
IBM API Connect is hybrid, can be deployed on Cloud and on-prem as the architecture of API Connect is based on Kubernetes architecture . API Connect can be deployed via OVA and using helm catalog making it cloud-native architecture. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
No dislikes at this point, had issues with v5 but the new version 2018 and v10 are what we are focusing on Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The run time - datapower is the fastest and best run time engine Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
security and ease of use, allows developers out of Integration to do integration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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.
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.
Installation on API Connect on VMWare OVA as well as on kubernetes is not properly documented. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Security capabilities, multe-tenancy capability of the portal, hybrid deployment capabilities of the runtime component Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Setting up the system locally took some learning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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 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.
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.
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.
Easy to configure, secure and expose APIs
Good set of security features out of the box
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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.