We performed a comparison between IBM Cloud Pak for Integration 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 most valuable aspect of the Cloud Pak, in general, is the flexibility that you have to use the product."
"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."
"It is a stable solution."
"Cloud Pak for Integration is definitely scalable. That is the most important criteria."
"It's very well integrated with the Azure environment."
"The ability to easily connect back to Service Fabric is the most important for us."
"Without a doubt, it has a very robust, strong marketplace where we can directly integrate with existing APIs and begin working on those."
"The most valuable feature is the developer portal, which has source code examples in various programming languages to help developers learn the API."
"I like the stability and the ease of use."
"The stability and performance are good. It is easy to install, and it scales well too."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its importing and publishing."
"We use this solution for API rate limiting and for its security features against DDoS."
"The pricing can be improved."
"The initial setup is not easy."
"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 implementation has room for improvement and can be more user-friendly."
"Microsoft Azure API Management needs to improve stability."
"It could be more user friendly for developers. It would be nice if developers could view things more easily."
"Azure API Management could be improved with better integration with all of Microsoft's tools."
"It can be quite complex, somewhat lacking in flexibility."
"When you start with Azure API management, you also need to onboard the Azure console and the Azure cloud environment, which comes with a price."
"I'd like to have better flexibility and more capabilities."
"Maybe the customization could be a bit better."
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IBM Cloud Pak for Integration is ranked 21st in API Management with 4 reviews while Microsoft Azure API Management is ranked 1st in API Management with 67 reviews. IBM Cloud Pak for Integration is rated 8.6, while Microsoft Azure API Management is rated 7.8. 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 Microsoft Azure API Management writes "Efficiently manages and monetizes API ". IBM Cloud Pak for Integration is most compared with IBM App Connect, IBM API Connect, IBM DataPower Gateway, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and AWS Glue, 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 IBM Cloud Pak for Integration vs. Microsoft Azure API Management report.
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