Tag: API Management
API News Roundup – March 2022
Here are op-eds and company news you may have missed in March, along with top API and digital transformation stories from around the web.
At...
Survey: Closing the gap between API development and API consumption
As the digital links that enable countless disparate applications to communicate with each other, APIs are the glue holding much of our connected world...
Why a “one-size-fits-all” approach to API development doesn’t work
There are multiple uses for and approaches in developing APIs. Which strategy works best depends on your staff, your target outcomes, and your ability...
Practical API Security: The OWASP API Security Top Ten
API security is on everyone’s mind: after all, APIs always open up network-accessible interfaces that previously may not have been exposed. Making sure that...
API News Roundup – February 2022
At Axway, we believe in an “Open Everything” world: that the best digital experiences will be built on open API platforms, as well as...
Stop tinkering with APIs and start delivering secure business outcomes
You need a more scalable and consumable way to capitalize on opening key data and processes; you know that. You're also committed to using...
API News Round-up – November 2021
Did you know some of our greatest content doesn’t live here on the blog? Axway experts often share their knowledge at conferences and in...
A brief history of API management and where it’s going
The term "API Management" is used frequently, but it can mean different things to different people. There is no single "right" or "wrong" way...
Gartner® Magic Quadrant™: Axway has now been named a Leader in the report for...
Gartner has now named Axway a Leader in the 2021 Magic Quadrant for Full Life Cycle API Management six times, and Axway is positioned...
What job are you hiring your APIs to do? Look to a leader for...
I couldn’t be prouder of our Axway teams: we’ve been recognized as a Leader — for the sixth time — in the 2021 Gartner®...
API terminology explained: Gateways, Portals, API Catalogs, Marketplaces
The API Management space has evolved a lot over the last two decades. With APIs becoming increasingly important as the foundational building blocks of...
Growing API complexity on Tech Talks Daily podcast
Jana Frejova recently joined Tech Talks Daily podcast host Neil Hughes to discuss growing enterprise API complexity, how it’s slowing down future growth, and...
API complexity holds enterprises back
Over the last couple of years, we’ve noticed a new phenomenon. We started calling it “API complexity.”
Until recently, APIs were considered a hot new...
No one likes a leaky API: security requires a combination of technology & processes
Not long ago, Peloton — the well-known manufacturer of high-end exercise equipment — experienced an unfortunate incident where a long-lasting security vulnerability in Peloton’s...
Why 60% of enterprises are dealing with API complexity
With the advent of the cloud, the enterprise IT landscape allowed for lines of business to operate independently and a lot faster, opening up...
What we’re learning from Apple’s App Tracking Transparency move: Trust is your competitive advantage
As of Apple’s April 26th launch of iOS 14.5, apps must start using the company’s new App Tracking Transparency framework. As Brenton House recently explained,...
Hypermedia APIs: What are they and what can they do for you?
Like anything in life, APIs come in different "flavors." In the case of APIs, these are called "API Styles," and there are five major...
Four challenges of using multiple API gateways: Webinar takeaways
IT architectures are becoming more complex with multiple API gateways. And without central visibility and control over your APIs, multiple gateways can mean various...
Centralized Management of Decentralization: API Governance at scale
APIs and API management creates the most value when the APIs are closely aligned with value production and flows so that it becomes easier...
What are the top list of API Management vendors and key criteria
When selecting the right API Management tooling to support your digital initiatives, platforms, and transformation, it's critical to factor in some key criteria that...
Four easy ideas for a perfect API Developer Experience
If you are a Developer and use APIs, you certainly have used some API Portals. An API Portal is a website that provides you with all the API definitions (Swagger...
An API is a promise
What is an API? This is an interesting question that can be answered on many levels. There certainly is a technical side to it, then...
Event-enable your enterprise with Amplify API Management
From trading floors to customer service centers, enterprises that operate in real-time and leverage Event-Driven Architecture reap significant benefits. For example, A millisecond difference...
Steps to deploy API Manager image to AWS Fargate
This guide reports the steps to build an API Manager image in a Docker environment, as well as how to deploy it to AWS Fargate.
Assumptions
It’s...
What is “CRE” and what is the value for Axway customers?
The origins of Customer Reliability Engineering
Customer Reliability Engineering (CRE) is a practice that was initiated by Google in 2016, following the success and value...
Event-driven API Management — Change data capture
We previously introduced why Event-driven APIs matter on the APIFriends blog. Then, last week, I introduced the need for Event-Driven API Management, what capabilities...
The healthcare community-building patient experience with API Platforms: Part 1
The healthcare community is guided by one key objective — to deliver the best patient experience during diagnostic, cure, and observation.
Axway’s customers span the...
What is Semantic Versioning?
Semantic Versioning is a versioning scheme for using meaningful version numbers (that's why it is called Semantic Versioning). Specifically, the meaning revolves around how API versions...
Three profiles of an organization using an API Management solution
Gartner’s recent “Hype Cycle for API and Business Ecosystems, 2020” placed Full Lifecycle API Management in the “Plateau of Productivity” and stated of Full Lifecycle API Management:
“The journey up...
Top 3 ways to use Analyst Reports to your full advantage
Most developers do not have a seat holder license with an industry analyst firm. That doesn’t mean that you can’t and shouldn't get your...
You Cannot Just Throw Your Data into a Blender but Your IT Can Support...
As we all know data is everywhere. We all have our secret ways of storing our data and using our data. I remember having...
API Portal 2020 New Features
In May 2020, we released the second "smaller" update of AMPLIFY™ API Management within a two-month update cycle conceived under the "One Version" initiative...
How to structure a successful digital transformation
Insanity means doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results.
I saw a quote earlier by a leading industry analyst firm that...
Architecture: From Vision to Action
In the process of forming a new Architecture Group at Axway, I found myself explaining how this function fits into the overall R&D process...
How is the API Gateway being used?
Data-driven decisions are key to ensure we, as a company, make informed choices to find the right direction on the compass of success. As...
Axway API Management CLI
I'm pleased to share API Manager CLI utility which could be helpful for engineers working with the Axway API Gateway Manager. This tool is...
Five ways APIs help businesses during uncertain times
APIs are the key drivers of any business. Companies need to evolve quickly — either scaling up or down. With an API-driven platform, you...
How to run successful API Programs: Five necessary areas
Establishing and running an API program is a step that many organizations have done or are planning to do. The observation often starts from initial experiences...
Unified Catalog just got more awesome! Part 1: Integration with Microsoft Azure
For a while now we have been advertising how you could leverage the v7 Manager and AWS discovery agents publish your APIs to the environment grouping view...
Axway AMPLIFY™ Central Order Signing
My team: White Glove Treatment, submitted our hack called "Central Order Signing" as a part of the recently completed Axway Hackathon 2020.
It meets the...
API Management in 2020: The Age of Hybridization [French translation provided]
Today's IT architects face many challenges in their API strategies. For many, the shift to APIs was undertaken in the wake of digital transformation...
3 reasons to create an API Platform for your API Practice
Having an API doesn’t matter if nobody’s using it. That’s from the O’Reilly book “APIs: A Strategy Guide..
Gartner, in the 2019 Magic Quadrant for...
Axway + Solace Part 3: Axway APIM + the Solace JMS Client
As mentioned in part two of this blog series, modernizing legacy applications to integrate with a modern Event-Driven architecture can be difficult. Digital Evolution by...
What is API testing?
API testing refers to testing APIs to ascertain if they meet the requirements for performance, security, functionality and dependability.
For starters, APIs don’t have a...
API Management Software Customer Success Report names Axway a Market Leader in 2020
For the second year in a row, FeaturedCustomers.com has named Axway a Market Leader in the API Management category for the Spring 2020 Customer...
How big is the API Management Market?
APIs are eating the world.
APIs are being discussed on the board-level—even written about in Forbes Magazine. APIs are behind everything digital. And APIs are...
Accelerating Helm and Kubernetes adoption
Axway is moving at full speed with optimizing AMPLIFY™ API Management deployment in Kubernetes. Vincent O’Brien shared a sample Helm chart for API Management...
API monetization requires good API Management
Making money is likely the final goal of any company using APIs. API Management is the common layer processing all API traffic. It provides...
PAI implements Axway Verification Router Service Solution
PAI (Pharmaceutical Associates, Inc.) is a manufacturer of generic liquid pharmaceuticals. They have produced suspensions, oral solutions, elixirs, syrups and liquids for nearly 50...
Coronavirus supply chain disruption: How APIs can help
Wuhan province is the largest industrial material component sourcing region in the world. It’s what Detroit was 50 years ago—where everything is made. When...
Achieving superior customer experience managing APIs in a hybrid world | Axway and Microsoft...
Achieving a 360-view of your customers, employees and partners in real-time is necessary to bring the highest level of customer experience to your business...
The core principles of API Management
API Management is the method of constructing and publishing APIs (Application Program Interfaces), as well as implementing their usage guidelines, regulating access, cultivating the...
Should I monetize my APIs?
API Monetization consists of tracking API Usage on a per-customer basis, enforcing usage plan quotas, and informing back-end billing systems of usage levels. This...
API Portals: Why are they important?
We often think of APIs in a very technical way, but in reality, APIs are about providing business offerings and value. Many organizations treat...
APIdays Paris: All things lead back to APIs
Not even a French transit strike could derail the power of APIs; APIdays Paris was in full pursuit from December 9-11. People came from...
Convert between Swagger 2.0 and OAS 3.0–with an API!
Interoperability and data exchange rely on Open Standards—which has been Swagger for the longest time in the API world. With OAS 3.0 becoming more prominent, it's a good opportunity...
12 Disruptive API Trends for 2020
One of our customers made an astute observation: You've created thousands of APIs, but this one is our first. Over the years, we've worked...
API Management solutions
API Management solutions involve many aspects to be effective. For starters, API Management is building secure APIs, publishing them to be reused and to...
Three trends for API Management
We live in a world of constant transformation and every day we are bombarded by the news. So there's no doubt that we live...
Axway’s Marcelo Ramos’ interview on Papo Fácil (Easy Talk)
Who doesn’t enjoy a good story? And we love to tell the story of how we started our operations in Latin America. Marcelo Ramos,...
Demystifying APIs Part 3: How API Management improves Automation System Integration
The secret lies in the enablers of a technology that is simple, scalable and widespread.
Automation System Integration
The 4.0 Industry requires more than ever the...
Hybrid integration and API Management (What’s the difference?)
In the broad integration markets we play terminology moves fast as does technology. Most recently, a set of questions and discussions have surfaced on...
Interview Groupe Henner [English translation provided]
Axway vous propose une série d’interviews et de rencontres, pour faciliter à la fois les témoignages et décryptages, et l’accès à l’expertise et à...
BETA Release of the Axway AMPLIFY™ API Management Service Broker for Pivotal Platform
Pivotal and Axway have partnered over the past year to offer solutions to our mutual customers. On October 25, 2019, Pivotal published the BETA...
AMPLIFY Central update for Team assignment and User management
Axway has just released an AMPLIFY(TM) Platform update that refactors and updates the way an organization manages its Users and Team role assignments. This...
API Management use cases: Extending the CEO’s vocabulary
Have you ever thought about how our lifestyle changed in the last four to five years? Mobile phones have become an important part of...
Open banking will herald a new era of innovation, but there remain significant challenges
Ovum view
Open Banking is one of the most widely discussed topics in the banking industry today. With good reason too, as the changes, Open...
How companies are using API Management
In the digital era, most companies expose their APIs to engage with their partners, consumers, users or application developers to expand their businesses. Most...
Key takeaways from the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Full Life Cycle API Management
APIs are the facilitators that power digital transformation. According to the Gartner report just out, “Having the right API management tool is crucial for...
Incorporating hybrid capabilities into iPaaS
In a recent survey conducted by the IDC, respondents were asked questions about factors that lead to a good experience using SaaS applications. Here...
What are the most important iPaaS features?
What are the most important iPaaS features that are needed today? Robust set of pre-built connectors Ability to easily create custom connectors Strong data...
When you’re wrestling a bear, it’s not over when YOU get tired
It’s been a big week at API World, and I wanted to share some thoughts. It’s an interesting time in the API space, as...
What does it mean to be a Leader in Gartner 2019 Magic Quadrant for...
APIs and microservices connect today’s modern enterprises and applications. However, IT is struggling to keep up with the pace of digital transformation that requires...
Webinar: API Design to power your digital transformation
On September 26th, Axway and our partner, Stoplight held an enlightening webinar showcasing the power of API Design as part of full lifecycle management....
Five reasons to use an API Management solution to manage your third-party APIs
Third-party APIs are exploding in importance and organizations are leveraging them with great success. For example, Amazon.com released its API so that website developers...
The differences between iPaaS and API Management
Nuances matter!
I have been in the integration space now since birth. It has seen many changes. The biggest fundamental change in this space was...
Five capabilities every API Management Platform should have
I am often asked, what are the five capabilities of an API Management Platform and what should they have? My answer starts with the...
Hit the ground running with AMPLIFY™
The shift from a pure on-premises landscape of applications to a hybrid mix of SaaS and on-premises applications has resulted in new and bigger...
Automatic deployment of an API Management demonstration on Azure–Part 1: Overview
Since the version 7.5.3, Axway has been working hard to provide its API Management product in container mode, as well as tools to accelerate...
September 2019 API News Roundup
School is now in session at APIfriends. Get ready to get schooled on the latest API news stories. Below are this month's headlines in...
Creating Custom Connectors with AMPLIFY, Part 1: Custom Templates
These days, have you been wondering what it actually takes to create and launch custom integrations between your apps and external cloud services using...
What is API Management?
What is API Management?
Many might feel this is a very basic question, "What is API Management?", but surprisingly when you search for a definition,...
API Catalogs are all about innovation
Your API strategy stands little chance of adoption if you don't have an API Catalog. But it's more than a registry. Built the right...
API Management, hybrid integration and… Legos?
Let's be honest: it doesn't matter if you're nine years old or 90 years old... Legos are amazing. Any space ship, a medieval castle,...
From the trenches: A real-life experience in DevOps, Agile, CI/CD and containerization
Earlier this year, we decided to do a major update to the Axway Managed Cloud offering for API Management. This is a managed service...
What is an API Platform?
The term API Platform has been used synonymously by some vendors with API Management, Full Lifecycle API Management, and even with the term API...
What is an API Mashup?
Have you been wondering what the definition of an API Mashup is? An API Mashup is an API that coordinates countless APIs. This process...
API Gateway Helm Chart
As with many Kubernetes solutions, we use Helm to manage the deployment of the API Gateway infrastructure. Helm is a very powerful tool that...
Fourth challenge: Axway and team partner with GOTMI for solutions to construction problems in...
Road work has become a daily problem in Paris. Every day, construction is just about everywhere. While the end goal may be a noble...
Circuit Breaker Policy for API Gateway
In June, Axway hosted our first ever API Management customer-facing hackathon in Northern Virginia. It was a great event that enabled some of our...
API Management Hackathon – Superheroes in Action
It all started with a witty remark
The idea struck like a bolt of lightning during the Customer Advisory Board (CAB) meeting at Axway’s Imagine...
Axway shares digital innovation in Brazil
Axway LATAM had a busy month in May, sharing digital innovation in Brazil with two successful events. The first was the API Techlab, an...
VIDEO: Configure API Portal – Public API Mode Part 3
This video is the third in a series. So, be sure to watch these parts first: Part 1 ...
VIDEO: Configure API Portal – Public API Mode Part 2
This video is a follow up to Part 1. So, if you haven't seen it yet, watch Part 1 here first.
Then, watch this video to learn...
VIDEO: Configure API Portal – Public API Mode Part 1
API Portal is a tool that allows you to easily promote APIs and enables organizations to foster innovative culture.
Watch this video to learn how...
Commerzbank’s journey to digital transformation with AMPLIFY API Management
To continue to stay relevant to its customers, Commerzbank focused on achieving digital transformation with AMPLIFY API Management. Presenters at Axway's annual IMAGINE SUMMIT...
How to Use Policy Studio on a Mac
Erik Nord is Axway’s API Practice Lead in North America. For the last six years, he has specialized in API Management using technologies like...
How to Connect your App to Microsoft Azure Active Directory with AMPLIFY API Management
There are different scenarios in which you might want to integrate with Microsoft Azure Active Directory (AD): You want to let...
Get Started with AMPLIFY Central – Secure an API
Watch this video to learn how to secure an API in AMPLIFY Central using an API key as an example. You'll learn how to...
How Integration as a Platform (iPaaS) is Changing Enterprise Integration
The integration platform as a service (iPaaS) market is not just growing, it is accelerating. iPaaS is a cloud service that provides a platform...
Get Started with AMPLIFY Central – Register an API
Watch this video to learn how to register an API as an API proxy in AMPLIFY Central using the Star Wars API as an...
How to Implement OAuth with PKCE using Okta & API Management
If you are building a mobile application, then the authorization code flow with a Proof Key for Code Exchange (PKCE) is the recommended method for controlling...
Open Banking & Open API: The future of financial services in Asia at IDC
The IDC Financial Services Congress 2019 just wrapped up in Singapore and, although AI was a general theme, Open Banking & Open API was...
Faster Integration. Faster Innovation. Axway AMPLIFY Platform Update
Today marks a milestone in the journey of Axway's AMPLIFY Hybrid Integration Platform. This release is the result of hard work by the whole...
IMAGINE SUMMIT Americas: Learn what’s happening!
IMAGINE SUMMIT Americas is just around the corner on March 4-6. Many exciting events will take place and you will be a part of...
API ecosystem: What’s it all about?
An API ecosystem begins to evolve when APIs work toward digital transformation. At the very origins of any digital transformation, you must have an...
Evolution and growth of APIs. How building and managing APIs has changed over the...
With so many APIs accelerating innovation in the world, companies are getting on the API movement in a big way. The real beauty of...
Roadblocks of hybrid integration platforms–what you need to know to succeed!
Hybrid integration platforms (HIP) are ubiquitous these days. According to Markets and Markets, they project the hybrid integration platform market will “rise to $33.6 billion...
Ping Identity and Axway webinar wrap-up: API security challenges and solutions
Ping Identity and Axway came together for an absorbing webinar to discuss API security challenges and solutions. The charge was led by Jason Bonds,...
Moving towards digital modernization with Axway
Have you ever wondered what it would take to modernize your IT infrastructure? For starters, it’s certainly not living in the past with outdated...
How hybrid integration platform drives mobility
The world is moving at a fast pace. Therefore, technology is advancing, and mobile phones lead the charge in everyone’s pocket. Mobility is driving...
Axway shines at Gartner Application Strategies & Solutions Summit
IT leaders and developers gathered last week for the Gartner Application Strategies & Solutions Summit at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas. This year’s summit...
Webinar: Smarter API security solution with Axway & Ping Identity
Axway and Ping Identity are happy to announce that they are bringing their powerful collaboration together once again and will be presenting three webinars...
API Conference wrap-up, lesson 3: microservices management
As we continue with the three lessons from the API Conference in Berlin in September, we now come to the final lesson 3: microservices...
API Days 2018 Australia shines with Axway
API Days 2018 Australia is the country's largest conference for business and technology professionals to converse about all things APIs. This year's conference in...
How a digitalized Managed File Transfer solution supports infrastructure automation [VIDEO]
Most social media applications are releasing updates in production hundreds of times a day, whether we realize it or not. This new development-to-operation standard...
Build Streaming APIs with AMPLIFY API Management and Streamdata
With streaming APIs, it's possible to push relevant updates to client devices from the server, which offers a couple of interesting benefits for large,...
How Digitalized File Transfer technology supports the retail industry
To most of us (perhaps all), we don’t really care or are interested in how supermarkets ensure that our favorite brand of chocolate or...
The Role of APIs in Hybrid Integration Architecture
The Challenge: Increasing Enterprise Sprawl
It is widely known how enterprises have changed over the years from having IT function as a centralized service provider...
Public transport APIs: Singapore’s smart city example
Did you know that the International Space Station (ISS) has an API? You can try it in the browser to get the current location...
Building an API Culture – Interview with Five By Five
Today, I’m very happy to speak with Pauline Pham, Vice President at Five by Five, an innovation agency that runs programs to accelerate transformation...
Blockchain APIs for a stronger performance
Blockchain APIs can bring stronger performance. Blockchains use what's known as distributed ledger technology (DLT). This was originally developed as the accounting method for...
Boost your IT modernization with File Transfer solution
Does your existing file transfer infrastructure support all critical interactions in your organizations and your business partner? And what about your customer transactions involving...
MFT needs API
In large organization’s journey to digital, Managed File Transfer (MFT) owners are often left behind because they are not able to deal with new...
What is API Lifecycle Management?
API Lifecycle Management is a term illustrating the need to manage all steps in the life of an API, from creation to retirement.
APIs are...
The best practices to implement an API Management project
Many people asked me over the past few months what are the best practices to implement an API management project and I decided to...
Autonomous vehicles are coming: Are we ready?
Autonomous vehicles (or driverless cars, as they’re commonly referred to) are increasingly making strides towards becoming a reality on roads across the world, but...
Microservices: The magic in the middleware
For those of you who haven’t read Martin Fowler’s seminal article on microservices; you should. It’s considered gospel, one of the definitive pieces for microservices...
Whoever said technology and sports don’t mix clearly had it wrong
Imagine sitting in the locker room after a football game, as you relive that winning touchdown catch. But instead of simply watching the game...