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IBM API Connect Overview

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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Recent IBM API Connect Reviews

Francis C.
FC
Francis C.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"A solid API management platform that works well for basic to moderately complex solutions"
- It offers a good balance of features, security, and usability. - It has a User-Friendly Interface. - Solid for Mid-Level Use Cases
Vasundhra B.
VB
Vasundhra B.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Usefulness of IBM API Connect"
IBM API Connect is very useful for the analysis of the interface and helps in monitoring the API activities and use. Also, IBM API is very versatil...
Ashitha P.
AP
Ashitha P.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"IBM API Connect"
it helped me to creating and managing Api's the best thing is it is easy to create and have different deploying options

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IBM API Connect Demo - IBM API Connect Gateway
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IBM API Connect Pros and Cons

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What do you like best about IBM API Connect?

It allows you to maintain many API hassle free and needs very less maintenance. Also it is good to have different portals for developing rules and maintaining APIs. Also security can be maintained in only one one place(API connect) instead of configuring in every service. And with less technical knowledge it can be used. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?

The tool is simple but for a newbie it is confusing. it should be further more simplified and made it easy. ans also can have better simplified tutorials from IBM. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM API Connect:

It is a growing sector and it will make your life easier when you implement in your organisation if you are using lot of APIs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

All the APIs are maintained through API connect which make the maintenance very easy for the support team. Also trouble shooting when any issue comes also becomes easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Punit K.
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What do you like best about IBM API Connect?

APIC as an APIM product suite is a complete tool for API management and for microservices as well. I liked the control it gives to the governance and the analytics for product owners which is critical for product design and pricing. From a security and management point of view, I like the space management within the catalogs. The built-in policies security, mediation and transport are well defined. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?

There could have been more policies in the security section, a little better UI because sometimes it becomes little too confusing to browse through the different features. There should be a recovery process for lost API secret for app consumer. If they forget to copy paste their client secret then its tough on them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The APIC is being used for enabling the interdepartmental communication by exposing the services as API which need a minimum transformation and primarily read-only in nature. Some of the services are also exposed to external partners to fetch data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Insurance
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What do you like best about IBM API Connect?

The run time - datapower is the fastest and best run time engine Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?

Cloud dissociations ,

upgrade releases have so many bugs that we have to keep repeatedly using ifixes to upgrade Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM API Connect:

Will recommend for api management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

API management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM API Connect?

Of the 1700+ APIs we Service, of the 600+ teams developing those services, with all the traffic they can produce, the Management alone is fluid, functional, stable, easy to task, and monitor or track. Providing "Consumer" Applications and Backend Service Developers the space/time they need independently to develop and advace their services, develope their product, increase their feature stack, and provide changes at better rates than typicle 'client - server' relationships/infastructure/arcetecture. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?

Its a simplified service with simple demands and simple archetecture, that QUICKLY can become a 'beast' to move/migrate/manipulate when a known "feature" is redicovered, or new fundamental change is rolled out. Dramatic, Visible, and Orcastrational changes can impact consumers and developers with what appears to be a whole new Product rather than an updated more current and 'intune' verson. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Deploying APIC as a Midileware service, to allow for Fontend and Backend service Developers to Change on independent timelines. Consumers can see opportunities in other products that are more adequate to their use-case and drive development better, because the ease of change is available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JA
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about IBM API Connect?

It is every easy to understand how to create an API and also publish it. The documentation of API Connect is nice as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?

It is very hard to debug a policy once it created. I would like to have the same possibility to debug as you get in the IBM Integration Bus, to be able to see the different headers and the message body. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The way of making applications more accessable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Government Administration
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What do you like best about IBM API Connect?

For me the best feature is that gateway is run on Datapower and it is reliable and easy to develeop and administer the product. Basing main deployment artefacts on open specifiaction and extending with custom stuff is a way to go. This enable implementation CI/CD processes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?

Sometimes analytics gathering is broken and we have incosistent analytics data. Restart of manager VM and/or DP domain helps. Not a blocker for me but it would be nice if it would be fixed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Implemented strangler pattern by exposing large custom build Entreprise system as a set of well defined APIs so we can break the monolith into something more managable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM API Connect?

IT gives us analytics, makes exposing APIs to clients much easier, it gives us a central point for consuming and managing APIs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?

The fact the whenever we have to upgrade datapower, we have to delete the gateway server from API connect then re add it again after the datapower upgrade. I wish this dependency will be removed in the future as it is a bit disruptive and doing firmware upgrades should be as simple and transparent as possible Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We purchased API Connect so we have a central point to manage APIs. It also made it easier for us to expose our APIs to consumers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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VP, IT Solution Engineering
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about IBM API Connect?

Ability to API enable our core assets, and sunset several other API tools such as API Manager, APIgee, WSRR. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?

When we started implementing API Connect, there was no elegant way to just do discovery the services. I believe my tech team has been working to get that issue resolved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Democritizing data; breaking monoliths into micro services to enable agility. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness
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What do you like best about IBM API Connect?

Love that we are moving to a unified platform to house all of our organizations API's. Certainly beats trying to determine whether an API already exists. We have just begun to roll this out across the organization and it has been incredibly well received. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?

Like anything it takes time to roll out any new technology - while we are moving it would be great to move much quicker. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

1. Providing us visibility and accessibility for our APIs managed in one place.

2. Benefits - everyone wants to use it and adoption has been incredibly high. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JC
IT architect
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about IBM API Connect?

It fits perfect for all the Bank industry in order to offer data as a service Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?

The cost, it a long way to get the ROI, for middle size bank it is an expensive bit Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

B2B businees is being a challenge for banks, it has to be a easy way to get our customers connected Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.