Item: IBM API Connect
Rating: 7
Author: Sabdi Abraham Pantoja Orozco

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use IBM API Connect to complete our architecture and provide security, controll and goverment to our APIs. Thanks to the tool, we managed to reduce the integration time from 1 month to 1 week. We ran into some complications regarding the update of the tool, nevertheless, we could expose our bussiness logic through a single point. We have now visibility of the analitycs regarding the consumption and use of our platforms and provides us usefull information for decision making. It has his learning curve and I recommend complementing the development with a, API First approach and an efficient catalog/product management. I recommend choosing the cloud option, because the problems that we ran into, were because of our on premise deployment of the tool. Another problem that we face, is the replication of the changes in the datapower, but we managed to solve them with the update of the tool and a better management of the products an our APIs.

Pros and Cons

Security to APIs
Analytics to the consumption of the APIs
Interactive and low code environment
Importing definitions quickly

Better update experience
Replications of the changes to the datapower
Better way to deploy an API, the need for creating products, catalogs, organizations, etc. All that the API needs to deploy is difficult to understand and find

Return on Investment

we had faster time to market products thanks to the tool
we had a better productivity and faster integration time

Usability

In our field, the tool gave us benefits that we wanted. In that time, our need was the on premise solution, however, in the cloud environment, I think the issues that we ran into, maybe are not present. Nevertheless, it does not opaque the fact that we have a time to market reduced, faster integrations, and better governance of the security and the APIs overall

API Security

The tool, only gave us ways to approach security with a simpler perspective

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?

Yes

Did implementation of IBM API Connect go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy IBM API Connect again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

The tool is better suited for not On Premmise Solutions. If you want to deploy APIs faster and provide security and all the basics, is great for that

The tool has his areas of opportunity on the on-premmise field

IBM API CONNECT A TOOL FOR THE CLOUD

Overall Satisfaction with IBM API Connect