IBM DataPower Gateway vs TIBCO Cloud API Management comparison

IBM DataPower Gateway

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TIBCO Cloud API Management

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85% willing to recommend

IBM DataPower Gateway

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between IBM DataPower Gateway and TIBCO Cloud 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.

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Categories and Ranking

IBM DataPower Gateway

Ranking in API Management

8th

Average Rating

8.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) (5th), Application Infrastructure (6th), SOA Application Gateways (3rd)

TIBCO Cloud API Management

Ranking in API Management

27th

Average Rating

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2024, in the API Management category, the mindshare of IBM DataPower Gateway is 4.5%, up from 3.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TIBCO Cloud API Management is 0.8%, down from 1.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

API Management

Unique Categories:

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

5.0%

Application Infrastructure

2.9%

No other categories found

Featured Reviews

Naresh Jatangi

Middleware Administrator at Pronteff IT Solutions

Jul 21, 2022

Many security features, easy to use and not much development is needed

We use both cloud and on-premise solutions. We focus on the BFSI, one of India's largest banks, as well as the financial sector and telecommunications. We implement the solution for our clients and currently have more than 70 staff members on our team. Since it is a gateway, it provides a lot…

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Amitava Roy

Principal Enterprise Architect (Cognizant Digital Business) at Cognizant

Jun 7, 2024

Offers pre-built packages for quick and easy onboarding of APIs but configuration is not that easy

We use it for API management, as an API gateway. All those APIs have been published there, and we call them from there. It's a centralized platform. So, overall, it's used as an API gateway and for publishing APIs. This is a bit like a custom-built solution. So, it is specific to the customer. It…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The solution is stable."

"It can look for the various security threats, productions, payload scanning, and perform routing based on the content type."

"The most valuable feature is the security appliance, it's very secure."

"You don't have to have a separate DMC proxy because DataPower Gateway is an appliance and will take care of a lot of security features. These include data validations, encryption, as well as XML or any type of scripting or security threats that are present."

"The scalability of the solution is good."

"The API Connect gateway service and the SQL injection feature is good."

"The solution is straightforward and for large organizations, it functions well."

"Since it is a gateway, it provides a lot of security features."

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"The most valuable feature is the ability to have different packages based on the API keys. The same core system can have different packages based on different environments."

"It is easy to work with ."

"This has provided a new stream of traffic and exposure of our catalogue beyond the normal web store offering."

"It has something called packages. In that way, it's good because we have some pre-built packages. So, if you want to onboard different APIs, we can just add them to the package, and it's there."

"Very few outages or SLA issues."

"The solution is a good general API manager. They have a few propriety features but are offering items that are standard in the industry as well."

"When we did the product evaluation, we saw that TIBCO Mashery offers end-to-end API life cycle management. It provides all API features that are required for managing the complete life cycle. It includes the developer portal and tools for API monitorization. The out-of-box security features that TIBCO Mashery provides are enterprise-grade, which gives it an edge over other API products."

"The reason why we selected the solution originally was because of its ability to have a gateway both on-premise and in the cloud. This is the most valuable aspect of the solution for us."

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Cons

"The components that they include in the product that are, in fact, a WTX, really need to be removed from the product because they tend to fail."

"The programming language is only supported in XSLT and Gateway script."

"Small and medium-sized companies might look for cloud-hosted applications due to the cost."

"In the next release, I would like to see the product price reduced. It should be cheaper."

"The initial setup isn't so easy, you need who has experience working with the solution to help."

"They should improve the solution's clustering features."

"The product's cost for data appliances or hardware is quite high. It needs improvement."

"For the workloads that are not too high, appliance is a little bit expensive."

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"The security needs improvement, specifically, propagation of security to an API. Calling other APIs is something that is missing in the product and that makes us think about going to a competitor."

"The way agile life cycle is working needs improvement. I also want to see more support for open API standards. I want to see some improvement on the protocol transformation. That is quite missing now. These are the three main issues."

"Monetization is not that great in API management. You need customization. Improvements are needed with sandbox local as well as with monetization. Those features are missing."

"They can fix some stability issues and probably make it more user-friendly so that not only an IT savvy person but an end-user can also easily navigate through this solution."

"The management console of API and customers' applications are not the most intuitive."

"Policy management has been a bit of a concern."

"It's not that user-friendly, and security-wise when you try to implement the security layer on top of it, it's not that easy either."

"It lacks many features at the API gateway compared to other solutions."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is expensive in comparison to other products."

"The licensing cost is very expensive."

"The cost of this product varies from customer to customer and the relationship with IBM, including how many offerings from IBM are already being used."

"The product is expensive."

"As far as I know, they have a perpetual license for this product. They are paying perpetual fees rather than an annual subscription or annual pricing."

"It's expensive when you compare it with others."

"This product is a bit expensive as IBM products are costly assets. However, for enterprise customers it is a worthwhile investment."

"It is an expensive solution."

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"TIBCO Cloud API Management is not an expensive solution."

"Its price is pretty reasonable. There are some lightweight API options available in the market, but given the feature set that TIBCO provides, its price is really reasonable."

"Licensing is quite flexible."

"We have secured terms on which we have been happy to renew for a number of years."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

30%

Computer Software Company

10%

Insurance Company

10%

Government

Computer Software Company

29%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

Retailer

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about IBM DataPower Gateway?

The MPGW (Multi-Protocol Gateway) is great because it allows you to easily expose services using various protocols – web services, REST (JSON), and others. This flexibility simplifies things.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM DataPower Gateway?

I would rate the pricing a two out of ten, with one being high price, and ten being low price. It's high-priced for smaller companies. But it is okay for enterprises. So, the price could be more fl...

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What needs improvement with IBM DataPower Gateway?

The price could be more flexible for different clients.

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What do you like most about TIBCO Cloud API Management?

The platform's most valuable features are its capabilities to support security measures such as tokenization, token refresh, throttling, and enforcement of payloads.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for TIBCO Cloud API Management?

My primary role was to assess the solution from a capability perspective. So, there are some issues with the licensing cost.

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What needs improvement with TIBCO Cloud API Management?

The configuration is not that easy. It's not that user-friendly, and security-wise when you try to implement the security layer on top of it, it's not that easy either. There are certain things whe...

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Compared 5% of the time

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Compared 29% of the time

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Compared 24% of the time

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Compared 16% of the time

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Compared 14% of the time

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Compared 7% of the time

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Also Known As

WebSphere DataPower, IBM DataPower, IBM WebSphere DataPower

Mashery API Management

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Overview

IBM DataPower Gateway is a robust, secure next-generation enterprise-grade single multichannel API gateway that supplies dynamic access, integration, control, and outstanding security. The solution is available in a broad range of workload capabilities, including application programming interface (API), service oriented architecture (SOA), B2B, cloud, web, and mobile. These dynamic capabilities ensure users are able to quickly increase the reach of an organization's critical IT resources to new channels, which will provide shareholders, team members, and clients with safe, secure access at all times.

DataPower Gateway is very flexible and is widely available in virtual, cloud, traditional, physical, Docker, and Linux form factors.

IBM DataPower Gateway Features

IBM DataPower Gateway has many value-added features. Some of these features are included below:

Control: The solution provides decision point authorization and authentication for all standards, including Lightweight Direct Access Protocol (LDAP) and Open Authorization (OAuth), which allow for better access control across an organization’s entire network.
DataPower dashboard: The dashboard is specifically designed to enhance performance and determine problematic processes. The solution provides intuitive real-time performance transparency to diagnose operational and performance anomalies and offer repair and restoration recommendations.
Enhanced messaging: Users are able to easily mediate messaging and protocols by incorporating the best of today’s traditional and modern application standards.
Integration: IBM DataPower Gateway offers super fast mainframe connectivity, database connectivity, transport protocol bridging, content-based routing, and any-to-any message transformation, ensuring secure and immediate connect service.

IBM DataPower Gateway Benefits

IBM DataPower Gateway provides many benefits. Some of those benefits include:

Flexibility: The solution is easy to use and configure and provides for a pleasant, intuitive overall user experience. The solution can immediately be used out of the box, which makes overall process management simple.
Protection: The solution provides sturdy continuous service protection and application performance using robust powerful routing and traffic control.
Security: The solution’s enterprise-grade De-Militarized Zone (DMZ) ready gateway enables users to enforce the desired runtime application security across all messaging protocols.
Profitability: The solution’s design ensures significant reduction of development costs in addition to the streamlining of overall operations. Users are able to achieve reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) and experience a near-immediate ROI.

Reviews from Real Users

“My company has a good impression of IBM DataPower Gateway. What I like about it is that because it's an appliance, it's a turnkey solution that's very fast and out of the box. Another valuable feature of IBM DataPower Gateway is that it's easy to integrate with other products.”- Bálint T., Solution Manager at Intalion

“You don't have to have a separate DMC proxy because DataPower Gateway is an appliance and will take care of a lot of security features. These include data validations, encryption, as well as XML or any type of scripting or security threats that are present. From a security point of view, being an appliance in the DMC zone, IBM DataPower Gateway will take care of the entire security angle for the infrastructure.” - Sathyan K., Founder/Director at perfTech Solutions Pvt Ltd

APIs are critical business assets that form the foundation of digital business enabling new business models, improved operational efficiency, and connected customer experiences. TIBCO Cloud API Management empowers users to maximize the business value of their APIs products through an end-to-end solution that provides full lifecycle API management alongside capabilities for API discovery, implementation and analytics that speed business value realization across your digital ecosystem.

Sample Customers

RBL Bank, Availity

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