We performed a comparison between Frends and Microsoft Azure API Management 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."The user-friendly interface for constructing integration solutions is also a notable benefit."
"One of the benefits is the speed of creating something new. Second, it's replacing the old integration quite fast. Then it is like the visibility of the integration and the possibility to see what is happening in the integration."
"The product has valuable features for version control."
"Azure API is scalable."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure API Management is the developer portal because it's very quick and easy to get something published."
"The initial setup is not that complex, but there are certain challenges."
"The most valuable features are the ease of use and it is a platform that has self-enablement for the customers to be able to register themselves."
"It's a very robust tool. So you see that there is a developer portal which can be used by developer or the vendors as well. And other external partners to create keys and manage their own APIs. The other thing is that they have a lot of policies there are too many options within API. So I do the difficult to tell one, but probably I would say, like, proxy sorry. The policies is one of the thing wherein you can just configure the policies and modify the behavior of the APIs."
"Microsoft Azure API Management has many valuable features. One is the developer portal, that's very useful for teams. The tool also provides layers of security. I also found the caching, automatic documentation, and version management functionalities most valuable."
"I like the stability and the ease of use."
"Microsoft Azure API Management is better because it has a DevOps integration by default."
"One of the primary areas for improvement is a more mobile-friendly interface for the control center."
"Another enhancement includes the monitoring part. It would be nice to have some sort of maybe mobile app on which we can see how integrations are running if there are some problems, and getting those alerts on the mobile would be really nice."
"It is a new application and lacks some essential features compared to competitors."
"This solution is only available as a cloud-based deployment and it would be very helpful to have an on-premises version."
"There is always room for improvement. There should be more analytics abilities so you can know how much traffic there is. Log Analyzer isn't well integrated with this solution."
"The licensing tiers can be misleading."
"The hybrid part could be improved because API Management is entirely cloud-based, but some of our resources are on-prem, so formatting is an issue. Our goal is dual implementation."
"The documentation could be improved for the customer."
"Security could be improved."
"I rate the technical support from Microsoft Azure API Management a four out of five."
"In the next release, Azure APIM should include deployment in various environments and CI/CD for deployment."
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Frends is ranked 22nd in API Management with 3 reviews while Microsoft Azure API Management is ranked 1st in API Management with 68 reviews. Frends is rated 8.6, while Microsoft Azure API Management is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Frends writes "Offers simplicity, ease of customization, and visibility of integrations". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure API Management writes "Efficiently manages and monetizes API ". Frends is most compared with , whereas Microsoft Azure API Management is most compared with Amazon API Gateway, Apigee, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Kong Gateway Enterprise and IBM API Connect. See our Frends vs. Microsoft Azure API Management report.
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