We performed a comparison between IBM DataPower Gateway and Microsoft Azure 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 solution is scalable, our customers are mostly South African banks and they handle mostly transactions with this solution."
"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 is very easy to set up and configure, even for users with no prior experience."
"Since it is a gateway, it provides a lot of security features."
"The product's most valuable features are AAA policies and security features."
"The scalability of the solution is good."
"Support for PCA and non-PCA services is valuable."
"The solution is stable."
"It’s easy to set up."
"Initial setup was quite easy."
"The user management is pretty seamless."
"We use this solution for API rate limiting and for its security features against DDoS."
"The ability to easily connect back to Service Fabric is the most important for us."
"The most valuable features are the ease of use and it is a platform that has self-enablement for the customers to be able to register themselves."
"The tool's most valuable feature is the integration of CI/CD with the API gateway."
"What I like most about Microsoft Azure API Management is that it's flexible and user-friendly. The solution also has rich documentation and guides available, so users can configure and use it."
"Making it more user-friendly would be an improvement."
"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."
"The solution requires a lot of training manuals in order to get to know it better and to be able to use it effectively."
"The two biggest issues of this solution are the complexity and the maintenance procedures."
"It is a costly product."
"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."
"They should add features to manage API integrations."
"The programming language is only supported in XSLT and Gateway script."
"Microsoft Azure API Management should have the ability to allow multitenancy."
"Support for GraphQL could be better."
"They're trying to implement versioning and trying to be able to manage different versions of your API all at the same time, but they're not doing that just quite right yet."
"In terms of improvement, it would be helpful if they could develop an on-premises option."
"The licensing fees should be cheaper."
"This solution is only available as a cloud-based deployment and it would be very helpful to have an on-premises version."
"I could that the UI could be improved."
"It should be easier to integrate."
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IBM DataPower Gateway is ranked 7th in API Management with 27 reviews while Microsoft Azure API Management is ranked 1st in API Management with 68 reviews. IBM DataPower Gateway is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Azure API Management 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 Azure API Management writes "Efficiently manages and monetizes API ". IBM DataPower Gateway is most compared with IBM API Connect, Apigee, Mule ESB, IBM Integration Bus and Kong Gateway Enterprise, whereas Microsoft Azure API Management is most compared with Amazon API Gateway, Apigee, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Kong Gateway Enterprise and Layer7 API Management. See our IBM DataPower Gateway vs. Microsoft Azure API Management report.
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