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"In two years, there was one time the service was down for an hour or so."
"I do like the overall performance of the solution."
"Quick and easy way to share a new API design with teams."
"I find the generation of mock services very useful, especially when demonstrating for new consumers."
"It impresses me as a product because it never goes down. It always does what it is supposed to do."
"We definitely get good responses from the technical team and they are quite responsive."
"Simple to use and easy to develop APIs."
"One of the features that the tool provides is the ability to simply onboard new APIs to an existing security platform. We build all the policies for security upfront, and then we can add those policies pretty simply and straightforwardly to any new API that gets developed in the enterprise."
"Compared to other vendors, this product is much faster in coming up with new features, which is good."
"This product, at first blush, looks something like it's one of those weekend warrior tools, but it's not. It's an enterprise-class tool with the kind of usability that you wouldn't expect. And with that usability - how do you have your cake and eat it too? Well, it's because of the product's extensibility. It's very well-integrated with your existing Java library of processes and procedures, as well as your ability to write new extensions to it. You get so much of the base functionality but you don't give up the ability customize."
"We are able to go to market very quickly and deploy our functionalities very quickly."
"Security is the most important parameter of the solution, for me, because whenever you are exposing your APIs to third-parties, it is critical that the data remains anonymous and that data is retained within the system, that it is not leaked. CA API Management provides good security features."
"I would like an integrated option to download a Swagger version of the definition."
"Swagger (OpenAPI Specification) and Blueprint Support"
"The Oracle release cycle is very bad because the patches only update once a year."
"More developer focused tools. They have a nice debugger inside of the program, but when you are developing code with their policies, it is tough to visualize that sometimes as a developer."
"We are looking for improvements related to integration. We want to see them add integration tools to the CA bundle. That would be helpful."
"From the last version, they have added more dashboard support, but there is still a lot they need to improve. In terms of monitoring, it's almost all covered. The interface can be improved, though."
"The UI design could be improved in the next release."
"Layer7 API Management could improve by assing more portal-based capabilities."
"The development portal could be improved."
"Layer7 API Management could have a live API creator feature, so my team can easily create APIs. Right now, the product doesn't have that feature."
"It is not possible for clients to migrate to a newer version."
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Apiary is ranked 36th in API Management while Layer7 API Management is ranked 10th in API Management with 109 reviews. Apiary is rated 8.2, while Layer7 API Management is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Apiary writes "The ability to configure rules to check for consistency has helped". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Layer7 API Management writes "Has great drag-and-drop features and it requires minimal coding ". Apiary is most compared with SwaggerHub, Oracle API Platform Cloud Service, Apigee and Microsoft Azure API Management, whereas Layer7 API Management is most compared with Apigee, Kong Enterprise, Amazon API Gateway, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and Microsoft Azure API Management.
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