Overview

Get the most out of your APIs

IBM API Connect® includes API manager, a robust service for managing API lifecycles with the capabilities necessary to make your APIs easily consumable. Access API Connect capabilities through the intuitive GUI, the powerful CLI or as full featured REST APIs.
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Features

API manager makes it easy to do it all

Expand your services

Define and import REST or SOAP APIs, enabling you to continually evolve and expand the services you can offer.

Target new markets

Package APIs into products tailored to specific API consumer markets while also easily managing user access.

Broaden your reach

Publish and promote APIs across environments to reach developers while aligning with DevOps practices.

Increase lifecycle oversight

Gain extensive control over API versioning from staging to deprecation, meeting corporate governance needs.

Manage growing communities

Harness subscription and community management capabilities to effectively grow go-to-market channels.

Act on insight

Filter, sort and aggregate API event data into charts, tables and maps to manage service levels and analyze trends.

Using externalized APIs

A modern approach to monetization

Explore new ways to use your APIs to drive revenue. API manager can assist with revenue-driving models, such as transaction fees, zero fees and more.
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Intuitive tools for monetizing APIs

Flexible billing options

Configure billing and payment options to include multiple API pricing models.

Easy pricing strategies

Choose from commonly used pricing models, and easily configure pricing without custom code.

Subscription capabilities

Take advantage of subscription pricing support to enable recurring payments.

Key software support

Use built-in support for Stripe online payment software for smooth user onboarding and payment.

Integrated analytics

Get insight into revenue and use of monetized APIs with customizable reports and analytics.

Effortless data transfer

Handle customized invoicing processes by offloading API use data to existing enterprise tools.

Use case

Managing APIs in the banking industry

To grow, banks need to a large volume of APIs — for digital wallets, reward programs, ATM-related geolocation purposes, and more. 
The API manager interface in IBM API Connect can help handle the management and monetization of innumerable APIs.
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API lifecycles and monetization

Manage roles and permissions

Role creation dashboard

Manage roles and permissions

Easily manage your role and permissions access with built-in fine-grained user controls.

Customize roles

Roles settings dashboard

Customize roles

Control your user access by creating your own finely-detailed customized roles.

Create products and catalogs

Products Status sandbox dashboard

Create products and catalogs

Create products or catalogs for consumers, and use drop-downs to move APIs along the lifecycle.

Create products and plans

Custom plan creation dashboard

Create products and plans

Create custom products and plans, including pricing and rate limits, for monetizing your APIs

Testimonial

When we began our digital transformation, we consciously chose to go with IBM because it provided a comprehensive set of capabilities in IBM Cloud.

Nitesh Saini
Principal for Technology Foundation and Business Intelligence
Canon Europe

Read the case study

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