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Akana Lifecycle Manager for APIs

Composite Score

7.5 /10

CX Score

7.9 /10

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What is Akana Lifecycle Manager for APIs?

Akana's (formerly SOA Software) Lifecycle Manager enables enterprises to effectively collaborate between business, developers and IT operations, resulting in rapid development and deployment cycles while increasing reliability, stability and availability of their APIs and supporting assets.

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Akana Lifecycle Manager for APIs Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

86 Likeliness to Recommend

99 Plan to Renew

75 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

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+94 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Akana Lifecycle Manager for APIs?

1% Negative

0% Neutral

99% Positive

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity
Trustworthy

Feature Ratings

Average 78

Workflow Management

Artifact Management

Analytics and Reporting

Managed Artifact Repository

Visual Analysis Design

Automation

Traceability

Agile Work Management

ALM Integration

Resource Planning

Bug Tracking & Issue Mgmt

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 79

Vendor Support

Quality of Features

Business Value Created

Ease of Data Integration

Breadth of Features

Usability and Intuitiveness

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Customization

Ease of Implementation

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of IT Administration

Akana Lifecycle Manager for APIs Reviews

Anna D.

Role: Operations
Industry: Media
Involvement: Business Leader or Manager

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Submitted Apr 2023

Akana lifecycle is amazing for APIs.

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Akana Lifecycle Manager for APIs from other similar products?

To utilise our published APIs on Akana, the client only needs to receive a.yaml document from us. The entire publishing API can be customised using a user-friendly UI. The best feature of Akana is its monitoring ability, which makes it very simple for business users to troubleshoot or review transaction logs without the assistance of developers. For all of its transactions, Akana offers an easily comprehensible dashboard view that illustrates the message processing at each stage.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Our team used to be able to watch our Reservations API with Akana’s monitoring and metrics features, which are some of the best I’ve ever used. I advise a medium-sized to a large-sized company to use it because it’s simple to set up and use. For individuals like me who are constantly on the go, it is simple to use and convenient. Additionally, it is quick, and the outcomes are visible right away! Additionally, using Akana is simple.

What do you dislike most about this product?

There are currently none because the programme is so fantastic and useful. However, as a young company, we are searching for a more affordable answer.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

It is simple to create and manage the API, and it also facilitates user-friendly API usage. You can rapidly deploy the API anywhere, and it does not result in any data breaches.

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Enables Productivity
Efficient Service
Respectful

Sam F.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Not for Profit
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

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Submitted Nov 2022

Easy and not complicated.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Akana Lifecycle Manager for APIs from other similar products?

Easy collaboration from all cross-functional team

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The easy way to collaborate

What do you dislike most about this product?

The customer care response time.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

It's a good recommendation

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Unique Features
Inspires Innovation
Saves Time

Cons

Less Caring

Viktor J.

Role: Consultant
Industry: Banking
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Sep 2022

API management made easy.

Likeliness to Recommend

7 /10

What differentiates Akana Lifecycle Manager for APIs from other similar products?

Easy and consistent API management platform that offers most desired features, enhances developement speed and is cost effective.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Easy to use with good UI on top, makes integrations seamless and the customer support is good and responsive.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The documentation is not always up to date in all aspects, could be improved.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Great API gateway for growing organisations, user firendly and easy to integrate. If that sounds good to you, then I recommend Akana.

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity

Cons

Less Effective Service
Under Delivered

Akana Lifecycle Manager for APIs

What is Akana Lifecycle Manager for APIs?

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Akana Lifecycle Manager for APIs Ratings

86 Likeliness to Recommend

99 Plan to Renew

75 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+94 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Akana Lifecycle Manager for APIs?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Workflow Management Custom workflows can be created, managed, and monitored for artifacts, processes and practices to govern and streamline ALM work.

Artifact Management ALM artifacts can be readily created, reused, moved, and managed through baselines, reviews, approvals, releases, and audits for projects and products.

Analytics and Reporting Includes historical & real-time dashboard visualizations, detailed & summary reporting and easy data extraction for data analysis.

Managed Artifact Repository Artifacts are stored in version controlled repository that supports check out, update, check-in, and collaboration across multiple types and workspaces.

Visual Analysis Design Can create and manage context diagrams, business process models, use cases, data flow diagrams, sequence diagrams, data models, and UI mockups, etc.

Automation Manual activities such as traceability, test generation, artifact state changes, integrations, and artifact creation can be automated to streamline ALM work.

Traceability ALM artifacts can be traced from ideation to requirements, design, develop, test, and implementation.

Agile Work Management Multiple backlogs, backlog grooming, sprint planning, prioritization, and estimation, and a multi-level agile artifact hierarchy (Epics, User Stories, etc.)

ALM Integration Integrate artifacts across ALM phases such as requirements, analysis, design, development, and testing, either internally or through an API.

Resource Planning Assigning resources to activities and estimates to manage workloads, support project management, and ensure completion of work related to ALM artifacts, including dashboards to manage multiple teams

Bug Tracking & Issue Mgmt Supports the ability to create tests and acceptance criteria and assign, prioritize, track, and resolve tests,related bugs, and issues.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Akana Lifecycle Manager for APIs Reviews

Anna D.

Akana lifecycle is amazing for APIs.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Sam F.

Easy and not complicated.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Cons

Viktor J.

API management made easy.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Cons

Feature Ratings

Workflow Management

Artifact Management

Analytics and Reporting

Managed Artifact Repository

Visual Analysis Design

Automation

Traceability

Agile Work Management

ALM Integration

Resource Planning

Bug Tracking & Issue Mgmt

Vendor Capability Ratings

Vendor Support

Quality of Features

Business Value Created

Ease of Data Integration

Breadth of Features

Usability and Intuitiveness

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Customization

Ease of Implementation

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of IT Administration