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IBM API Connect Primary Use Case

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Sairathish Murugesan
Works at a outsourcing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We use IBM API Connect for healthcare projects, not for telecom services.

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KANCHAN CHALASANI
Software Engineer IV at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
I primarily use IBM API Connect as an API Gateway to expose enterprise APIs to the outside world. Most applications I have worked with consume APIs deployed as part of the API Gateway for internal use. View full review »
reviewer2784489 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer2784489
operations Manager at a university with 10,001+ employees

My main use case for IBM API Connect is to connect APIs more quickly. A specific example of how I use IBM API Connect is that we have many APIs and IBM API Connect provides a one-stop solution.

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Shanmugasundaram Shanmuganathan - PeerSpot reviewer
Shanmugasundaram Shanmuganathan
Solutions Architect at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We mainly use it for API orchestration, basic gateway features, and data features. We use it just for orchestration and gateway functionalities.

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Chong Seto
Sr Technical Specialist at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We use the solution to monitor, process, and manage API services.

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Usama Munir
Director Software Development at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I use the solution in my company as an API Gateway and API Manager. We use a few of our products for technical documentation and API Specification, as well as as an API Manager. The rate limiting comes with the tool. It has been a very good product that we have been using for the last few years.

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Kostas Chairopoulos
ICT Advisor at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

My company used to work with IBM API Connect for a customer in Greece to run a public sector company from whom we developed a new architecture based on API management last year for the logistics or transportation domains. For the aforementioned project, my company designed a solution based on IBM API Management for the logistics sector of a company all over Greece.

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Yaser S. - PeerSpot reviewer
Yaser S.
Projects Delivery Director at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

We are a regulation entity dealing with many sensitive services. We carry out supervision and regulation for FinTech companies and other financial institutions. We are partners with IBM and I'm the project delivery director.

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KavitaChavan - PeerSpot reviewer
KavitaChavan
Associate Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We have implemented this product in different domains, such as insurance and banking. 

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reviewer1512354 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer1512354
CTO at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use IBM API Connect primarily to expose APIs for various information systems in Terra and to integrate with our audit partners.

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Pana Shah
Manager

I use IBM API Connect to configure and manage the APIs. I also used the product for transformations. I used the product for some of its functionalities, like caching and rate limiting, especially for the backend system. Configuring the backend APIs and API proxies and opening them to external services were some of the activities I did with the product.

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KrishnaIyer - PeerSpot reviewer
KrishnaIyer
Head - Technology Engineering at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We're trying to make our business available on the net so that partners can connect, and distributors can use our services.

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MuhammadSalman1 - PeerSpot reviewer
MuhammadSalman1
Senior Software Engineer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use it for API integration, particularly in conjunction with the One Link solution. One Link is a platform that comes into play during cross-channel communication within the banking sector. For instance, if a customer has an account with Bank A and wishes to withdraw funds from Bank B, it facilitates cross-selling communication between two distinct banks—Bank A and Bank B. Our primary focus is on enabling seamless transactions between different banks, and we also incorporate case and bundle links within our solution.

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Essam Younis - PeerSpot reviewer
Essam Younis
SOA & BP Technical Manager at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use IBM API Connect for the external gateway for integration, and it is for multiple customers with the external button.

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Rajesh Vedaraju - PeerSpot reviewer
Rajesh Vedaraju
Integrator at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

We utilize IBM API Connect for our B2B operations, and occasionally we extend its use to B2C as well. However, our B2B scales outweigh our B2C usage.

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PawelGawronski
Enterprise Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

The primary use case of IBM API Connect is for API monetization in the banking and financial sector. This involves API management and creating APIs for financial institutions, which is the main use case. Another use case is having all API integrations in one place. A third use case is opening an API and sending the documentation to external third parties.

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Elisângela Bumba - PeerSpot reviewer
Elisângela Bumba
Senior Technician at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I use IBM API Connect to make migrations with different systems. 

We have used the cloud and on-premise deployments of the solution.

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Khaled AlKadi
Sales Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Our use cases for IBM API Connect include the banking sector, where they use the solution to integrate with third parties, so all of the third-party connectivity for the banks happen through IBM API Connect.

We also built the government service website, for example, e-Government services, and the government published all services between the government entities and the businesses, so there are two connections: government to government and government to business. All the services and entities were published and consumed through the IBM API Connect gateway.

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Alexis Aguiluz - PeerSpot reviewer
Alexis Aguiluz
Senior Technological Architect at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

We deploy APIs to expose the BFFs of mobile apps, and this is mainly in the cloud. All mobile apps consume the APIs of your BFF. On-premise, we have APIs that expose services and mainly functionalities, such as the balance of the client or the customers or the products.

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Khaja Shaik
BSS Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I primarily use API Connect as a front end for any station, through which you can expose services to external or internal customers.

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Anonymous_*
IT Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We use IBM API Connect for external communication with outside partners and external companies doing business with our company. 

This solution is deployed on-premises. We are currently using Version 5.0, but we are upgrading to version 10.0, which is a cloud-based solution. 

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reviewer1534368 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer1534368
Manager Integration Platform Engineering at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

Right now, our use cases are all internal. It's all API socialization internally. With version 10, we'd like to go externally with an actual API marketplace, however, we haven't gone there yet. 

I don't publish; I manage infrastructure. My role is to implement the infrastructure, maintain it, and enable the developers to leverage the technology.

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CristianIriazabal - PeerSpot reviewer
CristianIriazabal
Architect of solutions at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

We use this solution in a hybrid way. All the processes and data is in the cloud but the API gateway is part of the API Connect solution and runs on prem in Argentina, connected to the cloud.

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Oscar-Gonzalez
Consultant at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

My customers are using IBM API Connect for integration in the financial sector.

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Chong Seto
Sr Technical Specialist at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We use this solution for rest-based, micro services to complete authentication. We are able to gather statistics and audit and throttle traffic. It also has a developer portal that allows users to browse their APIs and develop applications on them. It has solid features compared to some of the API services management services out there.

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KavitaChavan - PeerSpot reviewer
KavitaChavan
Associate Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

API Connect is mainly used as a gateway solution to expose, secure, and manage APIs. 

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Walter Kuhn
ICT Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We provide social security services (nonprofit) to our tenants and their customers.

Our goal with an API gateway is to separate our own clients in our extranet from the server implementations. We want to provide a unique point-of-contact for the client application(s) while having several server components at the backend side.

Furthermore, we need a single-sign-on solution and mapping of services.

Everything needs to run an OpenShift 4.x private cloud with no (or very restricted) access to the internet.

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reviewer1754661 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer1754661
Cloud Architect at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees

We used API Connect for OPIE management. About 50 developers in my company are using it. 

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reviewer1680618 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer1680618
Consulting architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

My clients mainly use API Connect as an API gateway. A lot of the backend services need to be exposed to other parties, mobile devices, interfaces, etc. 

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Uthman Rasheed
API Engineer/IBM Datapower Specialist at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We are using IBM API Connect to integrate bank applications. We are linking frontend services with the backend to prevent unwanted penetration.

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Viktor Dolyna
DevOps Engineer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

We are using it for some applications that are useful for banking.

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Ashutosh Aggarwal
Vice President at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

It is the go-to solution for API repository products. We use it for runtime by designing certain products, and those products are subscribed to by various consuming systems.

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Oscar-Gonzalez
Consultant at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We primarily use the solution for a bank. It's used for the operations portion of the bank. It's primarily used for the review of the personnel in your accounts et cetera. It's for many operations for the bank.

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reviewer1540509 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer1540509
Associate Director, Cloud Architect at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The solution is primarily used as the API gateway. It's for the application that performs the function as the API for the consumer.

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reviewer1512354 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer1512354
CTO at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use this solution for external API spotters and API.

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reviewer1476825 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer1476825
Core Banking Business Analyst Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are using this solution to handle our open API Connection.

Our company mainly has cooperation with institutions, and we are hoping that with this product, in the future we can create easy connections to other institutions who also implement open API.

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reviewer1411329 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer1411329
Lead Architect at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

Our use case for this solution, depending on the API Connect centralized team, is for registering any APIs. Once those are there, the main idea is that they have to be reusable and available like a global platform rather than just internal to your applications. API Connect does that, you register your API and it is available. Anybody who wants to use that function or that API can now go through API Connect with the current credentials and get access to your API. I'm a lead architect and we are customers of IBM API Connect. 

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Alexis Aguiluz - PeerSpot reviewer
Alexis Aguiluz
Senior Technological Architect at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

The API manager of the enterprise exposes common functionalities to the front-end applications, beginning with the frontend of the executives who access clients' information.  The exposition of the functionalities of transferring funds and AFP which need to transfer the money from your account to a client's AFP.  The exposition of the core functionalities to the module of the sale of a product installed on the cloud of AWS, to create an onboarding platform for the client's prospect of the enterprise.

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reviewer1709634 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer1709634
Integration Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

We primarily use this platform as an edge computing device wherein we expose our internal capabilities, legacy capabilities, and cutting-edge capabilities, from a standard security point of view. From an interfacing point of view, the social aspect of API management is maintained, and we are looking forward to the proper monetization in API economy with this tool. This solution is deployed on-premises. 

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Nikitha Mohan
Technology Consultant at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Our primary use case of this solution is as an API gateway. We are customers of IBM and I'm a  technology consultant.

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Essam Younis - PeerSpot reviewer
Essam Younis
SOA & BP Technical Manager at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use IBM API Connect before API publishing for enterprises. If we have a big enterprise and they want to publish their data for the public, we use API connect.

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reviewer1399425 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer1399425
Team Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Our primary use case for this product was doing a  project for the banking industry. We had to use it to help comply with PSD2 (Payment Services Directive) regulations.  

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German Villar
Director of Development and Innovation - CTO at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use this solution for managing APIs.

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reviewer1189512 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer1189512
CTO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We have done many implementations using API Connect. We work with some of the largest financial institutions in India, including life insurance companies and some of the banks. 

We have done most of them on-premise. The customers, because they are financial institutions and insurance companies, prefer to have this on their own premises and their own data centers.

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AdemolaOsindero
CEO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We have implemented this for four or five banks in Nigeria. The bulk of our clients are banks. We need determine if there are transaction capabilities from their back-end applications. If so, then we consume their APIs. For example, we have a logistics company who uses the bank's back-end API to complete their payments.

We specialize in application and cloud integration. 

We have clients deployed on-premise, on the cloud, and with hybrid cloud.

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Augustine Ayo
Middleware Solution Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We are a financial services provider. We have services that we expose for things like investments, policy management, and so on. We have put this on an API Gateway to be able to aggregate all the things that we do for different types of clients with whom we engage.

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Clement Hsieh - PeerSpot reviewer
Clement Hsieh
Doctoral Researcher at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

We help systems integrators and vendors in choosing different types of platforms for building an open API gateway for banks. We evaluate and test different types of API gateways. We follow our internal testing scenarios to make sure that the product meets requirements. This is all we do.

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Shiri Traum
Open API Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We primarily use this solution for the regulation of open banking.

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SenITops67
Senior IT Operations Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

We primarily use the solution for distribution.

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Oladipupo-Aina
Engineering Technology Services Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We currently use it as our single point of the security catalog for the APIs that the bank has.

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it_user939366 - PeerSpot reviewer
it_user939366
Manager at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Building APIs.

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Eric Liria
Amnesty International at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

This solution is primarily used for workflow applications. Specifically, it is used for web applications with complex workflows that have many users.

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Vijay Kattula
Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We have been using this product for banking, insurance, and government use cases. Perfromance-wise it is very good. It has been improved a lot from the beginning, from API Connect 4, 5, and now we have the latest version of it. The product is available in various forms which gives us the flexibility to propose solutions to our customers.

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it_user854820 - PeerSpot reviewer
it_user854820
Chief Architect and Distinguished Member at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
  • API management
  • Securing enterprise APIs
  • Metering
  • Throttling
  • Transformation
  • Analytics
  • Deployment on AWS
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reviewer1744224 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer1744224
Software Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

I use IBM API Connect as a black box, I only consumed the APIs that it provides.

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Buyer's Guide
IBM API Connect
December 2025
Learn what your peers think about IBM API Connect. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: December 2025.
879,310 professionals have used our research since 2012.