Unlock the Power of Seamless API Management with IBM API Connect
Secure, automate, and scale your APIs anywhere.
Overview of the Product
IBM® API Connect® is a comprehensive API management solution designed to help businesses develop, secure, and manage APIs with ease. With robust features powered by AI, API Connect accelerates time-to-value, boosts security and governance, and facilitates seamless API integration across multiple environments. It enables businesses to scale their digital operations with confidence while driving innovation and improving collaboration.
Why Choose API Connect?
Automate manual processes and reduce time-to-market with built-in AI capabilities that streamline API management tasks.
Deploy your APIs anywhere—on-premises, in the cloud, or in hybrid environments—ensuring compatibility with your business needs.
Keep your APIs secure and compliant with robust governance features and granular access control.
Simplify the process of connecting to third-party services with easy-to-use interfaces and pre-built integrations.
Scale your API management effortlessly with a microservices-based architecture that adapts to growing business requirements.
Benefit from smart analytics and automatic remediation of API errors to improve quality and minimize disruptions.
What the Numbers say?
Features
Automate routine tasks and focus on innovative API development.
Ensure data protection with enterprise-grade API security protocols.
Centralized point for managing internal and external AI APIs, optimizing usage across multiple services.
User-centric design makes it easier for developers to discover, build, and reuse APIs.
Access key insights to optimize API performance and governance.
Integrate with multiple platforms, including cloud services, on-premises solutions, and hybrid systems.
Key Facts
IBM is ranked #1 in 4 out of 6 use cases in the 2024 Gartner® Critical Capabilities for API Management report.
Trusted by leading organizations across various industries, including financial services, healthcare, and retail.
Harness the power of AI to streamline API management, improve security, and boost operational efficiency.
Case Studies
Enhancing Digital Banking Experiences with IBM API Connect
A leading financial institution sought to modernize its digital ecosystem by creating a seamless, productized API experience for its developer partners. The goal was to simplify onboarding, accelerate API delivery, and enhance customer experiences through secure and scalable integrations.
By deploying IBM API Connect®, the bank built a unified API management platform that streamlined developer access, reduced onboarding time, and improved governance across its API lifecycle.
Business challenge
The bank’s digital transformation strategy focused on enabling an open banking ecosystem where internal and external developers could build, integrate, and innovate faster. However, the existing onboarding process was manual, time-consuming, and lacked visibility across multiple departments.
Key Challenges:
- Long API onboarding cycles for developers and partners.
- Limited automation and manual approval workflows.
- Lack of centralized API documentation and monitoring.
- Difficulty in maintaining governance and security at scale.
The organization needed a robust API management solution to accelerate time-to-market, enforce consistent policies, and ensure secure access across thousands of APIs.
Solution
The bank partnered with Nexright to implement IBM API Connect®, creating a single platform to manage, secure, and monitor the full API lifecycle — from creation and publishing to analytics and monetization.
Solution Highlights:
- Unified API Management: Consolidated multiple tools into one centralized platform.
- Automated Onboarding: Reduced developer setup time from weeks to hours.
- Integrated Governance: Enforced policies for authentication, rate limiting, and data privacy.
- End-to-End Visibility: Provided analytics on API usage, performance, and partner engagement.
Solution components
- IBM API Connect®
- IBM Cloud Pak® for Integration
Developer Portal & Self-Service Access
The bank launched a self-service developer portal that simplified registration, API discovery, and testing — improving engagement across internal and third-party teams.
API Lifecycle Automation
Using API Connect, the institution automated versioning, approval workflows, and deployment, ensuring faster delivery of new financial services.
Enhanced Security and Governance
Comprehensive policies for encryption, identity management, and throttling protected sensitive financial data and ensured regulatory compliance.
Result
- Reduced API onboarding time by 69%, accelerating developer enablement.
- Improved API availability and uptime, enhancing user experience.
- Enabled 292+ active APIs serving internal and partner ecosystems.
- Achieved stronger security and governance, ensuring full compliance with open banking standards.
The transformation with IBM API Connect has helped us productize, improve, and simplify our onboarding process. The unified architecture and self-service tools have significantly improved developer experience.
— Head of Digital Transformation, Leading Financial Institution
Strengthening Healthcare Data Connectivity with IBM API Connect
A leading healthcare technology organization in China set out to unify patient data exchange and streamline clinical workflows across hospitals, labs, and research centers. Managing multiple data sources and applications created inefficiencies, compliance risks, and limited collaboration between systems.
By implementing IBM API Connect®, the organization built a secure, centralized API ecosystem that allowed seamless data sharing across medical systems — ensuring faster access to patient information, enhanced interoperability, and more efficient healthcare delivery.
Business challenge
The organization faced growing complexity in integrating healthcare data from multiple legacy systems and third-party applications. Each department relied on separate data management tools, leading to silos and duplicated records. As medical data volumes expanded, interoperability became a major barrier to efficient care delivery.
Key Challenges:
- Fragmented and inconsistent healthcare data systems.
- Slow and manual integration between hospital and research platforms.
- Security and compliance concerns for sensitive patient information.
- Limited real-time data sharing and analytics capabilities.
The organization needed a robust, scalable, and compliant API management solution to connect its ecosystem securely and ensure that the right data reached the right systems at the right time.
Solution
Partnering with Nexright, the organization deployed IBM API Connect® as the foundation of its data integration strategy. The platform enabled secure connectivity between disparate healthcare systems, cloud applications, and partner networks — accelerating data access and ensuring compliance with healthcare standards.
Solution Highlights:
- Centralized API Gateway: Created a unified API management layer connecting electronic health record (EHR) systems, lab information management, and AI analytics tools.
- Secure Data Exchange: Protected patient data through end-to-end encryption, OAuth-based authentication, and policy-driven access control.
- Developer Enablement: Provided internal teams and partners with a self-service portal for rapid API onboarding and collaboration.
- Real-Time Integration: Enabled real-time data access across multiple facilities, reducing latency and improving decision-making.
Solution components
- IBM API Connect®
- IBM Cloud Pak® for Integration
Unified Data Access
Centralized healthcare data integration across clinical, research, and administrative systems to eliminate duplication and streamline reporting.
Regulatory Compliance and Security
Implemented governance policies aligned with healthcare data regulations, including HIPAA and China’s data protection framework.
Scalable Hybrid Integration
Supported both on-premises and cloud environments for hospitals operating under varied IT infrastructures.
Result
- Reduced integration time by 65%, improving data delivery across departments.
- Enabled real-time interoperability between hospital systems, labs, and research centers.
- Strengthened patient data security with centralized policy enforcement.
- Accelerated innovation by enabling third-party healthcare app developers to build securely on unified APIs.
IBM API Connect allowed us to unify data exchange across multiple healthcare systems securely and efficiently. By centralizing our API ecosystem, we’ve improved interoperability, patient data security, and overall operational agility.
— Zhang Wei, Director of Digital Transformation, Shanghai Changjiang Science & Technology Development Co., Ltd.
What The Users Say
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FAQ's
IBM API Connect is a complete API management solution that allows organizations to create, manage, secure, and socialize APIs. It helps businesses accelerate digital transformation by securely exposing services to developers, partners, and customers.
API Connect provides advanced security capabilities like OAuth 2.0, API key validation, threat protection policies, rate limiting, and analytics-driven anomaly detection. These ensure secure API gateways and help maintain compliance with data privacy laws.
IBM API Connect offers full lifecycle API management with built-in analytics, developer portal customization, automated versioning, and seamless integration with cloud-native tools. It also supports hybrid and multicloud deployments, unlike many competitors.
Enterprises can expose APIs through customizable developer portals, set usage plans, track consumption, and apply billing. This enables monetization models based on API usage, tiered plans, or subscriptions.
Yes, it fully supports OpenAPI (Swagger) definitions for designing and importing APIs, making it easier for developers to build and maintain RESTful services.
With CLI tools and REST APIs, API Connect can be seamlessly integrated into DevOps pipelines for automated deployment, testing, and version control of APIs across development, staging, and production environments.
Yes, it supports on-premise, cloud-native (IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure), and hybrid deployment models. This flexibility is ideal for organizations managing APIs across different infrastructures.
Nexright provides strategic consulting, deployment, API architecture design, security policy configuration, and training to ensure clients get full value from API Connect while aligning with digital transformation goals.
