We performed a comparison between IBM API Connect 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."API Connect is a very good platform for the development of APIs."
"The ability for all of our web applications to share standard functions and documents easily is valuable."
"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 ."
"We are able to share those APIs instantly within the organization; even if we want to share it outside publicly, then we can have those capabilities."
"The most valuable features are stability and security."
"Using API Connect allows us to quickly create proxy APIs and saves time on end-to-end testing, which lets us deliver quickly to clients."
"The developer portal has been the most useful feature."
"It acts as a central gateway for both external APIs and underlying systems. It's basically a central middleware for hosting APIs to the internet and consuming APIs from internal systems. It provides central governance for any APIs going outside the network, ensuring security and a common contract for API definitions."
"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."
"Functionality-wise, I like WSO2 API Manager - Publisher API and WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus."
"WSO2 API Manager has a user-friendly model."
"It's a good product."
"This solution is a little bit faster, easier to use, and has better integration than the other solutions I have experienced."
"The scalability is fine for our purposes."
"WSO2 API Manager's most valuable features are the simple interface that is easy to use and the APIs lifecycle."
"Yes WSO2 API Manager is scalable"
"Components, like caching, should be implemented as policies, not requiring dependency on an external solution."
"The implementation process could benefit from improvements, as it may take some time to become accustomed to the deployment."
"The solution could improve security and performance."
"We would have more capability to interact with the catalog and inventories, so a more DevOps-friendly solution is needed."
"The design time setup has a lot of customizable fields, but we need certain standard fields to be added, such as what all of the consuming systems are. This needs to be very clearly articulated during the design time."
"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 solution is not scalable."
"The automation and the simplicity could be improved."
"They don't have different URLs for administrators."
"We had some problems with the reverse proxy not being able to invoke fully qualified domain names, so we have to build some custom scripts to solve this issue."
"I think they could greatly improve the general UX with their solutions."
"The stability is pretty good, but it could be improved."
"I would like it to be a more stable solution. Maybe in the last version that is approved. For me it would be good if they had a community established version."
"The professional support and licensing aspects of WSO have been a challenge."
"From a product perspective, the first thing is that although the documentation provided by WSO2 is good, it could be much better. We're in the middle of a complex migration, moving away from VMs to Kubernetes with the latest version of WSO2 and good documentation is essential to us right now."
"WSO2 API Manager could improve the API approval system."
IBM API Connect is ranked 5th in API Management with 73 reviews while WSO2 API Manager is ranked 8th in API Management with 33 reviews. IBM API Connect is rated 8.0, while WSO2 API Manager is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM API Connect writes "Offers basic API orchestration and provides robust security and governance features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WSO2 API Manager writes "Reliable with good capabilities and good support". IBM API Connect is most compared with IBM DataPower Gateway, Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and webMethods API Portal, whereas WSO2 API Manager is most compared with Apigee, Kong Gateway Enterprise, Amazon API Gateway, Apache APISIX and MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager. See our IBM API Connect vs. WSO2 API Manager report.
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