"One of the most valuable features of this solution is that it protects our backend system. We are exposing services to external parties and using this solution to protect the backend system, and to have a navigation in between."
"It is a complete all-in-one solution."
"The solution offers a pretty good SLA."
"Security is well organized and managed within the solution."
"API Connect is a good product, and everything works fine. All the analytics are good, and it is easy to follow up. I like it in that sense. I'm more focused on following up on analytics by seeing how many API calls we are getting and where we see a lot of problems. I was working on that API level."
"This is a very easy to use solution."
"Scalable and stable API platform for creating and managing APIs."
"The services that I consume through IBM API Connect are beneficial. It can handle multiple API management."
"The solution can scale."
"The HANA replications are very useful."
"SAP Cloud Platform's most valuable features are its exhaustiveness, scalability with minimum maintenance, and functionality."
"The dashboard provides pretty good clarity."
"The ability to expand it whenever required has been great — it's very simple."
"Cloud Platform's stability is great."
"The pre-delivered content from the SAP cloud platform is definitely a strength."
"It’s easy to maintain, as everything is handled by SAP."
"The solution would be better if it had cloud functionalities."
"The developmental process is not quite user-friendly."
"The documentation needs to be a bit better."
"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 automation and the simplicity could be improved."
"One thing about API Connect that could be improved is the security schemes. There are so many security schemes, and from a product perspective, IBM could improve the user experience of the configuration security scheme."
"Different versions of the same thing can mean unnecessary duplication."
"We've had some issues upgrading to the latest version of the solution."
"When I started looking at the client's IT architecture, I started by doing a study of their services, DVM, data volume, and management services. According to the results, they could be a lot better at this."
"I can’t speak to features that may be missing."
"In person, when the development happens, we were told that it's flexible and customizable. However, sometimes, it's challenging to customize."
"The main problem is that there aren't any easy migrations from SAP PO to SAP CPI, so from process orchestration to cloud platform integration."
"While it was good for a small entity, it was not ideal for a large enterprise."
"Shows errors without providing any analysis."
"I'd like to see more local integration."
"When they innovate too fast, they end up confusing their customers."
IBM API Connect is ranked 2nd in Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) with 22 reviews while SAP Cloud Platform is ranked 5th in Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) with 12 reviews. IBM API Connect is rated 7.6, while SAP Cloud Platform is rated 8.0. 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 SAP Cloud Platform writes "Easy to maintain, great features, and helpful support". IBM API Connect is most compared with Apigee, IBM DataPower Gateway, Microsoft Azure API Management, Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager and TIBCO Mashery API Management, whereas SAP Cloud Platform is most compared with Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Salesforce Platform and SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite. See our IBM API Connect vs. SAP Cloud Platform report.
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