Postman Enterprise
Instant API Testing Made Easy with Postman
Collaborative collections and workspaces have streamlined our API testing and development workflow
What is our primary use case?
I primarily use Postman Enterprise for API level testing with all the methods that we have: GET, PUT, POST, and DELETE.
On a day-to-day basis, we have many requests that we put into Postman Enterprise, and then we hit the request and check what response we are getting. Postman Enterprise has many features where we can store our requests and create a collection. We can then use those collections and share them with other people that we are collaborating with in our team.
In our case, we use Postman Enterprise for API development when we want to test it and collaborate. Developers use it for testing whatever they have implemented, and testers use it for checking all the changes that have been done. This allows us to verify whether there is any impact or if all test cases, edge cases, and rare case scenarios are working as expected. Postman Enterprise also enables collaboration through collections and workspaces, which can be shared with our teammates.
We also have a place in Postman Enterprise where we can specify what environment we are testing in. If we are testing for another environment, we can specify that as well. We can test at one level and then test another in parallel or sequential order, which is also possible in Postman Enterprise. Overall, the API development lifecycle has improved because we use Postman Enterprise.
What is most valuable?
The best feature of Postman Enterprise is the collections combined with team workspaces. These stand out most to me because they make it easy to organize and share with the team. We can maintain version consistency and collaborate without duplicating our work.
Postman Enterprise has had a positive impact on our organization in that we do not have to do duplicate work. Because we have collections in Postman Enterprise, we can share the work that we have done. We have seen improvement when it comes to dividing the work in Postman Enterprise, as we are able to divide it very efficiently with the feature where we can share the work and workspaces.
For example, once we were testing an application from front-end to back-end and back to front-end, which gave us a response. We had to check many things, and there was involvement of three APIs. We had to test three APIs in a way that each layer would give us a proper response. We were testing these three layers with three people, and we all had the same request, but we had to do it in three different ways. What we did was split the work by sharing the same collection with my teammates. One of us tested the first layer, another tested the second layer, and another tested the third layer. Once that was done, we also tested the end-to-end scenario. This is how Postman Enterprise has helped us in testing.
What needs improvement?
I think Postman Enterprise can be improved in the way that it has many features that are spread across all the screen. I feel if I could get all the features on one side, such as on the left side, and the main place where I have my request and run the thing should be main in the right side or in the left side. Eighty percent of the main work should stay in the center instead of arranging all things around it. This makes the main space look a little small, which is what I do not prefer about Postman Enterprise.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Postman Enterprise for four years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Postman Enterprise is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I feel Postman Enterprise's scalability is good.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We switched to Postman Enterprise.
What was our ROI?
I think out of six working days, we are able to save at least one day using Postman Enterprise for collaboration and sharing.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
We do not have to take a license for most of the use cases in Postman Enterprise. However, if you want to use more AI and automation, I think you should use the subscription or licensing. If you want to share with the team, then we need to have a team license because sharing, collaboration, team, workspace, and collection require an unlimited license. We take the minimum cost subscription and it is really easy to obtain.
What other advice do I have?
I would suggest that you can keep the collections handy when using Postman Enterprise. You can arrange all your things in Postman Enterprise in the way you prefer. It is really flexible. Before taking a license, I would recommend that you take a trial and understand all the features. According to the features that you need, you can choose the plan of licensing that suits you.
Sometimes I have given Postman Enterprise a request that was having some issues with the formatting. I gave it to the AI chat, and it corrected the syntax for me. There were some missing braces and some missing brackets. It fixed them for me and provided me with a working request. I found it very accurate in resolving the issue. If I would have done it myself, as the request is very large, I would have to check each element and each brace to find out where the issue is. It really helped me, and therefore I can rely on the AI capability of Postman Enterprise. I give this review a rating of eight out of ten.
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Collaborative API workspaces have streamlined testing, documentation, and daily team alignment
What is our primary use case?
Our main use case for Postman Enterprise is API development, testing, and collaboration with other teams. We also use it heavily to design APIs and test endpoints and then share the collection within the team so that everyone is aligned.
What is most valuable?
The best feature that Postman Enterprise offers is the collections that we can create and then share with the other team. Postman Enterprise also has collections and environment management. We also have automation of testing if we use some scripts. Then we have API document generation as a feature. We also have history tracking enabled in Postman Enterprise.
The collaboration impacts our team the most because it has reduced the time required for our API testing and improved our collaboration between the teams such as development, QA, and integration.
Postman Enterprise has impacted our organization positively because on a day-to-day basis, when we are developing APIs for different services, we have to validate the different APIs. When we design this, we should not impact the old ones. Therefore, we have these collections useful in Postman Enterprise that we can share across team members. They can validate if anything is wrong in the existing when we are trying to push the new code. This helps us avoid recreating it, and we can just use the old collection that we have already. Another positive impact is the history feature. The history feature has really helped us a lot. There were cases when we tested an API earlier and needed to recheck the exact request. Instead of recreating it, we could just go back to the history and then find the request and then reuse it. This saved us time and also avoided errors, especially when we were debugging the issues.
What needs improvement?
One area for improvement is that sometimes performance is slightly slow when we are handling large collections. Also, we need better integrations with CI/CD tools so that automation would be smoother.
I would add one more needed improvement: the UI sometimes can feel cluttered. There are too many options when there are too many collections. A more simplified navigation would help for large-scale usage of the collections.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Postman Enterprise since six or seven years now.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
In our experience, Postman Enterprise is stable. We have not faced many issues or any downtime because it is a desktop application. We do not feel any slowdown or anything with respect to the stability of the tool.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
As we discussed earlier, when it comes to bigger collaborations or bigger collections, some performance tuning is expected and is needed. However, it is quite scalable, especially for growing teams with multiple APIs and environments. It supports collaboration, therefore collaboration is good and scalability is also good.
How are customer service and support?
Customer support is really good.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Previously, we used basic tools and sometimes manual API-level testing methods. We switched to Postman Enterprise because it provides us a centralized, structured way of working.
How was the initial setup?
Pricing-wise, the cost feels justified given the features such as collaboration and the collections that are there. The setup was straightforward, and we did not require much effort because from our side, it was really simple. Licensing is also simple and flexible, however managing seats for bigger teams needs some planning. Overall, the experience was smooth, just slightly expensive.
What about the implementation team?
We do not have any integrations with Postman Enterprise. It is a standalone application in our use case.
What was our ROI?
We have definitely seen ROI, mainly in terms of time savings because we reduced the duplication of work, and also we have better collaboration because of Postman Enterprise.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Almost 30% of our time has been saved when it comes to complete regression testing of one feature. That is the rough estimate I can provide.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Before choosing Postman Enterprise, we did look at SoapUI, but Postman Enterprise feels more user-friendly, and it is better for collaboration.
What other advice do I have?
I feel the AI features are helpful, especially in generating test scripts or suggestions. I think governance and security are handled very well. Overall, this is an enterprise tool, so there will be proper access control, and data is managed securely.
The AI features are helpful. Accuracy is good in most cases, but sometimes we need to still validate manually.
Postman Enterprise helps our organization ensure compliance with industry standards or regulations, but this is a desktop tool, so it does not mainly do many things around compliance issues as things are handled manually by the user. You should be taking care of how the request should be sent and what are the necessary parameters and what are the necessary headers you need to pass in the API. The user who is using the product should be taking care of this. Postman Enterprise does not necessarily have to take care of the industry standards or regulations.
For new users adopting Postman Enterprise, I would say the learning curve is flat. It is not hard to learn; it is very easy to learn how to use Postman Enterprise.
Postman Enterprise supports team collaboration and communication through a workspace, so we can share our collections or the requests to the API, and everybody can then utilize it, and they will get updates if something is updated.
Version control in Postman Enterprise in the sense that whenever we need to update anything, we save it in the workspace or in the collections. In our case, we mainly use different versions of collections either by duplicating them or naming conventions such as V1, V2, V3. So it is not exactly a traditional code versioning, but it works well when we are doing API-level tracking. There is no built-in version control and activity tracking, so we need to take care of those things.
Postman Enterprise handles large numbers of APIs or high request volumes well when we have a lot of data and also when we have a lot of things in the API request. However, especially when there are a lot of things on Postman Enterprise already preloaded, such as collections and workspaces, it becomes laggy. In that situation, if we are trying to handle a high request volume, then it is handling it fine for testing and development use cases. However, if the collections become very large, then we notice that there is a slight performance lag in the UI. Overall, it is reliable, but managing the structure properly becomes important when it comes to a large scale.
Postman Enterprise helps our organization with API documentation significantly since we can generate and share the documentation directly from the collection. It keeps everything centralized and up to date, which is helpful for internal and external teams. However, for onboarding new team members, I do not think we take care of it in Postman Enterprise. If you want to give somebody some information, we can give it independently.
For the person who is trying to look into Postman Enterprise, I would suggest starting with a proper organization of collections and environments from the beginning of its use because it will be better organized. Then you can make full use of workspaces and documentation features so that it will help your collaboration. You can also try the tool with a small team before scaling up the team. I give this review a rating of 9 out of 10.