5 SECONDS-SUMMARY:
- Google developed Apigee, an API management platform that manages and protects the entire lifecycle of APIs through Google Cloud.
- This solution offers numerous benefits for businesses and teams.
- In this article, you will find out how Apigee can help your company achieve better results.
In today’s innovative digital world, APIs (Application Programming Interface) are considered the backbone of innovation as they drive business growth.
Nowadays, the connection between systems and data sharing is crucial for all organisations. However, managing APIs efficiently and securely can become a challenge due to the complexity of developing processes, security and various integrations.
With this in mind, Google developed Apigee – an API Management platform that manages and protects the entire life cycle of APIs through Google Cloud. The platform is not just for publishing APIs; its purpose goes far beyond that. With this platform, it is possible to create, publish, control traffic, ensure greater security, gain insights through analytics and maintain API compliance and governance.
Apigee business benefits
The research and choice of an API management solution implicitly demonstrates a need to understand its benefits for the business. Over the years, APIs have become strategic assets. As such, they are now a central element of companies’ digital strategies and enable your firm to:
- Accelerate innovation: reducing time-to-market for APIs, allowing a more agile development of solutions that drive your company’s growth;
- Increase revenue: creating new revenue streams by monetising your APIs, expanding your portfolio to attract new markets and customers;
- Improve customer satisfaction: developing reliable and easy-to-use APIs, providing experiences that foster customer loyalty;
- Reduce costs: optimising your IT resources by automating repetitive tasks, and minimising security risks and operational cost;
- Ensure compliance: meeting compliance requirements, protecting your company’s data and reputation.
Benefits of Apigee for teams
Apigee simplifies the API management process, allowing teams to focus on building digital solutions that enhance companies’ market positions. With Apigee, teams can:
- Create and publish APIs quickly: use an intuitive visual editor and automation features to create and publish RESTful and SOAP APIs quickly and easily, without complex coding;
- Gain actionable insights: analyse usage data, such as user behaviours and performance metrics, ensuring strategic decisions based on viable data;
- Ensure compliance and security: meet compliance requirements, protecting your company’s data and reputation against sophisticated cyber threats.
How Apigee supports robust, scalable APIs
Building robust and scalable APIs geared toward business growth can be a complex challenge, especially when dealing with a large volume of information. Apigee offers effective resources for building robust and scalable APIs capable of supporting business growth. With Apigee, your company can:
- Manage traffic intelligently: applying policies for routing, authentication, authorisation and throttling to control access to APIs, ensuring reliability and security even under high workloads;
- Monitor performance in real time: gaining actionable insights into API performance, identifying possible bottlenecks and problems that can be quickly resolved, ensuring your APIs are not strained;
- Implement high availability solutions: using load management and automatic failover features, ensuring your APIs are always available, even in case of failures or traffic spikes;
- Automate repetitive tasks: automating API management tasks, configuring them to ensure performance monitoring policies, and giving your team more time for strategic tasks;
- Message routing: routing messages to different queues or endpoints based on specific criteria, ensuring messages are processed by the correct systems;
- Integrate with message queue providers: integrating with various providers, like Google Cloud Pub/Sub, Amazon SQS and Apache Kafka.
As companies include Apigee in their strategic vision, they can support a large number of requests per second, even with unexpected traffic spikes. This way, they can scale their APIs to meet growing business demands.
Therefore, it is necessary to guarantee the availability and optimal performance of APIs, 24/7, so as not to compromise the efficient and scalable processing of large volumes of communication.
API economy: how to transform APIs into products and services
When we talk about the API economy, we mean a business model where APIs can be transformed into products and services that generate value, which can then be commercialised internally or externally.
Based on the evolution of platforms like Apigee, we understand the impact of developing a sustainable API economy. Companies create APIs to expose their data, functionalities and services, allowing partners, developers and customers to consume and integrate the APIs into their own applications and digital solutions.
This way, we can multiply the creation of value that business ecosystems develop, both inside and outside companies, resulting in increased value perceived by the user in relation to your business.
Security and compliance are important factors of the API economy, given that a large volume of confidential data must be stored securely. Consequently, organisations must ensure the use of best practices, guaranteeing mechanisms to detect any data breaches.
Apigee can help companies achieve better results, reinforcing the idea that it is a strategic partner and not just an API management platform. According to data released by Google, Apigee can:
- Reduce time to market for a product or service by up to 50%;
- Increase revenue by up to 20%;
- Improve customer satisfaction by up to 15%;
- Decrease security costs by up to 30%.
Xpand IT believes that Apigee is more than an API management platform. It has become a strategic partner that helps different companies achieve their business goals, driving innovation, security and success. Contact us to learn how we can enhance your APIs, ensuring a greater revenue flow in your company.
Enterprise Solutions Manager