Akamai Enterprise Application Access and F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager compete in enterprise application access. Akamai's pricing and support are favored, while F5 BIG-IP APM is preferred for its robust features, making it a superior product overall despite a higher cost.
Features: Akamai offers simplified application access, strong security protocols, and ease of deployment. F5 BIG-IP APM is highlighted for its extensive policy management, seamless integration capabilities, and advanced feature set suitable for complex requirements.
Room for Improvement: Akamai could enhance its reporting tools, interface customization, and additional integration options. F5 BIG-IP APM users note improvements in user guidance, complexity of initial setups, and better out-of-the-box usability.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Akamai is known for its straightforward deployment and responsive customer service. F5 BIG-IP APM's deployment is complex but supported by detailed documentation and responsive service.
Pricing and ROI: Akamai provides better cost efficiency and ROI due to lower setup costs and effective support. F5 BIG-IP APM, despite being more expensive, offers a comprehensive feature set and robust performance, making it a worthwhile investment for some users.
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) | 2.0% |
| Akamai Enterprise Application Access | 1.2% |
| Other | 96.8% |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 9 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 1 |
| Large Enterprise | 9 |
Akamai Enterprise Application Access is a cloud-based solution that provides secure access to enterprise applications and data from any device, anywhere. It eliminates the need for traditional VPNs and allows organizations to easily manage access to applications and data for employees, partners, and customers. With its zero-trust approach, it ensures that only authorized users can access sensitive information, reducing the risk of data breaches.
F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) is an access management proxy solution for managing global access to the enterprise networks, cloud providers, applications, and application programming interfaces (APIs). Through a single management interface, BIG-IP APM consolidates remote, mobile, network, virtual, and web access.
BIG-IP APM can also serve as a bridge between modern and classic authentication and authorization protocols and methods. For applications which are unable to support modern authentication and authorization protocols, like SAML and OAuth with OIDC, but which do support classic authentication methods, BIG-IP APM converts user credentials to the appropriate authentication standard supported by the application.
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Reviews from Real Users
Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by BIG-IP APM users.
Mahmmoud Rabie, Senior Site Reliability Engineer, writes that BIG-IP APM is "A highly stable solution for load balancing, but the initial setup is complex."
Clyde Livingston, Senior Process Specialist at Telstra, says that BIG-IP APM is "Easy to use, useful access remotely, but lacking stability."
Chris Lam, Senior Solution Consultant at Macroview Telecom Limited, states that BIG-IP APM is "Useful for remote access VPN and VPI integration with VMware.
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