There are a lot of great API managers available. Starting with the A’s, we have Akana, Apigee, AWS and Azure, among others. DreamFactory is a secure, self-hosted enterprise data access platform that provides governed API access to any data source, connecting enterprise applications and on-prem LLMs with role-based access and identity passthrough. The first part of this post explores how you can use DreamFactory with almost any API manager. The second part explores scenarios where DreamFactory is a more effective way to manage governed data access than an API management solution alone.