Item: IBM API Connect
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

IBM API Connect is being used by a few departments. Since we run our backend services in IBM Cloud, we choose IBM API Connect as the API gateway solution. It provides the routing rules, security, and rate limits before the calls can reach our backend services. We also use its analytics feature to get more insights.

Pros and Cons

Enhanced security with client id and client secret features.
Easy to deploy API changes through automation.
Good UI to manage APIs.

Sometimes we see issues after deploying API changes, re-deployment can solve it.
A bit hard to troubleshoot issues if the calls do not reach our backend services.

Return on Investment

It makes our services more secure, as we don't expose any endpoints to public.
It provides good integration with other IBM Cloud services we use, reduces our development effort.
Automated deployments save us time.

Key Insights

Do you think IBM API Connect delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with IBM API Connect's feature set?

Yes

Did IBM API Connect live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of IBM API Connect go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy IBM API Connect again?

Yes

Other Software Used

IBM Event Streams, Slack, Jira Software, Bitbucket

Likelihood to Recommend

From our experience so far, API Connect is very stable and scalable. It can handle our peak traffic without any issues. It is well suited as an API platform that requires API versioning, rate limiting, authentication, security, automation, analytics, etc. It has both cloud and non-cloud products with different features. You can use it with non-IBM Cloud services.

Excellent API platform

Overall Satisfaction with IBM API Connect