Skip to main content
Feedback

Typical Usage Scenarios

Here are some ways you can use Cloud API Management:

  • Create, build, and manage your APIs seamlessly from a central platform.

  • Secure your APIs with robust authentication mechanisms to ensure only authorized access.

  • Restrict access to your APIs at both the API-level and method-level to have fine-grained control over APIs.

  • Customize your Developer Portal to reflect your company’s branding, look, and feel, ensuring a consistent experience for external developers.

  • Monitor API usage with rich analytics dashboards, including:

    • API Call Activity: Monitor total call volume and rate of change over time.
    • Health & Performance: View real-time data on availability, latency, and throughput.
    • Developer Engagement: View new developer activity such as new developers registered, application registration, and API key assignments.
    • Usage Summaries: Access usage graphs for all API packages and services.
    • Detailed Insights: Drill into top used packages, top five API methods, and top ten most active developers.
    • Geographical Analysis: View API call distributions by hour and geographic location.

  • View detailed cache statistics, broken down by API and Plan.

  • Monitor developer key cache usage and assess impacts when cache parameters are modified.

Image

Business Cases

Review the following business cases for examples of how to leverage Boomi Cloud API Management to enhance security, improve real-time traffic monitoring, and achieve business goals.

Launching Fast, Safe, and Reliable API Solutions

A mid-sized digital-first financial services company needed a secure, fast-to-market API management solution to meet growing demand for real-time financial data access via mobile apps and partner platforms.

The company aimed to launch a secure, compliant API platform for fintech partners and developers within three months. With limited IT resources and no in-house API gateway expertise, they required a cost-effective solution for moderate traffic.

To meet their goals quickly and securely, the company turned to Cloud API Management - a cloud-based gateway built for speed and scale. This partnership enabled them to:

  • Enhance Security: Securely connect with partners using built-in caller authentication and encrypted data transfer.

  • Optimize Traffic: Provides policy management with smart throttling to keep APIs stable, manage traffic, and maintain performance during peak usage.

  • Accelerate Deployment: Deploy quickly without internal infrastructure buildup to ensure smooth, always-on API performance.

Real-time API Visibility and Control for APIs

A large nationwide departmental store chain relies on APIs to distribute fresh fruits from third-party vendors. Their IT team faces security and functionality issues with their current API system and is seeking solutions to improve security, traffic monitoring, and the Developer Portal.

To meet their goals quickly and securely, the company partnered with Cloud API Management - a platform offering an intuitive interface for managing APIs throughout their entire lifecycle. This partnership enabled them to:

  • Enhance Security: Leveraging Cloud API Management, developers can build secure APIs that follow best practices in API design and management.

  • Improved API Management and Monitoring: Developers can easily configure, deploy, and monitor APIs, allowing them to respond to issues proactively and optimize performance based on real-time analytics.

  • Real Time Data Access: With advanced management tools, Cloud API Management promotes an agile API development environment, fostering collaboration across teams and ensuring APIs align consistently with business objectives.

Secure, Scalable, and Cost-Effective API Solution

A company faced challenges managing APIs securely and efficiently as their business grew. Their developers needed a reliable platform to integrate applications with products while protecting APIs from unauthorized access. They required a cost-effective solution that could easily handle both internal and external API traffic.

The company needed an API management solution to secure access for teams and partners, handle traffic smoothly, make it easy for developers to connect apps, scale with business growth, and maintain fair, predictable costs.

With Cloud API Management, the company has achieved:

  • Secure API deployment: Enhanced security with built-in authorization controls, keeping their APIs safe.

  • Traffic Management: Efficient routing to handle traffic smoothly across all our applications.

  • Simplified Developer Portal: A comprehensive platform that speeds up and simplifies app integration.

  • Scalable Solution: Scalability to support our growing organization, whether APIs are used internally or externally.

  • Cost-effective pricing: Transparent, fair pricing that offers great value with predictable costs.

On this Page