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Akana API Management vs. Lobster Data Platform

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricAkana API Management

by Perforce

Lobster Data Platform

by Lobster Data GmbH

Overall rating4.54.6
Review count10106
Ease of use9.28.5
Ease of setup10.08.2
Quality of support8.19.3
Meets requirements8.69.3
NPS8075.471698
Small Business40.0%12.3%
Mid-Market30.0%61.3%
Enterprise30.0%26.4%
Total page views68480
Total LLM citations1197,912

Akana API Management

Akana by Perforce helps organizations securely transform their enterprises with full lifecycle API management. Akana accelerates digital transformation through easy API creation and deployment. The platform also offers robust security features developed by API experts. Akana includes a full suite of tools to manage the API lifecycle at every stage including API gateway, developer portal, analytics, marketplace, and a simple user interface for managing everything. Multiple cloud providers? Cloud native capabilities? Hybrid cloud environment? On-premises deployment?

Pros

    Lobster Data Platform

    Lobster is a data integration platform for complex, multi-party supply chains. It connects suppliers, partners and systems across EDI, APIs, legacy databases and cloud apps in one place, with 90+ pre-built connectors, 2000+ customers and 20 years of supply chain expertise behind it. Lobster gives teams control over how data flows across their supply chain, so they can build, customise and maintain integrations themselves. Teams can also see, enrich and act on data as it moves across systems and partners, using workflows, exception handling and human input where needed.

    Pros

    • Ease of Use
    • Customer Support
    • Features
    • User Interface
    • Integrations
    • Speed