IBM API Connect Scalability

Shanmugasundaram Shanmuganathan - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at Synechron

While Azure API Management offers configurable scalability, IBM API Connect relies on Kubernetes clusters. This might seem manual and require defining cluster instances upfront, but it's completely customizable and not on-the-fly scaling.

It's completely custom-driven, not on-the-fly scaling, which some may consider cumbersome.

Overall, I would rate the scalability an eight out of ten.

Almost all applications we've been exposing lately go through this middleware, so it's used extensively. There are around sixty applications directly using it, but six Kubernetes clusters serve those applications.

It's heavily used for integration, including system-to-system integration and product integrations.

Our usage has been increasing year-on-year based on our needs.

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KrishnaIyer - PeerSpot reviewer
Head - Technology Engineering at Abcl

It's good. There are a lot of other good products also.

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CS
Sr Technical Specialist at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The tool is very scalable.

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IBM API Connect
March 2024
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MuhammadSalman1 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at Systems Limited

It is highly scalable. On a scale from one to ten, I would rate it between nine and ten.

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Essam Younis - PeerSpot reviewer
SOA & BP Technical Manager at EJADA

We are working with the big and the medium businesses.

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KavitaChavan - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

It is scalable. I would rate it a ten out of ten. Any number of users can utilize the solution. All of our clients are enterprise clients.

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Rajesh Vedaraju - PeerSpot reviewer
Integrator at LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech

The solution can be stable, but it depends on the infrastructure used, such as the cloud and its structure.

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KA
Sales Director at Jordan Business Systems

IBM API Connect is a scalable solution. It's deployed based on the Hybrid Entitlement model in IBM which gives the customers five million API calls per month, and if the customers need more, it's just a matter of buying an additional license to make it ten million API calls per month, so customers can build any environment that meets requirements and do production HADR tests without paying a lot more for the license.

As IBM API Connect is subscription-based, it's good, and it allows customers to scale as much as needed without exceeding the number of API calls. Most of the customers do not reach that limit anyway. If a customer needs to go beyond the limit, he can get a CPU-based license, but at the moment, I haven't had any customer who needs a CPU-based implementation of IBM API Connect.

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MM
Group CEO at Mmusi Group

IBM API Connect is scalable, but scaling it is expensive, depending on what kind of hybrid or software you want to use with it. Every client has a different policy and deployment need.

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PS
Manager at Doudle

It is a scalable solution.

There are around 20,000 users of the solution for the project we are currently working on in our company.

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Elisângela Bumba - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technician at Banco Millennium Atlântico

We have approximately four people who use this solution in my organization.

I rate the scalability of IBM API Connect an eight out of ten.

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Alexis Aguiluz - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technological Architect at Banco de Chile

The scalability of the solution is good.

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KC
ICT Advisor at TCS Toolbox

It is a very scalable solution.

The meaning of the size of the companies in Greece is very different from what it is in other parts of the world, like the UK or Germany. The tool has around 2,000 users. I don't know if 2,000 users are found in small, medium, or large enterprises, but in the UK, it is a number to describe a small business, while in Greece, it is considered a large-sized company.

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KH
Manager Integration Platform Engineering at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

Since we're mostly talking about Version 5, which is a very old version, I would have to say that it is not scalable. The memory gets too high and it affects operations. We had to request another server and it cost us money, even when we were doing a migration. Even if we wanted to go to Version 10 we have to still apply what is called a Fix Pack to the old version to have a separate infrastructure.

We have about 100 developers that use the solution currently.

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it_user634788 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Manager at PNC

Based on the architecture, from what I've heard, it's quite scalable. It's just, bring in more nodes and away you go. My understanding is it’s very scalable.

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KavitaChavan - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

API Connect is scalable because it's completely containerized.

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OG
Consultant at Bancolombia

The scalability has been good. If a company needs to expand it, it can do so.

We have an average of 1,000 people using the platform normally. On top of that, there are 10 developers that are also on it at any given time. 

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CS
Sr Technical Specialist at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

This is a scalable solution but scalability would come at a higher price. This solution supports our organization of 50,000 people.

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JS
IT Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

This solution is scalable. 

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AA
Vice President at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Right now, we are using the design time thoroughly, but we are in the nascent stage for the runtime. So we just have a couple of systems using it, but going forward, we have plans for extensive adoption of the runtime capabilities.

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CHEW YONG - PeerSpot reviewer
Principle Solution Architect at Beans Group Sdn Bhd

It is a scalable product. I rate the scalability an eight out of ten.

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Harimohan Pathak - PeerSpot reviewer
Integration Specialist - Solution Architect at LTIMindtree

It is designed to handle large-scale API operations, so it ensures high scalability. I would rate it nine out of ten. 

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RU
API Engineer/IBM Datapower Specialist at Tenece Professional services

The solution is highly scalable, you can scale up and down. It has good performance, and you are able to customize the APIs to what you want.

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Alexis Aguiluz - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technological Architect at Banco de Chile

The solution offers horizontal scalability. The power of the product is the high performance in security tasks done with dedicated hardware.

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it_user632778 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solution Engineer at Tjx companies

Right now, it's not heavily used. So, we intend to use it in the next year.

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AR
Lead Architect at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

This solution is scalable.

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KT
AIT Solution Manager at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

This is a robust system that is easily scalable. When it comes to the amount of users, it all depends on how you tackle the implementation, because in the first case, we basically had people that's running the infrastructure, setting the infrastructure up, and there you need a number of roles to set up the ecosystem itself. Then you must have the API providers. That could be including some business people as well as some testing people. And then obviously the running of it is basically minimal. With the new approach, we have very few people that can actually do the job. You have to, on a case-by-case, request time from people to do some work for you. There's no dedicated staff. The whole business approach and the whole implementation approach varies from organization to organization.

We plan to increase usage because if you want to make a business digital, that is one of the routes to go. Obviously, if you want to get mobility included in your portfolio of services, you have to go that route.

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it_user634914 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at Aetna

The scalability is good, it's at par.

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OG
Consultant at Bancolombia

We have seven users using IBM API Connect and plan to increase the usage.

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Yaser S. - PeerSpot reviewer
Projects Delivery Director at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

Scalability is reasonable but not great. 

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it_user634854 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief IT Engineer at Kaiser

I think the scalability is pretty good. The API Connect divides by different zones, different domains. So how we can scale depends on organizations. If it is big, we make it big and if it is small, we make it small. It's pretty easy to use.

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KS
BSS Architect at Saudi Business Machines - SBM

API Connect is easy to scale, I would rate it nine out of ten.

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WK
ICT Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Although we had our problems, I would say it is very scalable. 

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it_user632772 - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect Advisor at a wellness & fitness company with 10,001+ employees

The scalability we have not tested yet; we are testing it now as we speak.

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VV
Consulting architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

API Connect is scalable, but I've found that everything is more stable if you reset the server every 40 or 45 days. Once, we had an incident in which we were unsure about what happened, but it crashed after 60 days. We didn't know the reason. It could've been a mistake in the product implementation. We don't know what happened, but this particular incident occurred two times. After that, we began restarting it every 45 days. So that's the resilience part, but the scalability part works without a problem.
Another thing is that we don't know all of the use cases that we have worked on before, so we didn't go for automatic scaling of the API gateway. That's done in the backend services. So I'll be honest to say that we haven't explored the auto-scalability of API Connect much. Instead, we put that on full throttle. This can cause a bottleneck if we play around with it, so we didn't take many risks. We put that on full throttle and did the tweaking in the backend services. That's how we did it in the past.

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DB
CTO & Application Infrastructure Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Our work is very basic. We have not dealt with scaling.

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PK
IT Integration Consultant at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

The scalability is pretty good.

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it_user632790 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager with 1,001-5,000 employees

Scalability is good.

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HG
Associate Director, Cloud Architect at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The customer has many, many users on the solution currently. I can't speak to exact numbers. I know there are a lot.

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Clement Hsieh - PeerSpot reviewer
Doctoral Researcher at National Chengchi University

There are also no issues with the scalability.

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it_user632808 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Developer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

Right now, in terms of scalability, everything we have is on-premise. However, we have this Bluemix capability, with which we can scale as and when we need.

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RB
Senior IT Operations Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution is not scalable.

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it_user579336 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Information System Engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

For IBM API managment , some times config replication in Management cluster might take as long as 2 minutes so change in one API manager might not be reflected quickly in another API manager. Also API management GUI need to refreshed in browser to see latest state.

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it_user634884 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Integration Consultant at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

IBM DataPower is at the core and we can easily add stuff as we need or as our licensing allows. So I think that it's pretty scalable.

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VK
Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It is scalable.

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it_user229782 - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect at Ness Technologies

No issue with scalability as the run timefor API Management is proven and time tested i.e. Datapower which all fortune 1000 companies use.

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Viktor Dolyna - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer at Integrity

It is scalable. We have around 1,000 users. We have a technical team of 10 to 20 people. They include managers and developers.

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NM
Technology Consultant at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The scalability of this product is good. 

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Essam Younis - PeerSpot reviewer
SOA & BP Technical Manager at EJADA

IBM API Connect is scalable.

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OA
Engineering Technology Services Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have knowledge of how to add additional APIs to it. With that, if I were to measure on a scale of one to five, I'll put that at four out of five in terms of scalability. Four meaning it's pretty easy. Once you have the knowledge it's pretty easy to add new APIs to your catalog, create a new catalog, etc. As to if the infrastructure itself is it scalable, I'd put at a two because I remember while we were trying to set up a redundancy we wanted to add an additional protecting node and it took us a day or two to get our head around that.

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it_user419523 - PeerSpot reviewer
Integration Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

No scalability issues were found.

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it_user217194 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Development/Integration with 1,001-5,000 employees

No issues encountered.

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AO
CEO at Lopworks Limited

It's redundant so scalability is not much of an issue.

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ZA
Core Banking Business Analyst Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's a scalable solution.

The number of users is not relevant. It is based on the number of transactions, not users.

We plan to continue using this product in the future.

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GV
Director of Development and Innovation - CTO at Cofares

IBM API Connect is very scalable. Our integrations are typically with enterprise-level organizations or SaaS providers.

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SM
Integration Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

This solution is scalable. We have a team of 10 developers using this platform to develop and deliver the APIs. We have about 15 different types of users. We are API-led in the architecture that we have right now and every day, we are exposing APIs for new, different types of users, so it's gradually increasing. 

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AA
Middleware Solution Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We have not tried to scale it. If we go beyond two million transactions a week, we may find more reasons to start exploring scalability.

Right now, we have three clients. The intention is to be able to go to the big investment managers and insurance managers in our sector in South Africa to be able to onboard them. If we have our way, we should have 30 clients, not three.

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ST
Open API Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The solution is very scalable because it's on the cloud, adding more resources to improve redundancy or performance is simple and configurable.

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it_user211761 - PeerSpot reviewer
SOA and Security Consultant at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

No issues with scalability.

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IA
Assistant Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The scalability is good.

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it_user634806 - PeerSpot reviewer
VP of IT Strategy at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Buyer's Guide
IBM API Connect
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about IBM API Connect. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.