Overview

What is IBM API Connect?

IBM® API Connect® is a complete, intuitive and scalable API platform that lets you create, expose, manage and monetize APIs across clouds. This means you and your customers can power digital applications and spur innovation. IBM API Connect is also available with other capabilities as an IBM Cloud Pak® solution, which can help you achieve your application modernization goals as part of your journey to cloud.
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Benefits

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Highly secure

IBM API Connect includes a single, signed, encrypted gateway to reduce cybersecurity risks.
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Trustworthy

IBM API Connect is trusted to manage and protect services and data across multicloud environments.
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Scalable

IBM API Connect uses a microservices-based architecture to scale components to meet SLAs.
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Intuitive

IBM API Connect uses an award-winning user experience to rapidly create, secure and manage APIs.
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Flexible

IBM API Connect works where your apps and data live —on premises, in containers or in the cloud.
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Robust

IBM API Connect helps you create, manage and share APIs while maintaining continuous availability.

Features

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API manager

Manage APIs for internal use, or to externally monetize and manage services as REST or SOAP APIs with the intuitive API manager user interface.

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IBM® DataPower® Gateway

Use this IBM gateway to help secure, control and log API traffic and interactions, and supporting containers while maintaining system performance.

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Developer portal

Share your APIs with app developers through a company-branded portal. Discover and subscribe to APIs as well as register and deploy associated apps.

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Capabilities

Create your APIs

Create your APIs

Accelerate API developer productivity with simplified methods and a built-in toolkit. Developers can create APIs that expose data, microservices, enterprise applications and SaaS services.

Create APIs

Help secure your APIs

Help secure your APIs

Expose systems of record, databases or services through APIs more securely to develop new mobile, IoT and web applications. Built-in policies help secure and control API delivery.

Help secure APIs

Manage your APIs

Manage your APIs

Publish, govern, analyze, monitor and monetize APIs rapidly, with built-in capabilities at every stage of the lifecycle, from planning and developing to testing, deploying and retiring.

Manage APIs

Socialize your APIs

Socialize your APIs

Engage internal and external API consumers through both a company-branded self-service portal and community-building abilities. This can drive API discovery and monetization, and broaden partnerships.

Socialize APIs

IBM Cloud Pak® for Integration

Get IBM API Connect as part of the IBM Cloud Pak for Integration to extend your investment and scale with confidence

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Integrated

IBM Cloud Pak for Integration includes built-in AI, closed-loop feedback and multistyle integration.

Complete

Get API management, application integration, end-to-end security and more.

Modern

It’s a modular and easy-to-consume pricing approach, so you only pay for what you need.

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Testimonial

With IBM API Connect, we can get new features to market up to four times faster

Eric Barault
Co-founder and Technical Director
Carbip

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Case studies

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Unlocking the hidden value of data

API management technology based on IBM API Connect helps Inomera provide a way to build, deploy and manage APIs.

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Fueling a social driving revolution

The Carbip app helps coordinate car-sharing and car-pooling across France with IBM Watson® Data Platform technology.

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Using API management to simplify financial services

IBM API Connect helps Moneytree offer customers one-stop access to specialized financial services providers.

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Creating an API economy to compete

IBM API Connect and IBM DataPower Gateway helps RBL Bank create new solutions for retail customers.

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Reaching more customers in API economy

YES BANK uses APIs in mobile banking to reach new customers, open new markets and participate in the API economy.

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Disrupting the logistics industry

FreshTurf worked with IBM Garage to build a blockchain distributed ledger solution on an IBM Cloud® platform.

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Related products

IBM MQ

Discover enterprise messaging that can help simplify and accelerate the reliable exchange of data.

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IBM DataPower Gateway

Learn how this single, purpose-built gateway controls and accelerates API, mobile, and cloud workloads.

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IBM App Connect

Find out more about this all-in-one tool for connecting apps, integrating data, building APIs and acting on events.

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Get started with IBM API Connect

Take control of your API ecosystem while propelling your API strategy forward.

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