Published: 15 November 2022
Full life cycle API management solutions enable users to create, execute and maintain an effective API strategy, but selecting the right products is difficult. Software engineering leaders should use this research to assess and compare the capabilities of 17 products across five use cases.
Full life cycle API management tools continue to be popular among developers that adopt APIs as central to application and service development. Given the wide range of technology options, software engineering leaders find it difficult to select the right products for their needs.
API management vendors are maturing their capabilities for API access control, API design and implementation, and deployment flexibility, while their API monetization, business value reporting, and microservices and service mesh support are generally less mature.
Most API management implementations fall into five use cases: multiexperiencearchitecture, integration using APIs, internal API management, productizing APIs and distributed API
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Analysts:
Shameen Pillai, Kimihiko Iijima, Mark O'Neill, John Santoro, Paul Dumas, Akash Jain
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