We performed a comparison between Axway AMPLIFY API Management and IBM API Connect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two API Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."There's drag and drop functionality so that you do not need to have a senior expert developer to make use of the tool. You can get more of your staff trained up to be able to use it as it's not overly technical."
"The API portal capability is a valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is security."
"The administration tool for this solution is good."
"This platform can be highly scalable."
"This product is a ten when it comes to API management."
"We like the portal for documentation a lot."
"The most valuable features are security enforcement and throttling."
"In-built policies and security functions."
"It is easy to use and stable."
"The interface is very nice. It makes the solution easy to use and navigate."
"One of the most valuable features is the easy-to-use web interface."
"It allows enterprises to expose some of their tech to outside stakeholders."
"This is a very easy to use solution."
"The ability for all of our web applications to share standard functions and documents easily is valuable."
"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 solution does have some limitations regarding the deployment model."
"The API Mocking tools need to be improved."
"The product shows a lack of maturity. The setup is difficult, the tech support and community are lacking, and it is not very stable."
"Sometimes we find bugs where certain calls are not returning all the data we need."
"Areas of improvement include marketing and enhancing the data products area by using ETIs."
"It would be great if they have an asset report. It's hard to get support for that."
"The areas for enhancement should be improving certain filters within the solution. Although they are generally functional, there are occasional problems that could be more precisely adjusted. Additionally, the solution performs well within its workload limitations, but it may not be suitable for scaling up or managing a larger volume of transactions through the gateway. To address this, it may be necessary to adopt a unique architecture rather than relying on traditional pre-packaged options."
"The installation process is a bit complex and it could be a lot simpler."
"The implementation of IBM API Connect is complex, as it's an enterprise solution with many components that require more than one person. It's not a single product that you work on, and this is an area for improvement, but normally, it's good. Having a more structured model for IBM API Connect support is also room for improvement that would help customers better."
"The installation was difficult with the IBM toolkit."
"Debugging could be improved."
"The solution is not scalable."
"We have asked IBM for scalability and for some other features that we wanted. We had a dialogue with them and in the end, they have agreed to provide us with features related to API setup and security."
"It would be nice to have a SaaS solution that can be deployed into the cloud."
"IBM info-center help documentation also needs improvement. Competitive product like Apigee provide out of the box policies to run Javascript, JAVA and better/flexible logging policies."
"It's based on a little bit dated architecture. A lot of evolution has happened after that. It's an evolving field. Kong is a Kubernetes-based platform. Kong runs on Kubernetes, but all the other ones are in microservices. So, there's a lot of improvement that can be done."
Axway AMPLIFY API Management is ranked 15th in API Management with 12 reviews while IBM API Connect is ranked 5th in API Management with 73 reviews. Axway AMPLIFY API Management is rated 7.8, while IBM API Connect is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Axway AMPLIFY API Management writes "An API management solution for ESB and B2B integration between systems with security". 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". Axway AMPLIFY API Management is most compared with Apigee, Amazon API Gateway, Microsoft Azure API Management, Kong Enterprise and IBM DataPower Gateway, whereas IBM API Connect is most compared with IBM DataPower Gateway, Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Management and MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager. See our Axway AMPLIFY API Management vs. IBM API Connect report.
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