Learn to manage your APIs
Manage your APIs by using the API Manager user interface of IBM® API Connect. You can also analyze your API usage by using the analytics that are provided and socialize your APIs in a Developer Portal.
Help page of the API
Manager, and API Designer user interfaces,
click the Product information tile to find out information about your product
and Git package versions. The API Designer product information
is based on its associated management server, but the Git information is based on where it was
downloaded from.Why use APIs?
Whether you are a business user, an IT user, or an application developer, APIs are increasingly important to your business. You can use an API to publicize your company. Also, you can provide the assets, data, or services of your company to the external application developers to expand your enterprise and open new markets.
API Manager provides a solution for companies to manage APIs for private internal APIs, and public external APIs. By using this on-premises offering, you can externalize and manage your services as REST or SOAP APIs.
What do you need to know?
Depending on your role, you can complete different tasks to manage your API catalogs. Each task is covered in this document in the order that they are run.
Each task introduces new features of API Manager as they become relevant to the catalog that you are building.
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The following topics explain the different ways that you can manage your APIs.