We performed a comparison between Akana API Management and IBM API Connect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Google, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others in API Management."The tool's authentication mechanism is easy to implement. We had to define a few parameters."
"Good interface, intuitive solution."
"It allowed us to publish and replace pre-essential transactions in one place, with a uniformity in terms of control and policies."
"WSRR is a powerful component for getting the endpoints."
"Using API Connect allows us to quickly create proxy APIs and saves time on end-to-end testing, which lets us deliver quickly to clients."
"This is a very easy to use solution."
"It is a complete all-in-one solution."
"This product is well integrated with other products. Its ability to interact with IBM Secure Gateway and other integration products is the core feature. Also, the lead time to put it into production is relatively short ."
"The management of the API and API portal is good."
"The functionalities on offer are very good."
"The most valuable feature of IBM API Connect is the security of the protocol."
"Akana API Management needs to improve its documentation."
"The product has new features that we are going to implement in the next few months, such as API management and analytic reporting."
"Lacks an integrated billing feature."
"There are some performance issues and issues related to asynchronous APIs."
"The integration of an API gateway that implements the sidecar pattern, which can be deployed in cloud applications, and expose the microservices directly in each pod, this can be more decentralized components."
"Possible improvement is mainly around having more of the cloud oriented architecture bringing stability in adding new capabilities around security."
"Components, like caching, should be implemented as policies, not requiring dependency on an external solution."
"It would be nice to have a SaaS solution that can be deployed into the cloud."
"There is room for improvement regarding the connectivity of the DevOps."
"It should be cheaper."
"The monetization of the API could be improved. The pricing for the consumer is also very important to improve this solution."
Akana API Management is ranked 27th in API Management with 3 reviews while IBM API Connect is ranked 5th in API Management with 73 reviews. Akana API Management is rated 8.4, while IBM API Connect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Akana API Management writes "Authentication mechanism is easy to implement but improvement is needed in documentation ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM API Connect writes "Good speed and performance, but it's based on a bit dated architecture". Akana API Management is most compared with Apigee, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Amazon API Gateway, Microsoft Azure API Management and IBM DataPower Gateway, whereas IBM API Connect is most compared with Apigee, IBM DataPower Gateway, Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and Amazon API Gateway.
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