We performed a comparison between Apigee, IBM API Connect, and OpenLegacy based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"Apigee gives you plenty of opportunities to set up your workspace depending on how you want to manage your APIs."
"The use case which I have installed serves the intended purpose."
"One of the best parts of this solution is the implementation as we did not need to use code or out-of-box policies. When it comes to the cloud-based architecture, there is a high level of reliability."
"Apigee is a strong-featured solution. It leads in Gartner Quadrant ratings and it is a full-slated API solution that has the features that an API gateway requires."
"Apigee Analytics dashboard is useful to monitor transactions, error percentage, transaction latency, etc."
"I simply like how you can personalize your products and put them into product categories. That's what I like the most."
"The ease of creating policies has been the most useful of the solution's features. It's a quick ramp-up time. It's easy for our support staff to implement the policies in the API management layer."
"It acts as a central gateway for both external APIs and underlying systems. It's basically a central middleware for hosting APIs to the internet and consuming APIs from internal systems. It provides central governance for any APIs going outside the network, ensuring security and a common contract for API definitions."
"It is easy to use and stable."
"The solution is very stable."
"I have found IBM API Connect to be highly secure, efficient, easy to deploy, and has a great GUI. It can operate and integrate well with other vendors, such as Amazon, Google, and Microsoft."
"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 ."
"API Connect is a good product, and everything works fine. All the analytics are good, and it is easy to follow up. I like it in that sense. I'm more focused on following up on analytics by seeing how many API calls we are getting and where we see a lot of problems. I was working on that API level."
"It has all of the tools that are needed for the specific mission."
"The ability for all of our web applications to share standard functions and documents easily is valuable."
"OpenLegacy provides a way to go from the outside world to the legacy mainframe, to move the old standard application to a REST API application. New digital services can be created in a few clicks and this can be done easily by COBOL programmers."
"It is possible to connect a service to a mainframe program or back transaction in a matter of minutes or hours at the most."
"Using mainframe programs (not screens), the OpenLegacy services do not require any changes by the mainframe programmers, thus reducing development cycles."
"OpenLegacy produces a war file which includes everything you need to deploy a Tomcat server."
"It is possible to solve larger legacy API issues on an enterprise level with this product."
"Using OpenLegacy, the exposure of services is far easier and quicker. In many cases, exposure of services requires just a few clicks and takes only minutes. In very complex cases, it still only takes half a day. Without OpenLegacy, it would take us several months to create the same services."
"Opens the door to connect modern web products to an old legacy system."
"The biggest advantage of OpenLegacy was how simple the technology was. We were able to build out the OpenLegacy parts very quickly. We put together a couple hundred APIs in six months."
"The caching capabilities are somewhat limited. This is more on the developer-oriented capabilities."
"When there is an update on a new version or an automatic update, you have to be present and double-check that the update is reflected in the environment with no issues."
"I am still struggling to understand how we can use Apigee as a hybrid system. The pricing of this solution could also be improved as there are multiple new products coming onto the market at competitive price points."
"The number one area this solution could be improved is by implementing support. Support is not a part of this solution."
"Drag and drop of features would be more beneficial, rather than manually working on the configuration and updates."
"As it is now, the rotation of certificates is a manual task and is something that can be improved."
"The pricing of the solution could be improved upon. We'd like it if it was less costly."
"One feature they have to invest time into is the developer portal they use."
"Components, like caching, should be implemented as policies, not requiring dependency on an external solution."
"The solution could improve security and performance."
"It would be helpful to have access monitoring."
"They seem to have left out a feature for microservices and also a certification module for OIDC."
"In terms of what needs improvement, some of the product documentation could be better."
"Automation for our Domino applications could be improved."
"The monetization of the API could be improved. The pricing for the consumer is also very important to improve this solution."
"Due to bugs in integration, we have to look for workaround on fixing and using DataPower as gateway."
"Debugging and logging for programmers could be better."
"The pricing of the solution could be more flexible and allow for once-off payment versus annual licensing. This would be more appealing to companies in Latin America."
"Customer support for the product is slow and not very good. It makes using the product difficult if you need help quickly."
"We would also be more than happy if the product had the option to work in the opposite direction – the ability to consume REST/SOW services in the outer world from the mainframe."
"I'd like to see OpenLegacy develop its low-code/no-code (LCNC) solutions. They've expanded somewhat their horizons for integration beyond mainframe CICS, which is their sweet spot. They have some tooling in that area, but it's not as good as it needs to be."
"I would like to see SSL out-of-the-box. OpenLegacy certainly does SSL, but it was not the default for our use case. We are currently working with OpenLegacy to cross the SSL bridge and suspect that most users will want to do the same."
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