We performed a comparison between IBM DataPower Gateway and WSO2 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."The API Connect gateway service and the SQL injection feature is good."
"The solution is straightforward and for large organizations, it functions well."
"Support for PCA and non-PCA services is valuable."
"The solution is very easy to work with."
"My company has a good impression of IBM DataPower Gateway. What I like about it is that because it's an appliance, it's a turnkey solution that's very fast and out of the box. Compared to other gateways, I also like that IBM DataPower Gateway is function-rich. For example, for one of the projects, there was a need for specific transformation and security features available in IBM DataPower Gateway out of the box, so my team just needed to configure the appliance. There was no need for separate development, and I found it quite neat. Another valuable feature of IBM DataPower Gateway is that it's easy to integrate with other products."
"The scalability of the solution is good."
"It's high-speed and it can be remotely administered via an API."
"The MPGW (Multi-Protocol Gateway) is great because it allows you to easily expose services using various protocols – web services, REST (JSON), and others. This flexibility simplifies things."
"WSO2 API Manager's most valuable features are the simple interface that is easy to use and the APIs lifecycle."
"API management lifecycle is the most valuable."
"There are a lot of tools to help the manager. WSO2 is very easy to install. It has all the principal functionalities that you think about when you want to put up the management solution. It's a very friendly tool."
"The main feature — the publication of the API, the management section — is great in general."
"The product is easy to use."
"WSO2 is very stable."
"The solution is open-source."
"This is a flexible and versatile API management solution that has the power to integrate with more than just API."
"It is a costly product."
"The initial setup isn't so easy, you need who has experience working with the solution to help."
"They should improve the solution's clustering features."
"Scripting needs improvement. It's hard for our customers."
"An area for improvement in IBM DataPower Gateway is its price point because it's a relatively expensive product. Sometimes, when the customer use case is just a very small subset of what's being offered in IBM DataPower Gateway, then the product can be expensive, making my company lose some of the opportunities because of the expensive pricing. A lower price point for IBM DataPower Gateway, even if that results in a less feature-rich version, would be appreciated. In terms of additional features that I'd like to see in the next release of IBM DataPower Gateway, nothing specific comes to mind because IBM constantly improves its standards and provides quarterly updates to the product, so it's quite fine."
"Traceability could be improved, especially for business operations. The traceability of the transactions could be an improvement point for DataPower to work on. It would be better if they provided JSON support. JSON protocol data has changed format. It started performing internal transformation to JSONx. This might be an additional complexity."
"One area that could be improved is the integration with Postgres and SQL databases. Currently, IBM DataPower Gateway only integrates with Oracle databases."
"Its support services could be better."
"WSO2 API Manager could improve the API approval system."
"The solution could be more user friendly for engineers."
"WSO2 API Manager could increase their security compliance."
"The user interface could be a bit better."
"WSO2 API Manager can be improved a lot relating to usability"
"API Manager is not easy to scale because some of its components lack scalability. It's a difficult point. Especially because companies are so cloud-based these days, microservice scalability is a major thing."
"Integration is an area that needs to be improved."
"Providing easy configuration for email and SMS notifications, layout and customization of admin and developer landing pages."
IBM DataPower Gateway is ranked 7th in API Management with 27 reviews while WSO2 API Manager is ranked 8th in API Management with 33 reviews. IBM DataPower Gateway is rated 8.4, while WSO2 API Manager is rated 8.0. 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 WSO2 API Manager writes "Reliable with good capabilities and good support". IBM DataPower Gateway is most compared with IBM API Connect, Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Management, Mule ESB and IBM Integration Bus, whereas WSO2 API Manager is most compared with Apigee, Kong Gateway Enterprise, Amazon API Gateway, Apache APISIX and webMethods.io Integration. See our IBM DataPower Gateway vs. WSO2 API Manager report.
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