Development collaboration. With API Cloud, developers have a place to discover, test, and sign up for your APIs, and to publish REST and SOAP APIs. API providers and product managers can collaborate with consumers. The developer portal is the public face of your API offerings and enables you to create and grow your network of developers and partners.

Security. API Cloud's gateway protects your APIs from unauthorized and malicious users, while also giving you full control and visibility over who is accessing your APIs. The built-in approval process workflow lets you manage third-party access requests, ensuring secure and reliable access management.

Life-cycle models and versioning. Ensure standards and practices are followed as every API moves through its lifecycle. With built-in versioning capabilities, you can define and track API versions. Multiple versions can co-exist, and older versions can be retired over time.

Policy management. Design and configure policies to be applied to your APIs at runtime. Policies can be applied to multiple APIs at the same time, and can be dynamically scoped by naming patterns, categorization, or organization, which saves time when making changes.

Monetization. API Cloud provides the tools to allow you to create API plans and packaged offerings.

Analytics and reporting. API Cloud tracks usage to give you stats and dashboards to make sure you meet your API service agreements and understand how your APIs are being accessed and used.