Where Security Meets Scalability – API Management That Delivers
APIs: The Backbone of Modern Business
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 organizations to smoothly transition 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 reduce 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.
Improved API security and protection against threats
Protect APIs from unauthorized access and data breaches with integrated threat protection, authentication, encryption and traffic monitoring. Support for OAuth, API keys, JWTs and role-based access control (RBAC) ensures that only authorized users interact with your APIs. API security is an important element 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 with high traffic loads. Efficient traffic routing minimizes latency and increases service reliability. API monitoring plays a key role in this process and enables companies to proactively address bottlenecks and potential problems.
Ensuring compliance and governance
APIM enforces security policies to comply with industry regulations such as GDPR, HIPAA and PCI-DSS, preventing data exposure risks. Integrated monitoring tools provide audit trails for API transactions. API best practices ensure that governance and operational efficiency are maintained at all levels of API management.
Support for API monetization and company 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.
With the help of 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 that secure access is maintained across all integrations.
- Performance and scalability: As a company grows, API traffic also increases. Our solution ensures that APIs remain fast and responsive even under high load. Functions such as client-side load balancing, rate limiting, caching and traffic control ensure smooth system operation.
- Manageability: APIs should be easy to control and manage. With centralized API management tools, companies can monitor activities using API monitoring, control access and ensure that policies are enforced across different environments.
- Expandability and customization: Every company has unique requirements. Our API management solution adapts to the specific requirements of and offers options for custom policies, solution kits and integrations that extend functionality beyond the standard features.
- Flexibility and integration: Modern IT ecosystems include 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 role in the organization, control and maintenance of structured API interactions in a company.
- API catalogue and documentation: The API Developer Portal plays a critical role in the discovery, documentation and management of 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 managed, organizations can accelerate the adoption of APIs, increase security and improve the developer experience.
- APIOps – Process of software provision: APIOps 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 provides end-to-end management of APIs, covering creation, deployment, security and optimization. This holistic approach ensures that your APIs are consistently monitored and improved throughout their lifecycle.
Robust security measures
Security is the be-all and end-all of API management. Layer7 API Management provides enterprise-grade 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 smooth integration across different platforms and services and enables your company to adapt to evolving technological landscapes.
Proven acceptance in the industry
More than 100 companies worldwide, including leading companies in the information technology, financial services and banking sectors, rely on our solution, which is characterized by reliability and performance. This widespread acceptance underlines its effectiveness in various industry scenarios.
Recognition for mobile skills
88% of the IT organizations surveyed who evaluated Google's Apigee rated Layer7 API Management's mobile capabilities as better than the competition.(To 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 offer
API management solutions
API Gateway
Protection, control and optimization of application programming interfaces (APIs); a secure gateway between API customers and back-end services that enforces authentication, authorization, rate limiting and API security, among other things, while ensuring high availability and scalability.
API Developer Portal
A self-service platform that helps organizations 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 (OTK)
OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect (OIDC) solution for enterprises that provides secure API authentication, authorization and identity management.
Mobile API Gateway
A dedicated 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 services
- Solution Design and Architecture Planning: Strategic process of designing, structuring, and implementing an API Strategy for Enterprises, ensuring smooth governance and adoption of API Integration platforms.
- Upgrade of Products: 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 API Management architecture, configuration, and performance, providing specific recommendations for optimization.
- PSD2 (Payment Services Directive 2) Compliance: Implementing and integrating API security and management frameworks for financial institutions, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.
- Standardization and tuning of APIs and policies: Defining a set of common rules, guidelines, and API Best Practices to simplify API Integration Platform management, API security, performance and API monitoring.
- API Engineering Services: Implement and customize API Solutions to meet specific business needs. This includes APIM best practices, API authentication, API pattern development, custom assertion, and policy development.
- API Lifecycle Management: Automating the entire API Management lifecycle (design, development, testing, deployment, and monitoring) by integrating API Programs such as APIOps into GitOps and CI/CD processes.
- Transitioning 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 enhanced efficiency and agility.
- Organizational Group Structures: Establish structured governance frameworks for API Programs, enabling businesses to scale their API Strategy for Enterprises effectively.
- Enhanced Support Services: Access dedicated API Management support for timely issue resolution and 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 teams with in-depth knowledge on API Authentication, API Security, and API Integration Platform utilization 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.
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 end-to-end service for integrating an API management solution
In view of the growing complexity of IT infrastructures and the challenge of choosing the right API management solution, a holistic approach is essential for us as an IT consulting company. We accompany our customers through the entire process of digital transformation and rely 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
Target definition and gap analysis
Definition of the scope, design and documentation of the target processes
Joint implementation and project execution
Support and continuous development
Regardless of whether you want to optimize your existing API management solution or implement a completely new solution – with MAXXOps we implement both brownfield and greenfield approaches for API management platforms. In addition, we support you in the migration from your current operating environment and accompany you in the transition to a future-proof API management platform for your IT infrastructure.
