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."The API Connect gateway service and the SQL injection feature is good."
"The solution is straightforward and for large organizations, it functions well."
"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."
"The product is stable...The product is scalable."
"The solution is very easy to work with."
"It is easy to use, easy to install, and it's resilient for high availability."
"The solution is scalable, our customers are mostly South African banks and they handle mostly transactions with this solution."
"It's high-speed and it can be remotely administered via an API."
"It is a stable product."
"Initial setup is straightforward. It is simple and easy to do."
"It is able to withstand the number of API calls and handle different API requirements to secure, transform, log, and track API usage patterns."
"Every API that we get from external or from internal goes through this layer first, and it should not be a bottleneck. That was the problem we had before. Now it's no longer a bottleneck. It's more like a throughput, this process is less than 10 milliseconds for any particular API."
"The Portal API helps us with deployments. It also helps to have a catalog of everything. The replication is also a critical feature for us. It helps to have a more robust architecture and makes our systems are highly available."
"I work for an information security company. CA API Management is capable of using tokens for authorization to manage access control for the APIs."
"Some of the performance matrix that API Gateway gives off, we monitor them via SNMP traps, and then we tie them into our monitoring system. You can actually monitor some of the latencies and some of the performance aspects of both API Gateways, as well back end services. So having that line of sight surely helps in terms DevOps."
"Layer7 API Management's availability on an on-premises deployment model, actually decreases the production time if its users have any issues at the server level."
"They should add features to manage API integrations."
"The two biggest issues of this solution are the complexity and the maintenance procedures."
"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."
"Some pre-packaged connectors for integration with various applications, such as SaaS offerings, would be a useful addition."
"For the workloads that are not too high, appliance is a little bit expensive."
"DataPower isn't the most user-friendly tool. It is not an easy tool to use. Some things could use better wizards to guide you through processes."
"The user interface or the application development perspective and customization of the tool could be a little better."
"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 portal is not the most intuitive and the way things are displayed makes it difficult to find the information we need."
"Some users say that the API lacks some features and is lagging behind the competition although that has not been my personal experience."
"The solution should prioritize ease of use and align with the growing trend of cloud-native environments."
"On the monitoring side, we need a better way to monitor it. CA has not given a clear understanding of what external tools we can use to do this."
"We are looking for improvements related to integration. We want to see them add integration tools to the CA bundle. That would be helpful."
"The setup was not as straightforward as it should have been. Support should be improved."
"Layer7 API Management should give a clear roadmap of the product and where it is going, and they should not change the underlying layers."
"There is room for improvement in terms of innovation and investment, especially when compared to other leading products in the market."
IBM DataPower Gateway is ranked 7th in API Management with 27 reviews while Layer7 API Management is ranked 10th in API Management with 110 reviews. IBM DataPower Gateway is rated 8.4, while Layer7 API Management is rated 8.4. 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 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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