We performed a comparison between IBM API Connect and Informatica Cloud API and App 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 provides a common place for all APIs, allowing for easy sharing and exchange of information between internal and external stakeholders."
"Scalable and stable API platform for creating and managing APIs."
"It's quite flexible and easy to deploy, especially for beginners. It has almost all the features that an API gateway should have."
"The solution is very stable."
"One of the most valuable features is that we can seamlessly and harmoniously expose our capabilities, from a security point of view."
"IBM API Connect is a reliable and scalable solution."
"The solution offers a pretty good SLA."
"API Connect's data gateway is one of the strongest in the market."
"The interface is really good."
"The OAuth feature is the most valuable feature for authentication."
"The application integration will give you more flexibility when dealing with APIs."
"The interface has a great look and feel, and the functionality is so easy."
"We would have more capability to interact with the catalog and inventories, so a more DevOps-friendly solution is needed."
"Improving the documentation would be beneficial as it currently presents navigation challenges. Incorporating a step-by-step guide could facilitate the integration or migration of various systems, including databases. The existing documentation only comprises plain text, hence incorporating more interactive instructions could enhance its usefulness."
"Components, like caching, should be implemented as policies, not requiring dependency on an external solution."
"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 only disadvantage I can see is that it requires heavy hardware support."
"I would like to see support for non-Java based services. We struggle a bit to be able to deploy and connect our .NET services because of things like data types. We had to map a couple of things. For one solution provider, we had to move them to .NET Core before we could use it properly. I would like to see more agnostic tool service platforms rather than moving it more towards Java or open source."
"The solution is overly complex."
"The developer portal could be easier to customize."
"The setup is complex."
"There's no direct way to connect to Amazon APIs from Informatica Cloud."
"There could be a lot more application integration."
"The pricing model is problematic."
IBM API Connect is ranked 5th in API Management with 73 reviews while Informatica Cloud API and App Integration is ranked 25th in API Management with 4 reviews. IBM API Connect is rated 8.0, while Informatica Cloud API and App Integration is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of IBM API Connect writes "Good speed and performance, but it's based on a bit dated architecture". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Informatica Cloud API and App Integration writes " Provides data governance and offer good scalability, with a significant performance boost when moving from on-prem to the cloud". IBM API Connect is most compared with Apigee, IBM DataPower Gateway, Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and Amazon API Gateway, whereas Informatica Cloud API and App Integration is most compared with Apache Airflow, Pega BPM, Appian, ARIS Cloud and Camunda. See our IBM API Connect vs. Informatica Cloud API and App Integration report.
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