APIs - Your Gateway To Modernization and Digital Transformation

As you go down the path of modernization & digital transformation, APIs can play a key role in your business' ability to drive superior digital experiences. But APIs by nature are dynamic - it is important to continually improve your APIs to adjust to the changing customer and business needs.

At Intelliswift Software, Inc., we help our customers with the entire API life cycle. Starting at the top with the design of the APIs, we move on to development once the design has been reviewed and approved by stakeholders. Of course, security cannot be an afterthought - it has to be integral to the design and development of #APIs.

The developed APIs are launched by deploying them into production and publishing it to app developers (internal or external). Once your APIs are in production, we help monitor the health and usage of the APIs.

Analytics are important to determine your API's adoption, scale, and how they can be improved. Also, depending on your business model you may want to monetize your APIs, charging for the use or sharing revenue with app developers who are driving new business.

And finally, based on the feedback from your app developers that use your APIs, and the insights you gain from monitoring and analyzing your API program, you can build a backlog of improvements and changes. This leads to beginning the cycle again with API Design.

Beyond using the industry standard Open API specification, Intelliswift leverages Apigee API Management Platform from its partner Google Cloud. Apigee provides low code / no code tool for building API proxies, use Javascript or Java for custom code for complex cases, help debug using stress tool. It protects users by supporting multi-factor authentication and provides support for many authentication methods, including SAML, OpenID Connect, email and password, or custom implementations. Apigee provides a management API that can be used to create and deploy proxies and configuration artifacts as part of a deployment pipeline, allowing you to build a repeatable process for deploying new or updated APIs.

Apigee provides two types of developer portals helps your app developers discover your APIs and register apps to use them - a Drupal-based portal that offers a full-featured customizable content management system, and a hosted integrated portal, that is deployable out of the box.

Apigee's API monitoring provides near-real-time insights into API traffic and performance by monitoring API performance and usage, automatically capturing API and back-end latencies, error rates, and call volume, among other types of operational metrics.

In addition to API and performance metrics, Apigee captures business metrics, tracking the apps and app developers using your APIs and the device types and geolocation of the users of those apps.

Apigee's analytics data can be integrated into your own enterprise systems by using the metrics API, or by extracting the data into Google's cloud storage or BigQuery.

Companies with public API programs, or those offering digital products to partners, can use Apigee's monetization capability to create revenue streams based on API-powered digital products. Apigee monetization allows you to charge for API usage, or share revenue with app developers that drive your business.

Apigee also leverages features of Google Cloud platform - e.g., Cloud Armor Web Application Firewall for security, Identity platform for IAM, BigQuery for enhanced analytics, etc.

Reach out to me or my Digital Integration leader Arvind Sampath - we would love to share notes, best practices, and battle stories.

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