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7 months

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Raghav V.
RV
Raghav V.
Technical Architect
Information Technology and Services
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"The most secure, Fast and Reliable Middleware Gateway provided by IBM"
5/5
What do you like best about IBM DataPower Gateway?

IBM has been the market leader in the Middleware segment for a long time now with the help of IBM Datapower Gateway and IBM MQ. Datapower is the complete solution whether you are using any protocol (MQ, SOAP, REST, HTTPS...). Since it is a hardware device it is capable of providing wire speed transfer rates with the ability to transform your message body completely or only a few tags. There are various models available in the market for Datapower like Integration Appliance XI50, B2B Appliance XB60 and Messaging Appliance XM70. Datapower has the inbuilt ability to detect threats of various natures and treat them accordingly. It gives you the flexibility to scale or descale because it provides you with a parameter called threshold value where you can define how many transactions you want to allow per minute or second. Datapower is the most secure device because it gives us the options of integrating some of the most secure protocols into our service namely SSL, TLS, OAuth, SAML and even Kerberos too. I have personally never seen a message getting lost or hacked in Datapower. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM DataPower Gateway?

Datapower doesn't have any flaws according to me. The only thing which I could suggest is that they need to come up with more detailed documentation because Datapower has a plethora of options but the audience isn't well aware of them because they have not documented them well use-case wise. Another thing is the initial setup which is quite cumbersome if you are doing it the first time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Richard W.
RW
Richard W.
Systems Integration Consultant
Information Technology and Services
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"Robust, Fast, Complex"
4/5
What do you like best about IBM DataPower Gateway?

The efficiency and speed of which DataPower processes requests is up there. In all my experience with working with physical DataPower appliances (XB62, IDG, X152), I've never had to worry about CPU/memory/disk space usage. Definitely helps me sleep at night. Super easy to setup basic proxies, SSL validation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM DataPower Gateway?

I'm not the best at XSLT, and a lot of the transformations require that. Converting from XSLT <-> JSON has been difficult (using JSON X), but I believe there are some actions in the 2018 instance that is supposed to make that easier, looking forward to it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bryant S.
BS
Bryant S.
Server Engineer
Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Secure gateway for b2b transactions"
3.5/5
What do you like best about IBM DataPower Gateway?

It is important that our customers connect to a DMZ external gateway and not our internal network. Datapower allows us to have just that. We are currently onboarding 900 trading partners to datapower for AS2/SFTP transactions. Datapower has proved reliable and secure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM DataPower Gateway?

We have the linux vm version of datapower running on hyper-v. It has been very difficult to get set up. We would like IBM to have images for this version like they do with vmware. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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robert h.
Cloud Security Architect
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"My review"
4.5/5
What do you like best about IBM DataPower Gateway?

Can be used by a wide range of skill sets from beginner to expert. While its useful to be an xslt guru, most things can be done with the gateway (javascript-ish) scripts. Once you get a baseline set of flows, look towards automation to remove any user errors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM DataPower Gateway?

The new user interface stinks. I prefer the old web-gui. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness
EH
Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Use as a security gateway"
4.5/5
What do you like best about IBM DataPower Gateway?

Ease of use - multiple connection options - many different options for hardware - good security patterns. Ease of use for setting up different integration patterns. Deployment options are easy. Use for XML transformations are good, easy and highly performant Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM DataPower Gateway?

The cost of the appliance is high compared to open source or software based solutions like Kong and Layer7. Some of the deployment options are not as intuitive as others. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Defense & Space
AD
Verified User in Defense & Space
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Power, secure and easy to use"
5/5
What do you like best about IBM DataPower Gateway?

I like the user interface and api options for managing the device. The configurations are easy to use and the documentation support for the gateway has greatly improved over the past few years. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM DataPower Gateway?

I prefer the webgui interface. The other is still very buggy at times although in the long run I think it will be better because it doesn't have the nested configs like the webgui. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jeff K.
JK
Jeff K.
Integration Specialist
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Excellent json and xml transformations with security"
5/5
What do you like best about IBM DataPower Gateway?

Datapower is excellent for standing up SOAP or REST based services with excellent support for security, encryption, and transformation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM DataPower Gateway?

The web ui can be slow to load. It would also be nice to have a wizard for building a REST service without api connect Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Hari G.
Manager Integrations
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Best Gate Way"
4.5/5
What do you like best about IBM DataPower Gateway?

Security for APIs, Multi protocol support, Routing algorithm, Speed of processing and Load Balancing capabilities and self balancing capabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM DataPower Gateway?

Service level statistics and monitoring. No simple configuration options for service level monitoring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MG
Magendran G.
Solution Architect
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"DataPower performance"
4/5
What do you like best about IBM DataPower Gateway?

High performance

Low Latency

Responsive support

Integrates to MQ and Webservices easily

Multi protocol support

Secure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM DataPower Gateway?

Steep learning curve

Require in depth knowledge to gain full value Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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scott s.
EAI Lead
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Enterprise Application Integration Lead"
4/5
What do you like best about IBM DataPower Gateway?

speed & reliability of the appliance, built-in security Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM DataPower Gateway?

slow pace of providing fix patches for issues we have found Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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How do i get a training to fully administer the gateway? And how to wrote an enhancement

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Time to Implement

7 months

Perceived Cost

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