Why Choose an Open Platform Approach | Amplify API Management Platform

What an open platform approach means for API producers

Speed the development, discovery, and usage/tracking of APIs
Focus on functionality, not operations and security
Stop building API integrations that have already been built
Build catalog updates as a part of standard CI/CD processes

What an open platform approach means for API consumers

One location for discovery and reuse of API assets
Reporting clarifies what is being used by whom
Reporting shows API performance and scale
Less time searching, more time creating

What an open platform approach means for API operations teams

Automate security across the development process so developers can focus on being more productive
Consolidate internal and external API monitoring, regardless of deployment source, for better governance
Adopt new technologies easier ̶ like microservices mesh, containers, and streaming APIs ̶ to secure and scale your services
Discover unmanaged APIs automatically for better security and service delivery

What an open platform approach means for digital innovation and business teams

Accelerate delivery of new functionality and expanding ecosystems
More easily scale development projects into product architectures
Maintain team technology independence with the security of centralized policy
One location for discovery and reuse of API assets

Key capabilities for an API platform

A single place for API and app developers

Increase productivity by giving API and app developers a shared set of API building blocks in a dynamic repository where they can be discovered and reused

Support multiple data planes

Support API deployment across multiple environments, vendors, and gateways with a unified control plane. Layer a control plane on top of of APIs without moving them, where central visibility and governance can take place

Know what's working and what isn't

Gain valuable insight by making your APIs visible from a single shared view. Monitor usage, identify scalability struggles, know which APIs aren't managed and those that developers want but don't exist

The platform approach to APIs is driving value today

Tightest security. No shadow IT.

With centralized governance of APIs, Baird took an enterprise-level approach to API management, boosting security and simplifying reuse of assets – eliminating the workarounds that cause shadow IT

Offer new services faster

Centralized API visibility gives National Oilwell Varco functional consistency on-premises and in Azure, and AWS clouds. Building new services now takes just days – reducing costs while boosting revenue.

90% faster new service deployment

Total visibility of APIs

Erste gives its banking institutions local autonomy to innovate by launching standardized APIs with visibility across the group, clearing the way for Open Banking and the customer self-service app, George