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Value of IBM API Connect: As businesses embrace their digital transformation journey, APIs become critical to unlock the value of business data and assets. With the increasing adoption of APIs, consistency and governance are needed across your business. Full-lifecycle API management can help you create, manage, secure, and socialize your ecosystem of APIs, and implement a robust API strategy.

API Connect as a Service offers two tiers: API Connect Base tier and API Connect Advanced tier. The Base tiers include the full lifecycle API Management capabilities with built in policies for data transformation. The Advanced tier includes every feature in the Base tier as well as advanced data transformation policies (XSLT, GatewayScript and Custom Policies) delivered through a single tenant (isolated) API Gateway. You have the ability to upgrade from a Base tier to an Advanced tier at anytime. Advanced capabilities are not included in the trial however you can schedule a live demo to learn more about both tiers of API Connect https://ibm.biz/apiconnect-demo

Create APIs: Accelerate API creation with an intuitive user experience to expose data, microservices, enterprise applications, and SaaS services through open standards. Improve developer productivity and API quality using integrated developer tooling and automated test generation. Learn more about creating APIs: ibm.biz/create-apis

Manage APIs: Rapidly organize, publish, and analyze your APIs with governance and version control across the API lifecycle. Organize many types of APIs into API products with full control over visibility for consumers. With out-of-the-box dashboards, you can easily analyze your ecosystem of APIs and gain insights, such as identifying APIs best suited for monetization. Learn more about managing APIs: ibm.biz/manage-apis

Secure APIs: Reduce cybersecurity risks and protect your data and business assets with an enterprise-grade encrypted gateway near your cloud-native apps & microservices. Accelerate time to value with easy-to-apply, pre-built policies to secure, control and mediate the delivery of APIs. Learn more about securing APIs: ibm.biz/secure-apis

Socialize APIs: Increase developer productivity and get more value out of your APIs by ensuring your developer communities can easily discover, explore and consume APIs across your ecosystem. Encourage API reuse and innovation through branded and customized self-service portals and community-building features such as blogs, ratings and forums. Learn more about socializing APIs: ibm.biz/socialize-apis

Advanced tier capabilities:
The Advanced tier includes all full lifecycle API management capabilities from the Base tier with added data transformation through custom code policies (XSLT, GatewayScript and Custom Policies). The Advanced tier provides a single tenant API Gateway which allows you to create and use custom policies for re-usable functions across your APIs. Additionally, global policies can be set to standardize API development.

Pricing and upgrades: For custom pricing and sales inquiries or for AWS accounts outside the United States, please contact IBM Sales https://ibm.biz/apiconnect-privateoffer It is easy and flexible to upgrade to a higher dimension within an offering or from the Base tier to the Advanced tier at anytime. For additional details about API Connect tiers, pricing, and upgrade, please visit the subscription terms page in the documentation ibm.biz/subscription-terms

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Limited time offer: Get 40% off IBM API Connect subscription. Purchase the SaaS Standard Plan subscription now through 31 December 2024 and receive a 40% discount. Renewals are excluded from promotions.
API Connect trial and enterprise are deployed in the following 6 data centers: US-East, EU-Frankfurt, UK-London, IN-Mumbai, ID-Jakarta and AU-Sydney. Expand brand reach by publishing APIs to tap into a broad developer community. Enable digital business through new channels for partners and monetizing data.
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Dimension	Description	Cost/12 months
100K API Calls per year	API Connect aaS Standard tier	$598.00
500K API Calls per year	API Connect aaS Standard tier	$1,800.00
1M API Calls per year	API Connect aaS Standard tier	$3,002.00
10M API Calls per year	API Connect aaS Standard tier	$4,262.00
25M API Calls per year	API Connect aaS Standard tier	$5,148.00
50M API Calls per year	API Connect aaS Standard tier	$5,400.00
75M API Calls per year	API Connect aaS Standard tier	$6,048.00
100M API Calls per year	API Connect aaS Standard tier	$7,200.00
250M API Calls per year	API Connect aaS Standard tier	$10,800.00
1.2B API Calls per year	API Connect aaS Standard tier	$18,144.00

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Bradley W.

Trust the IBM API Connect product for all your API needs in the cloud

Reviewed on Sep 25, 2024

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What do you like best about the product?

Its a one stop shop that allows us to create, manage and secure our application API's in the on-prem cloud or to other vendors like GCP, AWS. I found the neat little virtual machine appliance easy to deploy on our on-prem infrastructure and quick to get up and running. From there as part of the Websphere line the gui was clean and easy to navigate.

What do you dislike about the product?

As yet and still part of PoC / sandpit setup no negative points to raise.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

With cyber security a big thing the API Connect is a secure platform to work on and manage the project API's. It also helps close the gap with Redhat OpenShift as the API can be deployed within the native container. The fact that is covers the full lifecycle also increased ease of management, maintenance and deployments of the API's.

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Steeve T.

Manage our APIs and monitor them easily with this great tool from IBM

Reviewed on Jun 27, 2024

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What do you like best about the product?

What I like the most is the analytics and API lifecycle management because it is easy to use and the data syncronization as well as testing and tracking from one place. On the other hand the security is good and with each update it has improved a lot, the execution times have also changed for the better and lastly I liked being able to manage multiple routes and have an analytics tab at the same time.

What do you dislike about the product?

For new users it is a problem to adjust certain functions and also creating analyzes through different data can be a bit confusing.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

The problems mostly solved were in managing and analyzing APIs and different data source, improving data processing times, ensuring success and ending problems by automating APIs.

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Angelique M.

Tool to manage all our APIs and monitor easily

Reviewed on Jun 20, 2024

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What do you like best about the product?

IBM API Connect is great for managing APIs seamlessly and doesnt require a lot of expertise or maintenance. I like that it meets our needs, offers the possibility of customization and the developer portal is flexible and excellent.

What do you dislike about the product?

Sometimes it can be confusing, especially when switching from one function to another.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

This is a tool that is used to manage our APIs easily and quickly and address the landscape in microservices and we noticed a growth in productivity getting the best benefits.

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Kishore K.

Gatekeeper of Applications

Reviewed on May 17, 2024

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What do you like best about the product?

IBM API connect is used to safeguard your application . It securely exposes our application data by configuring restrictive set of security policies.
It helps protect your api at runtime and it's also logs and api interaction as well.
Reduces Cost and complexity.

What do you dislike about the product?

It has restrictions over character length of instance name ( won't allow if instance name have more than 25 letters)

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Managing enterprise level api's

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Vasundhra B.

Usefulness of IBM API Connect

Reviewed on May 17, 2024

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What do you like best about the product?

IBM API Connect is very useful for the analysis of the interface and helps in monitoring the API activities and use. Also, IBM API is very versatile as I can use it with other apps and products as well.

What do you dislike about the product?

Although IBM API is very good and useful but customer support is not very efficient and the complex features are hard to understand sometimes. Also, IBM API connect subscription and licensing is sometimes very costly and sometimes not affordable.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

To keep track of the usage and design and monitor all these problems have vanished since I started using IBM API connect. Additionally, the feature that it can be used with other apps so efficiently is very useful and good.

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