Overview
Get the most out of your APIs
IBM® API Connect® includes API manager, a robust service for managing API lifecycles with the capabilities necessary to make your APIs easily consumable. Access API Connect capabilities through the intuitive GUI, the powerful CLI or as full-featured REST APIs. IBM API Connect API manager can assist with revenue-driving models, such as transaction fees, zero fees and more.
Features
API manager makes it easy to do it all
Expand your services
Define and import REST or SOAP APIs, enabling you to continually evolve and expand the services you can offer.
Target new markets
Package APIs into products tailored to specific API consumer markets while also easily managing user access.
Broaden your reach
Publish and promote APIs across environments to reach developers while aligning with DevOps practices.
Increase lifecycle oversight
Gain extensive control over API versioning from staging to deprecation, meeting corporate governance needs.
Manage growing communities
Harness subscription and community management capabilities to effectively grow go-to-market channels.
Act on insight
Filter, sort and aggregate API event data into charts, tables and maps to manage service levels and analyze trends.
Using externalized APIs
A modern approach to monetization
Explore new ways to use your APIs to drive revenue. API manager can assist with revenue-driving models, such as transaction fees, zero fees and more.
Intuitive tools for monetizing APIs
Flexible billing options
Easy pricing strategies
Subscription capabilities
Key software support
Integrated analytics
Effortless data transfer
Industry use case
Managing APIs in the banking industry
To grow, banks need to a large volume of APIs — for digital wallets, reward programs, ATM-related geolocation purposes, and more.
The API manager interface in IBM API Connect can help handle the management and monetization of innumerable APIs.
API lifecycles and monetization
Manage roles and permissions
Manage roles and permissions
Easily manage your role and permissions access with built-in fine-grained user controls.
Customize roles
Customize roles
Control your user access by creating your own finely-detailed customized roles.
Create products and catalogs
Create products and catalogs
Create products or catalogs for consumers, and use drop-downs to move APIs along the lifecycle.
Create products and plans
Create products and plans
Create custom products and plans, including pricing and rate limits, for monetizing your APIs
Testimonial
When we began our digital transformation, we consciously chose to go with IBM because it provided a comprehensive set of capabilities in IBM Cloud.
Nitesh Saini
Principal for Technology Foundation and Business Intelligence
Canon Europe
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