Apigee

and
Mulesoft Anypoint API
Manager
Buyer's Guide and Reviews
September 2019
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Contents

Overview 4

Top Review by Topic of Apigee and Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager 5-7

Vendor Directory 8

Top API Management Vendors, Weighted 9-10

Top 5 Solutions by Ranking Factor 11

About This Report and IT Central Station 12

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Overview
SOLUTION Apigee Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager

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:
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.

Security: protect APIs, messages, and backends

with configurable policies such as OAuth, API key
verification, XML/JSON threat protection,...

SAMPLE Adobe, advance.net, Amadeus, AT&T, Bechtel,
CUSTOMERS
Belly, Burberry, Chegg, Citrix, Dell, eBay, Equifax,
GameStop, First Data, Globe, HCSC, Intralinks,
Kao, Meredith, Mitchell, Orange, Pearson
Coca-Cola, Splunk, Citrix, UCSF, Vertu, State of
Colorado, National Post, TiVo, Deakin, LLS,
Oldcastle Precast, ParcelPoint, Justice Systems,
Ube, Sumitomo Corporation, PacificComp...

TOP Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager vs. Apigee Apigee vs. Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager
COMPARISONS Compared 23% of the time Compared 37% of the time

IBM API Connect vs. Apigee Microsoft Azure API Management vs. Mulesoft
Compared 18% of the time Anypoint API Manager
Compared 16% of the time
Microsoft Azure API Management vs. Apigee
Compared 17% of the time CA API Management vs. Mulesoft Anypoint API
Manager
Compared 10% of the time

TOP INDUSTRIES,
BASED ON
REVIEWERS*

TOP INDUSTRIES, Software R&D Company ... 10% Retailer ... 8%

BASED ON Healthcare Company ... 10% Software R&D Company ... 11%
COMPANIES
READING REVIEWS* Retailer ... 11% Insurance Company ... 12%
Financial Services Firm ... 25% Financial Services Firm ... 24%
COMPANY SIZE, 1-200 Employees ... 25%
BASED ON 1001+ Employees ... 75%
REVIEWERS*
COMPANY SIZE, 1-200 Employees ... 15%
BASED ON 201-1000 Employees ... 10%
COMPANIES
READING REVIEWS* 1001+ Employees ... 75%

* Data is based on the aggregate profiles of IT Central Station Users researching this solution.

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Top Reviews by Topic

SOLUTION Apigee Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager

VALUABLE
FEATURES Tolulope Adeniji Maheedhar Aluri

One of the concepts offered with this solution is The ESB, the enterprise service bus is what we
called Productization. This concept allows you to primarily use. In addition to that, the API
bundle the APIs together and present them to management. These are the two tools which we
clients as products, which allows you to configure have been using extensively. The enterprise
the API with restricted access for different clients. platform. [Full Review]
An example of this would be Client A is granted
access as read-only and able to do a few updates,
whereas Client B would have full access to the
APIs. You can configure different products for
them in such a way that one of the products would Jordan Braunstein
have lim... [Full Review]

* Ability to create and test API "microservices"

Srarchman56
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]
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 by putting each application onto a
separate VM in the cloud. * Large set of
connectors * Innovative concept with "Co... [Full
Review]

Yukesh Kumar

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 secured
manner. [Full Review]

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Top Reviews by Topic
SOLUTION Apigee
IMPROVEMENTS
TO MY Tolulope Adeniji
ORGANIZATION
We want to create one API to be used by different
clients. In terms of management, even though the
proxying of an API is not a lot of work, it is better
to create a single API that can be reused. When
the API version changes, you only have versioning
for a single API, rather than in several places with
the same capability. Moving forward, if you
change or update the version, the underlying
functionality of the application needs to fashion
the APIs correctly. This solution is created for the
same... [Full Review]
Srarchman56
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]
Trishit Nag
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]
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Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager
Maheedhar Aluri
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
context, we have to collaborate with those banks
in a sophisticated way. Few banks are very, very
advan... [Full Review]
Jordan Braunstein
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
development, design, and implementation of
integrating federated systems and datastores
across clouds, networks, and do... [Full Review]
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Top Reviews by Topic
SOLUTION Apigee
ROOM FOR
IMPROVEMENT Srarchman56
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 instead of using
a webhook to do the notification. [Full Review]
Yukesh Kumar
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]
Frank Lino
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]
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Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager
Maheedhar Aluri
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 Salesforce. Nobody is giving proper
information because I called a couple of
Mulesofters and they're not giving i... [Full Review]
Jordan Braunstein
* 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]
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Vendor Directory
Red Hat 3scale API Management OpenLegacy OpenLegacy

Rogue Wave Akana API Management Oracle Oracle API Management

Amazon Amazon API Gateway Oracle Oracle API Platform Cloud Service

Oracle Apiary Oracle Oracle Communications Services

Gatekeeper
Google Apigee
PokitDok PokitDok
Axway Axway API Management Plus
Seeburger SEEBURGER BIS
CA Technologies CA API Management
Sikka Software Sikka Software
Software AG CentraSite
Software AG Software AG webMethods Integration
Cloud Elements Cloud Elements Cloud

Torry Harris Business DigitMarket SmartBear SwaggerHub

Solutions
Talena Talena
IBM IBM API Connect
TIBCO TIBCO Mashery API Management
Kong Kong Enterprise
Tyk Tyk
Microshare.io Microshare.io
Software AG webMethods API Management
Microsoft Microsoft Azure API Management
WSO2 WSO2 API Manager
MuleSoft Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager

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Top API Management Vendors, Weighted

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

Chart Key

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

Bar length
The total ranking of a product (i.e. bar length) is based on a weighted aggregate ranking of that product's Views (weighting factor = 17.5%),
Comparisons (17.5%), Reviews (17.5%), Followers (17.5%), and Average Rating (30%). Reviews and ratings by resellers are excluded from the
rankings. For each ranking factor, the score (i.e. bar segment length) is calculated as a product of the weighting factor and its position for that
ranking factor. For example, if a product has 80% of the number of reviews compared to the product with the most reviews in its category, then
the product's bar length for reviews would be 17.5% (weighting factor) * 80%.

1 Apigee

31,538 views 22,809 comparisons 12 reviews 328 words/review 8.4 average rating

2 CA API Management

18,947 views 7,935 comparisons 39 reviews 601 words/review 8.2 average rating

3 SEEBURGER BIS

3,710 views 1,495 comparisons 14 reviews 1,317 words/review 8.3 average rating

4 Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager

17,638 views 13,375 comparisons 2 reviews 1,873 words/review 9.0 average rating

5 IBM API Connect

15,158 views 10,781 comparisons 8 reviews 407 words/review 8.1 average rating

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6 Microsoft Azure API Management

15,350 views 12,380 comparisons 1 reviews 336 words/review 9.0 average rating

7 Amazon API Gateway

8,861 views 8,077 comparisons 3 reviews 398 words/review 7.0 average rating

8 Apiary

3,006 views 2,025 comparisons 4 reviews 435 words/review 8.3 average rating

9 Oracle API Platform Cloud Service

1,201 views 766 comparisons 3 reviews 633 words/review 9.0 average rating

10 3scale API Management

3,292 views 2,638 comparisons 2 reviews 450 words/review 8.0 average rating

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Top 5 Solutions by Ranking Factor

Views

SOLUTION VIEWS

1 Apigee 31,538

2 CA API Management 18,947

3 Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager 17,638

4 Microsoft Azure API Management 15,350

5 IBM API Connect 15,158

Reviews

SOLUTION REVIEWS

1 CA API Management 39

2 SEEBURGER BIS 14

3 Apigee 12

4 IBM API Connect 8

5 Apiary 4

Words/Review

SOLUTION WORDS/REV
IEW

1 Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager 1,873

2 SEEBURGER BIS 1,317

3 WSO2 API Manager 860

4 Kong Enterprise 844

5 OpenLegacy 665

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