Overview
A simpler experience for creating and modernizing APIs
The IBM API Connect® developer toolkit and native creation tooling provides a CLI and a GUI, called API Designer, to quickly create and configure APIs and LoopBack applications
Use case
Creating APIs in the healthcare industry
IBM API Connect gives API developers all the tools they need to create security-rich, easy-to-use APIs for an array of healthcare applications — from wellness trackers to vaccine records.
Features
Everything you need to build APIs
Drag-and-drop policies
Save developers’ time and reduce errors with drag-and-drop assembly for many complex API policies, with no XML required.
Definition templates
Enforce corporate standards by using pre-existing templates for both API definitions and API product definitions.
Integrated security
Secure APIs, including those created with IBM App Connect, to accelerate API delivery.
Simplified categorization
Use customer-defined metadata to simplify API categorization and searchability and control API gateway behavior.
Seamless experience
Move from developing APIs in the developer toolkit to publishing and managing them in IBM API Connect without interruption.
Simple governance
Allow your lines of business to publish internal and external APIs to a single corporate portal.
Powerful tools
GUI
GUI
Create an API with definitions in a comfortable graphical user interface (GUI) that clearly walks you through the optional and required inputs for your API.
Proxy and invoke web services
Proxy and invoke web services
Proxy and invoke the existing web services that you want to secure, manage and share with others by decoupling the front-end API from its back-end services.
Security configuration
Security configuration
Configure simple GUI security or use powerful drag-and-drop policies to reinforce gateways when creating an API; securely share endpoint access with users.
Customization
Customization
For advanced needs, use built-in drag-and-drop policies proven in financial enterprises and defense departments — or customize your own with GatewayScript.
Testimonial
Choosing the right IBM technologies has helped us turn Carbip from a bright idea into a viable product in less than 12 months.
Eric Barault
Co-founder and Technical Director
Carbip
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