Published: 25 October 2023
Summary
API management is critical yet cumbersome without technology that supports the organization’s API strategy, ranging from business alignment to developer enablement. Software engineering leaders should use this research to assess and compare the capabilities of 19 products across five use cases.
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Key Findings
API management is a mature software market, yet vendors vary widely in terms of their core capabilities, level of innovation and responsiveness to emerging trends. Thus, software engineering leaders find it difficult to select the right products for their organizations’ needs.
Most API management implementations fall into five use cases: multiexperiencearchitecture, integration using APIs, internal API management, productizing APIs and distributed API management.
Software engineering teams build and implement APIs in multiple environments and use API gateways throughout their architectures. Organizations increasingly need distributed API management to support administration and governance of APIs across multiple API gateways, including API
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- Amazon Web Services
- Axway
- Boomi
- Broadcom
- Google Cloud (Apigee)
- Gravitee.io
- IBM
- Kong
- Microsoft
- Postman
- Salesforce (MuleSoft)
- SAP
- SmartBear
- Software AG
- Solo.io
- Stoplight
- TIBCO Software
- Tyk
- WSO2
- API Security
- Deployment Flexibility
- API Design
- Developer Portal
- API Monetization
- API Monitoring and Analytics
- API Testing
- API Consumption
- Microservices and Service Mesh
- Event-Driven and Streaming
- API Mediation
- Versioning and API Governance
- Gateway Federation
- Multiexperience Architecture
- Integration Using APIs
- Internal API Management
- Productizing APIs
- Distributed API Management
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Critical Capabilities Methodology