We performed a comparison between IBM DataPower Gateway and Layer7 API Management 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."It is a scalable solution."
"My company has a good impression of IBM DataPower Gateway. What I like about it is that because it's an appliance, it's a turnkey solution that's very fast and out of the box. Compared to other gateways, I also like that IBM DataPower Gateway is function-rich. For example, for one of the projects, there was a need for specific transformation and security features available in IBM DataPower Gateway out of the box, so my team just needed to configure the appliance. There was no need for separate development, and I found it quite neat. Another valuable feature of IBM DataPower Gateway is that it's easy to integrate with other products."
"The solution is stable."
"It can look for the various security threats, productions, payload scanning, and perform routing based on the content type."
"It's high-speed and it can be remotely administered via an API."
"The solution is scalable, our customers are mostly South African banks and they handle mostly transactions with this solution."
"The API Connect gateway service and the SQL injection feature is good."
"Since it is a gateway, it provides a lot of security features."
"It is flexible in how it creates custom policies and uses builds with impressive methods."
"A big win for CA was the expertise of the local country support plus having support staff on site in a matter of hours, if required."
"The level of technical support is good."
"Has great drag-and-drop features and requires minimal coding."
"For developers to be able to come, sign up, or find APIs."
"We have more than 50 applications in the backend. We monitor the infrastructure through a database monitoring tool. Our daily tasks involve working on P1 incidents, managing change requests, conducting patching updates, working on P2 tickets, backend server certificate renewals, etc."
"API Management makes dealing with APIs easier. It'll help you to move ahead on your API application journey. The solution allows developers to create more advanced security policies"
"The benefits are rapid development and deployment of APIs, which means that your information, your ability to handle information, to receive it and to send it, to visualize it, to report on it, to get intelligence out of it, happens fast and happens with accuracy."
"It is a costly product."
"Some pre-packaged connectors for integration with various applications, such as SaaS offerings, would be a useful addition."
"Scripting needs improvement. It's hard for our customers."
"Its support services could be better."
"The IBM community does not have much engagement from the IT community in Saudi Arabia and developers for this solution are difficult to find."
"Traceability could be improved, especially for business operations. The traceability of the transactions could be an improvement point for DataPower to work on. It would be better if they provided JSON support. JSON protocol data has changed format. It started performing internal transformation to JSONx. This might be an additional complexity."
"We are always looking for more features wherein it could be easily integrated with cloud applications. We are looking for either a cloud solution or a cloud integration option."
"They should add features to manage API integrations."
"The architecture of the solution does not allow for flexibility in using different components for the gateway architecture."
"I feel there is a lot to improve in terms of providing plug-and-play functionalities, as at the moment it requires a lot of coding in their specific language for implementing a medium-complexity use case."
"Increase tools for manipulation of JSON messages."
"The security protocols in CA's product, for financial services, weren't as good as those in API Connect."
"It is not possible for clients to migrate to a newer version."
"Provide complete documentation with examples of usage on its build in assertion/function."
"As a SaaS product, control over some configuration elements and environments is lost."
"The UI design could be improved in the next release."
IBM DataPower Gateway is ranked 8th in API Management with 26 reviews while Layer7 API Management is ranked 10th in API Management with 109 reviews. IBM DataPower Gateway is rated 8.4, while Layer7 API Management is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of IBM DataPower Gateway writes "Easy to use, plenty of functionality, but expensive". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Layer7 API Management writes "Has great drag-and-drop features and it requires minimal coding ". IBM DataPower Gateway is most compared with IBM API Connect, Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Management, Mule ESB and IBM Cloud Pak for Integration, whereas Layer7 API Management is most compared with Apigee, Kong Gateway Enterprise, Amazon API Gateway, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and TIBCO Cloud API Management. See our IBM DataPower Gateway vs. Layer7 API Management report.
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