We performed a comparison between IBM API Connect and SAP Cloud Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I have found the API Management to be most valuable."
"The technical support is good. Whenever we need anything, we have our IT team work with IBM to change whatever requirement is needed."
"The most valuable feature of IBM API Connect is the security of the protocol."
"This solution is ready to scale and already supports our agile CICD."
"The centralized management: this provides a management module that can deploy and apply security policies to all APIs, including all the gateways that are deployed on-premises and on any cloud because the gateway component can run at a VMware or in a Kubernetes cluster."
"It allows enterprises to expose some of their tech to outside stakeholders."
"It's quite flexible and easy to deploy, especially for beginners. It has almost all the features that an API gateway should have."
"We really like the runtime capabilities of IBM API Connect. The creation of products and the control of the monetization and hit rate are some of the features which we've found very valuable."
"The pre-delivered content from the SAP cloud platform is definitely a strength."
"One of the best features of this solution is that it is web-based and you can log in and work on it from anywhere."
"To be able to define multiple sub accounts in order to accommodate and separate development, test, and productive environments."
"Improved our speed to bring our mobile applications into productive use in a cost-effective way."
"The most valuable features of SAP Cloud Platform are security integration and scalability."
"One of the most valuable features I have found is that the solution is secure."
"The solution is scalable."
"Scalability is one of the benefits that we have in using the product."
"Installation is weak."
"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."
"We've had some issues upgrading to the latest version of the solution."
"Business applications could be exposed to users."
"The automation and the simplicity could be improved."
"Firstly, the pricing model, when compared to other open sources, is high. Secondly, the availability of resources in the market, specifically the developers available in the market, is not so much."
"The documentation needs to be a bit better."
"Debugging could be improved."
"I would like to see more and better support for data transformations."
"The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The addition of more industry use cases would be an improvement."
"The product could be improved for consistent user interfaces."
"Lacks flexibility in its licensing structure."
"The product needs improvement for serverless native integrations. They should opt for serverless features as all the customers worldwide choose cloud-based products."
"When I started looking at the client's IT architecture, I started by doing a study of their services, DVM, data volume, and management services. According to the results, they could be a lot better at this."
"I want to see better pricing from the SAP Cloud Platform in the future. I also want more security and scalability from it."
IBM API Connect is ranked 7th in Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) with 73 reviews while SAP Cloud Platform is ranked 4th in Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) with 38 reviews. IBM API Connect is rated 8.0, while SAP Cloud Platform is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IBM API Connect writes "Good speed and performance, but it's based on a bit dated architecture". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Cloud Platform writes "Provides seamless integration with CTI for streamlined data synchronization but complexity and challenges in migrating existing applications to the low-code model for custom application development". IBM API Connect is most compared with IBM DataPower Gateway, Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and Tyk, whereas SAP Cloud Platform is most compared with Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Mule Anypoint Platform. See our IBM API Connect vs. SAP Cloud Platform report.
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