We performed a comparison between Apigee and OpenLegacy based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Google, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others in API Management."It is easy to set up. It is on Google Platform, and there are multiple deployment models they support, which is great."
"The most valuable features of Apigee for me are analytics, security, ease of use, and integration capabilities."
"Apigee is a strong-featured solution. It leads in Gartner Quadrant ratings and it is a full-slated API solution that has the features that an API gateway requires."
"Highly scalable from any initial topology to horizontal extension"
"Apigee has better scalability than WSA."
"I have found the most valuable features to be tracing a proxy, and managing proxy versions and revisions via the Edge UI component."
"It's a good return on my investment."
"The stability of the solution is good. There aren't issues surrounding bugs or glitches. We don't find that it crashes or freezes. It's pretty reliable."
"OpenLegacy provides a way to go from the outside world to the legacy mainframe, to move the old standard application to a REST API application. New digital services can be created in a few clicks and this can be done easily by COBOL programmers."
"Using OpenLegacy, the exposure of services is far easier and quicker. In many cases, exposure of services requires just a few clicks and takes only minutes. In very complex cases, it still only takes half a day. Without OpenLegacy, it would take us several months to create the same services."
"It is possible to solve larger legacy API issues on an enterprise level with this product."
"Opens the door to connect modern web products to an old legacy system."
"It is possible to connect a service to a mainframe program or back transaction in a matter of minutes or hours at the most."
"OpenLegacy produces a war file which includes everything you need to deploy a Tomcat server."
"Using mainframe programs (not screens), the OpenLegacy services do not require any changes by the mainframe programmers, thus reducing development cycles."
"The biggest advantage of OpenLegacy was how simple the technology was. We were able to build out the OpenLegacy parts very quickly. We put together a couple hundred APIs in six months."
"Development IDE, especially for Architect Review."
"The solution tends to hide the limitations to keep selling the product."
"When it comes to the rate limit, we don't have a specific category for rate limits for a particular customer."
"I would recommend this solution to those who want to start using it, but it depends on the requirements and automation."
"It would be good if the Apigee management allowed us to be able to consolidate many operations into single one for the gateway functionality."
"I would like to see better integration and some architectural improvements in future releases of the solution."
"Apigee is not a solution compatible with public clouds, making it one of its shortcomings where improvements are required."
"There should be an integrated continuous integration and continuous deployment approach with Apigee. Currently, for development at a more integrated level, you have set it up yourself."
"We would also be more than happy if the product had the option to work in the opposite direction – the ability to consume REST/SOW services in the outer world from the mainframe."
"Debugging and logging for programmers could be better."
"The pricing of the solution could be more flexible and allow for once-off payment versus annual licensing. This would be more appealing to companies in Latin America."
"I would like to see SSL out-of-the-box. OpenLegacy certainly does SSL, but it was not the default for our use case. We are currently working with OpenLegacy to cross the SSL bridge and suspect that most users will want to do the same."
"I'd like to see OpenLegacy develop its low-code/no-code (LCNC) solutions. They've expanded somewhat their horizons for integration beyond mainframe CICS, which is their sweet spot. They have some tooling in that area, but it's not as good as it needs to be."
"Customer support for the product is slow and not very good. It makes using the product difficult if you need help quickly."
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Apigee is ranked 2nd in API Management with 82 reviews while OpenLegacy is ranked 37th in API Management. Apigee is rated 8.2, while OpenLegacy is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Apigee writes "Has a robust community and outstanding performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenLegacy writes "The biggest advantage is how simple the technology was". Apigee is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, IBM API Connect, Amazon API Gateway, WSO2 API Manager and Layer7 API Management, whereas OpenLegacy is most compared with Kong Gateway Enterprise, IBM API Connect and MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager.
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