We performed a comparison between IBM DataPower Gateway and MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager 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."Support for PCA and non-PCA services is valuable."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The most valuable features for our business include the ability to monitor and log data transactions and handle multiple request at an enterprise level."
"It is very easy to set up and configure, even for users with no prior experience."
"Since it is a gateway, it provides a lot of security features."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature is the security appliance, it's very secure."
"The solution is scalable, our customers are mostly South African banks and they handle mostly transactions with this solution."
"The product improved data exchange processes by enhancing communication between various messaging queues. There was a heavy reliance on queues for indexing clusters and data transfer in this particular environment. The product facilitated the transfer of messages from one queue to another, ensuring data flow and processing across different topics."
"We use it heavily because Azure offers better pricing than its competitors."
"The solution has been very stable."
"The documentation is great; it is always up to date and well-presented."
"This is a good API management product."
"If you adopt the whole platform, you can build composable applications. This will cut your time creating new applications and updating them – once you have everything running – by up to 50%."
"The auto-creation of the API documentation is useful."
"The ESB, the enterprise service bus is what we primarily use. In addition to that, the API management. These are the two tools which we have been using extensively. The enterprise platform."
"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."
"An area for improvement in IBM DataPower Gateway is its price point because it's a relatively expensive product. Sometimes, when the customer use case is just a very small subset of what's being offered in IBM DataPower Gateway, then the product can be expensive, making my company lose some of the opportunities because of the expensive pricing. A lower price point for IBM DataPower Gateway, even if that results in a less feature-rich version, would be appreciated. In terms of additional features that I'd like to see in the next release of IBM DataPower Gateway, nothing specific comes to mind because IBM constantly improves its standards and provides quarterly updates to the product, so it's quite fine."
"The user interface or the application development perspective and customization of the tool could be a little better."
"It is a costly product."
"Making it more user-friendly would be an improvement."
"They should add features to manage API integrations."
"The product should be more adapted to the DevOps process."
"Additional documentation needs to be provided for complex automations."
"Rather than focusing on numbers, they should focus more on the customer support service."
"We find that the enterprise level is lacking scalability."
"Migrating any existing middleware platform to Mulesoft is difficult because of the transformation, conversion and integration involved. Better tools are needed to achieve quicker time to market."
"The pricing is quite expensive. It should be adjusted to make it more affordable for users."
"With respect to the live help, I have language issues because I can't understand some of the things that I hear."
"When discussing potential enhancements overall, it primarily involves making it more user-friendly and lowering the pricing. There are several aspects that could benefit from improvement, or perhaps a few other areas to consider."
"They should provide training and development programs to enable the skills and capabilities of users."
"The solution is expensive."
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IBM DataPower Gateway is ranked 8th in API Management with 26 reviews while MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is ranked 4th in API Management with 47 reviews. IBM DataPower Gateway is rated 8.4, while MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of IBM DataPower Gateway writes "Easy to use, plenty of functionality, but expensive". On the other hand, the top reviewer of MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager writes "Responsive technical support, low tickets issued showing great stability, and limitless expansion". IBM DataPower Gateway is most compared with IBM API Connect, Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Management, Mule ESB and IBM Integration Bus, whereas MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, Amazon API Gateway, Apigee, Kong Gateway Enterprise and IBM API Connect. See our IBM DataPower Gateway vs. MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager report.
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