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Get the most out of your APIs

IBM API Connect® includes solutions for API management that allow you to package APIs for specific consumer markets; provide governance and version control; and promote across different environments with subscriptions, monetization and community management.
Benefits Increase lifecycle oversight

Gain extensive control over API versioning from staging to deprecation, meeting corporate governance needs.

 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.

 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.

 Enable monetization

Find the right value stream for your organization and support your API business model via a range of approaches to monetization.
Track APIs from planning through retirement

IBM API Connect is built to help you manage your APIs through every state of their lifecycle—from grouping APIs into Products, staging versions into environments, publishing and controlling access for application developers, introducing new versions and deprecating old, and eventual retiring and archiving.

 See how API management helps throughout the product lifecycle
Staging IBM API Connect allows you to stage a draft Product to a Catalog to create a specific version of that Product, so that the appropriate approvals, internally within the organization, can be given for it before it is published. In the staged state, the Product is not yet visible to developers. Learn about staging a draft Product in IBM API Connect
Publishing IBM API Developer Portal indicates when a Product is published and is available for use by application developers. A Product can be published to selected communities of application developer organizations, and the Plans within the Product can be used to tailor access and visibility further. Learn more about publishing a Product in IBM API Connect
Deprecating and superseding You can deprecate or supersede a published Product in API Manager by using the Manage Products page within a Catalog. When you deprecate a Product, application developers who are already subscribed to the Product can continue to use it, but no new developers can subscribe to the product. Learn about deprecating a Product in IBM API Connect
Retiring You can retire a published or deprecated Product by using the Manage Products page within a Catalog in API Manager. When a Product is retired, all associated APIs are taken offline, and any subscriptions are deleted. Learn more about retiring a Product in IBM API Connect
Automated subscriptions and billing

IBM API Connect allows you to define flexible pricing plans to automatically bill your customers and begin monetizing your API offerings.

 Learn how IBM API Connect helps monetize your APIs
Understand how your APIs are being used
Observe the traffic on your API calls to gain insights into how they are being consumed, so you can get a clearer understanding of who and what are driving your business. Explore API analytics
Research API usage

To gain insights into your API business and understand your API consumption, you need to be able to analyze your ecosystem of APIs.

 Learn how to access analytics in IBM API Connect Sort and filter data

With out-of-the-box dashboards, you can filter, sort and aggregate API data to easily analyze trends and gain insights such as identifying APIs best suited for monetization.

 Learn how to run advanced searches in IBM API Connect Integrate with enterprise analytics

Many companies prefer to perform data analytics using an enterprise logging and data lake solution, aggregating across disparate sources.

 Learn how to offload data to third-party systems
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Take control of your API ecosystem while propelling your API strategy forward.

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