We performed a comparison between IBM Cloud Pak for Integration and IBM DataPower Gateway based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two API Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most preferable aspect would be the elimination of the command, which was a significant improvement. In the past, it was a challenge, but now we can proceed smoothly with the implementation of our policies and everything is managed through JCP. It's still among the positive aspects, and it's a valuable feature."
"Cloud Pak for Integration is definitely scalable. That is the most important criteria."
"The most valuable aspect of the Cloud Pak, in general, is the flexibility that you have to use the product."
"It is a stable solution."
"It's high-speed and it can be remotely administered via an API."
"The most valuable feature is the security appliance, it's very secure."
"I like all of the features in this product and it does what it's supposed to do."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The product's most valuable features are AAA policies and security features."
"The solution is very easy to work with."
"The most valuable features for our business include the ability to monitor and log data transactions and handle multiple request at an enterprise level."
"The solution is stable."
"Its queuing and messaging features need improvement."
"The initial setup is not easy."
"Setting up Cloud Pak for Integration is relatively complex. It's not as easy because it has not yet been fully integrated. You still have some products that are still not containerized, so you still have to run them on a dedicated VM."
"The pricing can be improved."
"For the workloads that are not too high, appliance is a little bit expensive."
"In the next release, I would like to see the product price reduced. It should be cheaper."
"IBM DataPower Gateway is quite big for smaller organizations, looking at different types of clients who are virtually assisted in this, I would say it's not really a good product for smaller firms."
"An area for improvement in IBM DataPower Gateway is its price point because it's a relatively expensive product. Sometimes, when the customer use case is just a very small subset of what's being offered in IBM DataPower Gateway, then the product can be expensive, making my company lose some of the opportunities because of the expensive pricing. A lower price point for IBM DataPower Gateway, even if that results in a less feature-rich version, would be appreciated. In terms of additional features that I'd like to see in the next release of IBM DataPower Gateway, nothing specific comes to mind because IBM constantly improves its standards and provides quarterly updates to the product, so it's quite fine."
"The two biggest issues of this solution are the complexity and the maintenance procedures."
"They should add features to manage API integrations."
"They should improve the solution's clustering features."
"The initial setup isn't so easy, you need who has experience working with the solution to help."
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IBM Cloud Pak for Integration is ranked 21st in API Management with 4 reviews while IBM DataPower Gateway is ranked 7th in API Management with 27 reviews. IBM Cloud Pak for Integration is rated 8.6, while IBM DataPower Gateway is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of IBM Cloud Pak for Integration writes "A hybrid integration platform that applies the functionality of closed-loop AI automation". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM DataPower Gateway writes "Security features meets compliance needs and offers MPGW (Multi-Protocol Gateway) that simplifies integration efforts ". IBM Cloud Pak for Integration is most compared with IBM App Connect, IBM API Connect, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Microsoft Azure API Management and AWS Glue, whereas IBM DataPower Gateway is most compared with IBM API Connect, Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Management, Mule ESB and NGINX Plus. See our IBM Cloud Pak for Integration vs. IBM DataPower Gateway report.
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