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OCI API Management

Score7.8 out of 10

176 Reviews and Ratings

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What is OCI API Management?

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) provides a comprehensive set of services to manage the lifecycle of APIs (application programming interfaces). The built-in tools let developers to collaborate on prototyping, testing, and validating APIs.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features OCI API Management has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 176 ratings of OCI API Management's features
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Top Performing Features

  • API usage data

    Analysis of traffic patterns to track how API is being used

    Category average: 8.3

  • 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

Areas for Improvement

  • Usage billing and payments

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

    Category average: 8.1

  • 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

Reviews

What users are saying about OCI API Management.
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Great product for managing APIs

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Jared JacobsonView profile
Senior IT Business Analyst in Information Technology at Insight Global Consulting - Delta Airlines (501-1000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Create proxy services to publish as APIs
  • Add decorative metadata to APIs
  • Manager Portal to search for APIs of interest

Cons

  • Access the backend service API's could be faster
  • Configuring the WebLogic Domain was a little confusing
  • Creating Proxy Services to be published

Return on Investment

  • It has allowed us to get up to speed quicker
  • Has cost us less money to train people
  • Has allowed us to better manage new API's

Alternatives Considered

IBM API Connect and IBM DataPower Gateway

Other Software Used

Atlassian Confluence, Atlassian Jira Align (formerly AgileCraft), Acquia Digital Experience Platform

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Jatel DesaiView profile
Programmer Analyst in Information Technology at Department of Industrial Relations (501-1000 employees employees)

Pros

  • This tool helps create APIs that are efficient.
  • This tool makes testing endpoints simple.
  • This tool is excellent for beginners in backend technology.

Cons

  • 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.

Return on Investment

  • Our team is able to resolve API connectivity issues quickly
  • Our team can communicate and leave notes to each other in the software.
  • It saves employees time that can be used for other resources.

Alternatives Considered

Anypoint API Manager

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prabhakar srivastavaView profile
Software Developer in Information Technology at Ivy Technologies (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • 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.

Cons

  • 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.

Return on Investment

  • Oracle API Manager supports both REST & SOAP API's.
  • Secure and attributable connection to back-end services and data sources. In addition to creating API's for querying data, you can also create API endpoints that can manipulate the data in the back-end databases.
  • Although Oracle API Manager provides performance and a vast deal of features, to start with it is really important you train your people working on development, deployment and administrators to effectively use Oracle API Manager.

Other Software Used

Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Microsoft SQL Server, Toad for Oracle

Easily secure and manage Soap/Rest Apis

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Jackson WaithakaView profile
Electrical Engineer in Engineering at kplc (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Pros

  • 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

Cons

  • More extensive documentation

Return on Investment

  • Securing company proprietary data
  • Facilitate reaching out to the different software platforms through support for both Soap and Rest Apis
  • Increased growth and revenue

Best solution for management and monitoring of APIs

Incentivized
Hezekiah MathengeView profile
Deputy CTO in Information Technology at Orange (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Support searching of APIs
  • Securing APIs by setting user roles
  • Access to analytics that help understand the performance of APIs well

Cons

  • Requires extensive staff training for developers, deployers, administrators and monitors to effectively utilize its capabilities.

Return on Investment

  • Oracle API Manager has increased productivity for our development team
  • Reduction in security vulnerabilities
  • Facilitated optimization of the performance of our APIs