Managing a business in the 21st century is very difficult
given the complexity of business environment and the stiff competition.
Organizations have to continuously look for new avenues and create a mechanism
to upgrade their traditional methods of working to ensure survival in the long
run. Creating an application for a Smartphone involves lot of steps ranging
from its design to the back end services upon which it depends for its
functionality.
A company can create its own services or can use the back end
services of another company engaged in the respective business. However, to
ensure only authorized access to the services, companies needed a
mechanism. Apigee learning and development tools and software
serves as solution for both application and service creation companies.
Instead of using traditional methods of sharing back end
services, apigee involves creation of an API which helps acts as proxy layer
for anyone who wants to use the services of a third party of his/her
application. It acts a cross cloud access platform which helps in connecting
various participants connected to a business like its employees, customers and
their business partners. It even acts as medium to connect an application with
the back end services provide by a company. An enterprise can access the
service using any application from anywhere using these API managed over Apigee
cloud based platform.
Following features make Apigee the best platform for
managing developing API’s:
1. Quick availability:
Apigee acts as the best medium to share a company’s back
end services with application manufacturing companies. They ensure quick
availability of the services which can be accessed anytime from anywhere
easily. It somewhat makes the services available for use on the web itself.
2. Security:
Apigee provides a secure way of sharing company’s
services with other users. The proxy layer in the form of API keeps the
services safe from unauthorized access. A user first has to register itself and
obtain an access key for using the proxy server.
3. Scalability:
The cloud based platform automatically upgrades the
servers of the service providing company. It helps in creating a perfect
balance between demand and supply. With the increase in number of users, API
gets more durable and helps in better utilization of services needed by a third
party.
4. Development and maintenance:
Apigee
developments help
in creation of API which are then accessed by other users. The apigee software
automatically helps in maintenance of the API created by a company. The service
company can easily manage various proxies it creates for different users using
a single platform.
5. Flexibility:
Apigee’s edge software gives greater flexibility to the
creators of proxies which allow them to make changes to the APIs without
affecting the end users. The company can set limits and bundle different APIs
into a single product. Moreover, any new application created can use the
services without worrying about the method used for creating the APIs and the
services.
6. Connecting everyone:
All the participants connected to a business can be
connected using the API creation software. All the applications whether
physical which are used in an office or virtual which includes public and
private cloud servers can be connected to each other easily.
Therefore, Apigee through its development services and
APIs help a company to manage, scale, monitor and analyze the services it
creates.
