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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.