Apigee Initial Setup

Kazim Hussain - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Devops Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

It is straightforward until and unless there aren’t any custom installations. Dealing with issues can be challenging, especially when custom installations are involved. Problems may arise with components not responding, leading to overall system malfunction. Installation failures, interruptions, and errors are common issues encountered in this context.

Normally it takes one to two hours. But when problems arise, it can take up to one week.

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Rohit Sircar - PeerSpot reviewer
Integration Solutions Lead | Digital Core Transformation Service Line at Hexaware Technologies Limited

The initial setup involves medium complexity. We have 30 people who are involved in the setup of this solution for other clients and work in different locations.

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Sebastian Ovalle - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect of solutions at Ripley

The solution is one of the most accessible API management solutions I have worked with. I work with others, and this is the easy one. The setup, therefore, is pretty straightforward and simple.

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Senior Software Engineering Manager & Directector of Architecture at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

The setup itself was not complicated, however, the learning curve to integrate into our platform was way too complicated. It took over a year for us, from the time we purchased it until the time that we actually were running APIs through it. The ramp-up time took too long.

I would rate the solution a three out of five. I can't blame the vendor alone. It's also due to what I did or did not do.

We did not have enough of an implementation strategy. With the setup, there are instructions set up. Going through a setup is fine, however, knowing what to do with that setup and how it fits into a grander picture has been a journey.

The amount of staff needed for deployment and maintenance depends on the organization that's trying to deploy it. We have a fairly rigorous DevOps process, so there's somebody that is needed to manage the actual deployment of it. You'd need at least one, maybe a redundant person. Then, you need one person and a redundant person to manage the DevOps integration and to be able to build a pipeline so that you can deploy it. You also need at least one person that knows how to work in the platform to build APIs. I would say you'd probably need five or six people that really understand this to be able to deploy it.

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LB
Chief Software Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

The initial setup is relatively complex. While it may require learning, trial, and understanding, once you reach an advanced level, it becomes a more personalized experience.

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GT
Senior Technical Architect at ManuLife Financial

I was not involved in the initial setup, but I've been told that the onsite setup was a little complex and there were a few restrictions as well.

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Arpan Kushwaha - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Consultant (Data Engineer) at MediaAgility

The solution's deployment is quick and does not take more than an hour. However, when you face challenges, the support is not very great.

On a scale from one to ten, where one is difficult, and ten is easy, I rate Apigee an eight or nine out of ten for the ease of its initial setup.

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PP
Head of API at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

It's easy to set up the solution. It's a SaaS. The deployment can be handled by just one person. It's very simple. 

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ParameshAnde - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at Hatsuga

The product's initial setup phase was not difficult.

The solution is deployed on an on-premises model.

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Akash Dalebehera - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Specialist at BT - British Telecom

The initial setup of the solution is easy. The setup is being handled by Google, you only need to request a new setup and procure a license for the solution.  Google takes care of everything else.

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SS
Senior Software Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

The initial setup wasn't straightforward. It was complex due to the fact that Apigee didn't have any integrations and we had IBM APA Connect Resources.

There were many things we weren't told earlier. Once you clear certain items you can't change the name, for example. There were a few other items, like monitoring, which had a limited number of configurations which was an issue.

Deployment was fairly quick. It only took five minutes or so.

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Sachindra S - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at Amadeus

The initial setup is complicated. There is a lot involved, and many teams are involved.

When attempting to apply a new host, they are setting up the DNS network, which takes some time.

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Brajmohan Papneja - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Lead Consultant at Allstate

The initial setup was easy - there was an onboarding document with steps that we followed.

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MM
Group CEO at Mmusi Group

Apigee is in the cloud, so it's more like software-as-a-service.

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TA
Technical Lead - Integration/Middleware at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

It is not straightforward. It has multiple components, so setting it up is not straightforward, but the good thing about this is that they have automated a lot of the setup. It comes as an appliance or in RPM packages that you can install at specific locations in the operating system. So, its installation is easy because it has been automated.

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TA
Technical Lead - Integration/Middleware at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The initial setup is not straightforward. It is very complex. They use different open-source applications in this solution. When installing this solution you have to be knowledgeable in the different applications, what the different applications do, and how they behave with each platform.

The documentation they have available is very good and available online.

Using different applications bundled together in this single product makes the maintenance and installation a challenge. 

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AtyabTahir - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at Trayle

The initial setup took a few weeks.  This was primarily because of us. It took us a while because of internal approvals. The team I was working with just was not fast enough.

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RR
Software Development Manager at Reliance Jio

The setup was taken care of by our core IT team, I was part of the development team so all activities relating to the setup, updates, and customer service were handled by the core IT team.

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David Viana - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud systems architect at Encamina

The initial setup was straightforward, however, when compared to MuleSoft, MuleSoft was easier.

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Ahmed Raaf - PeerSpot reviewer
Sales Manager at CNTXT

The initial setup is very straightforward and can be done by anyone. 

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IbrahimKhateeb - PeerSpot reviewer
VP at Piramal Group

Setup isn't very complex.

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Ravi Kuppusamy - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO and Founder at BAssure Solutions

My impression is that the initial setup is seamless. The deployment was done pretty quickly. Our model of deployment is the cloud, more specifically, AWS.

I think that the deployment and maintenance are done by a team of DevOps of six people.

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RN
Senior Manager at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

The initial setup is pretty simple.

It provides some sort of integral service communication support. We have a multiple API proxy with multiple APIs currently deployed. So if API A is calling API B, and API B is calling API C, if that left to right communication is also available in API B, for that we have to use some kind of service tool. That is also available inside Apigee.

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Sukkanta Banerjee - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

I rate the complexity of the initial setup as medium. The deployment method is based on the company's contract, and approximately ten people are required for deployment.

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AR
Enterprise Architect at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

The initial setup of Apigee is straightforward. Google/Apigee gives us all the information to support their private owned clouds. The interface is very straightforward to use as well. It's a lot easier than the Layer 7 product.

CA was overly complex in its configuration. CA also does significantly more as far as security and policies are concerned. It has developed a huge number of policies into their product. It's way more than what I would expect an API management product to be. It took us two months to set up the solution.

We basically took the policies from Layer 7 that we had previously created and we transformed them to policies for Apigee. That was fairly easy.

In terms of deployment, we haven't transformed totally from Layer 7 yet to Apigee. Our support is very low on Apigee right now. There's only one person that's working on Apigee currently. It's minimal. Accenture is handling the support, as they did for CA. We had about five people supporting the gateways on Layer 7.

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Erez Litmanovitch - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Delivery at Yael

The ease of setup depends on the level of sophistication of the clients. It can be rather simple; however, the more complex the infrastructure, the more difficult the setup can be. 

We do both cloud and on-premises deployments. The length of deployment depends on the customer. It depends on the kind of network or the organization. It can take a few months up to a year.

We have a strong knowledge of the flow and the templates. For us, it's pretty straightforward. 

There is a team of six people that can assist with deployment and consulting with clients.

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Basavaraj Halasur - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Architect (AWS, GCP, Azure), FullStack, Data Architect at SID GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LLC

The tool's setup is very simple. You would need around 50 people to maintain the solution. 

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Mohammed ALDOSARI - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Delivery Portfolio Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

I didn't handle the deployment. I don't handle that aspect of the solution. 

We do have a team that manages and administers the solution. 

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JK
Senior Principal Architect at a real estate/law firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

The initial setup is extremely straightforward and not complex at all.

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BV
Senior Architect at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

This solution is much easier to set up compared to any of the other API gateway solutions. There is extensive documentation available.

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MM
Managing Consultant at Systems Limited

I rate the solution's initial setup process as a seven.

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Muhammad Imran Khan - PeerSpot reviewer
AVP - Senior Enterprise Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Apigee is more straightforward and flexible, with implementation and designing. Other products currently on the market are more complex overall to sustain. The time it took us to set up was around two to three months.

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SatyajitTarai - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical architect at STCS

The solution is mildly complex in terms of the setup process. However, it isn't too bad. 

We have five people that handle maintenance tasks. We have one manager and two developers that can support the product.

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CR
Software Architect at Caja Los Andes

The initial setup of Apigee is very easy. However, we had a problem with the deployment of Microgateway in on-premises infrastructure. The deployment took about two to three months. 

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SM
Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

My recommendation for installations is that the product installation, set up and delivery process could be improved. It is straightforward in the initial steps. The part which is automated by Google is very straightforward. The remaining part, we have to do manually. The remaining components have to be manually configured. If Google were to do a container offering of this solution, then adopting it would be seamless because everything would be able to be automated.  

I would say that it currently takes too long to set up and deploy and that it is not as short a time to complete the process as it should be. It is more mediocre, somewhere in the middle, and has moderate difficulty instead of being seamless and simple.  

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Aakash Sharma - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Architect at HCL Technologies

The initial setup is not straightforward, particularly for hybrid solutions. It is easier to manage the managed services or SaaS-based versions.

The implementation takes time. The production setup includes TLS among other things, and the management and operationalizing take time as well.

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MADHAV CHABLANI - PeerSpot reviewer
Consulting Chief Information Officer at Tippingedge

It is easy to deploy Apigee from one vendor, but if you are talking about multiple APIs, then it becomes complex. Then, you have to wait for the standardization efforts.

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RK
General Manager at HCL Technologies

The initial setup is not that straightforward. 

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BD
Director API Management and Integration at Fresh Gravity

For on-premise, there is complexity, but the cloud version is easy to set up.

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PP
Principal Engineer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The initial setup is straightforward. We don't need a lot of training for the developers to start working, just a few days at most. It's very easy to start with, and the development effort is also a lot less.

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HA
Application Solution Architect at DAMAC Holding Ltd.

Our initial setup and deployment took six months with the help of a partner.

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MADHAV CHABLANI - PeerSpot reviewer
Consulting Chief Information Officer at Tippingedge

The integration of Apigee was straightforward.

It is not an installation, it's an integration. Apigee is integrated rather than installed.

The number of people needed to maintain this solution is determined by the project's, and the complexity of the situation.

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AL
Systems Architect at a consultancy with 5,001-10,000 employees

At the beginning the initial setup was very straightforward, but the fine tuning during the setup is something that needs some improvement. The initial setup was pretty straightforward because we were trying not to do very complicated things. The initial setup was easy. But then as we started to grow, we realized that there was some room for improvement, but overall the initial setup was easy and we liked that.

Since it initially started as a POC and then we started moving forward from there, it was not complicated. But had we started with a real life application or with more complex applications or requirements, it probably would have been more difficult for us. But the way that we decided to start and also because of the complexity level, it allowed us to go very smoothly with the first setup and deployment.

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TA
Digital Finance and IFRS 17 Capabilities at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

The initial setup is of medium complexity. End-to-end, we took about a week to get everything ready. This included the account, the proxies, the target endpoints, etc.

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PrakashMuthuswamy - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at HCL Technologies

The initial setup for the on-prem solution is a little complex, but the hybrid setup is very easy because detailed steps are provided. The hybrid version takes one or two days to install, but the on-prem version takes a minimum of a week.

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AM
Senior IT Supervisor at a hospitality company with 10,001+ employees

Installing Apigee is very simple and only takes two or three minutes.

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LC
Sr. Solution Architeect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The initial setup is quite easy. 

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it_user684582 - PeerSpot reviewer
API Management lead architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

If you deploy a 6-node+ topology, there are many steps required for initial setup. I feel most of this setup complexity is limited to the initial install, and the future auto-scaling of the gateway workload will be an easier/smoother experience

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HK
Technical Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Initially, we figured out how to deploy the solution on the job and it required some external assistance, but because we've been working with Apigee for so long, deployment is relatively easy for us these days and is carried out in-house. 

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Essam Younis - PeerSpot reviewer
SOA & BP Technical Manager at EJADA

To construct the environment, can take two to three weeks.

The presentation is based on the business and can be done in three to four months.

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NV
Senior Content Writer

As a writer, I didn't set up Apigee. Another team set it up.

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VA
Director at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The installation is good. I won't say it is complex, but it has many configurations and types of policies that are available. However, it can be easily done.

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RB
Associate Vice President at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Managing an on-premise setup themselves can be a huge overhead for customers. Apigee, I believe, releases patches very frequently, and those upgrades and maintenance activities are quite an overhead. Having said that, it has good support. They provide a lot of scripts through which the installation and other things can be automated, but obviously, we have to tailor those to our needs. On-premise is definitely a little bit of overhead. We have to have a team to manage that, but now with Apigee X going on SaaS, most of the implementations are on SaaS. So, this overhead is minimized a lot, and you just have to do the configurations.

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NB
Integration Specialist at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

The installation was not difficult.

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SS
Sr. Technology Specialist at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The installation is straightforward. You just need to get a license for Apigee and then configure the reverse proxy. Once you have the reverse proxy configured, you have to set up whatever policies you want. One or two guys were able to install, deploy, and host our reverse proxy for our endpoint within a day.

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HA
Director System Architecture at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees

The entire set of documentation is available online. You can follow it step-by-step to install the application.

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BM
Risk Management & Business Continuity Manager at STC Solutions

The initial setup isn't complex. The setup configuration offers a very simple approach for developing and deploying services in Apigee. It's straightforward. It's easy for our developers to apply a lot of services while offering a faster time to market.

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AS
Digital Native Product Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The initial setup is pretty straightforward. It's not overly complex. A company shouldn't have any issues setting everything up.

We did a hybrid deployment, the entire process took us less than a month. It's not a long, drawn-out process.

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BV
Founder & CDO at AppyThings

The initial setup is very straightforward and we perform it as a service for our clients. Normally, it takes us about a week to get it fully operational with all of the rules in place, and fully onboarded.

When it comes to deployment, we have variety with our customers. 60% of them will use a cloud-based deployment, while the remaining 40% work on-premises. We are now just engaging the first customers using the new hybrid model from Apigee.

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KR
Global Practice Head at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The initial setup is straightforward. It's not overly complex. A company shouldn't run into issues setting it up and rolling it out.

I'm part of a services organization. There are various developers, and Apigee users tend to be more than 300 people from our organization. In terms of support, there are 40 people. These are split across different customer organizations.

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it_user693855 - PeerSpot reviewer
SAP/APIGEE Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The setup is completely dependent on what you choose. If you go for the on-cloud version there is no setup needed. Within a week your API development will kick in and you can see the system live.

But for OPDK customers this will be a tedious task. They have some pre-requisites such as firewalls that need to be opened and, based on what topology you want, what is your expected use of the platform and how you want to mold it as per your enterprise security guidelines. These will govern the installation and initial setup of the platform.

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it_user507243 - PeerSpot reviewer
Tibco Administrator at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

It's straightforward, and looks at security configuration, environment setup, etc.

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it_user690072 - PeerSpot reviewer
API Developer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The on-premises setup is really complex.

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it_user689625 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Services at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The SaaS version setup is easy. On-premise version seems to be bit complex.

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RK
Senior architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

There is installation documentation available.

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DC
Chief Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I tried to do the initial installation and setup a couple of times. It is straight forward and easy. It is just done by calling a couple of CMA (Connection Manager Agent) commands and you can get it up and running.  

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March 2024
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