We performed a comparison between IBM API Connect and IBM Cloud Pak for Integration 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 solution offers a pretty good SLA."
"Using API Connect allows us to quickly create proxy APIs and saves time on end-to-end testing, which lets us deliver quickly to clients."
"One of the most valuable features is the easy-to-use web interface."
"The services that I consume through IBM API Connect are beneficial. It can handle multiple API management."
"One of the most valuable features is that we can seamlessly and harmoniously expose our capabilities, from a security point of view."
"WSRR is a powerful component for getting the endpoints."
"We really like the runtime capabilities of IBM API Connect. The creation of products and the control of the monetization and hit rate are some of the features which we've found very valuable."
"What's best about IBM API Connect is the excellent administration. The development tool that builds the API is also very simple, and user-friendly, and it doesn't consume too much time. Another valuable feature in IBM API Connect is its good reporting feature, particularly for operations, but the most valuable feature of the solution for the customer is security. IBM API Connect provides a DMZ and a security gateway between the external and internal environment, so you can publish your API safely. IBM API Connect can also integrate with any tool or middleware that works on open standards without the need for development or coding, so integration with the solution is easier."
"The most valuable aspect of the Cloud Pak, in general, is the flexibility that you have to use the product."
"Cloud Pak for Integration is definitely scalable. That is the most important criteria."
"We've had some issues upgrading to the latest version of the solution."
"The installation was difficult with the IBM toolkit."
"The solution could improve security and performance."
"Installation is weak."
"The installation process could use improvement. I hope that in the next release, the installation process is easier."
"Support for this platform could still be improved. It also needs to have more levels of versatility. Its compatibility and integration with different platforms also need improvement."
"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."
"We ran it on top of the Kubernetes cluster, so it wasn't a standalone service. In the worst-case scenario, API Connect couldn't stay online if all the containers went down. We had to restart all the services. We shut down all the containers automatically one by one."
"The initial setup is not easy."
"Setting up Cloud Pak for Integration is relatively complex. It's not as easy because it has not yet been fully integrated. You still have some products that are still not containerized, so you still have to run them on a dedicated VM."
IBM API Connect is ranked 5th in API Management with 22 reviews while IBM Cloud Pak for Integration is ranked 19th in API Management with 2 reviews. IBM API Connect is rated 7.6, while IBM Cloud Pak for Integration is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of IBM API Connect writes "Stable and scalable solution for API management, but it needs more versatility and integration with different platforms". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Cloud Pak for Integration writes "Stable, with good automation capabilities and is quite flexible". IBM API Connect is most compared with IBM DataPower Gateway, Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and OpenLegacy, whereas IBM Cloud Pak for Integration is most compared with IBM App Connect, IBM DataPower Gateway, Microsoft Azure API Management, AWS Data Pipeline and MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager. See our IBM API Connect vs. IBM Cloud Pak for Integration report.
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