This guide describes how you can use webMethods API Portal and other webMethods components to effectively manage APIs for services that you want to expose to consumers, within your organization or outside to partners and third parties. In addition to describing the API management components and workflow, the guide explains configuring API Portal for use with CentraSite, webMethods Mediator, and API Gateway and how to manage API Portal and its users, and how to manage APIs published to API Portal.

To use this guide effectively, you should have an understanding of the APIs that you want to expose to the developer community and the access privileges you want to impose on those APIs.