote databases, the requirement for an answer to encourage the improvement and administration of APIs has emerged. Oracle API Manager has empowered access to our back-end framework to web applications, tablet applications and advanced mobile phone applications. With Oracle API Manager we can make APIs effectively and distribute the same to the gateway. It likewise has the capacities to look for an API and in addition setting the parts of each API client.
  • It enables the anaylization of APIs.
  • It also has the capability of tracking the usage and how the APIs are performing.
  • It also controls the access to APIs at runtime.
  • Oracle API Manger should have its own tutorials on how to use the software and add more languages for more users to understand.
Oracle API Manger is well suited for companies as well as business individuals/developers who wants to gain a wide visibility with APIs to increase ROI and minimize redundancy.
Hezekiah Mathenge | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
With increased in the use of application programming interfaces to uncover the functionalities of backend systems and remote databases, the need for a solution to facilitate the development and management of APIs arise. Oracle API Manager has enabled access to our backend system to web applications, tablets applications and smart phones applications. With Oracle API Manager we can create APIs easily and publish the same to the portal. It also has the capabilities to search for an API as well as setting the roles of every API user.
  • Support searching of APIs
  • Securing APIs by setting user roles
  • Access to analytics that help understand the performance of APIs well
  • Requires extensive staff training for developers, deployers, administrators and monitors to effectively utilize its capabilities.
Oracle API Manager can be utilized in companies/organizations that have APIs that expose the functionality of their backend systems to a wide range of clients. It can also be well suited in businesses that wish to keep track of the use and performance of their Soap or Rest APIs. Its analytics and reporting provides comprehensive information regarding underlying APIs.
Jackson Waithaka | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Oracle API Manager is used to manage users, monitor traffic, analyze traffic, enable secure and attributable api access to all connection. It enables software to securely give access to back-end services and data sources to company staff and customers. Oracle API Manager is used in the IT Department as well as the Engineering Department in the development and management of Soap and Rest Apis.
  • Secure and attributable connection to backend services and data sources
  • Tracking the use and access of Apis
  • Support and Enable understanding of Soap and Rest Apis
  • More extensive documentation
Oracle API Manager is well suited in a business or company that make use of Apis to facilitate access of backend services and data sources by the staff or customers or both. It is also imported in situations where all actions in a system need to be attributed to specific users.
July 10, 2018

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Jenny lester | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Oracle API Manager is used by the Information and Technology department to facilitates the creation of APIs that expose functionality of backend systems or other services. These APIs are published for use by application developers and are managed and monitored at runtime. Applications increasingly use Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). These APIs can be developed by internal or external entities to access enterprise systems of record. The number of APIs available increases daily. Their usage is multiplied by a growing population of mobile devices and computing platforms (Web, tablets, smartphones, TVs, cars, and other household devices--the Internet of Things). As the number of APIs an organization produces and uses increases, the management and visibility of these APIs becomes increasingly important.
  • Easily create and secure APIs that provide access to backend services.
  • Support both REST and SOAP APIs and understand them
  • It facilitates the use of APIs
  • It requires someone with advanced knowledge in the use and optimization of Oracle products.
Oracle APIs manager is suited for companies of all sizes that make use of APIs to access and/or manage underlying data.
Bruno Asoka | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Oracle API Manager is used in the IT department of our organization. We use it to develop, manage and obtain information regarding APIs that serve data to our mobile and web applications. It has facilitated our understanding of APIs and also enhanced our reach out to different platforms such as Windows, web, Android, and iOS.
  • Oracle API Manager assist us in the development and understanding of APIs
  • It has support for both soap and rests APIs increasing the number of platforms that can consume our data
  • Incredible support
  • Avail more tutorials
  • Support more languages
Oracle API Manager is suitable for companies as well as independent software developers who implement APIs to access or modify data stored in a remote database.
Raymond Okello | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Oracle API manager is being used by developers in the IT department to create APIs that brings to users data and allow them to perform various actions on the data. It has increased our understanding of our APIs and users, deployment of software on various platforms and monitoring the use and performance of our APIs.
  • Control access to APIs
  • support for soap and rest APIs
  • Saving on time for development of APIs
  • Forecasting use of apis
Oracle API manager is suitable for companies and freelancers who take part in the development and maintenance of rest and soap APIs.
Kelvin Ochieng | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Oracle API management is a software solution for the development and management of the various types of APIs used in modern software development. It is used in the information technology department, financial department and by our customers who access our digital products via our web application or mobile applications. It enables us to develop APIs and analyze their use and suitability over time.
  • Oracle api manager enable us analyze our apis
  • It provides information that enables us to do a cost-benefit analysis of applications after release
  • It supports different types of APIs that can be utilized by all types of applications
  • Oracle developers and experts are sometimes not easy to hire
Oracle API manager is best suited in a business scenario where users are expected to interact with a business through a website or a mobile application both native and cross-platform. It is also suitable in scenarios where businesses rely on an API for internal data exchange.
Simon Wanjau | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Oracle API Manager is used by the software development team to manage APIs. Oracle API Manager manages the life cycle of our APIs, allows us to deploy our applications in more platforms and makes it possible to outsource part of the work in complex projects. The APIs manager also give insights and reports that are used to make decisions.
  • Enable implementation of applications in different platforms
  • Allows support of mobile applications, web applications and standalone applications from the same API
  • Provides insights and reports on performance
  • More documentation and learning resources
Oracle API Manager is suitable for companies and organizations that have a range of applications such as mobile applications, web applications and standalone applications that require secure, monitored and attributable access to the APIs.
Wiliam Kipngetish | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Oracle API Manager is used across departments for both mobile development and web development in our software development company. We use it to create apis from which our applications can consume data from using Rest or Soap technologies. Oracle API manager also keeps track of the usage and perfoormance of our APIs.
  • Management of rest and soap APIs
  • Tracking usage and performance to APIs
  • Reporting
  • Support for Rest and Soap APIs
  • Users must be well knowledgable in using Oracle tools as well as programming languanges used in development of APIs
Oracle API Manager is suitable for software development companies to manage the APIs that run their applications as well as companies that have web, standalone or mobile applications that consumes data from Rest or Soap APIs.
Mwangi Wanjohi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have used Oracle API Manager to facilitate the creation of APIs to enable the application to make use of underlying back-end services. We have also used it to help understand APIs better, controlling APIs performance and tracking its usage.
  • Facilitate understanding of APIs
  • Provide relevant information regarding APIs
  • Support for Rest and soap api
  • Control access to APIs
  • Track APIs performance
  • Requires extensive training
  • Require understanding of how APIs work
  • Translation to other languages
Oracle API manager is suitable for creation of reliable and scalable APIs as well as controlling their usage and access.
Dan Hotka | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My client is using both the Rest services and SOA architecture to help standardize how their applications communicate. The API Manager allows for interfaces to be quickly developed and secured for just these applications. This newer API Manager from Oracle allows the client to better track the existing APIs that have been developed as 'rework', or reinventing the wheel has been an issue at this site. Their goal here is to make better use of interfaces that have already been created...saving development and tons of testing time.
  • API Manager allows for REST and SOAP API's to be easily created and tracked
  • API Manager allows for only certain people/applications to use the API (does this thru a subscriber service it provides)
  • It also publishes the API's it is tracking so developers can easily know what interfaces already exist.
  • The monitoring ability is a nice feature. The admin person can easily see how and where the APIs are currently being used
  • I would say it would be nice if it could handle non-Oracle type API's...such as in-house developed interfaces, etc.
  • It would be nice if it at least could list non-Oracle type APIs so that this system became a repository for ALL of the application interfaces
  • Maybe it has this and I missed it, the monitoring appears to be one API at a time, would be nice to see a page that has all of the monitored APIs with some basic monitored info perhaps. It does have alerts, audit trails, and integrates with Enterprise Manager (I did not see this integration though)
It's well suited if the applications are already using REST and SOAP architectures...this is definitely a newer Oracle product. It indeed works. Sure, there is room for improvement as I have indicated already. The interface is web-based and I found it easy to traverse. Existing API's show up on their own page with a considerable amount of detail. Seems easy to secure so that just certain applications can use the API...
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