We performed a comparison between IBM API Connect and SnapLogic 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."API Connect is a very good platform for the development of APIs."
"API Connect is a good product, and everything works fine. All the analytics are good, and it is easy to follow up. I like it in that sense. I'm more focused on following up on analytics by seeing how many API calls we are getting and where we see a lot of problems. I was working on that API level."
"Its speed and performance are valuable."
"Scalable and stable API platform for creating and managing APIs."
"It is easy to use and stable."
"DataPower Gateway holds significant value for us as it serves as the cornerstone of our enterprise security controls."
"The most valuable feature is the security we get from this solution. I know of a bank that uses it to ensure that everything is secure. The second feature I like is the retail environment, where we actually want to be able to provide as many suppliers and consumers with APIs as possible. If you are well-trained in the writing of RESTful API's, you can actually publish an API in a matter of minutes, test it, and publish it."
"It is a complete all-in-one solution."
"The product is easy to use and has many connectivity options."
"SnapLogic is a great platform for establishing integrations among various systems or patterns by using any kind of interface. If something is not supported by predefined snaps – snaps are connectors in SnapLogic – you can create them (custom snaps) or write a script."
"I found SnapLogic valuable and what I found most valuable about it was its ETL feature. I also found its automation feature valuable. It can be used for automating manual activities. It can be used as a middleware for certain transactional data processing and minimal datasets and ETL activities."
"The solution is easy to implement and easy to use. It's basically just drag and drop."
"SnapLogic is an IPA tool that leverages a low code environment to connect to multiple sources, extract data, and store it in Azure data lake."
"The API architecture makes it easy for orchestration."
"SnapLogice is a low-code development tool."
"You can use other languages, such as Python, and easily connect to other systems."
"They seem to have left out a feature for microservices and also a certification module for OIDC."
"The automation and the simplicity could be improved."
"Components, like caching, should be implemented as policies, not requiring dependency on an external solution."
"The developer portal could be easier to customize."
"The documentation needs to be a bit better."
"Debugging could be improved."
"The new version is very unstable."
"It needs to be less taxing on compute resources."
"SnapLogic sits somewhere in the middle. It doesn’t offer enough easy canned integrations for its users like some of the easier to use integration apps."
"There is room for improvement with APM management and how task execution looks."
"We'd like zero downtime in the future."
"The support is the most important improvement they could make."
"One area for improvement in SnapLogic is the transparency in the flow of data. It needs to have more transparency. Right now, users only have a preview option at the end of any job flow, so at the end of any Snap Pack, there is a data preview option that lets you review the data and see how it's moving. What would make the solution better is more debugging and more access to change data from the preview panel or more functionality in terms of the preview option."
"Ultra Pipelines provides real-time ingestion but it needs some adjustment."
"What could be improved in SnapLogic is that it was not capable in terms of processing a large number of datasets, but at that point, SnapLogic was evolving. It didn't give a lot of Snaps. I heard recently there are a lot of Snaps getting added and the solution was being enhanced, particularly to connect different data sources. When I was working with SnapLogic six months to one year back, I faced the issue of it not being capable of handling a huge volume of datasets or didn't have much of Snaps, and that was the drawback. If there is any large number of data sets, that's based on or depends on your configuration. If it is a huge volume of data, other traditional ETL tools such as Informatica and Talend can process millions and billions of records, while in SnapLogic, the Snaplex fails or it returns an error in terms of processing that huge volume of data. Informatica, Talend, or any other ETL tool can run for hours in terms of jobs, while SnapLogic jobs fail when the threshold is reached. SnapLogic isn't able to withstand processing, but I don't know if that's still an issue at present, because the solution is getting enhanced and it's been more than six months to one year since I last worked with SnapLogic. There are now a lot of Snaps getting added to the solution, and if it can overcome the limitations I mentioned, SnapLogic could be the go-to tool because currently, it's not being used as much in organizations. It's being used comparatively less compared to other retail tools."
"It needs some more snaps. I would like to see some of the features be changed in some of the snaps."
IBM API Connect is ranked 7th in Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) with 73 reviews while SnapLogic is ranked 6th in Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) with 20 reviews. IBM API Connect is rated 8.0, while SnapLogic is rated 8.0. 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 SnapLogic writes "Easy to set up, easy to use, and is low-code". IBM API Connect is most compared with Apigee, IBM DataPower Gateway, Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and Amazon API Gateway, whereas SnapLogic is most compared with Azure Data Factory, AWS Glue, IBM InfoSphere DataStage, Informatica Cloud Data Integration and SSIS. See our IBM API Connect vs. SnapLogic report.
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