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What is IBM API Connect?

IBM API Connect is a complete, intuitive and scalable API solution that lets organizations implement a robust API strategy by building, exposing, securing, and managing an entire API ecosystem across multiple clouds. IBM API Connect is available on AWS Marketplace. As businesses embrace their digital transformation journey, APIs become critical to unlock the value of business data and assets. With increasing adoption of APIs, consistency and governance are needed across the enterprise. API Connect allows businesses to get new features to market fast, maintain continuous availability, meet changing user needs, and spur innovation.

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IBM® API Connect™ is for organizations looking to streamline and accelerate their journey into the API economy. It’s a comprehensive management solution that addresses all four aspects of the API lifecycle: create, run, manage and secure. API Connect is far more cost-effective than limited point solutions that focus on just a few lifecycle phases. It enables external and internal consumers to accelerate an organization’s API program and capture new revenue through compelling new customer experiences.

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Improve speed and agility while reducing business costs and risks with a market-leading and award-winning API management solution with the most comprehensive set of capabilities.

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IBM offers a wide range of technology and consulting services; a broad portfolio of middleware for collaboration, predictive analytics, software development and systems management; and the world's most advanced servers and supercomputers.

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Verified User in Banking

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/5/2022

"IBM-APIC"

4.5/5

What do you like best about IBM API Connect?

Best Platform to expose API. Easy to explore on IBM APIC components like Cloud manager,API manager,Datapower,Developer portal Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?

1) There is no node for communicating queues directly.

2) Not able to install all components of APIC in local machine.

3) Documents related to gatewyscript and APIC is limited. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?

1) API management is the set of people, processes and technology that enables an organization to safely and securely publish APIs, either internally or externally.

2) Consumer can easily subscribe the API through consumer portal.

3) We can exposing our IBM ACE middleware services through APIC. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kavi V.

Software Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/10/2021

"All your APIs are Managed, Secured & Monitored easily in one place"

4/5

What do you like best about IBM API Connect?

IBM API Connect is a valuable product and helps me develop, manage, and monitor the different API endpoints in one place. It has fantastic support for multiple authentication security mechanisms for API, like OAUTH, MTLS, JWK, etc. IBM API Connect has a good UI and can configure API using YAML and using components on UI. The Gateway used here is IBM Datapower which is one of the most secure, reliable, highly available, and can integrate with almost any front-end or back-end. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?

If API calls do not reach our services, it takes really a long time troubleshoot the issue.

API management configuration tool can be simplified more.

it takes sometimes for beginners to design and deploy the APIs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM API Connect:

IBM API Connect is a valuable product and helps me develop, manage, and monitor the different API endpoints in one place. The Gateway used here is IBM Datapower which is one of the most secure, reliable, highly available, and can integrate with almost any front-end or back-end. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?

We used IBM API Connect to create a managed and secured backend service that expose the API to API consumers with OAuth2 authentication and custamized the api response. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/14/2022

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Simple and Best way of creating a proxy, transformation and implementing security."

4.5/5

What do you like best about IBM API Connect?

Easy to learn, simple to implement REST API proxies with security provided by IBM DataPower Gateway.

Upsides:

IBM Datapower security features can be utilized.

User-defined policies can be created for new functionalities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?

Critical transformations are a little bit difficult. Other than HTTP connections, for the remaining protocols, we need to rely on code. For logging also we need to rely on DataPower Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

steven l.

Product owner

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/25/2021

"PAG Q4 2021"

4.5/5

What do you like best about IBM API Connect?

Performance, the almost unlimited possibility of customization, support.

The dedication, knowlege and skills in working together in a mixed DevOps Team (IBM Lab and Porsche) is outstanding.

Also IBM Backoffice, sales, support are always willing to fulfill our needs, aspecially TecSales who is accompanying us from the start. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?

Licensing model (restrict the yearly bought calls to monthly packages) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Miodrag P.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/2/2021

"5 years with IBM connect"

4.5/5

What do you like best about IBM API Connect?

Very frendly web interface for configuration of APIs, we learned very quickly how to configure and deploy our APIs at secure maner.

At that ti.e API management was new topic for us. We needed reliable solution for more than 10 network banks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?

We have choosed cloud deployment of API gateway, acter some time we have realized that we can not administer API Connect by ourselves, but we have to write a tiket if we want some configuration change. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM API Connect:

If you need fast and simle solution for API management API Connect is all You need Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?

We needed realiable API management solution for our group project. Solution has to be simple for use, we asked for solution that can simply convert payload from XML to JSON. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/19/2022

"IBM API Connect Review"

5/5

What do you like best about IBM API Connect?

This provides comprehensive solution as a API Management. Provides policies wise approach which makes development easier and simpler and makes our APIs more secure than ever. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?

Everything seems to be good except the pricing . I personally think pricing to be on a bit higher side which makes it unaffordable for smaller projects and companies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/26/2022

"Speed of Development through IBM APIConnect is amazing"

4.5/5

What do you like best about IBM API Connect?

The UI for the development of API's seemlesly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?

Constant updates of features due to bugs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mohsin M.

Software engineer

2/2/2022

"APIC my perspective"

4/5

What do you like best about IBM API Connect?

I like it because it has very good debugging features and analytics plus the developer portal for your clients and reduce burden to make separate portal to expose API detail' Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?

Though it provide API authentication mechanism but it lack feature to bind token againsts session/user. There should a way to do soo Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/1/2021

"I am a software developer having more then 8 years of experience, 2 plus years on APIC."

4/5

What do you like best about IBM API Connect?

it's very easy to use, the best thing is the OOB dev portal option. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?

the searching option is missing in different pages e.g. catalogue pages, unable to search by the path. Can't open API directly from catalog, there should be a link.

IP whitelisting option is also missing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Retail

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/19/2021

"IBM API Connect - Still legacy"

3/5

What do you like best about IBM API Connect?

Physical gateway

Very stable

Good Security features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?

Not open-source friendly

Very slow in providing new features

Deployment in Cloud is complex Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM API Connect:

if you are looking for high throughput physical gateway, IBM APIC is great a choice. But if you have to do cloud deployment you might want to rethink if IBM APIC is the right tool for it. it is very complex to manage in cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.