We performed a comparison between IBM DataPower Gateway 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."Since it is a gateway, it provides a lot of security features."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The product is stable...The product is scalable."
"The solution is straightforward and for large organizations, it functions well."
"The solution is stable."
"It can look for the various security threats, productions, payload scanning, and perform routing based on the content type."
"It is very easy to set up and configure, even for users with no prior experience."
"The API Connect gateway service and the SQL injection feature is good."
"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."
"Layer7 API Management's availability on an on-premises deployment model, actually decreases the production time if its users have any issues at the server level."
"The solution's technical support is good."
"The most valuable feature is the security with its out-of-the-box policies."
"We loved the portal part the most, which had monetization and showed how people were using the stuff. It is a good product as a whole and has a lot of microservices and granular features."
"It's a comprehensive tool that allows us to perform all the necessary tasks in one place."
"It can be scaled as we need. And it can be used in different regions. We have different data centers in the U.S. and Beijing. We use it on-premise, on-cloud, and it can be hosted and used at any place and scaled across the regions."
"The product documentation helps the client and/or user to evolve quickly while using the tool."
"Some pre-packaged connectors for integration with various applications, such as SaaS offerings, would be a useful addition."
"The initial setup isn't so easy, you need who has experience working with the solution to help."
"Additional documentation needs to be provided for complex automations."
"I would like the tool to improve its training."
"The IBM community does not have much engagement from the IT community in Saudi Arabia and developers for this solution are difficult to find."
"Its support services could be better."
"We are always looking for more features wherein it could be easily integrated with cloud applications. We are looking for either a cloud solution or a cloud integration option."
"In the next release, I would like to see the product price reduced. It should be cheaper."
"If they had different levels of support available then it would be easier to justify the costs."
"Broadcom's technical support team needs improvement."
"Layer7 API Management could improve by assing more portal-based capabilities."
"The cloud-native architecture of the product needs improvement."
"As a SaaS product, control over some configuration elements and environments is lost."
"CA double up portal is a pain. It is something that we are struggling with right now."
"we cannot add gateways on the fly because there are a lot of moving parts; endpoint connectivity is one of them. If we add more nodes then the rate-limiting feature is affected. This kind of gateway always has the scalability issue. But, I think CA is coming up with its Microgateway, which is in Beta. If they stabilize their Microgateway platform, we could do very well in terms of scalability."
"Needs to work better with DB2 UDB."
IBM DataPower Gateway is ranked 8th in API Management with 26 reviews while Layer7 API Management is ranked 10th in API Management with 109 reviews. IBM DataPower Gateway is rated 8.4, while Layer7 API Management is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of IBM DataPower Gateway writes "Easy to use, plenty of functionality, but expensive". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Layer7 API Management writes "Has great drag-and-drop features and it requires minimal coding ". IBM DataPower Gateway is most compared with IBM API Connect, Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Management, Mule ESB and IBM Cloud Pak for Integration, whereas Layer7 API Management is most compared with Apigee, Kong Gateway Enterprise, Amazon API Gateway, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and TIBCO Cloud API Management. See our IBM DataPower Gateway vs. Layer7 API Management report.
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