"The most valuable feature of Layer7 API Management is that their policy is really easy to develop and it is flexible."
"The most valuable features of Layer7 API Management are integration, ease of use, building APIs easily, and portal straightforward."
"It impresses me as a product because it never goes down. It always does what it is supposed to do."
"Tech support is fast and responsive."
"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."
"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."
"There are many security policies within this solution that help to prevent attacks. We are also able to implement TLS to allow us to look at the application from the backend. There are workflows inside of the gate that help us a lot to implement customers and improve user experience. Our customers are also able to move from a customized creative view to taking advantage of AI bot solutions."
"The mobile access gateway (MAG) is tremendous."
"Most of the features are valuable to me."
"Initial setup was quite easy."
"The initial setup is not that complex, but there are certain challenges."
"I like the stability and the ease of use."
"This solution is very flexible, and it's very compatible with the other Azure products."
"The solution has overall high performance."
"The user management is pretty seamless."
"The API management and the hosting of the API platform are great."
"Some problems with response time."
"They need a multifactor authentication solution for the API layer and the other layers, as well."
"The architecture of the solution does not allow for flexibility in using different components for the gateway architecture."
"The overall cost of Layer7 API Management is high, they can improve it by making it less expensive."
"The UI design could be improved in the next release."
"The interface is Java which is difficult to make look very nice."
"If they had different levels of support available then it would be easier to justify the costs."
"The Portal lacks maturity. Since the move from Portal 3.x to 4.x, a lot of features were removed. It is slowly coming back. I can see a lot of changes are done in the "background" to decouple components and make it more flexible. Those changes are just not getting to the UI side quick enough."
"The hybrid part could be improved because API Management is entirely cloud-based, but some of our resources are on-prem, so formatting is an issue. Our goal is dual implementation."
"It should be easier to integrate."
"Microsoft Azure API Management's most valuable features are the microservices we used to use. They were API callers to receive communication with the network and building system, to complete the request. The response would be through the processing system."
"They're trying to implement versioning and trying to be able to manage different versions of your API all at the same time, but they're not doing that just quite right yet."
"They should improve the inbuilt policies that they have and that should properly create a deployment architecture as well."
"Some of the DevOps stuff could be easier to work with. The migration paths are a little complicated, and moving code around could be more seamless. There should be less manual migration when several teams work together to publish code to the DevOps."
"Performance issues from this platform need to be sorted out."
"The developer portal can be improved."
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Layer7 API Management is ranked 6th in API Management with 13 reviews while Microsoft Azure API Management is ranked 2nd in API Management with 24 reviews. Layer7 API Management is rated 8.6, while Microsoft Azure API Management is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Layer7 API Management writes "Serves to standardise routing messaging services into a single API view with multiple channels". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure API Management writes "The sandbox feature lets us test before we go into production". Layer7 API Management is most compared with Apigee, Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager, Amazon API Gateway, Kong Enterprise and IBM API Connect, whereas Microsoft Azure API Management is most compared with Apigee, Amazon API Gateway, Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager, Kong Enterprise and 3scale API Management. See our Layer7 API Management vs. Microsoft Azure API Management report.
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