The global API Management market is estimated to experience healthy growth during the forecast period. Customers across the world are looking forward to ways to connect to companies through various devices and channels such as web, smartphones, laptops, tablets, and even connected devices for sharing data through various application. This has propelled organizations towards the adoption of more efficient frameworks to deliver enhanced end-user experience. This has led to the adoption of Application Programing Interface (API). The application programing interface helps enterprises to share content across organizations though applications developed with the help of API. The increasing use of APIs has generated high demand for API management.
API management comprises a set of processes through which organizations can gain control and visibility into APIs that are used to connect data and applications across cloud and enterprises. The API management provides companies with an API gateway, developer portal, API lifecycle management, support for API monetization, and API lifecycle management. In order to determine full potentials of their data services, organizations use API management that publishes API to internal, external, and partner developers. It also helps to create, secure, manage, scale, and analyze APIs.
The API management provides with easy to use interface, increase usability, reduce overhead, provide with an automated infrastructure and offers easy maintenance. Such factors are significantly driving the growth of the API management market. The increasing need for agile and efficient development framework for internal use and growing adoption of flexible, secure, and easy to use APIs are critical trends in the API management market.
The API management market has been segmented by solutions, by deployment type, by services, by industry, and by region. Based on the deployment type, the market is bifurcated into cloud, on-premise, and hybrid. The demand for cloud-based deployment is expected to rise significantly in the forecast due to high flexibility and scalability deployment provided by cloud at low cost. Based on the solution, the market is categorized into API Security, analytics, and monetization. The security helps to meditate and secure traffic between companies and developers or customer’s application programming interfaces. The analytics provides visualization tools, dashboards, and reports through which users can measure data that flows between application programming interfaces. The monetization allows the business to generate revenue from application programming interfaces.
The key vendors are in the API Management market are Google LLC, Microsoft Corporation, MuleSoft, LLC, Amazon.com, Inc.; TIBCO Software Inc.; Rogue Wave Software, Inc.; WSO2, 3scale, CA Technologies (Broadcom Inc.), IBM Corporation, Software AG and SAP SE, amongst others.