"Good interface, intuitive solution."
"It is helpful to have a central API that is hosted and managed."
"The most valuable features of Layer7 API Management are integration, ease of use, building APIs easily, and portal straightforward."
"There are many security policies within this solution that help to prevent attacks. We are also able to implement TLS to allow us to look at the application from the backend. There are workflows inside of the gate that help us a lot to implement customers and improve user experience. Our customers are also able to move from a customized creative view to taking advantage of AI bot solutions."
"We loved the portal part the most, which had monetization and showed how people were using the stuff. It is a good product as a whole and has a lot of microservices and granular features."
"The solution fills our two most important concerns in seeking an API solution by providing a reliable gateway and security options."
"It impresses me as a product because it never goes down. It always does what it is supposed to do."
"The mobile access gateway (MAG) is tremendous."
"Tech support is fast and responsive."
"Lacks an integrated billing feature."
"The interface is Java which is difficult to make look very nice."
"feel like Apigee's API product is more interactive. You can drag and drop with those, but it's a little more difficult in Layer7. It's less user-friendly compared to that Apigee product."
"The UI design could be improved in the next release."
"The Policy Manager tool that is used to manage the solution is very heavy to use because it is based in Java. Sometimes it takes a long time to load. There could be some improvements to it. If they could make Policy Manager on a web page that would be a good alternative."
"The overall cost of Layer7 API Management is high, they can improve it by making it less expensive."
"Some problems with response time."
"The architecture of the solution does not allow for flexibility in using different components for the gateway architecture."
"I would like for the new release to allow us to speed up code generation. The integration with CICD could also be more seamless."
Akana API Management is ranked 25th in API Management with 1 review while Layer7 API Management is ranked 6th in API Management with 13 reviews. Akana API Management is rated 7.0, while Layer7 API Management is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Akana API Management writes "Intuitive solution with good interface; currently lacks an integrated billing feature". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Layer7 API Management writes "Serves to standardise routing messaging services into a single API view with multiple channels". Akana API Management is most compared with Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager, Apigee, Amazon API Gateway, Microsoft Azure API Management and Tyk, whereas Layer7 API Management is most compared with Apigee, Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager, Amazon API Gateway, Kong Enterprise and Microsoft Azure API Management.
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