DreamFactory
DreamFactory Software, Inc. | 1.0.0Linux/Unix, Ubuntu 22 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Innovative DreamFactory
What do you like best about the product?
This tool is basically an open source platform, which offers different benefits that differentiate it from other similar software, for example; Security is critical and indispensable for APIs, but DreamFactory makes it easy enough for its users, it has specifications that applications must follow to communicate with each other, and the user interface facilitates human-software interaction. This tool has a type of API that turns out to be innovative, this because it provides users with all the essential middleware content so that they can create continuous and powerful connections between a wide number of systems, without worrying about technical or infrastructure scopes. The software allows you to attach your systems or databases to the system itself, which makes DreamFactory a fully flexible and automated function tool, the latter could also be highlighted as being compatible with different equipment and operating systems.
What do you dislike about the product?
I had a few mishaps to set up the app at first, despite having read and gone through the manuals over and over and watching video tutorials on how to use it, it took me longer than estimated, plus updates are usually very invasive.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Because DreamFactory is designed to be security shielded, easy to use, flexible to customize, and with various options to be expandable, I have been able to satisfy most of the needs that APIs need.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you only need to use the basic functions of the API, it is best to use the free version, so you can avoid both increasing the cost and making the tool unnecessarily more complex.
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it is a very intuitive and useful tool to manage
What do you like best about the product?
is a great tool that allows you to manage and carry out the control and proper handling of the data handled by the entire work team, thus helping to improve the performance of the entire work team.
What do you dislike about the product?
When you want to debug problems, it does not allow you to do it for me to be the main inconvenient because I try to eliminate information and do not allow it to be done.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Thanks to this tool, it is easy to access and manage all the data that is handled by the work team, thus facilitating the organization and accessibility of said data.
Agile, robust and flexible, as it should be
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of connecting relational data sources with file systems and objects, generating understandable and extraneous powerful APIs in a few clicks, coupled with ACL control and triggered script processing in internal API events, is extremely scalable, run it all on the infrastructure provider I want.
What do you dislike about the product?
Debugging scripts is not always easy, deploying role modifications also requires extra attention. A command line tool to represent configuration state through code would be very welcome.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
With DF it was possible to envelop the legacy systems that we have, adopting a granular strategy in the migration to microservices. Centralizing access control with support for several roles for different types of users and applications was a significant milestone for us. We reduced implementation time and kept the team lean.
DreamFactory is like the Ruby on Rails for APIs
What do you like best about the product?
DreamFactory provides you commercially ready APIs instantly via what I guess you could call an API Framework. Many of the decisions are made for you, and intentionally so. Building APIs is mundane and involved, so a tool that moves you through this process fast by automatically providing best practices allows our team to focus on higher value add tasks.
DreamFactory is also very lightweight and fast for a full lifecycle API Management tool. By that I mean that you don't need to firstly incorporate an enterprise message bus that realistically requires its own full time developer. As DreamFactory is ROA based, you don't need to worry about this.
The API orchestration afforded by DreamFactory is also fantastic. The ability to incorporate multiple, unrelated data sources in single API calls enables us to develop some great services that would otherwise be cumbersome.
DreamFactory is also very lightweight and fast for a full lifecycle API Management tool. By that I mean that you don't need to firstly incorporate an enterprise message bus that realistically requires its own full time developer. As DreamFactory is ROA based, you don't need to worry about this.
The API orchestration afforded by DreamFactory is also fantastic. The ability to incorporate multiple, unrelated data sources in single API calls enables us to develop some great services that would otherwise be cumbersome.
What do you dislike about the product?
The UI is a little dated, but this in no way takes away from the functionality.
Some of the documentation was a little lacking (the wiki), but the new guide that has just been released has been a fantastic resource for us on how to leverage the solution to its fullest.
Some of the documentation was a little lacking (the wiki), but the new guide that has just been released has been a fantastic resource for us on how to leverage the solution to its fullest.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We digitized our quality assurance process in our manufacturing plant from a previously paper based system using DreamFactory in combination with AppSheet (AppSheet for the front-end). This mobile application using dynamic forms and plugging live data from multiple systems saved a big time delay for our production line, and also reduced duplicated data entry & human error.
We additionally had a number of legacy data sources that we modernized, especially moving from difficult SOAP APIs to standardized REST APIs.
We additionally had a number of legacy data sources that we modernized, especially moving from difficult SOAP APIs to standardized REST APIs.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Have a call with them. We had a senior engineer on the first call, so fitting our need to their solution was very easy.
Absolutely invaluable
What do you like best about the product?
DreamFactory has saved us countless development hours by providing an extremely easy way to bridge our data sources. Before we replaced our homegrown solution with DreamFactory, we constantly had to make code updates on our end. Now it all happens behind the scenes without any manual intervention.
One feature that we didn't know existed at first is the abiliity to write you own transformation scripts/routines. You can think of it as a the "T" layer in a ETL process, but applied directly to your API. This was our original concern with using DreamFactory, but after seeing they had this already bulit-in, it washed all our concerns away. They have this stuff set up really well.
One feature that we didn't know existed at first is the abiliity to write you own transformation scripts/routines. You can think of it as a the "T" layer in a ETL process, but applied directly to your API. This was our original concern with using DreamFactory, but after seeing they had this already bulit-in, it washed all our concerns away. They have this stuff set up really well.
What do you dislike about the product?
We haven't run into any issues with the product yet. It's a pretty intuitive UI so all of our team members have been able to get up and running pretty quickly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have many disparate data sources that we need to eventually aggregate into an API, and a lot of transforming that needs to happen as well. This is all plug-n-play with DreamFactory.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
They have an OSS version of their software. I recommend giving it a spin.
Great product, great support
What do you like best about the product?
Dreamfactory is super easy to configure new endpoints in. Connecting to both closed and open source dbms is easy and the consistent way of exposing endpoints take make libraries of code really easy to reuse. The support is also really good - often just a few second on chat.
What do you dislike about the product?
The hardest part are the upgrades. For a mission critical app, downtime needs to be minimal. The upgrades certainly don't require much downtime, but it does .ean we have to do upgrades off hours.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Rapid application development, secure data communication .
Recommendations to others considering the product:
They provide excellent support and are will to work with you to get your environment set up. Even for free users, the forums are pretty good.
DreamFactory Custom API Development
What do you like best about the product?
Just a few clicks and cut-and-paste of Swagger-based API endpoints definition to create a serverless custom API endpoints.
What do you dislike about the product?
The editor to write serverless function to handle endpoints does not support versioning, and there is no advanced real-time error checking feature.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are trying to map
Build a REST API on any database with no coding!
What do you like best about the product?
The full documentation and testing features of the API Docs section of the software. It allows even a novice user to spin up Postman and start experimenting. It is truly one of the best features of the package.
What do you dislike about the product?
Current pricing is a bit high for the enterprise level connections. Going from open-source and free to use to tens of thousands of dollars is a big wall to climb.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
A problem we've overcome is the ability to make legacy and third party data available to our web development team form our internal ERP system. The benefits are being realized nearly every day that we discover something new. For instance, we have now realized that we can pipe in other REST services or even SOAP services and output them in a consistent and normalized way using DreamFactory's services modules. Want to serve up MS-SQL to a custom React project? Knock yourself out. Thinking of doing iOS development on top of an Oracle DB or SAP? Do it. The sky is the limit.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you really need an API that's robust and very detailed to access your hard to obtain or virtually inaccessible data, DreamFactory will probably ease your pain considerably. Oracle, SAP, SQL Server, SQL, MySQL, and many more become REST API's with a snap. Once installed, there is very little configuration and then you have users, permissions, roles, and the ability to write custom scripts in your preferred language that do even more. I can't describe in just a few words how powerful this software is.
Simple API solution for tough DB access problem
What do you like best about the product?
Simplicity - DreamFactory's easy API solution to put on our db's makes life really easy. Gets us our data quickly and easily.
What do you dislike about the product?
Honestly, there's not a lot I don't like. Things can always be a bit easier, a bit simpler, etc., but overall they do a great job.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Accessing our data in multiple random databases.
Easy and effective. Database integration in lightning speed
What do you like best about the product?
APIs are built for you - and not just any APIs. Fully documented, fully secured (OAuth, LDAP, Active Directory, SAML Integration...) and accessible through a 3rd party client.
Very easy to import Active Directory. Very easy to create roles with appropriate limits.
Logging functionality great as well.
Very easy to import Active Directory. Very easy to create roles with appropriate limits.
Logging functionality great as well.
What do you dislike about the product?
UI isn't very pretty, but its an 11/10 on functionality, & productivity.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
For us it was a question of what was the best way to build our new apps. Our APIs would honestly have taken 6-8 (expensive) developers a few months to build or was going to take me and my organic team longer - but we would have to stop everything to do it. I have built APIs in the past and it is messy and never finished on time - so DreamFactory's solution of instantly creating and deploying the APIs for a fraction of the cost of that development team, and a fraction of the cost of what we would be giving up to do organic development, was a no-brainer.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Think of the true cost of DIY APIs & the cost of other API Management tools. For us, DreamFactory cost in a year what an API team would have in a month, and what slower API Managers would cost in 2 months.
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