Where Security Meets Scalability
: API Management That Delivers
APIs: The Backbone of Modern Businesses
In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, organizations are increasingly using Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to drive innovation and operational efficiency. Effective API management (APIM) is essential for creating, publishing, securing and monitoring these interfaces, enabling seamless integration across different applications and systems. Key components of APIM include an API gateway, a developer portal and a management interface with analysis and reporting tools for centralized API monitoring.
As a trusted partner of Broadcom Layer7 API Gateway, we offer an enterprise-grade solution that enables companies to publish their data and services securely. Our platform enables seamless API integration, robust API security and comprehensive analytics, empowering your organization to realize the full potential of your digital assets according to API best practices.
Advantages of implementing API management
To remain competitive in the digital age, companies need to leverage application programming interfaces (APIs) to improve the customer experience, streamline operations and drive innovation. However, without proper API management, companies face security vulnerabilities, performance bottlenecks and compliance issues. A robust API integration platform ensures that APIs remain secure, scalable and performant. This enables companies to accelerate digital transformation while maintaining control over their API ecosystem. Centralized and standardized API management improves API security, performance, developer experience, governance, analytics and monetization, making APIs more efficient, scalable and profitable
The most important advantages of API management:
Modernizing IT Architectures
Enable secure microservices and cloud-based applications while maintaining governance and control. APIM simplifies the integration of legacy systems and enables companies to transition smoothly to modern IT environments by facilitating integration between different applications, platforms, and services (e.g., CRM, ERP, payment gateways). API integration is a key factor in this process, ensuring seamless communication between different software systems.
Accelerating Development and Innovation
Optimize API development for mobile, IoT, and cloud applications and shorten time to market. Developers gain access to tools that enable faster deployment, version control, and seamless integration with existing platforms. Companies make functionalities available as reusable services via APIs. Incorporating an API integration platform further improves this development cycle by enabling structured workflows and better resource utilization.
Enhanced API Security and Threat Protection
Protect APIs from unauthorized access and data breaches with built-in threat protection, authentication, encryption, and traffic monitoring. Support for OAuth, API keys, JWTs, and role-based access control (RBAC) ensures that only authorized users can interact with your APIs. API security is a critical component that strengthens security protocols for sensitive transactions and interactions.
Improved Performance and Scalability
Optimize API performance through traffic management, caching, and rate limiting to ensure a smooth user experience even under high traffic loads. Efficient traffic routing minimizes latency and increases service reliability. API monitoring plays a key role in this process, enabling companies to proactively address bottlenecks and potential issues.
Ensuring Compliance and Governance
APIM enforces security policies to ensure compliance with industry regulations such as GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS, thereby preventing risks of data exposure. Integrated monitoring tools provide audit logs for API transactions. API best practices ensure that governance and operational efficiency are maintained at all levels of API management.
Supporting API Monetization and Business Growth
Enable companies to offer APIs as products by implementing usage-based pricing models, subscriptions, or partner access. APIM solutions facilitate monetization strategies by tracking API usage and automating billing. API monetization strategies maximize revenue potential and optimize API-based business models.
By using API management, companies can increase their agility, protect digital assets and scale efficiently to ensure that APIs are a growth driver and not a bottleneck in their digital strategy.
Key Components of Our API Management Solution
API Management with Layer7
A robust API management solution must be secure, scalable, flexible and adaptable. Our solution, which is based on the Broadcom Layer7 API management portfolio, fulfills these seven basic pillars:
- API Security: Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are an essential part of any digital business—but they also pose security risks. Our solution protects backend services and APIs from unauthorized access, data breaches, and cyber threats, while ensuring compliance with industry regulations. Layer7 API Gateway provides enterprise-grade security by combining strong authentication, threat protection, encryption, and compliance support. API authentication ensures secure access across all integrations.
- Performance & Scalability: As a company grows, so does its API traffic. Our solution ensures that APIs remain fast and responsive even under heavy load. Features such as client-side load balancing, rate limiting, caching, and traffic control ensure smooth system operation.
- Manageability: APIs should be easy to monitor and manage. With centralized API management tools, companies can monitor activity through API monitoring, control access, and ensure that policies are enforced across different environments.
- Extensibility & Customization: Every company has unique requirements. Our API management solution adapts to those specific requirements and offers options for custom policies, solution kits, and integrations that extend functionality beyond the standard features.
- Flexibility & Integration: Modern IT ecosystems encompass cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments. Our solution integrates seamlessly with existing systems and enables companies to effortlessly connect applications, data, and services. The API integration platform facilitates connectivity across different technology landscapes. Interface management plays a key role in organizing, controlling, and maintaining structured API interactions within an organization.
- API Discovery & Documentation: The API developer portal plays a crucial role in discovering, documenting, and managing APIs by providing developers with a structured platform to find, understand, and use APIs, while ensuring compliance with security and operational policies. By making APIs more accessible, well-documented, and well-managed, companies can accelerate API adoption, enhance security, and improve the developer experience.
AIOps – Software Deployment Process: AIOps increases agility by automating API lifecycle management, improving quality, accelerating deployment, and ensuring governance. By integrating CI/CD, automated testing, monitoring, and self-service capabilities, organizations can deploy APIs faster and with greater reliability and security.
Why Layer7?
Choosing the right API management solution is critical to ensuring the API security, scalability and efficiency of your digital ecosystem. Our API management solution, based on Broadcom’s Layer7 technology, offers a comprehensive feature set that meets the diverse needs of today’s organizations. Find out why our solution is so unique:
Comprehensive API Lifecycle Management
Our solution offers end-to-end API management, covering creation, deployment, security, and optimization. This holistic approach ensures that your APIs are consistently monitored and improved throughout their entire lifecycle.
Robust Security Measures
Security is paramount in API management. Layer7 API Management offers enterprise-level access management, including single sign-on (SSO) and multi-factor authentication (MFA). These features protect your APIs from unauthorized access and potential threats.
Seamless Integration Capabilities
Our solution supports protocol and data transformation from legacy systems to modern approaches. This flexibility facilitates seamless integration across various platforms and services and enables your company to adapt to evolving technological landscapes.
Proven Industry Acceptance
More than 100 companies worldwide, including leading firms in the information technology, financial services, and banking sectors, rely on our solution, which is characterized by reliability and performance. This widespread adoption underscores its effectiveness across various industry scenarios.
Recognition for Mobile Capabilities
88% of the IT organizations surveyed that evaluated Google's Apigee rated the mobile capabilities of Layer7 API Management as better than those of the competition. (View the study)
When you choose our Layer7-based API management solution, you’re investing in a platform that offers robust API security, comprehensive management capabilities, centralized API monitoring and seamless integration capabilities – all backed by industry recognition and a proven track record of success
Our Services
- Solution Design and Architecture Planning: A strategic process for designing, structuring, and implementing an API strategy for enterprises, ensuring the smooth management and deployment of API integration platforms.
- Product Upgrades: Ensure that your API Gateway, Developer Portal, OAuth Toolkit, and Mobile API Gateway are updated to the latest version and remain supported.
- API Management Health Check: A comprehensive review of the architecture, configuration, and performance of your API management system, with specific recommendations for optimization.
- PSD2 (Payment Services Directive 2) Compliance: Implementation and integration of API security and governance frameworks for financial institutions to ensure compliance with regulatory standards.
- Standardization and Alignment of APIs and Policies: Definition of a set of common rules, policies, and API best practices to simplify management, API security, API integration platform performance, and API monitoring.
- API Engineering Services: Implementation and customization of API solutions to meet specific business requirements. This includes APIM best practices, API authentication, API pattern development, custom assertions, and policy development.
- API Lifecycle Management: Automating the entire API management lifecycle (design, development, testing, deployment, and monitoring) by integrating API tools such as APIOps into GitOps and CI/CD processes.
- Moving to the Cloud: Seamlessly migrate your API management infrastructure to cloud environments while ensuring compliance and governance.
- CI/CD Pipeline Implementation: Automate API integration and deployment processes for greater efficiency and agility.
- Organizational Group Structures: Establish structured governance frameworks for API programs that enable companies to effectively scale their enterprise API strategy.
- Enhanced Support Services: Access dedicated API management support to resolve issues promptly and receive guidance.
- Upgrade services: Keep your Broadcom API Management platforms up to date with the latest features, security patches, and API best practices.
- Training and Education: Equip your teams with in-depth knowledge of API authentication, API security, and how to use the API integration platform to maximize efficiency.
These offerings are designed to provide comprehensive support throughout the API lifecycle, ensuring robust API management, seamless API integration and continuous innovation.
New!
MyAPIManager Add-on
for Layer 7
For companies using the Layer 7 Gateway, MAXXYS now offers MyAPIManager —a powerful add-on for automating and simplifying API deployments across various environments.
What makes this tool special:
✅ Detect and compare changes across environments
✅ Automate Git integration, rollbacks, and CI/CD workflows
✅ Save time, avoid manual errors, and optimize DevOps processes
Strategic partnerships
Expert Advantage Partnership
Leverage our collaboration with industry leaders to deliver innovative API integration and API management solutions tailored to your business needs.
Our Offerings
API Management Solutions
API Gateway
Protection, control, and optimization of application programming interfaces (APIs); a secure gateway between API clients and back-end services that enforces authentication, authorization, rate limiting, and API security, among other measures, while ensuring high availability and scalability.
API Developer Portal
A self-service platform that helps companies publish, manage, and control APIs while providing a user-friendly interface for developers to discover, test, and use APIs. It serves as a front-end interface for API management and provides API documentation, security controls, analytics, and lifecycle management.
OAuth Toolkit
An OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect (OIDC) solution for enterprises that provides secure API authentication, authorization, and identity management.
Mobile API Gateway
A specialized API gateway designed to secure, optimize, and manage API integrations for mobile applications. It extends the functionality of the Broadcom API Management Layer7 API Gateway by adding mobile-specific security, performance, and analytics features.
Our end-to-end service for integrating an API management solution
Given the growing complexity of IT infrastructures and the challenge of selecting the right API management solution, a holistic approach is essential for us as an IT consulting firm. We guide our clients through the entire digital transformation process, relying on our proven end-to-end MAXXOps approach. This enables the seamless implementation of modern IT infrastructure solutions such as API management platforms and API monitoring.
Our structured approach includes:
Maturity and Needs Analysis
Goal definition and gap analysis
Definition of scope, design, and documentation of target processes
Joint implementation and project execution
Support and continuous improvement
Whether you want to optimize your existing API management solution or implement a completely new one, with MAXXOps we can implement both brownfield and greenfield approaches for API management platforms. In addition, we support you in migrating from your current operating environment and guide you through the transition to a future-proof API management platform for your IT infrastructure.