What is API Management?

API Management in short for APIM refers to the process of building, publishing, and managing an API in a secured environment. It provides tools to manage and maintain APIs and visibility on their status and usage. It allows organizations to securely deliver services both internally and externally.

Nowadays, organizations are adopting API-based solutions for most of their integration needs thus making API Management vital for managing all APIs under one roof.

Boomi’s Advanced API Management:

Boomi offers advanced capabilities to securely manage and maintain APIs that are developed using the Atomsphere platform. APIM capabilities offered by Boomi:

• Design and development
• Deployment
• Security
• Traffic control
• Performance and Scalability
• Monitor Usage

The above APIM capabilities along with some additional functionalities like Proxying, Developer portal, and Gateway management makes up the full API lifecycle in Boomi.

Gateway management provides advanced security features for deployed APIs. It provides additional capabilities for managing the installed gateway. Some of the supported authentications include

• Basic Authentication using Gateway
• Authentication using JWT on SPI Gateway

*Below is the APIM home screen available only in the Advanced version

Advantages of using Boomi APIM:

• Full Lifecycle Management – APIM in boomi offers full capability from designing to documentation and then to publishing. It makes it easy to share APIs both internally and externally
• Secured – With API gateway sitting on top of boomi integrations, all communications are through which are governed and thus offering an additional layer of security.
• Time to market – With its low code environment, boomi provides quicker time to market the services built on boomi.
• Data governance – Restricting data access with help of roles.

Disadvantages of using Boomi APIM:

• APIM capabilities are only limited to the APIs developed and deployed using boomi platform. It doesn’t support services built external to boomi.
• Data traceability – Boomi APIM’s provide basic functionality for managing and monitoring APIs which makes it difficult to trace data in case of any errors.

Additional References:

• Boomi’s community page for API Management: API Management
• API Gateway Management & Setup can be found here: Boomi API Gateway

 

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