ARMONK, N.Y., Nov.
30, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced
today that Forrester Research named IBM a leader in its recent
report, The Forrester Wave™: API Management Solutions, Q4 2016.
Forrester analyzed and scored numerous API management solutions
and identified IBM as a "leader" for offering broad and deep
functionality. This included creating business agility, adapting to
constant change and responding to new and changing competition
across a wide range of unpredictable scenarios.
The 27-criteria evaluation used in the report is designed to
help application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals
select the right API management platform for their needs. API
management platforms were evaluated on current offerings, strategy
and market presence.
The report notes that since Forrester's last Wave evaluation on
this space, "IBM has rebuilt its API management solution around its
StrongLoop acquisition to create a unified solution for API
management and APIs built using Node.js," and "its new microgateway
provides a developer-focused extension to API management."
"Companies are increasingly using APIs to connect new and
existing IT services and integrate vast amounts of data as part of
their digital transformation strategy and shift to the cloud," said
Marie Wieck, general manager, IBM
Hybrid Cloud. "We believe this recognition by Forrester underscores
IBM's commitment to offer clients innovative hybrid integration
solutions for cloud and on-premises deployments to meet their
business needs."
Increasingly, new cloud services depend on integrating data and
applications. To allow for this strategic transformation to
hybrid cloud environments, IBM offers an easy-to-consume cloud
service, IBM API Connect, that developers can use to connect
applications, data and microservices. It is designed to make it
easier to find, call and connect over the cloud.
Additionally, IBM API Connect helps enable the automated
creation of APIs, simplified discovery of systems of records,
self-service access for internal and third party developers and
built-in security and governance.
In addition to a new integration pattern that is further
accelerated by the shift to Cloud, APIs may help make it easier to
spur on digital transformation, IoT, Mobile and capturing company
value and differentiation from existing IT assets.
IBM helps meet the business needs of its customers by providing
a unified solution for API management, that can either be fully
vendor-managed, hybrid-vendor managed, or fully customer managed.
API Connect is designed to provide value-add functions for platform
as a service-based API implementation hosting through IBM
Bluemix. Additionally, API Connect forms the basis for
IBM's Connect to Cloud family of offerings that enables key IBM
software products to expose existing assets to participate in the
$2.2T API economy (source – IBM
estimates for 2018).
About IBM Cloud
For more information on IBM Cloud visit:
www.ibm.com/cloud-computing.
1. The Forrester Wave™: API Management
Solutions, Q4 2016, Forrester Research, Inc., November 14, 2016.
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