IBM API Connect V5.0 delivers digital business innovation and transformation with APIs and Microservices

API Connect key benefits
API Connect is a complete solution that offers critical features that include the ability to:

• Create APIs and build Microservices:
 – Utilize StrongLoop capabilities to allow the creation of Microservices and APIs rapidly by using Node.js LoopBack(R) and Express(R) frameworks.
 – Deliver a model-driven approach to API creation.
 – Map models to backends by using available connectors.
 – Discover models from database.
 – Build, debug, profile, scale, and monitor Node.js applications.

• Engage with application developers through API portals that provide:
 – API exploration
 – Self-service sign up for rapid onboarding
 – Interactive API testing
 – Application and key management
 – Rate limit notification
 – API usage analytics

• Define, publish, and analyze REST and SOAP APIs with:
 – API discovery
 – API security management
 – API lifecycle management

• Establish API rate limits; publish to the developer portal and users; gain business insight through API analytics; and provide the capability to charge back developers for API usage.

• Manage the multi-tenant API environment to administer and scale system resources and monitor runtime health.

• Provide runtime policy enforcement by using a built-in gateway.

• Integrate all API Connect editions with IBM DataPower(R) Gateway with a minimum firmware level of Version 7.5. This enables DataPower to act as the API Gateway to provide API security, traffic management, mediation, and optimization capabilities in a secure, highly consumable physical or virtual appliance.