The API economy is growing rapidly. API platform is a crucial component of modern application architectures. It provides a base component that allows applications and data sources to communicate to each other.
An API management player, SOA Software, has announced API management on Microsoft (News - Alert) Azure. With this announcement, Microsoft enterprise users who are executing API programs can look to SOA Software’s API Management solution for targeted management of their Microsoft-based APIs and services environment, including APIs deployed on the Windows Azure cloud.
SOA Software is a provider of API Management that helps businesses to plan, build, secure, monitor and share APIs.
In order to provide good documentation and quick time-to-value, API support for Windows Azure cloud platform can be securely connected with Microsoft resources and uses Windows Azure Service Bus to securely manage interactions between APIs and critical business data stored in on-premise systems.
The solution enables Microsoft shops to shape up their API management strategy by building large developer portals and communities. This solution provides a single place to manage and secure APIs by using security features such as OAuth, OpenID and integration with enterprise security systems.
Alistair Farquharson, CTO of SOA Software said in a statement, “SOA Software is working with Microsoft, making it easy for customers to execute their API initiatives in Microsoft environments. Our strategy with Microsoft is centered on making it easy for developers to securely expose and manage APIs. We extend the Microsoft platform with our API Gateway (News - Alert) and Developer Community solutions that have already helped many organizations launch their API initiatives.”
SOA Software, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, provides API support for Windows Azure cloud platform, Windows Azure Mobile Services, Windows Azure Service Bus and WebAPI.