Apigee and Oracle API Management compete in the API lifecycle category. Apigee has the upper hand due to its advanced feature set and customer service, while Oracle offers easier integration and competitive pricing.
Features: Apigee delivers extensive analytics, a developer portal, and comprehensive security features including policy management. Oracle API Management distinguishes itself with integration and compatibility within Oracle's ecosystem and offers robust monitoring tools.
Room for Improvement: Apigee could benefit from simplified deployment and more cost-effective pricing models. Oracle API Management might improve by expanding its feature set and enhancing its customer service and flexibility.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Apigee's deployment is complex but offset by exceptional customer service. Oracle provides easier deployment and adequate customer support, appealing to current Oracle suite users.
Pricing and ROI: Apigee involves higher upfront costs but promises significant ROI for enterprises needing advanced features. Oracle's lower setup costs offer a better immediate ROI for cost-sensitive organizations.
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| Apigee | 8.8% |
| Oracle API Management | 0.7% |
| Other | 90.5% |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 20 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 9 |
| Large Enterprise | 65 |
Apigee is a platform for developing and managing APIs. Apigee offers an interface for your core services by wrapping them with a proxy layer which is then accessed by other developers. With Apigee, you can design and build APIs and then securely share their services and data without exposing any code.
Because app developers make HTTP requests to an API proxy rather than directly to your services, your services are separated from the developers. All the developer needs to know is the URL of the API proxy endpoint, necessary query parameters, authorization credentials (if they exist), and the response data format.
The API proxy isolates the app developer from your backend service. Therefore, you are free to change the service implementation if the public API remains consistent. By maintaining a consistent frontend API, existing client apps will continue to work regardless of changes on the backend.
Key capabilities of the Apigee API management platform include:
Reviews from Real Users:
Apigee stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Several major ones are its rich developer portal, its advanced analytics, and its central monitoring system.
Carlos R., a software architect at Caja Los Andes writes, “The central monitoring feature is the most valuable. It also provides security for the APIs and high availability for our use cases. Apigee is the best product in the industry in comparison to other API management solutions. It helps in fast development, which is a top point. It also supports a lot of industry standards and has excellent documentation.”
An associate vice president at a tech services company notes, “The analytics function and the developer portal are the two valuable features of Apigee. The analytics part is very good, and the developer portal is quite rich in features. The authentication mechanisms are quite easily built into Apigee, which is something that most of the other products have also now started supporting.”
Oracle API Management enable you to streamline business and IT objectives by managing the lifecycle of your APIs, outsource application enhancement by empowering developers through API adoption, and add a mobile front to your applications and capture new revenue opportunities with seamless API enablement.
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