We performed a comparison between IBM DataPower Gateway and MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two API Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I like the tool's security. Also, all functionalities are integrated within on platform."
"The solution is straightforward and for large organizations, it functions well."
"The solution is stable."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The solution is robust."
"The most valuable feature is the security appliance, it's very secure."
"I like all of the features in this product and it does what it's supposed to do."
"The API Connect gateway service and the SQL injection feature is good."
"MuleSoft has given the API solution a 3-tiered architecture. This means that there are multiple channels available in one application. The usability is very high."
"If you adopt the whole platform, you can build composable applications. This will cut your time creating new applications and updating them – once you have everything running – by up to 50%."
"The product improved data exchange processes by enhancing communication between various messaging queues. There was a heavy reliance on queues for indexing clusters and data transfer in this particular environment. The product facilitated the transfer of messages from one queue to another, ensuring data flow and processing across different topics."
"The most valuable features of Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager are the API gateway, rate limiting, and orchestration."
"I believe the API connectivity within the cloud marketplace is most valuable."
"The developer portal is easy to integrate. It is easy to use, easy to integrate, and I like the developer portal."
"Overall, the platform is pretty good, I cannot say which one specific feature is good. The idea of an API manager is really interesting."
"The stability overall has been pretty great."
"We are always looking for more features wherein it could be easily integrated with cloud applications. We are looking for either a cloud solution or a cloud integration option."
"They should improve the solution's clustering features."
"The components that they include in the product that are, in fact, a WTX, really need to be removed from the product because they tend to fail."
"The two biggest issues of this solution are the complexity and the maintenance procedures."
"Its support services could be better."
"The programming language is only supported in XSLT and Gateway script."
"The product should be more adapted to the DevOps process."
"The initial setup isn't so easy, you need who has experience working with the solution to help."
"I'd suggest more control over MQ restarts and greater transparency in traffic management."
"Their analytics needs a lot of improvement. It's really lacking right now."
"It can offer workflows, orchestration, and webhooks."
"Better documentation to help explain each of the features would be really helpful."
"I think that they can bring some transparency in reference to the terms of the microservices architecture."
"One improvement is maybe to add a plugin in the API manager. Let's say an organisation is using SOAP services or legacy APIs. Maybe I don't want to migrate it to rest API, but my plugin should be able to convert Jason to XML. Basically, protocol transformation features in API Manager."
"The initial setup, if you go back three or three and a half years, definitely, for us, was complex."
"I would like to see MuleSoft expand the range of APIs you can manage with it beyond HTTP, GIPC, and others."
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IBM DataPower Gateway is ranked 7th in API Management with 27 reviews while MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is ranked 4th in API Management with 47 reviews. IBM DataPower Gateway is rated 8.4, while MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of IBM DataPower Gateway writes "Security features meets compliance needs and offers MPGW (Multi-Protocol Gateway) that simplifies integration efforts ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager writes "Responsive technical support, low tickets issued showing great stability, and limitless expansion". IBM DataPower Gateway is most compared with IBM API Connect, Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Management, Mule ESB and IBM Integration Bus, whereas MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, Amazon API Gateway, Apigee, IBM API Connect and Kong Gateway Enterprise. See our IBM DataPower Gateway vs. MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager report.
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