IBM acquires GraphQL innovator StepZen to help enterprises get more business value from their data
Overview
A management solution for the entire API lifecycle
IBM API Connect® is a security-rich API management solution that uses an intuitive experience to help consistently create, manage, secure, socialize and monetize APIs, helping power digital transformation on premises and across clouds. This means you and your customers can power digital apps and spur innovation in real time. IBM API Connect is also available as-a-Service as a highly scalable, fully managed API management platform on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
IBM API Connect demo: Create, manage, secure, and socialize your APIs (05:53)
Benefits
See how IBM API Connect stands out as an API management provider
Intuitive features
Manage APIs with an award-winning user experience and developer portal with robust self-service features that allow developers to quickly implement strategy across the full API lifecycle.
Flexible deployment
Use IBM API Connect wherever your apps and data reside—whether that is on cloud, on premises or across any hybrid environment.
Highly secure API exposure
Feel safe knowing that IBM API Connect uses a powerful, enterprise-grade API gateway to manage cybersecurity risks and help protect your data across multicloud environments.
Trustworthy architecture
Scale components on the back end to meet SLAs and more securely manage and protect services across all your endpoints with a microservices-based architecture from IBM API Connect.
Features
API gateway
API gateway
Use IBM DataPower® Gateway to help secure, control and log API traffic and interactions, and to support containers while maintaining system performance.
API manager
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.
Developer portal
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.
Developer tooling
Developer tooling
Get the tools you need for modeling, developing, and testing APIs — and then publishing them to IBM API Connect.
Capabilities
Create your APIs
Work from the GUI or command-line to accelerate and automate your API development and testing for REST (OpenAPI v2 & v3), SOAP (WSDL), GraphQL, and WebSockets-based APIs.
Manage your APIs
Package APIs for specific consumer markets, provide governance and version control, and promote across different environments with subscriptions, monetization, and community management.
Secure your APIs
Help secure, control and mediate access to APIs using OAuth, OpenID Connect and third-party services, and help protect endpoints with an enterprise-grade API gateway.
Socialize your APIs
Enable application developers to easily discover and consume your APIs using self-service portals, subscription tools and forums so you can provide support to your growing community.
Pricing options
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
Consume as a service; hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Reserved Instance (SaaS)
Consumed as a single-tenant service that meets greater isolation and availability requirements; hosted on IBM Cloud.
Software
Deploy on premises, in a hybrid cloud, or multi-cloud environment.
Case studies
Learn how customers applied IBM API Connect to improve their API Management strategies
Next steps
Get started with IBM API Connect
Take control of your API ecosystem while propelling your API strategy forward.