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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.
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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 Pros and Cons

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What do you like best about IBM API Connect?

security and ease of use, allows developers out of Integration to do integration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?

in v5 you donot have too much control, you have to keep calling IBM, and the response time is not too good.

No Load balancer groups On APIM Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM API Connect:

Go with the Latest Version Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

allowing feature teams ro do their own integration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It is a great api management solution with rich set of management and self service features. With Datapower as runtime it fits well in on prem for exposing in house APIs to internal and external developers. We are moving towards v2018 on kubernetes platform and we hope it will add more values. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?

Installation on API Connect on VMWare OVA as well as on kubernetes is not properly documented. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Faster development by exposing the APIs.

Service availability and discovery.

Centralized self service portal for multi cloud environments.

Organization brand reach. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM API Connect?

Security capabilities, multe-tenancy capability of the portal, hybrid deployment capabilities of the runtime component Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?

There are no features to dislike especially when it is completely re-architected in the 2018 version with underlying microservices architecture Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Multi-tenancy no the portal, API life cycling, role based development, unified security Use Cases implementation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM API Connect?

they were able to understand the specific requirements of our organization and were able to customize the product to suit the security model including the authentication and authorization, sso and use out=r LDAP for all this Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?

had bugs when the install was happening, but the same were resolved in a timely manner and lot of attention was provided by the product development team Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

we were able to expose several APIs to the larger audience, reduce redundancy, were able to restrict the api usage, monitor the analytics Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Akhil H.
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What do you like best about IBM API Connect?

DataPower Gateway, ease of use, extensible Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?

Limited monitization support, no direct migration path available from v5.0.5 to 2018.x Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM API Connect:

APIConnect is a good product with DataPower as a security gateway Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Exposing legacy functions as api's for faster time to market. IBM APIConnect has helped us stay ahead in the race Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM API Connect?

the ensamble area is easy to create a api in less 15 minutes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?

sometimes when i publish a product in api gateway is sometimes slow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

after, we had a lot ways to connect with banking core, but now we have one way to get specific data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JB
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What do you like best about IBM API Connect?

The ease and speed that you can develop new APIs is amazing. The interface is very user-friendly and makes sense from a software development standpoint. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?

Setting up the system locally took some learning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Quick and easy creation of APIs for microservices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We moved our API management from a custom approach to an industrial product like API Connect and that's when we thought about all the features we were missing with our previous product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?

What I don't like very much is the statistics UI but we moved all of our logs to syslog. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

With PSD2 european directive all the banks will have to expose their client's data to other third parties.

We are using IBM API Connect to fullfil this requirement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We required the functionality of an API Manager and API Connect answered 95% of all our requirements Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?

Extremely difficut to customize the UI that we had to work with an IBM partner to modify it to suit our requirements Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM API Connect:

Its functionality is ex ceptional, but check the price and the ease of customization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We were able to monetize our financial functionality and use a single platform for all our internal applications requiring access to our core systems Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Easy to configure, secure and expose APIs

Good set of security features out of the box

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What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?

Does not fully support our change implementation strategy for product upgrades

No native HSM support other than Luna (which doesnt support HA)

We have had to write extensions for native features not currently available in v5 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Open Banking APIs exposed to regulated TPPs

Interal APIs exposed to key channels (e.g. internet banking)

Ease of onboarding

Data insights and market intelligence Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.