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Boomi iPaaS vs IBM API Connect comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 17, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
8.3
Boomi iPaaS streamlines integration, boosts ROI over 100%, and saves costs with efficient, rapid deployment and minimal development efforts.
Sentiment score
6.9
IBM API Connect enhances profitability and efficiency by reducing development time, improving security, and enabling seamless system integration.
We have automated complete order-to-cash processes for multiple customers, saving over 90 million dollars.
The return is faster since development efforts are minimized, allowing for quicker integration delivery.
Reducing development hours from eighty to four for an API was possible due to reusing existing scripts from DataPower.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.5
Boomi iPaaS support is responsive and knowledgeable, with mixed reviews, valuable community resources, and improved service in high-end plans.
Sentiment score
6.4
IBM API Connect support is proactive and expert but variable in speed, with regional availability challenges noted by users.
The tech support is very good, offering immediate responses and chat options.
Seamlessly meeting SLAs and providing excellent responses to challenges and issues related to interface and data connectivity.
We receive service that is more than adequate, even exceptional.
Support is excellent when it comes to APIC.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.9
Boomi iPaaS is scalable and versatile but can become expensive with high integration counts and specific setup challenges.
Sentiment score
7.4
IBM API Connect offers excellent scalability through on-premise and cloud solutions, supporting enterprise-level operations and customization features.
We have built approximately 1,100 interfaces for one customer, which is a significant achievement.
The reason we wanted to use our own Kubernetes cluster was to do automatic scaling for utilized resources, allowing us to save.
With container versions, scaling up or down the gateways deployed into pods is a two to three-minute task for the operations team.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
6.5
Boomi iPaaS is generally stable with 99.99% availability, though some users report occasional issues and a learning curve.
Sentiment score
7.3
IBM API Connect is generally stable and reliable, especially in government and banking, despite occasional upgrade issues.
The runtime engine for the APIC Gateway is still a DataPower component, which has been stable in the industry for about fifteen years.
 

Room For Improvement

Boomi iPaaS requires enhanced API management, improved documentation, simplified pricing, better integration, and advanced version control for users.
IBM API Connect needs better integration, automation, monitoring, documentation, and usability, facing issues in setup, costs, and support.
With proper version control, you could know which version to revert to and test other versions.
The integration landscape has become complex, and having a data strategy with unified data models would make integration easier for any platform, including Boomi.
The ETL aspect of Boomi iPaaS is not mature enough at the moment.
Examples include the lack of connectivity to MQ.
 

Setup Cost

Boomi iPaaS offers a connection-based pay-per-use model, praised for its flexibility and competitive pricing despite potential cost increases.
IBM API Connect offers scalable solutions with high costs, suitable for large enterprises, available in SaaS and on-premise versions.
While pricing is relative, compared to others, it is favorable.
The pricing for Boomi iPaaS is reasonable, costing around $6,000 per year.
Pricing depends on how many instances run across environments.
 

Valuable Features

Boomi iPaaS offers flexible, scalable integration with low-code tools, enhancing speed and efficiency for medium-sized organizations.
IBM API Connect excels with strong security, integration, usability, analytics, flexibility, and scalability, enhancing API management and monetization.
It automates the creation and population of a data warehouse, reducing the need to write SQL scripts and procedures.
The integrations and API management are particularly beneficial.
When developers learn how to use it, they become productive sooner.
It offers significant development efficiency, reducing man-hours from eighty to four when creating APIs.
 

Categories and Ranking

Boomi iPaaS
Ranking in Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)
6th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
29
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
IBM API Connect
Ranking in Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)
8th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
76
Ranking in other categories
API Management (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) category, the mindshare of Boomi iPaaS is 11.3%, up from 7.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM API Connect is 2.8%, up from 1.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)
 

Featured Reviews

Eugene Paden - PeerSpot reviewer
Integration solution proves maturity and drives productivity
There are many features we're using. We're starting to do AI now regarding integration with other platforms, focusing on creating integrations. A significant area for improvement is version control. Currently, you develop and cannot properly roll back to a previous version unless you create different versions. With proper version control, you could know which version to revert to and test other versions.
Shanmugasundaram Shanmuganathan - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers basic API orchestration and provides robust security and governance features
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. Overall, I would rate the scalability an eight out of ten. Almost all applications we've been exposing lately go through this middleware, so it's used extensively. There are around sixty applications directly using it, but six Kubernetes clusters serve those applications. It's heavily used for integration, including system-to-system integration and product integrations. Our usage has been increasing year-on-year based on our needs.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
16%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Non Profit
5%
Financial Services Firm
18%
Educational Organization
16%
Insurance Company
11%
Computer Software Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Boomi AtomSphere Integration?
The tool's most valuable features I've found are related to debugging and testing. It makes it easy to track execution, documents, and process history. This functionality is particularly useful for...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Boomi AtomSphere Integration?
The pricing for Boomi iPaaS is reasonable, costing around $6,000 per year. It is affordable even for small customers, like a salon with a couple of branches.
What needs improvement with Boomi AtomSphere Integration?
Boomi iPaaS needs better source control. It is not as good as it could be in terms of managing versions and running what-if scenarios.
What do you like most about IBM API Connect?
Publishers can easily identify, create, and publish APIs on the developer portal, defining plans, packages, and potentially billing rules.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM API Connect?
Pricing depends on how many instances run across environments. I don't deal with licensing, but compared to other IBM products, the licensing is not significantly higher.
What needs improvement with IBM API Connect?
When comparing API Gateway with DataPower Gateway, several features in DataPower Gateway are absent in the APIC layer. Examples include the lack of connectivity to MQ ( /categories/message-queue-mq...
 

Also Known As

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Sample Customers

DocuSign Inc., Innotas, Certent, Renesas Electronics America (REA), Kelly-Moore Paints, Mindjet, City of McKinney, Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers (RBA), Daylight Transport, A10 Networks
Heineken, Tine, Finologee, Axis Bank
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