We performed a comparison between IBM API Connect and IBM Cloud Pak for Integration 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 support is good and active. I rate the technical support a nine out of ten."
"Easy to configure security and generate API keys."
"It acts as a central gateway for both external APIs and underlying systems. It's basically a central middleware for hosting APIs to the internet and consuming APIs from internal systems. It provides central governance for any APIs going outside the network, ensuring security and a common contract for API definitions."
"The solution offers a pretty good SLA."
"The most valuable feature of IBM API Connect is the security of the protocol."
"API Connect's most valuable feature is its ability to act as a gateway. It's very easy to configure security and everything else in it. You don't have to kill yourself implementing custom configurations."
"One of the most valuable features is that we can seamlessly and harmoniously expose our capabilities, from a security point of view."
"Publishers can easily identify, create, and publish APIs on the developer portal, defining plans, packages, and potentially billing rules."
"It is a stable solution."
"The most preferable aspect would be the elimination of the command, which was a significant improvement. In the past, it was a challenge, but now we can proceed smoothly with the implementation of our policies and everything is managed through JCP. It's still among the positive aspects, and it's a valuable feature."
"Cloud Pak for Integration is definitely scalable. That is the most important criteria."
"The most valuable aspect of the Cloud Pak, in general, is the flexibility that you have to use the product."
"We would have more capability to interact with the catalog and inventories, so a more DevOps-friendly solution is needed."
"The implementation of IBM API Connect is complex, as it's an enterprise solution with many components that require more than one person. It's not a single product that you work on, and this is an area for improvement, but normally, it's good. Having a more structured model for IBM API Connect support is also room for improvement that would help customers better."
"API Connect's analytics subsystem could be improved to make it easier to render content from the analytics system and offload it to an external database."
"The solution is not scalable."
"Extracting the data could be improved."
"I would like to see automation of the installation. If there could be a single-click function where you could automate everything, that would be helpful."
"The product's setup phase and its setup for the users in different environments, along with DevOps integration, are areas of concern where there is a need for improvement."
"The installation process could use improvement. I hope that in the next release, the installation process is easier."
"Its queuing and messaging features need improvement."
"The pricing can be improved."
"Setting up Cloud Pak for Integration is relatively complex. It's not as easy because it has not yet been fully integrated. You still have some products that are still not containerized, so you still have to run them on a dedicated VM."
"The initial setup is not easy."
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IBM API Connect is ranked 5th in API Management with 73 reviews while IBM Cloud Pak for Integration is ranked 23rd in API Management with 4 reviews. IBM API Connect is rated 8.0, while IBM Cloud Pak for Integration is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of IBM API Connect writes "Offers basic API orchestration and provides robust security and governance features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Cloud Pak for Integration writes "A hybrid integration platform that applies the functionality of closed-loop AI automation". IBM API Connect is most compared with IBM DataPower Gateway, Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and WSO2 API Manager, whereas IBM Cloud Pak for Integration is most compared with IBM App Connect, IBM DataPower Gateway, Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and AWS Glue. See our IBM API Connect vs. IBM Cloud Pak for Integration report.
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