Microsoft Azure API Management Valuable Features
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Rajeev Jha
Database Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The integration process is very easy, which is crucial for our organization. Another valuable aspect is the support from Microsoft. Whenever support is required, it is readily available. Additionally, I appreciate the technical expertise Microsoft brings to the table. The security features are highly satisfactory, with various options providing flexibility to implement security measures based on specific compliance requirements.
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Amit Das
Technical Solution Architect at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use the existing services hosted in Microsoft Azure API Management without making any changes.
For transformation capabilities, we utilize ADF, Data Factory instead of Microsoft Azure API Management.
Regarding security features in Microsoft Azure API Management, we utilize token bearer authentication.
As retailers with integration to our channel partners, we haven't experienced any security issues with Microsoft Azure API Management since it isn't exposed to external parties.
We use a basic Azure function hosted in Microsoft Azure API Management rather than the integrated developer portal.
Tracking analytics and performance analytics in Microsoft Azure API Management is straightforward. We use basic features for performance analytics and log analytics due to additional subscription charges. We enabled log analytics for Microsoft Azure API Management in the past month to investigate issues such as unreachable endpoints or request timeouts.
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Abdul Ghani Shahzaib
Principal Consultant at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The integration and API Connect are valuable when we need to connect with web services and REST APIs. Microsoft Azure API Management covers all the security guidelines, security standards, compliance, which includes data security at rest and in transit, making it good from a security perspective.
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Microsoft Azure API Management
December 2025
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Sagar SampadMall
IT-Operation Head at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We're still in the early stages of exploring its full potential. It's a new implementation, so we haven't fully formed our opinions yet. But it's promising! We're cautiously optimistic about its capabilities.
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Swapan Biswas
Associate Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
The functionality in Microsoft Azure API Management that I find most valuable is enabling headers, which allows me to troubleshoot issues that occur on the customer side. When something happens on the customer side, certain headers are visible in the APIM logs but not in the corresponding Application Insights log when it goes to the corresponding microservice.
In our architecture, it first goes to APIM as an orchestration layer, and then it goes to the individual microservice layer. For instance, if we discuss the payment API call, it first happens in the APIM section and then goes to the corresponding microservices. The part of APIM that I find very useful is enabling headers for troubleshooting, which you cannot do from the microservice layer logs; you can only do it from the APIM logs.
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Praveen_Srivastava
Solution Architect at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
The most valuable features include throttling, which restricts the user count whenever an API is called, and authentication, which helps identify and manage suspicious users.
Additionally, the analytics phase of API Management is very beneficial for tracking API usage and identifying suspicious users.
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Julie Espino
Senior Technology Manager at a consumer goods company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Microsoft Azure API Management serves as a gateway for all API management within our tech environment and is a basic part of our DevOps toolchain. We utilize it for control and monitoring, particularly for the security aspects of our APIs.
It provides easy integration within the Azure environment and with third-party SaaS applications, like integrating our point of sale system and our loyalty system under Mastercard.
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Allan Møller
Consult Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
The most valuable features of Microsoft Azure API Management include the ability to change messages on their way in by adding or changing headers, performing authentication using JWT token validation, and throttling requests. Additionally, the ability to create a subscription model for APIs allows companies to monetize valuable data and share it securely.
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GagandeepSingh5
Network Security Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The solution's most valuable feature is that it is very simple to manage, especially because I have good experience with Microsoft products. The tool is very easy to use and manage APIs.
Rajiv Bala Balasubramanian
Specialist PCC at a engineering company with 10,001+ employees
Azure API Management cuts out a lot of concerns that developers have. Developers can leave concerns like authorization, authentication, tokens, or any data shaping layer for their APIs to the API gateway or APM service. They can then focus on creating APIs and functionality that matter for the business.
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reviewer1260759
Integration Engineer at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
It's a valuable tool for API lifecycle management. Another Azure offering is API gateway, which is used to enable the APIs, publish them for internal or external customers, API scaling and other typical use cases.
Microsoft Azure API Management also has security or threshold features that monitor and control API access through a subscription-based model.
reviewer2123583
Project Director at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
The API management is very good. You have sophisticated dashboards that help you to understand what's really going on - in addition to whatever security layer that you can bring on top of that. It is easy to manage front and backend APIs.
You can put on your own security layer so that you know only the authorized people are accessing your back-end systems through the gateway. In addition to that, you have sophisticated dashboards and reporting for storage logs or logging. That is quite useful, specifically in the banking sector.
You can limit items by parameters such as geography or private VPMs.
You have different pricing tiers and pricing is based depending on the traffic. You can go to basic pricing if you like. Depending on your traffic, you have licensing options.
Microsoft manages everything so you can focus on building applications and deploying them.
The platform components are quite interesting.
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Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
If you were truly a .NET shop and truly Microsoft cloud-centric, this is the most cloud-native offering, and there are some benefits to that. It's really easy to use for simple passthrough APIs. It feels more modern and compatible with people with .NET skill sets, and that's a strong selling point.
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SooryanarayanHegde
Azure Technical Architect Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The most valuable features of Microsoft Azure API Management are the easy configuration and deployment with automation.
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SHANMUGASUNDARAM S
Technical Manager at a media company with 10,001+ employees
API gateway-related features were fulfilled by APIM. So those features, we are completely leveraging for our solution, like throttling. It is fair and easy. It's a low-code, no-code model of API hosting.
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Gabriel Anderson
Sr Software Engineer at a engineering company with 10,001+ employees
The solution's most valuable feature is the ability to create policies. You can customize the business and security rules directly with it instead of creating new systems for managing the same. With this policy, you can develop anything with them.
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RaghavendraNagolu
Solution architect at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Security is the top feature of Azure API Management. It allows the use of existing identity servers or OpenID for secure API sharing. The speed of deployment and the ability to integrate legacy databases using API wrappers for external exposure are also valuable.
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Dinesh Venkates
Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The platform's most valuable features are its rule-based permissions and comprehensive API lifecycle management capabilities.
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RamAlla
Senior Manager, Integration Operation at a recruiting/HR firm with 10,001+ employees
It is easy to use.
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Gourav Kaila
Product Lead at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Microsoft Azure API Management is a good, comprehensive solution for enterprise implementation.
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Pardhasaradhy Kolachina
Principal Architect at a engineering company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The most valuable features of the solution are its importing and publishing.
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KiranCheriyala
Architect at a outsourcing company with 201-500 employees
I like that security features can be integrated with API Management. I also like that you can perform rate-limiting and throttling functions.
You can host multiple API gateways in different locations. If one goes down, then another will take over. Microsoft Azure API Management is good in terms of nonfunctional requirements.
The documentation is neat and organized, and as a result, we rarely have the need to contact technical support.
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Solutions Architect at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
The API management is great. It comes out of the box ready to go and comes with policies.
It is stable.
Technical support is good.
We have witnessed an ROI.
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Aurel Avramescu
Software Architect at a transportation company with 51-200 employees
Rajendra Dhaundiyal
Technical Solutions Architect at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
It's a very robust tool. There is a developer portal that can be used by developers, vendors and other external partners to create keys and manage their APIs.
Enables you to configure the policies and modify the behavior of the APIs.
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Luís Silva
Chief Technical Lead at a consultancy with 201-500 employees
Microsoft Azure API Management has many valuable features. One is the developer portal, that's very useful for teams. The tool also provides layers of security. I also found the caching, automatic documentation, and version management functionalities of Microsoft Azure API Management most valuable.
I like Microsoft Azure API Management because it works pretty well.
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Dmitri Efimov
Integration Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
In general, we started with Microsoft Azure Cloud as we needed a close integration with our internal or Office solution. In case of Microsoft, Azure Active Directory is easily integrated within the Microsoft platform, including Office. In particular, in API Management, used as front-end APIs, it's easy to manage. Now, we are looking ahead to the hosted solution, which is very nice.
We use Microsoft due to the stability of the company.
It's efficient enough and it's just enough for our needs to manage rules and so aforth for API management. We use it due to Microsoft's reputation. We need a stable provider. We cannot play with some providers.
It is easy to set up.
The solution is scalable. It is stable as a product as well.
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Cxa Asda
Lead Cloud Operations at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Access control is the most valuable aspect. It's the main reason really why a lot of clients are moving - as we are able to deploy multiple APIs and be able to also segregate who's got access to which API, who's got access to the other API. That centralized management is what the customer is really looking for.
The initial setup was okay.
SaurabhKumar2
Market Research Analyst at a performing arts with 10,001+ employees
I like the support they provide for the APIs more than the solution itself. First of all, documentation-wise, both Microsoft Azure and even Google Cloud are up there. But in comparison, the real-time consulting and support for APIs make Microsoft stand out a little.
I also like the performance. Standard public cloud provider-built APIs are more resilient and flexible in terms of what feature you want to use and what feature you don't want to use, and they're more customizable. They are more resilient in terms of performance in that particular environment because that is the design aspect of the offering.
When public clouds build APIs and deploy them after testing them on their framework for a certain amount of time, I feel there is a massive difference in the product's performance. On the interface, everything is strong.
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Jude Ayoka
PM, Digital & Innovation at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
I like API Management's sandbox feature. It's an environment where you can test out the API before putting it into production and connecting it to a live environment.
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Ashok Vedantham
Dev lead at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The simplicity to learn and apply using API Management is valuable. Another advantage is the ease of integration with Azure.
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Pre-Sales at a consultancy with 1-10 employees
The most valuable feature is its role as a linchpin in AI Hub architecture, enhancing data handling.
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Operations Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The basic tier is pretty good.
It's publicly available API Management.
The price is pretty reasonable for us.
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Deron Jones
Technical Lead at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
I like API Management's ability to do hybrid cloud stuff.
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Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
The policies on offer are the most valuable aspect of the solution.
The solution is reliable and very stable.
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David Viana
Cloud systems architect at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure API Management is monitoring.
When compared with Apigee, I prefer Microsoft Azure API Management.
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Solution Architect at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The UI management is very easy to use.
The solution provides good management of API orchestrations.
Technical support is very good and moves very fast.
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Rampal Yadav
Sr. Manager- Cloud & Virtualization at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
All we need to do is run our specific code because the dependencies are already there.
Reetesh Sahay
Technical Project Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Microsoft Azure API Management is better because it has a DevOps integration by default.
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VamsiMohan
CTO at a non-profit with 11-50 employees
Without a doubt, it has a very robust, strong marketplace where we can directly integrate with existing APIs and begin working on those.
Microsoft Azure API Management is a secure solution.
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Prabakaran SP
Software Architect at a financial services firm with 1-10 employees
Most of the features are valuable to me. We are actively exploring the monetization aspect of Azure, and we are also working on a proof of concept to accomplish this.
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Amit Das
Technical Solution Architect at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
The most valuable features are the API and integrations.
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Solleti Sudheer Kumar
Business Architect at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
I like the API management functions.
PraveenKumar V C
Platform Architect at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
We use this solution for API rate limiting and for its security features against DDoS.
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Vinay Singh
Associate Technical Lead at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
The Application Gateway we have found to be the most useful in Microsoft Azure API Management. We have integrated the Microsoft Azure API Management with Application Gateway. Application Gateway is a type of load balancer that we are using for the high availability of our API calls.
Microsoft is releasing new features approximately every three to four months on each and every solution. Although it's not mandatory that we are using all the features of this particular solution because it depends on the business requirements. Whatever the features the Microsoft Azure API Management has, we are happy with them and we are using them.
The solution is secure and has all the components that we require. We are using the solution with the best practices.
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Nicky Jooste
Cloud Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The ability to easily connect back to Service Fabric is the most important for us.
The importing of existing APIs is extremely easy. It's one of the better products.
The main benefit is that we are already on ExpressRoute. It is easy to integrate into our local network. Because we are mostly a Microsoft shop, we mostly use Azure API management because we don't want to run in different cloud providers right now since we are a financial company.
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Senior Operational Technical Analyst at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees
So far, we are satisfied with the product. The stability and performance are good.
It is easy to install, and it scales well too.
The technical support is good, and we get prompt support.
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MADHAV CHABLANI
Consulting Chief Information Officer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
I like the integration function of Microsoft Azure API Management. Integration of this solution is easy.
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Senior Solutions Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The ease of use of the solution is excellent. It's a very user-friendly solution.
The initial setup is quite straightforward.
We found the solution to be very stable.
The solution can scale if you need it to.
Technical support is very helpful.
The solution has very fair pricing.
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Oleksandr Gaysin
Senior Manager, Engineering at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
The solution has pretty stable capabilities.
Their construction tool allows users to easily publish information about the API. It's basically just one click.
You can configure the subscription management onsite and link everything.
The developer portal that exposed the API documentation is great. You can just test the APIs in a very easy way.
The web portal is useful. You can build a pretty comprehensive portal where users can sign in and you can basically leave the API there.
The API management provided offers good integration with different management systems, like OpenID, for example.
The user management is pretty seamless.
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Ekundayo Dayo
Social media strategist at a media company with 11-50 employees
The solution's configuration capabilities are the most effective features for enhancing API security.
Steve Cleynen
Azure Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The tool does what it's supposed to do.
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Cecil Seepaul
Software Engineer
The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure API Management is the developer portal because it's very quick and easy to get something published.
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Kai Boon Giam
Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
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AmitLochav
General Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
What I like most about Microsoft Azure API Management is that it's flexible and user-friendly. The solution also has rich documentation and guides available, so users can configure and use it.
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Hocine Zaidi
IT Manager at a pharma/biotech company with 501-1,000 employees
The most valuable features are the Active Directory integration and wireless backup.
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Tom Hendrix
Country Manager BeLux, UK&Ireland at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The most valuable features are authentication and authorization. I would also argue that the mediation and translation from SOAP to REST technology is equally important because it makes it possible to open up legacy systems that couldn't be opened before.
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Branch Manager at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution has overall high performance.
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Executive Director Finance & Strategy at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
I like the stability and the ease of use.
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Group Manager, Solution & Technical Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
I have found this solution to be easy to configure, simple to use, and flexible.
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Solution Architect at a sports company with 201-500 employees
The way the API management handles the calls and call throttling is excellent.
The API management and the hosting of the API platform are great.
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RandallMcClure
Enterprise Architect at a tech company with 1-10 employees
We're pretty much using all of the monetizations features out of the API manager so we can put up a portal and have a dev portal and then a prod portal and do rate limiting.
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John Liu
Integration Architect at a wellness & fitness company with 5,001-10,000 employees
It's easy to use compared to other products. It's easy to set up.
ShoaibAlam
Integration Architect at a recreational facilities/services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The integration with Azure Active Directory is a good security feature for authentication and authorization. There is multifactor authentication. You can also use all of the Azure AD features integrated with API Management.
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Srinivas Kode
Vice President - Competency and Channels at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The most valuable features are the ease of use and the self-enablement through subscriptions for our consumers. Consumers can get into the API gateway library and register to an API from the catalog directly.
Once the API is developed and added to the library with the registration documentation, it becomes pretty easy for consumers to access and understand the benefits and use of the API.
The library acts as the central repository of all our APIs and use and access is pretty intuitive.
It's very easy to learn for a person not familiar with API.
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Enterprise Infrastructure Architecture at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's not the best product on the market which makes it difficult to pick a particular point that we like the best. It could be the integration in the Azure portal. In the Azure cloud it's directly connected with Azure ID, so if you stay in the Azure ecosystem, this user concept is an advantage. The solution also allows you the possibility to use VPN technology and things like that to connect your gateway directly with on-prem services and that's a valuable feature. And compared to other solutions the price is outstanding.
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Paul-Emmanuel BREC
IT Enterprise Architect - Middleware & Integration at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
The way the solution integrates with other Azure services is its most valuable aspect.
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Anurag-Bhatnagar
Principal Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The most valuable feature is the developer portal, which has source code examples in various programming languages to help developers learn the API.
It is possible to combine APIs and make a new product, which is a very good feature.
It is very user-friendly and easy to use.
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Managing Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The most valuable feature would be the easy integration into the entire Microsoft environment, like Access Directory, the collaboration tooling, the development tooling, basically the integration into the Microsoft universe.
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Dharani Chennakesavalu
Director of Technology - API & Microservices at a tech consulting company with 501-1,000 employees
The tool's most valuable feature is the integration of CI/CD with the API gateway.
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Principal Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Azure APIM's best features are its straightforward access management (it's a single point of access for all monitoring and logging and for policy implementation) and its integration with the Azure Cloud infrastructure.
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CEO at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
This solution is very flexible, and it's very compatible with the other Azure products.
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Vinayak Verlekar
Technology Architect Manager at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees
The Azure Active Directory Synchronization is quite good.
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System Analyst at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The most valuable feature of the solution is it's simplicity. It's easy to set up and is very well integrated with the Azure environment.
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Nagesh Paramesh
Head - Data & Digital Service line(s), BFSI Cluster at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
The package as a whole is useful for our customers.
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Chief Technical Lead at a consultancy with 201-500 employees
The ease of setting up a new solution is the most valuable feature. It's very easy to set up a new solution and to deploy it to production.
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Business Integration Architect & managing partner at a tech services company
- Monitoring: It gives us a detailed overview of how clients are using the API and it allows us to see the consumption trends in real-time.
- Policies: It allows us to control and enrich the API behavior without the need to make code changes
- The documentation and configuration of APIs.
it_user422028
Sr Software Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
- API gateway features
- AD integration
- Access management capabilities
- Usage plans
- Quotas for APIs, etc.
it_user208704
Senior .Net Developer at a university with 51-200 employees
The ability to manage user access to given API operations.
- Visibility on user usage analytics
- Set policies across API operations, which control the type of access (CORS, JSONP)
- The ability to piece together an array of services into one proxied service. Where I can create consistency to both usage and documentation
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879,310 professionals have used our research since 2012.
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