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Contents
Vendor Directory 4

Top Vendors 5-6

Top Solutions by Ranking Factor 7

Focus on Solutions

CA API Management 8 - 10

Apigee 11 - 13

SEEBURGER BIS 14 - 16

Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager 17 - 19

IBM API Connect 20 - 22

Microsoft Azure API Management 23

Amazon API Gateway 24 - 25

Apiary 26 - 28

Oracle API Platform Cloud Service 29 - 31

3scale API Management 32 - 33

Answers From the Community 34

About This Report and IT Central Station 35

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Vendor Directory
Amazon Amazon API Gateway Oracle Oracle Communications Services
Gatekeeper
Axway Axway API Management Plus
PokitDok PokitDok
CA Technologies CA API Management
Red Hat 3scale API Management
Cloud Elements Cloud Elements
Rogue Wave Akana API Management
Google Apigee
Seeburger SEEBURGER BIS
IBM IBM API Connect
Sikka Software Sikka Software
Kong Kong Enterprise
SmartBear SwaggerHub
Microshare.io Microshare.io
Software AG webMethods API Management
Microsoft Microsoft Azure API Management
Software AG CentraSite
MuleSoft Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager
Talena Talena
OpenLegacy OpenLegacy
TIBCO TIBCO Mashery API Management
Oracle Oracle API Management
Torry Harris Business DigitMarket
Oracle Apiary Solutions

Oracle Oracle API Platform Cloud Service Tyk Tyk

WSO2 WSO2 API Manager

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Top API Management Solutions

Over 358,202 professionals have used IT Central Station research. Here are the top API Management vendors based on product reviews,
ratings, and comparisons. All reviews and ratings are from real users, validated by our triple authentication process.

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Views Comparisons Reviews Words/Review Average Rating

Number of views Number of times compared Total number of reviews on Average words per review Average rating based on
to another product IT Central Station on IT Central Station reviews

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The total ranking of a product, represented by the bar length, is based on a weighted aggregate score. The score is calculated as follows:
The product with the highest count in each area gets the highest available score. (18 points for Reviews, Words/Review, Views and
Comparisons.) Every other product gets assigned points based on its total in proportion to the #1 product in that area.
For example, if a product has 80% of the number of reviews compared to the product with the most reviews then the product's points for reviews
would be 18 (weighting factor) * 80% = 14.4. For Average Rating, the maximum score is 28 points awarded linearly between 6-10 (e.g. 6 or
below=0 points; 7.5=10.5 points; 9.0=21 points; 10=28 points).
If a product has fewer than ten reviews, the point contribution for Average Rating and Words/Review is reduced: 1/3 reduction in points for
products with 5-9 reviews, two-thirds reduction for products with fewer than five reviews.
Reviews that are more than 24 months old, as well as those written by resellers, are completely excluded from the ranking algorithm.

1 CA API Management

36,386 views 8,075 comparisons 42 reviews 589 Words/Review 8.3 average rating

2 Apigee

40,943 views 22,332 comparisons 10 reviews 168 Words/Review 8.6 average rating

3 SEEBURGER BIS

4,478 views 1,451 comparisons 13 reviews 1,319 Words/Review 8.3 average rating

4 Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager

26,010 views 13,254 comparisons 2 reviews 1,873 Words/Review 9.0 average rating

5 IBM API Connect

22,806 views 10,784 comparisons 8 reviews 407 Words/Review 8.1 average rating

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6 Microsoft Azure API Management

20,919 views 12,166 comparisons 0 reviews 0 Words/Review

7 Amazon API Gateway

8,621 views 7,849 comparisons 2 reviews 338 Words/Review 6.5 average rating

8 Apiary

3,729 views 2,025 comparisons 4 reviews 435 Words/Review 8.3 average rating

9 Oracle API Platform Cloud Service

1,099 views 706 comparisons 3 reviews 633 Words/Review 9.0 average rating

10 3scale API Management

4,906 views 2,589 comparisons 2 reviews 450 Words/Review 8.0 average rating

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Top Solutions by Ranking Factor

Views

SOLUTION VIEWS

1 Apigee 40,943

2 CA API Management 36,386

3 Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager 26,010

4 IBM API Connect 22,806

5 Microsoft Azure API Management 20,919

Reviews

SOLUTION REVIEWS

1 CA API Management 42

2 SEEBURGER BIS 13

3 Apigee 10

4 IBM API Connect 8

5 Apiary 4

Words / Review

SOLUTION WORDS /
REVIEW

1 Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager 1,873

2 SEEBURGER BIS 1,319

3 Kong Enterprise 844

4 Oracle API Platform Cloud Service 633

5 CA API Management 589

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CA API Management See 42 reviews >>

Overview
To compete successfully and thrive today, enterprises across every industry need to transform. This process is not just about
incremental improvement, but about evolving core businesses to meet the demands of today’s connected world.

CA API Management accelerates this digital transformation by providing the capabilities you need to bring systems together,
secure these integrations, deliver better customer experiences faster and capitalize on new opportunities.

Read more at http://www.ca.com/api

SAMPLE CUSTOMERS
Alaska Airlines, The Advisory Board Company, Amerigroup, IceMobile, R+V Versicherung, U.S. Army - plus hundreds of other customers
in the banking, energy, finance, healthcare, government, manufacturing, transportation and retail sectors.

TOP COMPARISONS
Apigee vs. CA API Management … Compared 28% of the time [See comparison]
IBM API Connect vs. CA API Management … Compared 19% of the time [See comparison]
Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager vs. CA API Management … Compared 15% of the time [See comparison]

REVIEWERS * VISITORS READING REVIEWS *

TOP INDUSTRIES TOP INDUSTRIES

Retailer … 32% Financial Services Firm … 29%
Financial Services Firm … 25% Insurance Company … 9%
Comms Service Provider … 15% Logistics Company … 9%
Healthcare Company … 8% Comms Service Provider … 7%

COMPANY SIZE COMPANY SIZE

1-200 Employees … 10% 1-200 Employees … 11%
201-1000 Employees … 5% 201-1000 Employees … 12%
1001+ Employees … 85% 1001+ Employees … 78%

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Top Reviews by Topic

VALUABLE FEATURES See more Valuable Features >>

The most valuable feature is that it enables me to present data in the format that the client wants to consume it. That client might be
a visualization tool, that client might be a report, that client might be a customer's API requirements. The challenge is, how do you
get the data structured in the way they want it, as opposed to how do you get them to change. My job isn't to make them change,
Sam my job is to give them what they want. Honestly, when you give people what they want, it's easy. When you try to get people to
Bachman
change what they're doing, it'... [Full Review]

I think the flexibility. It's very configurable. Each policy is very customizable, where we can accommodate different capabilities that
our trading partners actually have. Even though from a textbook standpoint, there's always a certain ideal pattern that you want to
apply, that's rarely the case with our trading partners. That flexibility is very important. And the main point of the Gateway is the
Solution12ef security aspect of it. It's very good from that standpoint. It has met all of our expectations. We're very happy with that. [Full Review]

It takes an existing service, like JSON or SOAP, and converts it for use on the application (e.g., REST services). From a security point
of view, there are different types of attacks: cross-origin resource sharing, SQL injection, shell scripting, and code injection. These
type of attacks can be eliminated with the help of this tool because they are built-in with rules. If I drag and drop one rule called
Venkatesh cross-origin resource sharing to the website I want to allow it on, only that website can contact CA API Management regarding this
Vanigalla
assertion. For an... [Full Review]

From the security point of view it provides lot of features, as well as performance. I think it's 4000 transactions per seconds, per
node, is what the performance is. So those two are major features that we have been looking for. It does both in a great way. [Full
Review]
Integrat4b2
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IMPROVEMENTS TO MY ORGANIZATION See more Improvements To My Organization >>

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. Faster
is better. It really allows us to do things that we just weren't doing before, things that we always talked about doing. Some things
Sam that we talked about doing for decades. One of the things that we talked about doing for decades was the ability to bring data
Bachman
together from different... [Full Review]

It gave us new capabilities that we really didn't have before. We didn't have a good way of exposing APIs to the internet in a
reliable, secure way. It gave us that ability. It also gives us a focal point where it's allowing us to consolidate our portfolio. Where
before - Cargill is a very large company - from one business unit to the next, they didn't necessarily know what we actually have.
Solution12ef This product enables us to consolidate that, so there's one place to look. [Full Review]

APIs can be developed to provide security. We can show them in one single pane of glass, such as the CA API Management API
Developer Portal. It is there that we can provide the monetization for their APIs and what is happening on third-party applications,
like Paytm or BookMyShow. Customers go to the portal and register there. It is there that they chose their APIs from a list. Based on
Venkatesh the registration of the APIs, the customer will be charged. Our customers will purchase these APIs and give to their application
Vanigalla
users. The functionality provided by... [Full Review]

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ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT See more Room For Improvement >>

The latest version that just came out at the first of October really was a powerful move in the right direction. I was very, very pleased
with that because it allows now beginning to use information of things. We've got this IOT infrastructure that we can plug into, and
for my use cases there are a lot of outdoor sensors that provide valuable information to my customers. As we've brought on MQQT,
Sam and other ways of talking to those sensors, that just makes my life easier. I'd to continue to see them expand the scope of the
Bachman
product. But I can say that... [Full Review]

The tool itself, I think, could be better. Along with the flexibility it does have, I wish it had a little more modern user interface. For
troubleshooting, debugging, that kind of thing, it could definitely be better. I would like to see improvements in the user interface,
for sure for Policy Manager. That's the developer's tool. Debugging seems a little bit archaic by modern standards. I would like to
Solution12ef see that improved. I would like to see better documentation for the development language itself. I think they took a step backwards,
actually, when t... [Full Review]

Based on the method an API, we need to be able to access that particular API. They need a workflow for the API Developer Portal,
where the process only allows requests to go to the correct person. The CA Mobile API Gateway (MAG) for mobiles has too much
latency. [Full Review]
Venkatesh
Vanigalla

Microservices gateway is one thing in which we thought would be really good. It has come up, we just have to see how it's going to
play out. Obviously, it's not going to replace the classic gateway, although we want to see that something in the microservices
gateway that can actually replace classic gateway. That would be really nice. Right now, I don't think it's completely replaceable. It's
Integrat4b2 just a part of it, but eventually they're saying that it will replace. So one day, where we can have a microservices gateway and we
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will not need the classic g... [Full Review]

PRICING, SETUP COST AND LICENSING See more Pricing, Setup Cost And Licensing >>

I think it's competitive. It's not that expensive when you compare CA with the Oracle product. I also haven't seen the latest pricing
for the virtual gateways, but what I have seen seems to be reasonably priced. [Full Review]

Sekar
Purushotha
man

It's my manager who takes care of the pricing. But I keep on hearing that it's a little pricey, it's on the higher side. That is what he
says. We have around 20 licenses so for that, the pretty is pretty high. That's what he says. [Full Review]

Pradeep
Bharadwaj

There has a been a lot of confusion with pricing and licenses, especially around the number of cores. In addition, don't
underestimate the effort required to build a HA/FT/DR instance of this for both the Gateway and the Developer Portal. Be aware of
additional licenses for your warm standby. Ensure you get plenty of non-production licenses. [Full Review]
Ian Frawley

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Apigee See 11 reviews >>

Overview
Apigee Edge, the self-service API management platform, enables companies to secure, scale, manage, and analyze their digital
business, and grow API programs to meet the increase in demand. Edge enables enterprises to design and build the APIs that
securely share their services and data.

Key capabilities of the Apigee Edge API management platform include:

Security: protect APIs, messages, and backends with configurable policies such as OAuth, API key verification, XML/JSON threat
protection, access control.API gateway: secure and mediate the traffic between clients and backends, and between a company’s
APIs and the developers, customers, partners, and employees who use the APIs.Developer portal: attract and engage application
developers, e... [Read More]

SAMPLE CUSTOMERS
Adobe, advance.net, Amadeus, AT&T, Bechtel, Belly, Burberry, Chegg, Citrix, Dell, eBay, Equifax, GameStop, First Data, Globe, HCSC,
Intralinks, Kao, Meredith, Mitchell, Orange, Pearson

TOP COMPARISONS
Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager vs. Apigee … Compared 23% of the time [See comparison]
IBM API Connect vs. Apigee … Compared 18% of the time [See comparison]
Microsoft Azure API Management vs. Apigee … Compared 17% of the time [See comparison]

REVIEWERS * VISITORS READING REVIEWS *

TOP INDUSTRIES COMPANY SIZE

Financial Services Firm … 35% 1-200 Employees … 25%
Retailer … 15% 1001+ Employees … 75%
Healthcare Company … 13%
Marketing Services Firm … 7%

COMPANY SIZE
1-200 Employees … 14%
201-1000 Employees … 11%
1001+ Employees … 75%

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Top Reviews by Topic

VALUABLE FEATURES See more Valuable Features >>

The ease of creating policies has been the most useful of the solution's features. It's a quick ramp-up time. It's easy for our support
staff to implement the policies in the API management layer. [Full Review]

Srarchman5
6

I have worked on Apigee Edge and Apigee Dev Portal. Specifically, in Apigee Edge, the elements like products, developer,
developer apps, and API proxies are interlinked with each other. Another special feature is configuring target servers, proxy config,
and Cert related security, which regularizes incoming traffic from cloud users or external applications to internal applications in a
Yukesh secured manner. [Full Review]
Kumar

There are many features, which I have felt are very useful and easy to implement at flows. Below are some of the points that I would
like to highlight: * I like Service Callout, JSON/XML Threat Protection, and JavaScript callout policy. I find them very useful. * I found
Apigee Analytics dashboard very useful for monitoring. * Private cloud architecture * Management APIs are very useful, because we
Trishit Nag can execute them from our server only. [Full Review]

API/proxy lifecycle workflow for API providers is quite good and one of Apigee's strongest features. Also, like the completeness of
the CLI and admin REST services, the Edge engine provides powerful, integrated analytics, which are noteworthy. [Full Review]

Frank Lino

IMPROVEMENTS TO MY ORGANIZATION See more Improvements To My Organization >>

The solution has improved our company's time to market. When we deploy a policy for a particular API, the creation of the policy
and the gateway is significantly faster than what we were doing with our Layer 7 gateways. It's easier to develop the policy and to
walk through the policy using the Apigee interface. [Full Review]
Srarchman5
6

I develop proxy services for other vendors. Apigee is very fast in transferring requests and responses between Northbound systems
to Southbound systems. It has a very efficient logging system which is easy to maintain. Apigee Analytics dashboard is useful to
monitor transactions, error percentage, transaction latency, etc. [Full Review]
Trishit Nag

* Allowed us to convert from SOAP to RESTful patterns * Improved security/throughput/management * Throttling is also useful as
well as management console tools to track performance. [Full Review]

Steven
Longheinric
h

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ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT See more Room For Improvement >>

The company needs to better support webhooks. It used to support webhooks and their policies and they have since stopped.
They had some issues in the product and they abandoned the support for them. It's not come back since. Webhooks are still used
by some of our production partners. It would be nice to see the support for them come back. Right now, we have to pull the API
Srarchman5 instead of using a webhook to do the notification. [Full Review]
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Areas like traffic handling of incoming requests, security features between third-parties and Apigee, and between Apigee and
internal network servers, resources, or JSON areas, etc. [Full Review]

Yukesh
Kumar

Initial setup was not trivial for customer-managed topology. Proxy versioning seems a bit confusing/buried in the publishing
experience, especially for the URI-based versioning approach. [Full Review]

Frank Lino

I would like to see a long-term direction for the overall architecture (similar to what WSO2 has done), in that all three areas —
pub/sub, events, and APIs — are treated as part of a continuum, instead of treating each as separate topics. [Full Review]

Steven
Longheinric
h

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SEEBURGER BIS See 13 reviews >>

Overview
The SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite (BIS) is a central platform for all integration activities. It enables you to respond easily,
rapidly and innovatively to your digital transformation challenges:

B2B integration: Network and integrate your company with any or all of your business partners.API integration
and API management: Establish a framework for networking all of your systems across companies in real-time.Managed File
Transfer (MFT) integration: Use secure and simple mechanisms for standardized intra- and cross-company data exchange
processes and data integration.

SAMPLE CUSTOMERS
Altis, Autoliv, Cebi, Cofresco

TOP COMPARISONS
IBM B2B Integrator vs. SEEBURGER BIS … Compared 32% of the time [See comparison]
Mule ESB vs. SEEBURGER BIS … Compared 19% of the time [See comparison]
IBM Sterling B2B Integration Services vs. SEEBURGER BIS … Compared 9% of the time [See comparison]

VISITORS READING REVIEWS *

TOP INDUSTRIES
Transportation Company … 31%
Retailer … 15%
Pharma/Biotech Company … 15%
Manufacturing Company … 15%

COMPANY SIZE
1-200 Employees … 5%
201-1000 Employees … 11%
1001+ Employees … 84%

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VALUABLE FEATURES See more Valuable Features >>

The one thing about SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite (BIS) that we really liked is that it's what I would call "platform
independent." Most of our systems back in 2012 were on an AS/400 or iSeries and there were some limitations with that. We really
wanted to find a product that could communicate with all platforms. In addition to that, we really like the AS2 communication
Evan Meyer adapters, which allow us to not use a VAN and for data to be pushed between trading partners. That's a big feature we really like.
Then, in our landscape, we have a lot of AS/... [Full Review]

Number one, the ease of integration of the SEEBURGER product into SAP was pretty seamless. There wasn't any trouble, there
weren't any complexities. SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite (BIS) also allowed us to connect EDI vendors at will. We use SRM
here as well and it's required at our university that we use EDI for all of those, for that PunchOut functionality, so that we have full-
Maman8932 blown automation with it, in and out; for the purchase order going out the door and getting the invoice in, etc. What it has really
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brought to us is the ease of connec... [Full Review]

Among the most valuable features are the EDI translator and a lot of the components which enable creating compliance sets.
Having something standard, out-of-the-box, and being able to use that has been a huge benefit for us. We came from a system, in
the past, where we were having to manually create all that on our own, and it was very time-consuming and costly. Being able to do
Michael that out-of-the-box has been great. Another aspect that we employed in the last year-and-a-half has been their CMA platform
Osiecki
component, which hooks to the SEEBURGER Business ... [Full Review]

It's a very robust solution and it's very configurable. Before this product we would use an ESB-type of solution which required us to
write code and go through a process. We can configure the SEEBURGER solution much more easily, instead of writing code. It does
its job very well, to the extent that we do not see failures in the system. It can handle large files very well, which is one of our bigger
Enterpri7cde concerns. We transfer some bank files up to ten gigs in size and it handles them really well. Larger loads can be handled either by
Active-Active or Acti... [Full Review]

IMPROVEMENTS TO MY ORGANIZATION See more Improvements To My Organization >>

We have different application development groups within IT. My area is primarily EDI and integrations, but in some of the other
areas, like HR or payroll or shipping, there's a great need to transfer files and data with their trading partners. Those partners could
be a bank or an HR company or a payroll company. The folks in our other application areas don't really have any experience with
Evan Meyer communications and integrations. Where I'm able to improve our organization is that all I need to do is have them tell me, "Hey, I
need to get a file or send a fi... [Full Review]

Coming into the SAP implementation here, coming over from our legacy EDI product, at that time we had 12 EDI vendors. It took us
12 years to get those 12 vendors, due to the limitations of our legacy product. Now, there are many hundreds because of
SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite (BIS). We easily have 300 vendors now. Before, we were completely limited by the ability of
Maman8932 our legacy system. Our ability to react has gone up 1,000 percent. What improved was the ability to bring on who we wanted when
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we wanted to at the pace we wanted to. Before, if... [Full Review]

The benefit of using SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite (BIS), one that we like to tout right now, is the interaction of the
solution's front end with the CMA module that we purchased from them. We're able to create surveys around testing processes and
the automation of the actual testing. Using that survey, it will link to the SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite (BIS) front end so
Michael that partners can actually do testing on their own. They get feedback and data testing, based upon our actual requirements around
Osiecki
EDI documents. It works 24/7. The rea... [Full Review]

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ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT See more Room For Improvement >>

The BIS Front End needs a little bit of refreshing, especially when it comes to setting up new trading partners and trading partner
agreements or transactions. It can be a bit clumsy to copy and rename and then go in and modify. That could be improved a little
bit. Also, on the server side, there are a lot of administration and configuration files that you need to go in and do maintenance on.
Evan Meyer You have to find them in a certain folder so it's very error-prone and it can be a little time consuming unless it's documented. They
could pull some of those ... [Full Review]

They made improvements to the email error alerts that go out, for the EDI technical. Those typically go straight out to the partners.
Those messages are significantly clearer and easy to read. The same messages in the front end are not nearly as clear. It's
supposed to be the same error, but the message that goes out for EDI is really easy for anybody to read and understand, but you
Michael have to be really solution-savvy to understand the message in the system itself. That is the component that we definitely have the
Osiecki
biggest issue with. Unless we want to ... [Full Review]

One thing that comes to mind is the service-oriented architecture. I have seen, in some of the other middleware tools, that you can
create one service and then reuse it, without creating a copy. As I mentioned earlier, we create a copy of an existing map. In some
of the other tools out there in the market, you can create one service and use that service without creating a copy. That kind of
VpDigita470 capability currently doesn't exist in this solution. Also, these days, a lot of these companies are providing their solutions on the
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cloud. I think SEEBURGER has... [Full Review]

There's always room for improvement. One of them is that the product is not integrated very well with different cloud providers. We
did work with the vendor to build a solution for Amazon, but there is no solution for other cloud providers like Google or Azure. The
vendor needs to create adapters so that if we have a requirement to transfer data from our data center to another cloud, outside of
Enterpri7cde Amazon, we would be able to do that. Another issue is that support for the vendor's operating system is not available. There used
to be support for the older... [Full Review]

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All the new adapters are individually priced, which is good. You don't buy the whole system and then, if you don't use it it just sits
there. You only buy the stuff you want, which is good. There are some components that are either new or that we didn't need at the
time of implementation, so we added them later, or we have plans to add them in the future. Sometimes it seems a little pricey,
Evan Meyer especially when some of the stuff is available through freeware, like SFTP communications. You can download a free copy of
something and perform those type of fu... [Full Review]

The pricing is cheap. In fact, when I saw the pricing, I thought, "Really? What's the catch?" But the functionality that we get out of it,
for the price we pay, is great value. [Full Review]

Maman8932
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Pricing, compared to the tool that we had earlier, is cheaper. The way they have their licensing structure set up, they have a lot of
different modules. For us, we did not really know if we were licensed for certain things or not. We had to reach out to them multiple
times to tell them that we were looking for this or that capability. We had to buy licenses for different things at different points in
VpDigita470 time, not knowing that we could have it bundled initially. [Full Review]
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Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager See 2 reviews >>

Overview
API Manager is a component of Anypoint Platform for designing, building, managing, and publishing APIs. Anypoint Platform uses
Mule as its core runtime engine. You can use API Manager on a public cloud, such as CloudHub, a private cloud, or a hybrid. A
hybrid deployment is an API deployed on a private server but having metadata processed in the public cloud.

SAMPLE CUSTOMERS
Coca-Cola, Splunk, Citrix, UCSF, Vertu, State of Colorado, National Post, TiVo, Deakin, LLS, Oldcastle Precast, ParcelPoint, Justice
Systems, Ube, Sumitomo Corporation, PacificComp, University of Witwatersrand, Groupe Initiatives, Camelot, Panviva

TOP COMPARISONS
Apigee vs. Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager … Compared 37% of the time [See comparison]
Microsoft Azure API Management vs. Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager … Compared 16% of the time [See comparison]
CA API Management vs. Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager … Compared 10% of the time [See comparison]

REVIEWERS *

TOP INDUSTRIES
Financial Services Firm … 37%
Marketing Services Firm … 13%
Retailer … 10%
Insurance Company … 9%

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The ESB, the enterprise service bus is what we primarily use. In addition to that, the API management. These are the two tools
which we have been using extensively. The enterprise platform. [Full Review]

Maheedhar
Aluri

* Ability to create and test API "microservices" using RAML * Develop policies that can be applied and re-used across API's and
trading partners * Strong security and integration to identity providers to protect public facing APIs * Intuitive development tools
based on fundamental computer science concepts, drag/drop * Simple cloud and hybrid cloud deployment models. Good security
Jordan by putting each application onto a separate VM in the cloud. * Large set of connectors * Innovative concept with "Connector
Braunstein
Marketplace" which is similar to Salesforce. * ... [Full Review]

IMPROVEMENTS TO MY ORGANIZATION See more Improvements To My Organization >>

We're going to have a task with another bank who will be lending us the loan or they will be giving us some money for us so that we
can lend this to double customers and expand into different industries. We're doing the business directly with those banks who
we're really trying to work with, and doing joint collaboration so that we can lend loans to the customers, the retail customers. In this
Maheedhar context, we have to collaborate with those banks in a sophisticated way. Few banks are very, very advanced in the necessary
Aluri
technology. We propose of them usa... [Full Review]

It's provided a complete and architecturally sound solution for building publicly facing API's that can be consumed and invoked by
client-side devices, such as mobile. Calling APIs from JavaScript sounds easy, but it must be secure and performance driven.
Mulesoft allows for that. Integrating cloud to cloud or SaaS to on premise has its considerations, and Mulesoft improves the
Jordan development, design, and implementation of integrating federated systems and datastores across clouds, networks, and domains.
Braunstein
[Full Review]

ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT See more Room For Improvement >>

I don't think that it's a negative, but one of the biggest things is this: when they were merging with Salesforce they never said
anything about that, they did not give any positive or negative news. They were just silent about that. I think there's something
clandestine has been happening over there. I'd like to know what is the future roadmap of Mulesoft is after it got merged with
Maheedhar Salesforce. Nobody is giving proper information because I called a couple of Mulesofters and they're not giving information. I don't
Aluri
know whether they're naïve, or they... [Full Review]

* Mulesoft doesn't provide a complete stack. For example, it doesn't have BPM/Workflow, BAM, or Identity Management products. *
The User Interfaces on the Mulesoft tools aren't as nice as some of it's competitors. * Improved business level analytics is currently
on the roadmap. * We created a framework for transaction management since one is not provided out of the box. [Full Review]
Jordan
Braunstein

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I'm unsure about licensing costs because I'm not the person who handles this. But, ballpark, it's probably somewhere around
$300,000-$400,000 or something like that. [Full Review]

Maheedhar
Aluri

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IBM API Connect See 8 reviews >>

Overview
The IBM API Management family of products gives you software tools to create, manage and share application programming
interfaces (APIs) in a secure, scalable environment. Available in both on-premises and cloud solutions, its detailed analytics and
operational metrics allow you to monitor API usage to ensure that the developers' needs Ð and applications using the API Ð are
being met.

SAMPLE CUSTOMERS
M2M Technologies Inc.

TOP COMPARISONS
Apigee vs. IBM API Connect … Compared 37% of the time [See comparison]
CA API Management vs. IBM API Connect … Compared 16% of the time [See comparison]
Microsoft Azure API Management vs. IBM API Connect … Compared 14% of the time [See comparison]

REVIEWERS * VISITORS READING REVIEWS *

TOP INDUSTRIES TOP INDUSTRIES

Financial Services Firm … 40% Financial Services Firm … 33%
Retailer … 15% Retailer … 27%
Manufacturing Company … 12% Health, Wellness And Fitness Company … 13%
Marketing Services Firm … 9% Healthcare Company … 13%

COMPANY SIZE COMPANY SIZE

1-200 Employees … 18% 1-200 Employees … 17%
201-1000 Employees … 2% 201-1000 Employees … 10%
1001+ Employees … 79% 1001+ Employees … 72%

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VALUABLE FEATURES See more Valuable Features >>

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,
AITsolution5 test it, and publish it. [Full Review]
6

This product is well integrated with other products. Its ability to interact with IBM Secure Gateway and other products is the core
feature. Also, the lead time to put it into production is relatively short and that is something customers are pleased with. [Full
Review]
Vijay Kattula

IMPROVEMENTS TO MY ORGANIZATION See more Improvements To My Organization >>

This solution enabled our business to get our solutions quite fast. Instead of waiting for weeks, or even months in some cases, it
actually helped the movement from a bimodal to a faster depth of solution in a matter of the rate at which the organization could
change. It was not a technological hindrance, it was more a change management aspect of the people that kept the movement
AITsolution5 back. But, we proved that the technology can keep up, it's the people that have to change faster. The fact that the product can
6
provide both security and scale to quite a l... [Full Review]

Any new company starting with APIs, this product is very helpful for learning how they can export their business functions and data
to the outside world. It's easier for them to expose their business functions for various use cases. [Full Review]

Vijay Kattula

ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT See more Room For Improvement >>

It is still a very new product. We're still finding our feet on the latest version of it because it gives you the capability to move into the
cloud. We have not yet taken that leap into cloud because of the uncertainty of what the moving parts are, and that's why we'll have
to wait and see. I would like to see more stability, however, and I do believe the newer version will offer that. [Full Review]
AITsolution5
6

Like any typical IBM infrastructure setup, you need to learn to set it up yourself. It's not one of those simple zip files or an archive
unzip and you're up and running in some few minutes. Knowledge to set it up is key. A more user-friendly portal could be helpful.
Something you won't really get lost in. For example, other APIs make it so easy to do a couple of things from the portal, not at the
Oladipupo- management portal itself. Maybe if IBM can improve on that, it would be most helpful. [Full Review]
Aina

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It still does not support open API 3. Another problem is the designer. I want the whole solution to be on the cloud. For the
installation, I have to install locally. There are many improvements it needs if I want to implement a MockServer or sandbox. In the
future, I hope it will be more intuitive for building a MockServer. In the next version, I don't know if they've already been included it
Shiri Traum or not, but the designer and all the tools should be on the cloud. I don't want any external installation or local installation. The old
designer should be les... [Full Review]

PRICING, SETUP COST AND LICENSING See more Pricing, Setup Cost And Licensing >>

The basic appraisal based on the two models is available on their website. The one is PVU-based and the other one is
consumption-based. But that is a ballpark figure. Obviously, when you engage with them in a contract, they can negotiate. [Full
Review]
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Microsoft Azure API Management

Overview
Microsoft Azure API Management ensures an organization's API program reaches its fullest potential. With API management,
organizations can publish web services as APIs reliably, securely and at scale. Use API Management to drive API consumption
among internal teams, partners, and developers while benefiting from business and operational insights available in the admin
portal.

SAMPLE CUSTOMERS
adnymics GmbH, LG CNS, Centrebet, netfabb GmbH, MedPlast, Accelera Solutions, Sochi Organizing Committee, realzeit GmbH,
Opensistemas

TOP COMPARISONS
Apigee vs. Microsoft Azure API Management … Compared 32% of the time [See comparison]
Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager vs. Microsoft Azure API Management … Compared 19% of the time [See comparison]
Amazon API Gateway vs. Microsoft Azure API Management … Compared 14% of the time [See comparison]

REVIEWERS *

TOP INDUSTRIES
Financial Services Firm … 21%
Retailer … 18%
Marketing Services Firm … 18%
Manufacturing Company … 13%

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Amazon API Gateway See 2 reviews >>

Overview
Amazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and
secure APIs at any scale. With a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, you can create an API that acts as a "front door" for
applications to access data, business logic, or functionality from your back-end services, such as workloads running on Amazon
Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), code running on AWS Lambda, or any Web application.

SAMPLE CUSTOMERS
Autodesk, Fox Digital Consumer Group, iFlix, UK Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA), Miovision, Olympusat, PhotoVogue, Royale
International Group, Veracode

TOP COMPARISONS
Microsoft Azure API Management vs. Amazon API Gateway … Compared 29% of the time [See comparison]
Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager vs. Amazon API Gateway … Compared 20% of the time [See comparison]
Apigee vs. Amazon API Gateway … Compared 14% of the time [See comparison]

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Top Reviews by Topic

ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT See more Room For Improvement >>

You can code anything and hook it on to it but it doesn't give you stuff out of the box like the other gateways give you. You can do
anything with it because you just attach a LAN to it and it will do anything, but that's to the custodian. You know you're not using the
power of the gateway. It's hard to configure. There's a lot of options but it's very hard, it's very confusing. In the future, I'd like to see
Archisoft677 Amazon develop a portal and monetization that is not only for the Amazon Marketplace. [Full Review]

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Apiary See 4 reviews >>

Overview
Apiary's pioneering APIFlow solution provides the framework and tools for developing application programming interfaces (APIs)
that share enterprise services and data and help create modern, cloud-based applications and experiences. APIFlow spans the
API creation lifecycle, including design, governance, testing, and documentation, while supporting API Blueprint and OpenAPI
industry standards‫ץ‬

SAMPLE CUSTOMERS
Microsoft, salesforce.com, Bloomberg, GoodData, Viacom, Akamai Technologies, DigitalGlobe

TOP COMPARISONS
SwaggerHub vs. Apiary … Compared 23% of the time [See comparison]
DreamFactory vs. Apiary … Compared 16% of the time [See comparison]
Apigee vs. Apiary … Compared 16% of the time [See comparison]

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VALUABLE FEATURES See more Valuable Features >>

I find the generation of mock services very useful, especially when demonstrating for new consumers. I also like how you can
document many viewpoints for the same resource and easily let users navigate through these in the rendered definition. Reuse of
objects within the editor, and how easy it is to add enumerations, are also valuable features. The ease of integration with GitHub,
marksimpso allowing multiple versions to run concurrently, is also an important feature. [Full Review]
n

With our business clients, the ability to configure rules to check for consistency has helped. Integration with GitHub has made
version management of specifications very easy. The mock endpoints have been a great enabler. The ability to work with both API
Blueprint and Swagger/OpenAPI notations has made it a lot easier to use a single tool to collaborate. We find API Blueprint helps
Phil Wilkins with less technical audiences, but more established API people use Swagger — so the same tool can be used. [Full Review]

The feature I find most valuable is that it offers authentication and allows us to develop communication points. I do like the overall
performance of the solution. [Full Review]

V Ramana

IMPROVEMENTS TO MY ORGANIZATION See more Improvements To My Organization >>

Apiary has allowed us to produce human-readable API definitions as well as provide a common place for developers to retrieve the
resource endpoints, JSON schemas, and documentation. The business-friendly definitions have allowed developers to work more
closely with business stakeholders to ensure they use the APIs in the correct way. [Full Review]
marksimpso
n

Apiary provides a free tier of the platform which allows a small group of developers to collaborate easily on the design of open
source APIs. In addition to this, it provides mock endpoints allowing people to experiment with the API without depending or having
to stand up a real backend. With our clients, using Apiary allows us to very quickly pull together an API definition (particularly when
Phil Wilkins using API Blueprint). The whole API design process for the simpler use cases can be done in a relatively short workshop which
makes it a lot easier to agree, ... [Full Review]

Quick and easy way to share a new API design with teams. While the implementation team is working on actual API code, others
that need to use it can use the API definition on the Apiary for their tests. [Full Review]

Michael
Sukachev

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ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT See more Room For Improvement >>

I would like an integrated option to download a Swagger version of the definition. Currently, you can download an API Blueprint file
that can be converted using other tools into OpenAPI or Swagger; however, built-in support would be ideal. We have also used
other utilities for rendering the API Blueprint, such as Agilo, for offline documentation. It would be nice if there were an option for
marksimpso offline documentation within the product. [Full Review]
n

* Validation messages could be a bit clearer. * Autocomplete, particularly around open API would be nice, or even the ability to pop
up the syntax spec. [Full Review]

Phil Wilkins

I would like to see an improvement in the access to portals. It should be more user-friendly. I also think the delivery patches should
be updated more often. [Full Review]

V Ramana

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It is easy to get started with personal (free) accounts, but a subscription is required for additional features. These include protecting
access to the documentation, linking to GitHub, and sharing editing rights amongst the team. We have a set number of users with
each API Platform subscription that we have with Oracle, and this meets our needs. [Full Review]
marksimpso
n

So Apiary has a free tier which gives you the fundamental basics. Team and enterprise give you more collaboration and quality
tooling, which is nice to have, but not essential. [Full Review]

Phil Wilkins

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Oracle API Platform Cloud Service See 3 reviews >>

Overview
Oracle API Platform Cloud Service enables companies to thrive in the digital economy by comprehensively managing the full API
lifecycle from design and standardization to documenting, publishing, testing and managing APIs. These tools provide API
developers, managers, and users an end-to-end platform for designing, prototyping. Through the platform, users gain the agility
needed to support changing business demands and opportunities, while having clear visibility into who is using APIs for better
control, security and monetization of digital assets.

SAMPLE CUSTOMERS

TOP COMPARISONS
Apigee vs. Oracle API Platform Cloud Service … Compared 30% of the time [See comparison]
Amazon API Gateway vs. Oracle API Platform Cloud Service … Compared 20% of the time [See comparison]
IBM API Connect vs. Oracle API Platform Cloud Service … Compared 13% of the time [See comparison]

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Top Reviews by Topic

VALUABLE FEATURES See more Valuable Features >>

The linkage to Apiary and the validation between the API documentation and the resource endpoints has ensured our
documentation and implementation stay aligned. There is an API Gateway for which all runtime traffic routes through to access the
API endpoints. The fact that this gateway can be deployed on-premise is an important feature for our financial services projects. The
marksimpso Call Home pattern that the gateway employs allows the security team to be comfortable with the link between the on-premise
n
runtime and the cloud definition of the policies. [Full Review]

Oracle's APIP CS is a platform capable for consistently covering the complete API Lifecycle from design to retirement, supporting an
API-first approach. The platform provides a strong and intuitive API Design platform, which allows the collaborative creation of new
API Designs in an efficient API-first manner. Furthermore, APIP CS provides a lightweight, flexible architecture and offers a hybrid
Sven deployment model, where the API Gateway components can be installed either to Oracle Cloud, third-party cloud providers
Bernhardt
(Amazon, Azure), or On-Premises. Thi... [Full Review]

Neutrality of where you can deploy a gateway. I have had gateways running in AWS and on-premises running the same API policies.
Deployment is pretty easy once you understand what the configuration properties do. The ease by which you can define policies to
manage is impressive. [Full Review]
Phil Wilkins

IMPROVEMENTS TO MY ORGANIZATION See more Improvements To My Organization >>

The API Platform has provided a consistent place to administer OAuth 2.0, Access Key, and other policies across groupings of APIs.
It has also allowed standardization in the definition and documentation of the APIs. Rather than APIs being documented in a Wiki
and shared through ungoverned Postman collections, we can have more fine-grained access and authorization rules as to who can
marksimpso use which APIs. All API usage is now governed and tracked. [Full Review]
n

With API-first, the platform provides a consistent and comprehensible philosophy. It definitely influences: * The way we think how
APIs should be developed. * What API Management means from a implementation perspective. * What API Management means
from an organizational perspective. [Full Review]
Sven
Bernhardt

Agility and ease of establishing new APIs and configuration. Deployment processes far simpler than other Oracle middleware tech
such as SOA for example [Full Review]

Phil Wilkins

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ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT See more Room For Improvement >>

The APIs to retrieve the list of APIs should be improved. The need to allow token-based authorization with grant types other than
the current password types, allowing us to integrate the API more easily into our public facing custom developer portal. Currently,
only tokens generated by the Oracle Cloud login screen can be used. There should be closer integration between the API Platform
marksimpso Cloud Service and the Identity Cloud Service to allow IDCS Applications, protecting backend systems, to be linked to the API
n
Applications that consumers use to acces... [Full Review]

The product continues to improve and becomes more feature rich. We know that there are tools to more closely integrate with
Configuration Management. Features to make more of Identity frameworks. [Full Review]

Phil Wilkins

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The pricing is for each logical gateway (a logical gateway can have multiple physical nodes). The cost is very competitive for the
average load that we expect. However, there is a minimum charge of one gateway, even if no gateway is active, so make good use
of the trial before subscribing to check that the product is suitable. [Full Review]
marksimpso
n

Thinking about the general Gateway architecture is essential, especially with respect to the potential number of API Calls. Typical
questions that should be answered in this context are: * Where should the Gateways be deployed? * Do we only need Gateways for
external access (DMZ) or do we also need internal Gateways (Green Zone)? * Which APIs need to be deployed to which Gateways?
Sven To guarantee high availability of your API Gateway components, corresponding solutions should be established (Implementation of
Bernhardt
Load Balancers). This is especially importa... [Full Review]

Oracle have switched to a new consumption based model - if you're an existing Oracle PaaS customer - migrate to that as it also
brings additional benefits. Look at the best practise for deployment - more than likely reduce your cost forecast [Full Review]

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3scale API Management See 2 reviews >>

Overview
3scale is an API management platform that delivers flexible, highly scalable solutions to package, distribute, control, and monetize
your APIs, giving you the power to make the most of your API program.

Share company data, content, or services through Web or mobile applications.Provide an API to external organizations, internal
teams, or both.Avoid the hassle and constant maintenance of building a solution from scratch.

3scale delivers centralized API management features through a distributed, cloud-hosted layer. The platform includes built-in
features to help you build a more successful API program, including access control, rate limits, payment gateway integration, and
developer experience tools.

SAMPLE CUSTOMERS
Victor Ops, Coca Cola, The Telegraph, Skava, Orange, Typeform

TOP COMPARISONS
Apigee vs. 3scale API Management … Compared 28% of the time [See comparison]
CA API Management vs. 3scale API Management … Compared 17% of the time [See comparison]
Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager vs. 3scale API Management … Compared 13% of the time [See comparison]

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VALUABLE FEATURES See more Valuable Features >>

One of the most valuable aspects of this solution for us is its ease of deployment. Also the fact that it's not adding a lot of features
like ESP or similar features is good. It's okay with just being a gateway. [Full Review]

Cofound567

ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT See more Room For Improvement >>

We haven't been working so long, so we are just starting to use it. I believe the CMS part of it has room for improvement though.
That is where you write a couple of things if you want to publish your API. It's based on liquid scripting, which doesn't seem like the
obvious ones to script with. I would also like to see it work with open API specification 3. [Full Review]
Cofound567

Setting up OIDC authentication would be another use case for this product. That would require at least three components : * Red
Hat 3scale API Management (manager plus gateway) * Red Hat Single Sign-On * Customer IdP. Thanks to Openshift Container
Platform integration program and features, an all in one product merge is going to be available shortly. [Full Review]
Sylvain
Déjardin

PRICING, SETUP COST AND LICENSING See more Pricing, Setup Cost And Licensing >>

Red Hat is a good compromise for now on service support, and it provides short release cycle of open source community (stable
features needs by developers). [Full Review]

Sylvain
Déjardin

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Answers from the Community

Which API Management tools have the best developer portal?

Which API Management tools have the best developer portal?I'm looking for one with swagger and OpenAPI and
modern content editor.

In my opinion and experience, I believe that the most complete and customizable Developer Portal are those of IBM (API Connect) and
Google (APIGEE), since both are based on CMS Drupal, with all the advantages that this entails.

Pablo
Rábago
Del Río

I found TIBCO Mashery had the best Developer portal. Mashery helped create the API Management category almost over 10 years ago
as a SaaS vendor focusing on enabling the developers. try api.bestbuy or api.macy's i think both are good developer portal examples
of mashery. OpenAPI/Swagger is just the start with Innovation around Flogo and Mashling facilatating evented APIs built on
AdamTaylo composable microservices.
r

Have a look at Ceptor API Developer portal (https://ceptor.io/api-management/developer-portal/) a relatively new product on the
market.

Patrick
Ahmed

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