Microsoft's Azure API Management supports creation of API.
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Lightweight and serverless version of API Management service, billed per execution
Envoy Visitors
Score 9.9 out of 10
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Envoy Visitors helps users offer a warm welcome for guests while safeguarding people, property, and ideas. Envoy Protect confirms everyone walking through the door is healthy with a health screen before they leave home, touchless sign-in, capacity limits, and contact tracking. Envoy also enables users to print badges, sign legal documents, grant wifi access, and notify hosts. Envoy also offer products to help buyers not only manage visitors, but also desks, meeting…
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Pricing
Azure API Management
Envoy Visitors
Editions & Modules
Consumption
0.042 per 10,000 calls
Lightweight and serverless version of API Management service, billed per execution
Developer
$48.04
per month Non-production use cases and evaluations
Basic
$147.17
per month Entry-level production use cases
Standard
$686.72
per month Medium-volume production use cases
Premium
$2,795.17
per month High-volume or enterprise production use cases
Isolated
TBA
per month Enterprise production use cases requiring high degree of isolation
Basic
$0
Standard
$99.00
per month per location
Premium
$299.00
per month per location
Offerings
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Azure API Management
Envoy Visitors
Free Trial
No
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
No
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
No setup fee
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Azure API Management
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Azure API Management
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API Management
Comparison of API Management features of Product A and Product B
The range of policies that enable the APIs to loosely couple it with security, rate limit, retry, etc. are good. We can easily tie authentication mechanisms to external and other internal services without having to modify the backend.
If your company is embracing the hybrid workforce, then Envoy would be a great solution for you. Its ability to streamline the process of registering your visit so that others can see when and where you'll be in the office encourages others to visit the office as well. You’re also able to confirm certain vaccination statuses and confirm whether or not visitors have had any sickness symptoms prior to their visit. Very easy-to-use and attractive interface.
Cost - the upfront cost is a bit restrictive. I've been told it is because there are a few underlying VMs that are running this service. So if you're just starting out with API management, it can be an expensive proposition. Value increases as you add additional APIs. If you're using Azure B2C for the developer portal, you'll require Standard or Premium since they support AAD integration.
Security granularity - at time of writing, APIM doesn't support breaking out operations to products. For example, if you have an API that has a GET and a POST operation, and you want the POST operation to require a different subscription. There is a work around, but it makes management a bit messy.
Developer and Publisher portal - it's a little weird. Microsoft hasn't migrated all the publisher portal functionality into the "native" Azure portal. So some of it feels a little weird - especially when working with the content management side of things for the developer portal.
Scaling - while it's easy to scale up, the cost of APIM ramps up very quickly. Standard -> Premium is a 4x jump.
Easy to Setup. Organizations benefit from a simple onboarding procedure. Feature richness. Provides guest pre-registration, badge printing, and security warnings. Customizability Options for customizing the experience include branding, processes, and compliance needs. Integrations. Compatible with other technologies such as Slack, Microsoft Teams, and access control systems. I like it lot.
I don't know exactly how good the support is, but I'm giving it a 10 because I haven't had to use the support team. The platforms that work and don't make you reach out to support deserve to be recognized, and this is my way of doing that. Grateful for technology that works.
Envoy visitors compare very favorably against competitors, with its easy-to-use portal and flexibility, together with a low-cost space helps make it an easy decision to deploy and integrate into any small, medium, or large size companies. It has a good reputation in the industry and the staff are knowledgeable and extremely friendly.
It’s really pay as you go, so it's not that costly to get in and try it out. There’s no expensive client to buy and manage, but you do need to stay on top of the rapidly changing Azure environment to be sure you upgrade or adjust when needed.
It’s not great having more than one API tool, but it’s ok to spread out your work, as you always want the right tool for the right job. For example, if you are a Salesforce-heavy organization, I’d go with Mule over Azure.
It was easy getting an external consultant access to the tool to build their own API for a project they were working on for us.
We joined very early in Envoy's history so we are on a (now obsolete) plan that provides quite a lot of features at a fair price.
Looking at their current pricing model and feature set per tier, it is apparent that the system is aimed at enterprise customers and shared office spaces with many tenants.
