IBM API Connect's most valuable features include a user-friendly interface, robust gateway, strong security, and comprehensive API management capabilities. It offers centralized management, excellent analytics, and seamless integration. It provides efficient error handling, flexible deployment options, and quick initial setup. Its ability to protect backend systems and handle multiple APIs effectively is appreciated. The platform supports extensive monitoring, monetization, and role differentiation, making it reliable and scalable for diverse organizational needs.
- "The solution's technical support team is good."
- "The main benefits of IBM API Connect for our API life cycle management are the core API functionalities, the developer's portal, and robust security capabilities.IBM API Connect's security protocols enhance our data protection strategies by offering end-to-end security, mechanisms to counter common attacks like DDoS, and the ability to define policies for API groups to control traffic and prevent unwanted access to our systems."
- "The product gathers data to measure API performance."
IBM API Connect requires improvement in microservices support, OIDC certification, support for non-Java services, data extraction, reporting, monetization, access monitoring, ease of setup, pricing, usability, documentation, cloud functionalities, customization, debugging, security, performance, integration, analytics, resource consumption, the upgrade process, scalability, and the developer portal's customization. Customers face challenges with deployment, technical documentation, learning curve, payment gateway integration, and flexibility. They also experience difficulties during upgrades, requiring substantial resources.
- "The only downside where improvements are needed is probably on the licensing side."
- "We have encountered challenges with IBM API Connect, particularly during significant upgrades.These upgrades demand substantial labour and financial resources, including consulting services from IBM.I'd like to see increased flexibility, more frequent updates with new features, an efficient upgrade process, and additional AI capabilities for future releases."
- "It would be nice to have a SaaS solution that can be deployed into the cloud."