We performed a comparison between Apiary and Layer7 API Management based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"Quick and easy way to share a new API design with teams."
"I do like the overall performance of the solution."
"In two years, there was one time the service was down for an hour or so."
"I find the generation of mock services very useful, especially when demonstrating for new consumers."
"The most valuable features of Layer7 API Management are integration, ease of use, building APIs easily, and portal straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is the security with its out-of-the-box policies."
"Compared to other vendors, this product is much faster in coming up with new features, which is good."
"The Portal API helps us with deployments. It also helps to have a catalog of everything. The replication is also a critical feature for us. It helps to have a more robust architecture and makes our systems are highly available."
"The solution fills our two most important concerns in seeking an API solution by providing a reliable gateway and security options."
"What I found most valuable in Layer7 API Management is that you can launch the API from the gateway quickly and securely, making it less complicated to deploy APIs. I also like that Layer7 API Management has a good portal and dashboards and that the dashboards show you statistics regarding how many people used the API, etc."
"The product supports more than just HTTP protocols; it also caters to JMS and FTP protocols."
"There are a couple aspects of performance. One is just speed and uptime, and it's stellar in that regard. The other is, how much effort is it to put it in place in the first place, and then how much effort is it to keep it operational. That's where its real strength is. I'm able to do things quickly and easily that I couldn't do before."
"Swagger (OpenAPI Specification) and Blueprint Support"
"The Oracle release cycle is very bad because the patches only update once a year."
"I would like an integrated option to download a Swagger version of the definition."
"The security protocols in CA's product, for financial services, weren't as good as those in API Connect."
"CA double up portal is a pain. It is something that we are struggling with right now."
"The developer portal needs to fully supported SOAP services (including WSDL publication with security), it would certainly push adoption for us."
"One of the features that the tool provides is the ability to simply onboard new APIs to an existing security platform. We build all the policies for security upfront, and then we can add those policies pretty simply and straightforwardly to any new API that gets developed in the enterprise."
"One specific feature that we need is the ability to authenticate directly to the server with API data. It's not complex nowadays. This is a feature that we need and CA doesn't have it."
"There could be more integration options included in the product."
"Some problems with response time."
"They should incorporate deeper monitoring features into the solution to make the offering more complete. Doing so would help to showcase traffic patterns and usage to better engage customers and partners proactively. It would also help with API management and capacity planning."
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Apiary is ranked 36th in API Management while Layer7 API Management is ranked 10th in API Management with 109 reviews. Apiary is rated 8.2, while Layer7 API Management is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Apiary writes "The ability to configure rules to check for consistency has helped". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Layer7 API Management writes "Has great drag-and-drop features and it requires minimal coding ". Apiary is most compared with SwaggerHub, Oracle API Platform Cloud Service, Apigee and Microsoft Azure API Management, whereas Layer7 API Management is most compared with Apigee, Kong Gateway Enterprise, Amazon API Gateway, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and Microsoft Azure API Management.
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