API Connect features

Drive digital transformation through comprehensive, multi-cloud API management
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Improve API quality

With AI that helps you remediate errors and security and governance features that instill peace of mind, API Connect raises the bar on performance.

Streamline development

An intuitive user experience makes it simple to build, discover and reuse APIs. AI handles routine work, allowing developers to focus on innovation.

Scale with confidence

API Connect facilitates consistency, empowering you to seamlessly integrate with third-party services through APIs and experiment with new technologies.

Deploy anywhere

Run APIs wherever it makes sense for your business—on premises, in the cloud, across a hybrid environment or as a SaaS deployment.

Comprehensive functionality tailored to your needs

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AI gateway

This gatekeeper provides policies to centrally manage the use of AI APIs and insights to help you make decisions faster on Large Language Model (LLM) choices.

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API assistant

Powered by watsonx.ai™ and using gen AI, the API Assistant enhances speed and precision by automating tasks, focusing teams on higher-value work and innovation.

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API gateway

An enterprise gateway designed to securely expose data and business applications wherever they reside, on premises and across clouds.

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API manager

This user interface provides capabilities for governance, versioning and full control over visibility across consumers, whether internal or external.

 

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API testing

Create trust in your API program through AI-assisted iterative testing, automatic validation, integrated continuous testing and insights into API quality from comprehensive dashboards.

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Developer Portal

An integrated web-based platform where application developers and API consumers can discover, explore, socialize and subscribe to your APIs.

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Developer tooling

A comprehensive set of developer tools to create or import API definitions, secure them and test them locally to help ensure they are defined and implemented correctly before they are published.

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GraphQL API development

Iterate faster on APIs and application development with a command-line interface (CLI), built-in testing and reporting and enterprise-level security..

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