Overview
The value of API management
IBM Cloud Pak® for Integration uses the API management capability of IBM API Connect® to help you create, manage, secure and socialize your ecosystem of APIs and implement a robust API strategy.
As businesses embrace their digital transformation journey, APIs become critical to unlock the value of business data and assets. With the increasing adoption of APIs, consistency and governance are needed across the enterprise.
How it’s used
Create your APIs
Create your APIs
Accelerate API creation with a simplified user experience to expose data, microservices, enterprise applications, and SaaS services through open standards. Improve developer productivity and API quality using integrated developer tooling and automated test generation.
Manage your APIs
Manage your APIs
Rapidly organize, publish, and analyze any API with governance and version control across the API lifecycle. Organize many forms of APIs into API products with full control over visibility across consumers, internal and external.
Secure your APIs
Secure your APIs
Accelerate time to value with easy-to-apply, built-in policies to secure, control and mediate the delivery of APIs. Protect your data and business assets by deploying gateways, near your cloud-native apps and microservices, or in the DMZ.
Socialize your APIs
Socialize your APIs
Empower application developers to explore and consume your APIs using branded self-service portals. Engage with consumers using community-building features such as blogs and forums.
What you get
API management features
API developer tools
Create multiple forms of APIs using integrated developer tooling to model, develop, test, debug, and publish your APIs.
API manager
Quickly create an API product with built-in, comprehensive lifecycle management and governance.
API gateway service
Secure, control, and mediate access to your APIs using IBM DataPower Gateway.
Developer portal
Easily customize portals with company branding to provide consistent socialization of your APIs, from exploration to consumption.
API analytics dashboards
Rich dashboards and visualization enable you to understand and assess the business value of API usage.
API monetization
Create and manage plans that monetize your APIs using a variety of pricing models.
Testimonial
When an OpCo comes to me and says, ‘I need the data from the customer interface between application Y and Z,’ I point them to the API Connect self-service portal, explain how to get the key to this API, and they can start using the integration right away.
Guus Groeneweg
Product Owner for Digital Integration at HEINEKEN