We performed a comparison between Boomi AtomSphere 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."AtomSphere is tightly integrated into the Boomi iPaaS platform. And Boomi has been augmenting AtomSphere API Management for the past couple of years so version 2.0 is better than 1.0."
"The product's stability is good."
"AtomSphere API Management is a simple platform that's easy to use. If you're using it on-prem, there's a little learning curve."
"The stability of the solution is good."
"We can develop almost any interface that we need."
"Boomi AtomSphere API Management is a good product for integrating with Boomi as a backend service."
"We can create APIs straightforwardly and quickly and build jobs for data migration."
"The most valuable feature of IBM API Connect is the security of the protocol."
"The gateway is the most valuable aspect of this solution."
"We are able to share those APIs instantly within the organization; even if we want to share it outside publicly, then we can have those capabilities."
"Scalable and stable API platform for creating and managing APIs."
"The functionalities on offer are very good."
"The solution is very scalable because it's on the cloud."
"API Connect is a very good platform for the development of APIs."
"The developer portal has been the most useful feature."
"To some degree, you need to know what type or amount of API you are creating - whether it's a rest API or web service API. You need to know ETL in order to really get the most out of Boomi."
"Most of the basic functionality is there in Boomi, but APG is a more feature-rich solution."
"The product is really complex to manage."
"Boomi AtomSphere API Management can be improved in terms of threshold management and policy management."
"It's difficult to integrate the on-prem application with the Dell Boomi Cloud. We have to check to ensure the Dell domain engine is running. It just requires some service endpoints from our on-prem application to connect to Dell Boomi Cloud to make it available to integrate. It would be better if AtomSphere API Management were offered as a purely SaaS application, so I wouldn't need an on-prem component to make it available. We could make a test call or provide some connection parameters. That should enable it to pull the data."
"The API management has room for improvement."
"From an improvement perspective, the price could be cheaper."
"The design time setup has a lot of customizable fields, but we need certain standard fields to be added, such as what all of the consuming systems are. This needs to be very clearly articulated during the design time."
"The solution is not scalable."
"They seem to have left out a feature for microservices and also a certification module for OIDC."
"While Azure API Management offers configurable scalability, IBM API Connect relies on Kubernetes clusters. This might seem manual and require defining cluster instances upfront, but it's completely customizable and not on-the-fly scaling. It's completely custom-driven, not on-the-fly scaling, which some may consider cumbersome."
"It would be nice to have a SaaS solution that can be deployed into the cloud."
"In the next version, I don't know if they've already been included it or not, but the designer and all the tools should be on the cloud. I don't want any external installation or local installation."
"It would be helpful to have access monitoring."
"It should be cheaper."
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Boomi AtomSphere API Management is ranked 14th in API Management with 7 reviews while IBM API Connect is ranked 5th in API Management with 73 reviews. Boomi AtomSphere API Management is rated 7.4, while IBM API Connect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Boomi AtomSphere API Management writes "Complex to manage, and the documentation is quite hard to learn, though APIs can be created quickly and easily". 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". Boomi AtomSphere API Management is most compared with Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Management, Amazon API Gateway, Kong Gateway Enterprise and SwaggerHub, whereas IBM API Connect is most compared with Apigee, IBM DataPower Gateway, Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and Amazon API Gateway. See our Boomi AtomSphere API Management vs. IBM API Connect report.
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