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Overview

IBM® API Connect® is a secure API management solution that utilizes 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 with other capabilities as part of IBM Cloud Pak® for Integration, which can help you automate application modernization and API management as part of your journey to cloud.

Capabilities

Create your APIs

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Create your APIs

Accelerate API developer productivity with simplified methods and a built-in toolkit. Developers can create APIs that expose data, microservices, enterprise apps and SaaS services.

Create APIs

Manage your APIs

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Manage your APIs

Publish, govern, analyze, monitor and monetize APIs rapidly, with built-in capabilities at every stage of the lifecycle, from planning and developing to testing, deploying and retiring.

Manage APIs

Help secure your APIs

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Help secure your APIs

Expose systems of record, databases or services through APIs more securely to develop new mobile, IoT and web apps. Built-in policies help secure and control API delivery on the back end.

Help secure APIs

Socialize your APIs

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Socialize your APIs

Engage internal and external API consumers through a company-branded, self-service portal and community-building functionalities. This can drive API discovery and monetization and broaden partnerships.

Socialize APIs

Benefits

See how IBM API Connect stands out as an API management provider.

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Intuitive

Applies API management with an award-winning user experience and developer portal to rapidly create, manage, secure, and socialize APIs across your full API lifecycle
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Robust

Packed full of API management features required to quickly implement API strategy with consistency and control for your business and self-service for developers
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Highly secure

Enables trusted API management with a powerful enterprise-grade API gateway to reduce cybersecurity risks and protect your data across multicloud environments
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Trustworthy

Uses a microservices-based architecture to scale components to meet SLAs on the back end and securely manage and protect services consistently across all your endpoints

Features

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.

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IBM® DataPower® API Gateway

Use this IBM gateway to help secure, control and log API traffic and interactions, and supporting containers while maintaining system performance.

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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.

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Developer toolkit

Get the tools you need for modeling, developing, and testing APIs — and then publishing them to IBM API Connect.

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Multicloud deployment

Get flexibility with consistency to run everywhere — on premises, in the cloud or in a hybrid cloud environment.

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API Analytics dashboard

Take advantage of rich dashboards and visualization that enable you to understand and assess the business value of API usage.

Explore API Analytics dashboards

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Case studies

Learn how real clients applied API Connect to improve their API Management strategies

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Enabling a transparent integration strategy using API management

Heineken uses API Connect to develop API-based integrations accessible to everyone inside and outside the organization.

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API management to give customers a top-notch banking experience

IBM API Connect helps Federal Bank create an API banking system to better integrate with other organizations and ecosystems.

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Streamlining RegTech components for banking and insurance

Finologee uses API Connect to develop an off-the-shelf solution for open banking.

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Enabling fast, affordable integration with an API platform

1Link uses API Connect to provide a centralized platform for secure access to the company’s APIs for testing and integration.

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Creating an API economy to compete

IBM API Connect and IBM DataPower Gateway help RBL Bank create new solutions for retail customers.

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Unlocking the hidden value of data

API management technology based on IBM API Connect helps Inomera provide a way to build, deploy and manage APIs.

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Automate integrations

Discover IBM Cloud Pak for Integration

Get IBM API Connect as part of the IBM Cloud Pak for Integration to extend your investment and scale with confidence.

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Automate

IBM Cloud Pak for Integration includes built-in AI automation and continuous feedback.

Integrate

Get API management, app integration, end-to-end security and more – all in one Pak.

Modernize

Varied styles of integration with flexible, open-source deployment options using a modular pricing approach.

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