We performed a comparison between IBM Cloud Pak for Integration and Layer7 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."Cloud Pak for Integration is definitely scalable. That is the most important criteria."
"The most valuable aspect of the Cloud Pak, in general, is the flexibility that you have to use the product."
"It is a stable solution."
"The most preferable aspect would be the elimination of the command, which was a significant improvement. In the past, it was a challenge, but now we can proceed smoothly with the implementation of our policies and everything is managed through JCP. It's still among the positive aspects, and it's a valuable feature."
"There are a few assertions which are built-in for threat protection. I have used them for vulnerabilities, like for DDoS attacks, XML schema validation, IP restriction, and for cross-domain."
"It's pretty easy to use, and once we have templating set up we can add new APIs, at least through the gateway, and apply the security to them; it takes a minute."
"We definitely get good responses from the technical team and they are quite responsive."
"It impresses me as a product because it never goes down. It always does what it is supposed to do."
"A big win for CA was the expertise of the local country support plus having support staff on site in a matter of hours, if required."
"The speed and versatility in the implementation of APIs without writing a line of code in any programming language."
"The administration interface (Policy Manager) is very easy to understand and use."
"It allows us to keep clear traceability of the changes made in each of our APIs."
"The pricing can be improved."
"Its queuing and messaging features need improvement."
"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."
"The initial setup is not easy."
"Some problems with response time."
"One area where it certainly needs to improve is the way it allocates requests, in terms of rate limiting. Also, there is no native Kafka connectivity."
"The security protocols in CA's product, for financial services, weren't as good as those in API Connect."
"There is a need for the migration of policies, better reporting, and monitoring integration."
"Layer7 API Management could have a live API creator feature, so my team can easily create APIs. Right now, the product doesn't have that feature."
"The overall cost of Layer7 API Management is high, they can improve it by making it less expensive."
"It is not possible for clients to migrate to a newer version."
"The Portal lacks maturity. Since the move from Portal 3.x to 4.x, a lot of features were removed. It is slowly coming back. I can see a lot of changes are done in the "background" to decouple components and make it more flexible. Those changes are just not getting to the UI side quick enough."
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IBM Cloud Pak for Integration is ranked 21st in API Management with 4 reviews while Layer7 API Management is ranked 10th in API Management with 109 reviews. IBM Cloud Pak for Integration is rated 8.6, while Layer7 API Management is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of IBM Cloud Pak for Integration writes "A hybrid integration platform that applies the functionality of closed-loop AI automation". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Layer7 API Management writes "Has great drag-and-drop features and it requires minimal coding ". IBM Cloud Pak for Integration is most compared with IBM App Connect, IBM API Connect, IBM DataPower Gateway, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and Microsoft Azure API Management, whereas Layer7 API Management is most compared with Apigee, Kong Gateway Enterprise, Amazon API Gateway, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and Microsoft Azure API Management. See our IBM Cloud Pak for Integration vs. Layer7 API Management report.
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