API Mangement with IBM API Connect
Here in this blog, we will learn about API Management with API Connect.
What is API Management?
APIs are a driving force in the digital transformation strategy. They enable businesses to scale their operations by providing a convenient and standardized means of integrating data and applications across clouds and on-premise environments. However, as APIs grow in quantity and complexity, it becomes more challenging to manage, secure, and socialize them.
IBM API Connect helps businesses extract maximum value from their APIs. This comprehensive API management solution makes it easy to create, manage, secure, socialize and monetize APIs through their entire lifecycle. Achieve a faster, more robust, and flexible path for digital transformation with an API solution that puts API management to work.
Why API Mangement?
How can you ensure your APIs are consumable, secure and managed? This in-depth video explains how an API Management solution can help businesses of any size better manage the entire lifecycle of their APIs, as well as more securely and easily drive consumption of their business assets.
This lightboard video explains common terms that are used when discussing API connect development. See how an API Management solution can provide more flexibility for your architecture, enhanced security options, and key analytics to track the performance of your APIs.
How do you ensure your APIs are high quality and secure?
Streamlined and automated end-to-end API testing provides reliability and security for your APIs. This whitepaper “Can you trust your APIs?” explains in detail why testing APIs continuously is critical.
Finologee S.A., a digital finance platform operator, teamed up with IBM to streamline regulation-related processes—like Know Your Customer—for its banking and insurance clients. The result allowed Finologee’s banking clients to register a sixfold increase in customers onboarded and to transform a lengthy 15- page paper-based identification process into an 8-10-minute digital experience.
We are in the era of a technological revolution that is fundamentally altering the way we live and interact with each other. This digital disruption is happening at an unprecedented rate. Scale and volume of this impact are monumental, sparing no industry. The world economic forum has rightly called this age of digital transformation
as the “Fourth Industrial Revolution”.
APIs are the driving force for this digital innovation. Their emergence has unlocked the potential to exchange information faster and easier than was historically possible. They are increasingly used to integrate disparate data sources and unlock untapped opportunities giving rise to new business models.
APIs are the central nervous system that binds your core platform to your mobile app, website, and the rest of the world. The onus now shifts on enterprises to ensure the API behavior is intact, as it has a far-reaching effect on the app’s execution and enduser experience. Testing APIs continuously can no longer be ignored.
Shifting Left Matters
How does one keep up with the pace of this transformation? Enterprises are embracing automation in development and deployment for faster time to market. To be successful in this disruptive climate, it is not only important to release software applications but also ship updates to stay ahead of the competition and ensure
customer loyalty.
This rapid transformation is putting tremendous pressure on organizations to stay nimble. This, in turn, has led them to adopt continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD).
Though enterprises have invested in tools around CI/CD, testing remains primarily manual. Although teams have
improved the speed of delivery, quality has taken a backseat. Manual testing is often insufficient and time consuming particularly when validating growing codebases.
Being a customer-obsessed firm means delivering at high speed without compromising quality. The first step towards achieving high quality is to start testing sooner in the development lifecycle with a Shift Left strategy. This strategy must include automation and streamlining of testing to deliver at the speed the business expects.
