We performed a comparison between IBM DataPower Gateway and Microsoft System Center based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Infrastructure solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The MPGW (Multi-Protocol Gateway) is great because it allows you to easily expose services using various protocols – web services, REST (JSON), and others. This flexibility simplifies things."
"It can look for the various security threats, productions, payload scanning, and perform routing based on the content type."
"I like all of the features in this product and it does what it's supposed to do."
"The solution is scalable, our customers are mostly South African banks and they handle mostly transactions with this solution."
"The solution is straightforward and for large organizations, it functions well."
"I like the tool's security. Also, all functionalities are integrated within on platform."
"The solution is stable."
"The performance is good. It's been very stable."
"Many processes could be implemented out-of-the-box, and this helped to adopt processes in areas which we lacked."
"Managment Packs for Microsoft-specific products, help us implement the best practices for each product."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"The availability performance matrix and the reporting capabilities are the solution's most valuable features."
"The deployment and asset management features are the most valuable. These are the product's main features."
"Step-by-step documentation that clarifies the implementation procedure."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft System Center is its GUI (graphical user interface)."
"The installation process is easy."
"An area for improvement in IBM DataPower Gateway is its price point because it's a relatively expensive product. Sometimes, when the customer use case is just a very small subset of what's being offered in IBM DataPower Gateway, then the product can be expensive, making my company lose some of the opportunities because of the expensive pricing. A lower price point for IBM DataPower Gateway, even if that results in a less feature-rich version, would be appreciated. In terms of additional features that I'd like to see in the next release of IBM DataPower Gateway, nothing specific comes to mind because IBM constantly improves its standards and provides quarterly updates to the product, so it's quite fine."
"For the workloads that are not too high, appliance is a little bit expensive."
"They should improve the solution's clustering features."
"The initial setup isn't so easy, you need who has experience working with the solution to help."
"The user interface or the application development perspective and customization of the tool could be a little better."
"IBM DataPower Gateway is quite big for smaller organizations, looking at different types of clients who are virtually assisted in this, I would say it's not really a good product for smaller firms."
"The components that they include in the product that are, in fact, a WTX, really need to be removed from the product because they tend to fail."
"The IBM community does not have much engagement from the IT community in Saudi Arabia and developers for this solution are difficult to find."
"System Center hasn't updated to keep up with the industry. It needs improvements in the user interface, ease of use, and overall product functionality, particularly the cloud-monitoring features. It needs more capabilities to monitor AWS and Azure infrastructure."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
"Something super important that we need is this integration via Intune Configuration Manager."
"Less server consumption would help, as would better, more flexible reports."
"The multi-tenancy support needs to be improved. We need to have the ability to manage several different environments from one central point of administration."
"Implementation and integration in the case of multi-tenant environments needs improvement."
"Could be more user friendly."
"They should have some customized solutions or internal development, then maybe it could be easier to use different solutions or some self-developed solution."
IBM DataPower Gateway is ranked 6th in Application Infrastructure with 27 reviews while Microsoft System Center is ranked 15th in Application Infrastructure with 17 reviews. IBM DataPower Gateway is rated 8.4, while Microsoft System Center is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IBM DataPower Gateway writes "Security features meets compliance needs and offers MPGW (Multi-Protocol Gateway) that simplifies integration efforts ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft System Center writes "Good review of configurations, effective antivirus administration, and has weekly reports". IBM DataPower Gateway is most compared with IBM API Connect, Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Management, Mule ESB and IBM Integration Bus, whereas Microsoft System Center is most compared with Oracle SOA Suite. See our IBM DataPower Gateway vs. Microsoft System Center report.
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