API Management at its core, without bells and whistles
December 06, 2018
API Management at its core, without bells and whistles
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with TIBCO Cloud Mashery
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.
- After the infrastructure setup of TIBCO Cloud Mashery was done, internal projects, such as mobile application connectivity, could benefit and focus on business content rather than on technical integration.
- TIBCO Cloud Mashery controls on API Usage allow both easy access and openess while controlling and managing demand for higher call volumes.
- Visibility of APIs enabled new (internal) innovation initatives with low effort on integration tasks.
- TIBCO Cloud Mashery offers usage based pricing models to allow the customer to scale with transparent cost impact.
When the evaluation of API Management was done, the market for a cloud, SaaS offering was limited. The short timeline for setting up TIBCO Cloud Mashery and the quick enablement of the developer portal have been major decision criteria.