With every investment and development Axway makes, the conversation circles back to the same goals. Make it easy to get APIs to market, have users access them, and oversee API performance—all while keeping secure, flexible connectivity top of mind.
These sentiments form the foundation for our latest Amplify Engage enhancements. Engage is our federated API management layer that provides one unified experience for surfacing APIs and for users to engage with them.
Working in bi-weekly sprints with at least one daily deployment, we consistently roll out new Amplify Engage features that benefit our customers and their networks. Here are some highlights of the latest enhancements we’re excited about. For a full overview, please check our latest release notes.
New features to benefit customers & consumers alike
1. Internationalization
APIs are available for consumers of all types, some of whom speak different languages. With the new Internationalization feature in Amplify Engage, API providers can fully localize the marketplace experience, including product definitions, consumption plans, and documentation artifacts, all driven from a single API product definition.
The ability to have the various languages to be managed by a separate persona, allowing your Product Managers to stay in control of the Product Experience, but allowing them to leverage a separate resource to manage the translations as needed. Four languages are entirely pre-baked into the platform, with plans to roll out additional ones shortly.
2. Documentation templates
With every API an organization publishes, standard components may appear across the board: a list of security guidelines, a Q&A section, a legal document, etc.
Documentation templates give API providers a predefined structure as they create an API product. This allows for more consistent and reliable documentation while supporting more efficient workflows.
3. Support for custom consumption units
Companies are opening up controlled and standardized ways (API, MCP) for internal and external parties to access their data, so that developers, applications and AI tools can use it. The cost of a query toward a language-learning model (LLM) is often not measured and monetized through traditional transactions, but often through a concept called tokens to better reflect the complexity and cost of the exchange.
Amplify Engage now includes support for tokens, among other custom consumption units. With that added transparency, organizations know the cost they incur/should offload to the business as a result of these exchanges.
4. Flexible consumption plans
Once an API consumption plan is created, the plan is normally fixed once the customer is under contract. But the reality is, APIs can be deprecated or replaced. Amplify Engage is prepared to offer support when that’s the case.
Let’s say a customer has a subscription that includes five APIs. Just like adding a new cell phone to a family plan, a customer can add another API to their existing API plan. APIs can be removed from the plan as well. Not only does it allow the evolution of plans, but it also allows the proper roll-out, respecting the contractual obligations the organization has with its subscribers.
5. Increased support for API mocking
Last year, we added mocking capabilities to Amplify Engage – to simplify the engagement with your developer community during the design stage of APIs – this feature complements the agents for source repositories, e.g. Github, Swaggerhub, and Backstage.
Now, these APIs automatically surface in the Service Registry and in just a few clicks, organizations can create a mock endpoint and enjoy the ease of co-development without any extra tools – including the ability to secure them. All in one convenient place, with a complete product experience.
6. Streamlined self-service
For API consumers, gaining access to APIs generally involves three steps: subscribe, register the application, and receive credentials. As part of our latest enhancements, we have streamlined the end user’s view to make this three-step process more intuitive.
Every organization that enables self-registration needs different information as part of the sign-up and validation process. That’s why we’ve given them the ability to customize the information that needs to be provided as part of the sign-up procedure. The Internationalization feature continues to be on at this point in the user experience.
And the list goes on for Axway Engage enhancements
Alongside these improvements, customers will notice other Amplify upgrades, such as:
- It’s easier to see and manage invoices and payments associated with APIs.
- A new dashboard offers a more accessible way to see the revenue APIs or API products generate.
- We’ve added and augmented support for IBM API Connect, WSO2, the SAP integration suite, and many other environments.
As we look ahead, plenty more improvements are in the works. They include:
- Expanding our unmanaged API support
- Agentic AI support – with support for MCP Tools and Agents – bolstering Engage to be not only the single place for your developers, but also the single source of truth for your LLMs and Agents.
- AI-supported documentation and product generation – leveraging the recently introduced documentation templates, to allow you to take your documentation to the next level while ensuring consistency.
- Developing product plan templates that make it easier to get APIs to market and ensure consistency in your consumption plans