We performed a comparison between Informatica Cloud API and App 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."The OAuth feature is the most valuable feature for authentication."
"The interface has a great look and feel, and the functionality is so easy."
"The application integration will give you more flexibility when dealing with APIs."
"The interface is really good."
"The benefits are rapid development and deployment of APIs, which means that your information, your ability to handle information, to receive it and to send it, to visualize it, to report on it, to get intelligence out of it, happens fast and happens with accuracy."
"Every API that we get from external or from internal goes through this layer first, and it should not be a bottleneck. That was the problem we had before. Now it's no longer a bottleneck. It's more like a throughput, this process is less than 10 milliseconds for any particular API."
"From a security standpoint, it works great. It is the right solution for us. It's lightweight, a software-appliance configuration which was easy to deploy and configure."
"It has improved API governance and gives analytics to API performance."
"Security is the most important parameter of the solution, for me, because whenever you are exposing your APIs to third-parties, it is critical that the data remains anonymous and that data is retained within the system, that it is not leaked. CA API Management provides good security features."
"Some of the performance matrix that API Gateway gives off, we monitor them via SNMP traps, and then we tie them into our monitoring system. You can actually monitor some of the latencies and some of the performance aspects of both API Gateways, as well back end services. So having that line of sight surely helps in terms DevOps."
"The Gateway is most important because it is our strategic front door into the company for all APIs."
"The level of technical support is good."
"There's no direct way to connect to Amazon APIs from Informatica Cloud."
"The setup is complex."
"There could be a lot more application integration."
"The pricing model is problematic."
"The security protocols in CA's product, for financial services, weren't as good as those in API Connect."
"The overall cost of Layer7 API Management is high, they can improve it by making it less expensive."
"Layer7 API Management could improve by assing more portal-based capabilities."
"What is really important is that they offer the solution as a service, on a subscription or monthly basis, which will make it more attractive. That is where the market is headed. There are competitors within the industry that are doing that currently. I would encourage CA to do that."
"From the last version, they have added more dashboard support, but there is still a lot they need to improve. In terms of monitoring, it's almost all covered. The interface can be improved, though."
"If they had different levels of support available then it would be easier to justify the costs."
"They should incorporate deeper monitoring features into the solution to make the offering more complete. Doing so would help to showcase traffic patterns and usage to better engage customers and partners proactively. It would also help with API management and capacity planning."
"We have experienced technical difficulties with the product in the past."
Informatica Cloud API and App Integration is ranked 25th in API Management with 4 reviews while Layer7 API Management is ranked 10th in API Management with 109 reviews. Informatica Cloud API and App Integration is rated 8.6, while Layer7 API Management is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Informatica Cloud API and App Integration writes " Provides data governance and offer good scalability, with a significant performance boost when moving from on-prem to the cloud". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Layer7 API Management writes "Has great drag-and-drop features and it requires minimal coding ". Informatica Cloud API and App Integration is most compared with Apache Airflow, Pega BPM, Appian, ARIS Cloud and Camunda, 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 Informatica Cloud API and App Integration vs. Layer7 API Management report.
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