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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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Product Description

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.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

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 Transportation/Trucking/Railroad

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/29/2022

"Most complete API Connect solution"

4/5

What do you like best about IBM API Connect?

IBM API Connect will offer you broad management capabilities of your APIs. Be it REST, WSDL or even AsyncAPI documents.

You get a nice developer portal too. Nice division of roles and in latest versions, great support for DevOps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?

When it comes to implementing API gateways you can use powerful IBM DataPower which serves as a gateway. But you must be prepared to acquire knowledge of it if you don't already know it. Documentation for programming could be better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM API Connect:

IBM APIC can be a bit difficult to set up if you are not knowing Kubernetes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

When you need to take control of your API lifecycle APIC is hard to beat. You can safely develop new APIs in local sandbox and when ready publish them to the public. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mohammed Ahmed S.

Senior Integration Specialist

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/31/2022

"Best API Management Product in market"

5/5

What do you like best about IBM API Connect?

It's the best API management tool in the market. Easy to Create, Secure, Publish and handle multiple APIs and their customers at a time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?

The size of the software should be reduced and a Free version should be made available to explore the product on the local machine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Varun Jain of IBM API Connect

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Hi Mohammed,

Thanks for taking out time to share your review of IBM API Connect. We are glad that you find creating and managing APIs with IBM API Connect easy and intuitive.

To your feedback regarding software size and free version availability, I would like to share that IBM API Connect is now available as SaaS on AWS and comes with a 30-day free trial.

Please find more information here: https://www.ibm.com/products/api-connect

Additionally, please join the API Connect community if not already done so: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/integration/communities/community-home?CommunityKey=2106cca0-a9f9-45c6-9b28-01a28f4ce947

Deepanshu J.

Associate Lead

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/22/2022

"Single place APIs management and monitoring"

4/5

What do you like best about IBM API Connect?

It has included support for GraphQL APIs and having all API in one place, helping us focus on implementation rather than monitoring, logging, debugging, security etc. So in one sentence, it increased developer productivity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?

The monetization module could be better, It's the marketplace is still growing, When it has huge customers out there, our revenue for our APIs will grow. As of now, it's low relatively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM API Connect:

It's one of the best API management with the scalability, security, robustness in mind. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

- API management

- Security

- GraphQL proxy

- Managing different formats of API at single place like REST, SOAP, GraphQL

- As it manages and scales API in such way that our up-time has been increased significanly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sampath G.

Senior Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/13/2022

"Integration made safe and better with IBM API Connect"

5/5

What do you like best about IBM API Connect?

The gateway-level security it provides is the best in business. OAuth, JWT, Sign, Encrypt, Decrypt and Verify security mechanisms are top-notch and reliable. And many other functionalities that secure and enhance messages to make end-to-end integrations possible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?

I don't see any downsides of API Connect however it definitely needs additional features which would minimize configuration or implementation at IBM Datapower. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Umesh K.

Technical Specialist

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/6/2022

"It was woderful expereience"

4.5/5

What do you like best about IBM API Connect?

I feel it is much more secure and easy to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?

I have not feel anything disliking, It is good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dhanduka S.

Assistant system engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/5/2022

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

"Great technology to enhance skills"

4.5/5

What do you like best about IBM API Connect?

Api manager test,stage,prod and recent migration from v5 to v10 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?

Onboarding of apis in prod and api manger sometimes quite difficult to navigate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rama Kumar N.

IT&D Enterprise Architect

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/4/2022

"One of the best Integration solution with IBM API Connect"

5/5

What do you like best about IBM API Connect?

Ease of usage, Easy to implement this solution Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?

Commercially very expensive. It has to be flexible in commercial modelling Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ranjan S.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/10/2022

"Encrypting and securing the API's using SSL"

4.5/5

What do you like best about IBM API Connect?

We can configure multiple key stores and trust stores which helps operationally to manage the certs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?

There is no out-of-the-box feature to create the self-signed certificates, you have to use open_ssl or some other tools to create the certficates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM API Connect:

Industry accelerators are not mature, IBM has to work on providing templates and samples and good documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

API Connect helps to securely expose the API's to internal and external users. It provides all the features required for Full API life cycle management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Airlines/Aviation

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/12/2022

"IBM api connect is a simple and easy to use service"

5/5

What do you like best about IBM API Connect?

IBM api connect is a simple and easy to use service with huge scope of features to build and manage your APIs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?

The interface can be much more interactive and designed well. Also the downtime can be minimised Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sachin j.

Technical Architect

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/17/2022

"IBM API Connect is secure and offer lot of capabilities for API Management. It is very easy to use."

5/5

What do you like best about IBM API Connect?

I like the various Policies available and easy security implmentation. Also Developer portal is very good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?

API Manager of Designer could have help section in each and every small section. I have seen this in datapower but not in APIC. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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"Best API Management Product in market"

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Deepanshu J.

"Single place APIs management and monitoring"

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Sampath G.

"Integration made safe and better with IBM API Connect"

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Umesh K.

"It was woderful expereience"

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Dhanduka S.

"Great technology to enhance skills"

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Rama Kumar N.

"One of the best Integration solution with IBM API Connect"

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Ranjan S.

"Encrypting and securing the API's using SSL"

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Verified User in Airlines/Aviation

"IBM api connect is a simple and easy to use service"

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"IBM API Connect is secure and offer lot of capabilities for API Management. It is very easy to use."

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