API Connect use cases

Transform existing backend services into managed APIs
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Dashboard interface showing the process of creating an API based on GraphQL service in API Connect
Create APIs

Bring order to your API chaos. Whether you’re working with REST, AsyncAPI, WebSockets, GraphQL, SOAP—or all of the above—API Connect provides robust self-service features that support the full API lifecycle and a world-class developer portal.

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Manage APIs

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.

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Dashboard interface showing a specific API with policies and properties interconnections in API Connect
Secure APIs

From design-time to run-time, API Connect delivers intuitive, innovative and easy-to-use security and governance features that promote consistency and confidence, including IBM DataPower® Gateway and Noname Advanced API Security.

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Action steps for socializing APIs in API Connect
Socialize APIs

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.

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Trust an industry leader

Two reports, one consensus. Both Forrester Wave™: API Management Software, Q3 2024 and Gartner® Magic Quadrant for API Management named API Connect a leader. That’s because it’s built to drive quality, productivity and innovation.

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See API Connect in action to learn how consistent, reliable and cost-effective API management fosters security, governance and innovation, all on a market-leading platform.

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