We performed a comparison between IBM DataPower Gateway and webMethods API Gateway 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."The most valuable feature is the security appliance, it's very secure."
"It's high-speed and it can be remotely administered via an API."
"The scalability of the solution is good."
"The API Connect gateway service and the SQL injection feature is good."
"The solution is very easy to work with."
"Support for PCA and non-PCA services is valuable."
"The solution is robust."
"The solution is stable."
"Within the new version, webMethods API Gateway gives us an end-to-end lifecycle from the creation of the API up into the development, deployment, and promotion into production/live. The current end-to-end lifecycle of the API gives us enough authority and governance of the API. We know what are currently live services, what is in the testing stage of development, and what version that has been commissioned. So, the full life cycle itself gives us full authority and governance of the API."
"The developer portal is a valuable feature."
"It's a good tool, and it has a stable messaging broker."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution for me has been the configuration-based UI. Once you get the hang of it, it enables you to easily develop an API. In addition, it has many in-built policies that are quite handy."
"In the API gateway, there is a new feature that allows us to filter logs within a payload. This has been a useful feature."
"The cloud version of the solution is very easy to set up."
"I like the solution's policies, transformation, mediation, and routing features."
"What I like the most about the solution is that it comes with ready-made tools like handling security tokens and OAuth."
"For the workloads that are not too high, appliance is a little bit expensive."
"They should improve the solution's clustering features."
"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."
"One area that could be improved is the integration with Postgres and SQL databases. Currently, IBM DataPower Gateway only integrates with Oracle databases."
"Its support services could be better."
"I would like the tool to improve its training."
"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."
"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."
"It is an expensive solution and not very suitable for smaller businesses."
"Understanding the overall architecture is difficult."
"The configuring of the JWT token would be improved as it is a confusing process. We require more information on this part of the solution."
"They should develop clear visibility for the onboarding."
"With performance, there is room for improvement in regards to if we would like to put another extra layer of security on it, such as SSL. This is affecting their performance quite significantly. They need to improve the process of managing the SSL and other things inside their solutions, so there will not be quite such a significant impact to the performance."
"There are things that could be improved with the webMethods API gateway. One thing is that it's too attached to the integration service and we'd like it to be a little bit more independent. We would like for them to separate operations so that it doesn't rely on the bulky integration server and so that it can be used everywhere."
"The price has room for improvement."
"With respect to the API gateway, the runtime component, the stability after a new release is something that can be improved."
IBM DataPower Gateway is ranked 8th in API Management with 26 reviews while webMethods API Gateway is ranked 12th in API Management with 9 reviews. IBM DataPower Gateway is rated 8.4, while webMethods API Gateway is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM DataPower Gateway writes "Easy to use, plenty of functionality, but expensive". On the other hand, the top reviewer of webMethods API Gateway writes "We developed several services in the cloud using a sandbox environment for our last hackathon". IBM DataPower Gateway is most compared with IBM API Connect, Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Management, Mule ESB and IBM Integration Bus, whereas webMethods API Gateway is most compared with Apigee, webMethods.io Integration, Kong Gateway Enterprise, webMethods Microgateway and CentraSite. See our IBM DataPower Gateway vs. webMethods API Gateway report.
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