We performed a comparison between IBM API Connect and SAP Cloud Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It allows enterprises to expose some of their tech to outside stakeholders."
"The statistics component is easy to use."
"Scalable and stable API platform for creating and managing APIs."
"This product is well integrated with other products. Its ability to interact with IBM Secure Gateway and other integration products is the core feature. Also, the lead time to put it into production is relatively short ."
"API Connect's most valuable feature is its ability to act as a gateway. It's very easy to configure security and everything else in it. You don't have to kill yourself implementing custom configurations."
"The developer portal has been the most useful feature."
"The solution offers a pretty good SLA."
"DataPower Gateway holds significant value for us as it serves as the cornerstone of our enterprise security controls."
"The integration flows are the most valuable feature of this solution."
"The solution is scalable."
"The solution is very useful and interactive with a dashboard for viewing other interfaces."
"The most valuable features of SAP Cloud Platform are security integration and scalability."
"SAP is an excellent company with an excellent reputation, excellent products, and dedicated customer support."
"The product improved our company's business operations since we got value out of it."
"Great Integration Suite, with CPI being its stable component."
"The ability to build custom applications on the BTP platform, reducing customization on the SAP HANA system and improving performance and management."
"The new version is very unstable."
"The implementation of IBM API Connect is complex, as it's an enterprise solution with many components that require more than one person. It's not a single product that you work on, and this is an area for improvement, but normally, it's good. Having a more structured model for IBM API Connect support is also room for improvement that would help customers better."
"The documentation needs to be a bit better."
"The solution would be better if it had cloud functionalities."
"Possible improvement is mainly around having more of the cloud oriented architecture bringing stability in adding new capabilities around security."
"The installation was difficult with the IBM toolkit."
"There is room for improvement regarding the connectivity of the DevOps."
"It would be helpful to have access monitoring."
"The price of the solution could improve."
"Speaking about the public cloud, it's a very rigid system. So, there is not a lot of customization possible in a public cloud environment."
"I want to see better pricing from the SAP Cloud Platform in the future. I also want more security and scalability from it."
"The product needs improvement for serverless native integrations. They should opt for serverless features as all the customers worldwide choose cloud-based products."
"Usability is a challenge most of the time and not being able to get all of the information."
"The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The main problem is that there aren't any easy migrations from SAP PO to SAP CPI, so from process orchestration to cloud platform integration."
"Better connectivity to on-premise systems would help us to support older systems that are migrating to the cloud."
IBM API Connect is ranked 7th in Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) with 73 reviews while SAP Cloud Platform is ranked 4th in Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) with 38 reviews. IBM API Connect is rated 8.0, while SAP Cloud Platform is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IBM API Connect writes "Good speed and performance, but it's based on a bit dated architecture". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Cloud Platform writes "Provides seamless integration with CTI for streamlined data synchronization but complexity and challenges in migrating existing applications to the low-code model for custom application development". IBM API Connect is most compared with Apigee, IBM DataPower Gateway, Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and Tyk, whereas SAP Cloud Platform is most compared with Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Mule Anypoint Platform. See our IBM API Connect vs. SAP Cloud Platform report.
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