Gravitee, the API management platform, launched Federated API
Management, which provides a single pane of governance for
companies leveraging multiple API gateways and event brokers.
Enterprises are often managing tens of thousands of APIs – with
different teams each using their own API gateway of choice –
creating the problem of API sprawl that until today made it
impossible to have governable API security, visibility, and
management.
“We built federated API management because we know that various
teams across a given organization leverage myriad tools to manage
their APIs,” said Rory Blundell, CEO of Gravitee. “Even if a team
isn’t using Gravitee as their API Gateway, they can still take
advantage of having a central source of truth for visibility,
subscription control, governance, and more.”
Federated API Management enables organizations to centrally
manage, secure, and publish all of their APIs – no matter what API
Gateways and event brokers are being used across the organization.
With Gravitee, API and Platform teams can now use a single solution
to discover all APIs across the organization, import those APIs
into a single subscription control and management layer, and then
publish them all in a unified Developer Portal for self-service
discovery, documentation, and subscription. This “multi-gateway”
approach is a key pillar of modern API Management.
The Three Pillars of Modern API Management
(APIM)
1 - Multi-Gateway and Multi-Broker: API
Management, as a practice, must support the ability for API
publishers to manage, secure, and govern APIs and services from
multiple different API Gateways and event brokers.
2 - Event-Native: API Management must treat
event streams and event APIs as first-class citizens on par with
synchronous APIs, as more and more organizations introduce event
streaming. This will enable teams to get more ROI out of their
initial investment in streaming.
3 - AI-forward: API Management vendors must
find ways to both (1) improve their API Management offerings
through AI and (2) better enable organizations to leverage AI as a
force-multiplier.
“Federation enables us to feed everybody: our customers, our
developers, our support people, our partners – there's a single
pane of glass and a single point of entry,” said Melvin Stephen, VP
of Product Development at Blue Yonder. “It doesn't matter what the
API is implemented on and this is going to be a huge
advantage.”
Gravitee continues to be acknowledged with industry recognition.
The company was the sole vendor positioned in the Customers’ Choice
Quadrant in the 2024 Gartner Peer Insights™ ‘Voice of the Customer’
for API Management Report with a ‘willingness to recommend’ score
of 100%¹ — the highest of all vendors recognized in the report.
Gravitee was also named as a Visionary in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant™
for API Management Report.
The company is demonstrating Federated API Management at their
flagship event Gravitee Edge 2024. Edge is a premier 3-day virtual
conference covering a range of topics related to modern API
management, and is free and open to the public. Keynote speakers
include Emily Pfeiffer, Principal Analyst at Forrester; Matt
Houser, VP of Global Engineering at Tealium; and Mathieu Croissant,
Head of API Strategies at Roche.
About GraviteeGravitee is changing what it
means to be a modern API Management platform. The Gravitee solution
covers the entire API lifecycle, from ideation and design to
exposure, security, and deprecation–and it offers the market’s
broadest support for various API styles, event brokers, and
different API Gateways. Whether you need to securely expose REST
APIs or expose Kafka as self-service API products, Gravitee offers
a suite of solutions that will help your organization drive more
API and event stream ROI.
Gartner report attributions Gartner, Magic
Quadrant for API Management, Shameen Pillai, Kimihiko Iijima, Mark
O'Neill, John Santoro, Paul Dumas, Andrew Humphreys, Nicholas
Carter, Published 11 October 2023, Updated 6 March 2024.
Gartner, Voice of the Customer for API Management, Peer
Contributors, 22 March 2024.
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reviews in the API Management market on Gartner Peer Insights as of
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