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Boomi AtomSphere API Management vs Microsoft Azure API Management comparison

Boomi and Microsoft are both solutions in the API Management category. Boomi is ranked #15 with an average rating of 7.7, while Microsoft is ranked #1 with an average rating of 7.9. Boomi holds a 0.5% mindshare in APIM, compared to Microsoft’s 20.5% mindshare. Additionally, 85% of Boomi users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.
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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

Microsoft Azure API Management and Boomi AtomSphere API Management are competing products in the field of API management. Boomi AtomSphere API Management seems to have the upper hand due to its extensive features that justify its cost, while Microsoft Azure API Management attracts with competitive pricing and support.

Features: Microsoft Azure API Management integrates strongly with other Azure services, offers scalability, and security features. Boomi AtomSphere API Management provides broad integration possibilities, ease of use, and flexible deployment options. A notable feature is Boomi's simplified integration process with various platforms.

Room for Improvement: Microsoft Azure API Management can benefit from simplifying its deployment process and enhancing integration with non-Microsoft services. Improving its user interface and expanding third-party API support would also be advantageous. Boomi AtomSphere API Management could enhance its cost-effectiveness, provide more in-depth documentation, and expand its real-time analytics capabilities.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Boomi AtomSphere API Management offers a straightforward deployment model and robust customer support, which simplifies implementation. Microsoft Azure API Management has a more complex deployment process but benefits from Microsoft's extensive support infrastructure and ecosystem.

Pricing and ROI: Microsoft Azure API Management is appealing to budget-conscious users with a more attractive initial setup cost. However, Boomi AtomSphere API Management, despite its higher initial cost, may lead to a better ROI in the long term given its superior feature set and integration capabilities.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Boomi AtomSphere API Manage...
Ranking in API Management
15th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Microsoft Azure API Management
Ranking in API Management
1st
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
80
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the API Management category, the mindshare of Boomi AtomSphere API Management is 0.5%, down from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Azure API Management is 20.5%, up from 20.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
API Management
 

Featured Reviews

Jason Hale - PeerSpot reviewer
Complex to manage, and the documentation is quite hard to learn, though APIs can be created quickly and easily
We faced issues with error management. When there was an issue with a job, it was quite difficult to find the reason for the error in the environment. There are multiple screens on the user interface. So we have to jump through different screens during the deployment of APIs constantly. It is quite easy to lose track of what we are doing. It was really easy to see processes running and what was happening in the environment. However, getting things from development to production was somewhat challenging. The documentation is quite hard to learn. I rate the documentation a three out of ten. The product is really complex to manage.
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Rajiv Bala Balasubramanian - PeerSpot reviewer
Efficiently manages and monetizes API
It is a scalable solution. You can add more computing power to your APM gateway. It also gives you the ability to have VNet integrations with your on-prem. It is one of the leading products in the API management space. It is not just software for users but software to handle requests. For example, for a B2C e-commerce store, all requests that users make from within the store pass through this API gateway. So it is defined by the number of requests to the API gateway, not by the number of actual users who use it. If you look at the number of requests, it would be a lot from all the different systems we have within Pampers.
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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"We can create APIs straightforwardly and quickly and build jobs for data migration."
"AtomSphere API Management is a simple platform that's easy to use. If you're using it on-prem, there's a little learning curve."
"The stability of the solution is good."
"Integrations take less time."
"AtomSphere is tightly integrated into the Boomi iPaaS platform. And Boomi has been augmenting AtomSphere API Management for the past couple of years so version 2.0 is better than 1.0."
"We can develop almost any interface that we need."
"Boomi AtomSphere API Management is a good product for integrating with Boomi as a backend service."
"The product's stability is good."
"Everything is already available and ready to operate without a lot of preparation work."
"The ability to easily connect back to Service Fabric is the most important for us."
"The product gives API gateway-related features, like throttling, which are easy to use and low-code/no-code."
"The user management is pretty seamless."
"Security is the top feature of Azure API Management."
"The API management is great."
"I like API Management's ability to do hybrid cloud stuff."
"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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Cons

"Boomi AtomSphere API Management can be improved in terms of threshold management and policy management."
"To some degree, you need to know what type or amount of API you are creating - whether it's a rest API or web service API. You need to know ETL in order to really get the most out of Boomi."
"From an improvement perspective, the price could be cheaper."
"It's difficult to integrate the on-prem application with the Dell Boomi Cloud. We have to check to ensure the Dell domain engine is running. It just requires some service endpoints from our on-prem application to connect to Dell Boomi Cloud to make it available to integrate. It would be better if AtomSphere API Management were offered as a purely SaaS application, so I wouldn't need an on-prem component to make it available. We could make a test call or provide some connection parameters. That should enable it to pull the data."
"The solution must provide more AI services."
"The product is really complex to manage."
"The API management has room for improvement."
"Most of the basic functionality is there in Boomi, but APG is a more feature-rich solution."
"I rate the technical support from Microsoft Azure API Management a four out of five."
"Security could be improved."
"The portal where we publish the APIs could be improved. Maybe this is because we didn't configure it. It is quite easy to bypass API management because we have a lot of information shared on the portal, where we publish our APIs. I worry there is potential for a security breach in the API publishing. There needs to be more security available on terms of the way we publish them."
"I'd like to have better flexibility and more capabilities."
"I would like to see more integration with other platforms, as well as increased security."
"They're trying to implement versioning and trying to be able to manage different versions of your API all at the same time, but they're not doing that just quite right yet."
"The external policies are impossible to look at and configure."
"Multi-tenant functionalities is missing from the system, especially when it comes to the developer code of features."
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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product can get very expensive quickly if you connect to multiple databases."
"Boomi AtomSphere API Management gives customers a good price. Price-wise, the product is good."
"Boomi AtomSphere API Management is a cheap product."
"The price is reasonable."
"The licensing cost for Microsoft Azure API Management is publicly available and goes from a developer edition that costs $26 to $30 per month. It may have changed, but it's in the neighborhood of $30 per month. I believe there's also the enterprise edition, which is highly capable and costs $2,500 per month."
"We are paying standard fees to use Microsoft Azure API Management."
"Since everyone is isocentric here, it is reasonable for me."
"The product pricing is reasonable."
"It's an expensive solution"
"It is an expensive solution, but any API solution will be expensive."
"It's free for less than ten users. If you want to go beyond that, it's around $3.50 per user per month. If you want a DevOps integration, it's about $7.50 per user per month. Costs depend on the size, complexity, usage, and what facility you want to integrate. So, we use Microsoft Azure and have the entire DevOps and Visual Studio on the cloud. We get all three flavors for $7.50 per user per month."
"There are no additional costs above the main license."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Insurance Company
8%
Energy/Utilities Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Insurance Company
7%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Boomi AtomSphere API Management?
Integrations take less time.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Boomi AtomSphere API Management?
The tool has a good SaaS-based pricing model. The price is reasonable.
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What needs improvement with Boomi AtomSphere API Management?
The solution must provide more AI services.
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How does Apigee differ from Azure API Management?
Apigee offers both cloud-based and on-prem options while Microsoft Azure API Management currently only offers a cloud-based solution. Both solutions are easy to use. Apigee allows for the ability...
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Which is better - Azure API Management or Amazon API Gateway?
If you use Azure products, API Management is a great solution. It solves many of the problems of externalizing web services. For example, when you need versioning, establish a developer portal and ...
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What do you like most about Microsoft Azure API Management?
Microsoft Azure API Management is a good, comprehensive solution for enterprise implementation.
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Also Known As

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Azure API Management, MS Azure API Management
 

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Overview

Boomi API Management supports the full lifecycle of APIs in a hybrid environment. Configure APIs and expose real-time integrations effortlessly. Centrally test and deploy APIs and enforce contracts and policies with an API gateway. Monitor the health of APIs with usage dashboards and engage API developers using the catalog and developer portal.

Microsoft Azure API Management is essential for managing APIs, facilitating integration, and ensuring secure internal and external communication.

Organizations leverage Microsoft Azure API Management for seamless integration and effective API management. It supports microservices, legacy modernization, and platform orchestration in sectors like healthcare, telecom, and finance. Features such as developer portals and centralized libraries simplify usage. While it showcases strengths in hybrid cloud support and scalability, improvements are suggested in versioning and multi-tenancy.

What key features does it offer?
  • Integration with Microsoft services ensures robust access control and user-friendly deployment.
  • Developer portal and documentation improve usability and learning.
  • Hybrid cloud support offers seamless on-premise connectivity.
  • Scalability and security features are well-regarded.
  • Centralized API library simplifies management.
What benefits or ROI should users consider?
  • Facilitates API lifecycle management enhancing user experience.
  • Simplifies authentication and subscription models.
  • Enhances data exchange and real-time monitoring.
  • Streamlines API mapping and orchestration across platforms.
  • Promotes flexibility and transparency in system integration.

Microsoft Azure API Management aids modernization across healthcare, telecom, and financial services by enabling legacy system updates and facilitating smooth platform orchestration.

 

Sample Customers

Avalara, Cornell University, Dropbox
adnymics GmbH, LG CNS, Centrebet, netfabb GmbH, MedPlast, Accelera Solutions, Sochi Organizing Committee, realzeit GmbH, Opensistemas
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