We performed a comparison between IBM DataPower Gateway and Microsoft Azure 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 solution is scalable, our customers are mostly South African banks and they handle mostly transactions with this solution."
"Since it is a gateway, it provides a lot of security features."
"The solution is very easy to work with."
"It can look for the various security threats, productions, payload scanning, and perform routing based on the content type."
"The solution is straightforward and for large organizations, it functions well."
"The MPGW (Multi-Protocol Gateway) is great because it allows you to easily expose services using various protocols – web services, REST (JSON), and others. This flexibility simplifies things."
"The most valuable feature is the security appliance, it's very secure."
"The most valuable features for our business include the ability to monitor and log data transactions and handle multiple request at an enterprise level."
"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."
"The user management is pretty seamless."
"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."
"I like that security features can be integrated with API Management. I also like that you can perform rate-limiting and throttling functions."
"The most valuable feature is the developer portal, which has source code examples in various programming languages to help developers learn the API."
"It’s easy to set up."
"The API management and the hosting of the API platform are great."
"Everything is already available and ready to operate without a lot of preparation work."
"Scripting needs improvement. It's hard for our customers."
"I would like the tool to improve its training."
"The IBM community does not have much engagement from the IT community in Saudi Arabia and developers for this solution are difficult to find."
"One area that could be improved is the integration with Postgres and SQL databases. Currently, IBM DataPower Gateway only integrates with Oracle databases."
"DataPower isn't the most user-friendly tool. It is not an easy tool to use. Some things could use better wizards to guide you through processes."
"For the workloads that are not too high, appliance is a little bit expensive."
"In the next release, I would like to see the product price reduced. It should be cheaper."
"Its support services could be better."
"Azure API Management could be improved with better integration with all of Microsoft's tools."
"I would like to see more security features become available."
"Microsoft Azure API Management could improve the documentation. The documentation feels like marketing information and not sufficient technical information. Your easiest option is to purchase services from a Microsoft partner and this is their marketing."
"The API gateway can be very complex."
"I'd like to have better flexibility and more capabilities."
"The product needs to introduce a developer portal."
"From my understanding, there are some constraints around governance and service-to-service intercommunication managing priorities and our own governance."
"Support for GraphQL could be better."
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IBM DataPower Gateway is ranked 7th in API Management with 27 reviews while Microsoft Azure API Management is ranked 1st in API Management with 68 reviews. IBM DataPower Gateway is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Azure API Management is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IBM DataPower Gateway writes "Security features meets compliance needs and offers MPGW (Multi-Protocol Gateway) that simplifies integration efforts ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure API Management writes "Efficiently manages and monetizes API ". IBM DataPower Gateway is most compared with IBM API Connect, Apigee, Mule ESB, IBM Integration Bus and Kong Gateway Enterprise, whereas Microsoft Azure API Management is most compared with Amazon API Gateway, Apigee, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Kong Gateway Enterprise and Layer7 API Management. See our IBM DataPower Gateway vs. Microsoft Azure API Management report.
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