We performed a comparison between IBM Cloud Pak for Integration and Microsoft Azure API Management 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."The most valuable aspect of the Cloud Pak, in general, is the flexibility that you have to use the product."
"It is a stable solution."
"Cloud Pak for Integration is definitely scalable. That is the most important criteria."
"The most preferable aspect would be the elimination of the command, which was a significant improvement. In the past, it was a challenge, but now we can proceed smoothly with the implementation of our policies and everything is managed through JCP. It's still among the positive aspects, and it's a valuable feature."
"The UI management is very easy to use."
"The ease of setting up a new solution is the most valuable feature. It's very easy to set up a new solution and to deploy it to production."
"Without a doubt, it has a very robust, strong marketplace where we can directly integrate with existing APIs and begin working on those."
"The user management is pretty seamless."
"I like that security features can be integrated with API Management. I also like that you can perform rate-limiting and throttling functions."
"The most valuable feature is the developer portal, which has source code examples in various programming languages to help developers learn the API."
"The initial setup is not that complex, but there are certain challenges."
"Microsoft Azure API Management is 90 to 99 percent scalable. We have three instances running in parallel."
"Setting up Cloud Pak for Integration is relatively complex. It's not as easy because it has not yet been fully integrated. You still have some products that are still not containerized, so you still have to run them on a dedicated VM."
"The initial setup is not easy."
"Its queuing and messaging features need improvement."
"The pricing can be improved."
"They should improve the inbuilt policies that they have and that should properly create a deployment architecture as well."
"The cloud deployment performance could be better."
"Azure API Management could be improved with better integration with all of Microsoft's tools."
"The API gateway can be very complex."
"One of the most important improvements for us would be if it supported the HTTP/3 version and new protocol over a quick connection."
"I would like to see more integration with other platforms, as well as increased security."
"They're trying to implement versioning and trying to be able to manage different versions of your API all at the same time, but they're not doing that just quite right yet."
"When you start with Azure API management, you also need to onboard the Azure console and the Azure cloud environment, which comes with a price."
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IBM Cloud Pak for Integration is ranked 21st in API Management with 4 reviews while Microsoft Azure API Management is ranked 1st in API Management with 68 reviews. IBM Cloud Pak for Integration is rated 8.6, while Microsoft Azure API Management is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IBM Cloud Pak for Integration writes "A hybrid integration platform that applies the functionality of closed-loop AI automation". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure API Management writes "Efficiently manages and monetizes API ". IBM Cloud Pak for Integration is most compared with IBM App Connect, IBM API Connect, IBM DataPower Gateway, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and AWS Glue, whereas Microsoft Azure API Management is most compared with Amazon API Gateway, Apigee, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Kong Gateway Enterprise and IBM API Connect. See our IBM Cloud Pak for Integration vs. Microsoft Azure API Management report.
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