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IBM API Connect Overview

What is IBM API Connect?

IBM API Connect is a complete, intuitive and scalable API solution that lets organizations implement a robust API strategy by building, exposing, securing, and managing an entire API ecosystem across multiple clouds. IBM API Connect is available on AWS Marketplace. As businesses embrace their digital transformation journey, APIs become critical to unlock the value of business data and assets. With increasing adoption of APIs, consistency and governance are needed across the enterprise.  API Connect allows businesses to get new features to market fast, maintain continuous availability, meet changing user needs, and spur innovation.

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IBM® API Connect™ is for organizations looking to streamline and accelerate their journey into the API economy. It’s a comprehensive management solution that addresses all four aspects of the API lifecycle: create, run, manage and secure. API Connect is far more cost-effective than limited point solutions that focus on just a few lifecycle phases. It enables external and internal consumers to accelerate an organization’s API program and capture new revenue through compelling new customer experiences.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Improve speed and agility while reducing business costs and risks with a market-leading and award-winning API management solution with the most comprehensive set of capabilities.


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IBM
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$73,621
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IBM offers a wide range of technology and consulting services; a broad portfolio of middleware for collaboration, predictive analytics, software development and systems management; and the world's most advanced servers and supercomputers.


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Recent IBM API Connect Reviews

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Satish K.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"I am a senior software developer. I have worked as full stack developer and DevOps Engineer"
I love security features and features like rate limiting and throttling
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Verified UserSmall-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"It was very fast and what i likes is built-in security protocol (OAuth)"
Very simple UI and best thing i liked is built-in Security protocol (OAUTH). Also Best thing is that i can analyze API usage, Errors rates.
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Kiran D.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"best for API Management life cycle"
IBM API Connect is IBM Cloud based technology useful for API management lifecycle including development and administration.
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Gaurav G.
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Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about IBM API Connect?

I think this is one of the best thought out way to manage the large scale APIs. It's really intuitive and managing APIs is very easy with this one. Securing APIs is a very cumbersome task but with this it's really easy. It has numerous features and there's something for everyone. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?

The UI can be a litter better and the Integration of other platforms can be a little easier Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have a multitude of APIs and this acts as the central hub for all our APIs. We design and manage our APIs through IBM API Connect. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jasleen K.
JK
Analytics Executive
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Review source: G2 invite
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What do you like best about IBM API Connect?

It's helping our company to build and manage API, it's quite helpful when it comes to management of API, It offers traffic control through API gateway and allow monitoring of all traffic by providing meaningful insights. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?

Overall experience is good but I think use of AI for auto manage of API and trigger actions based on AI detection can improve overall system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?

Helping in creating as well as managing API with secure means and helping in traffic monitoring of API and ensuring secure connectivity and protects from any kind of intrusion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rohan K.
RK
Associate Quality Assurance Engineer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about IBM API Connect?

IBM API connect offers multiple tools to manage API through out it's lifecycle. Offers some key security features to manage authentication with the use of Oauth also provides traffic management through API gateway with secured connection. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?

Though there is not much to dislike about IBM API connect but I think they can implement use of AI for analytics and monitoring which can optimise performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?

IBM API connect is helping in optimising use of API by introducing central access for all API with the use of secure network API gateway. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jovanini U.
JU
Solutions Architect Leader
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Review source: G2 invite on behalf of seller
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What do you like best about IBM API Connect?

We have very good experience in IBM APIC v10 with analytical support to explore data within the request body to convert into business knowledge. We are exploring the power of implementing new features to improve information security and control access to identity provider resources through RHSSO. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?

We had a lot of difficulty updating the 2018 APIC to v10 and the v10 fixes. We will appreciate it if the evolution process is in progress. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?

control and coordination of the API environment for the evolution of digital business transformation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vinit G.
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Accountant
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about IBM API Connect?

I am supervising a team of 3 developers and we are quite happy with IBM API connect performance it's fast secure and makes it really easy to manage all our API's. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?

Their is not much to dislike about this product but my team reported that secure gateway connectivity can sometimes take extra time to run API Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?

IBM API is helping us in many ways including designing our API and management of all API and therefore deploy them using secure gateway which protects our data and saves our API to be exploited. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rakesh G.
RG
Application Development Analyst
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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Review source: G2 invite
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What do you like best about IBM API Connect?

IBM API Connect is good tool for api Management ,create rest api or integration with other external system.It also provides all types of features from api design to api manager.

I have used in my project to connect or integrate with other external system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?

In IBM API connect almost all services is good but pricing and licensing is high as comapre to other tool. And due to regular or continues updates needs to update configuration as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?

Using IBM API connect I have integrated many external resources and I have managed api and applied different policies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Priyanshu K.
PK
Web Designer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about IBM API Connect?

We are using IBM API connect from past 1 year now, It's quite useful for analyzing and creating API and helps in overall management of our API, We have deployed API's for our Stage URL. Overall it's quite easy to use and provides central managment of all our API's Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?

I think IBM API connect can improve integration of their application with other API managment tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?

IBM API connect is helping our development team to desgin and manage API for all our environments incuding Stage and production. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Priyanshu m.
PM
Accountant
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about IBM API Connect?

We are currectly setting up IBM API connect to design all our API for production environment deployed on cloud. For any assistance and support you can connect with IBm support team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?

Overall management of API is quite good but I think connectivity with cloud can be improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?

IBM API connect is helping our team to speed up deployment for cloud based API and using API connect we can connect all our API and manage them from single application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tarun N.
TN
Technical Consultant
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about IBM API Connect?

End to end API management , robust security features like OAuth and API key management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?

Initial setup is little complex and reporting customisation is little challenging with basic skill set on the same. Cost is another factor when it comes to license Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?

helps manage the entire API lifecycle, from design and creation to testing, deployment. Also security is very good which is very crucial in this era of tech Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: G2 invite
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What do you like best about IBM API Connect?

Creating APIs and managing and protecting them has never been easy. With API it's not easy to manage but also helps in securing them from Internet exploits. Also very useful in traffic control and easy integration with the ease and user friendly UI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?

There has not been any issue or bug until the very use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's helping us to create, manage and protect our APIs without any issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.