webMethods.io API
webMethods.io API is a Software AG Cloud-hosted API Management-as-a-Service (MaaS) platform. webMethods.io API enables you to securely manage and expose APIs to your developer and partner community.
webMethods.io API enables you to govern and secure the runtime execution of your APIs. You can do the following:
Publish your APIs for consumption inside and outside your organization.
Define and enforce policies around aspects of runtime execution, such as user access, required access protocol and keys, data masking, and so on.
Protect your APIs from unauthorized and malicious users, while also having full control and visibility into who is accessing your APIs. The built-in approval process workflow lets you manage third-party access requests.
Enforce standards and practices as every API moves through its life-cycle.
Define and track API versions. Multiple versions can co-exist, and older versions can be retired over time.
Design and configure policies to be applied to your APIs at runtime.
Monetize your APIs by creating API plans and packaged offerings.
View usage statistics and dashboards to make sure your API service level agreements are met, and to understand how your APIs are being accessed and used.
Monitor runtime performance and send alerts when performance conditions are violated, optionally based on an SLA.
webMethods.io API offers a self-service portal that API providers and product managers can use to collaborate with consumers. Developers have a place to discover, test, and sign up for your APIs, and to publish REST and SOAP APIs. The developer portal is the public face of your API offerings and enables you to create and grow your network of developers and partners. The portal offers the capabilities described below.
You can customize the portal using logos, skins, corporate colors and fonts, and more; change layouts for the portal landing page and API Gallery; and customize the portal’s privacy and usage terms.
You can view statistics that provide information about which pages attract the most interest and which APIs are the most popular so you can improve the portal experience and increase API adoption.
API consumers can quickly find the APIs they need in the API Gallery or by running a simple keyword search. webMethods.io API provides code samples with expected error/return codes and descriptions so consumers can easily try out APIs.
API consumers can rate APIs, follow and un-follow updates to APIs, and participate in discussions with other developers.
API consumers can upload, describe, and promote applications built using your published APIs.
webMethods.io API also offers a developer outreach program called API Engagement. API Engagement helps API providers grow their API business and revenues. With API Engagement, API providers can build an ecosystem in which to proactively promote, market, and launch APIs. Developers are the organic evangelists for an organization to spread the word and make an API provider more popular. With API Engagement, providers can engage the developer community to foster collaboration, run campaigns, and evangelize API usage and adoption. For example, API providers can do the following:
Create, manage, and judge API hackathons. An API hackathon is a design sprint-like event in which developers, graphic designers, interface designers, project managers, and others collaborate intensively to create a functioning product.
Conduct customized beta-programs for testing APIs in a beta state. API providers expose APIs in
API Engagement, and API consumers collaboratively test those APIs by building apps. The API consumers then give feedback and raise defects.