Universal API Management (UAPIM)
What is Universal API Management
A strategy or platform referred to as “universal API management” offers full API management capabilities across a variety of settings, technologies, and architectures. It enables enterprises to control, safeguard, and regulate APIs independent of their deployment location, technological stack, or supported protocols.
Why MuleSoft Universal API Manager (UAPIM)
MuleSoft already has some internally developed or supplied by your SaaS providers’ APIs running on a cloud platform like AWS. Many of you use an API management tool to build applications on microservice architectures.
With multiple APIs scattered all over the organization, you might come to the point where reinforcing standard security, regulations, and compliance becomes almost impossible. Furthermore, teams have a hard time finding.
APIs for reuse lead to duplication of effort, not to mention the challenges of managing these APIs from multiple management consoles.
Key features of Universal API Management include:
Multi-Cloud Support:
The platform supports APIs deployed in various cloud environments, such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, or on-premises data centers. It provides consistent management and monitoring capabilities across these environments.
Hybrid Integration:
Supports integration with both cloud-based and on-premises systems. It enables seamless connectivity and communication between different systems, regardless of their location or deployment model.
Multi-Protocol Support:
Provides support for a wide range of protocols and data formats, including REST, SOAP, GraphQL, gRPC, and more. It allows organizations to expose and consume APIs using different protocols as needed.
Security and Governance:
Offers robust security features such as authentication, authorization, encryption, and threat protection. It also provides governance capabilities to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and organizational policies.
Scalability and Performance:
Provides scalable and high-performance API management capabilities to handle large volumes of API traffic and meet the demands of modern digital businesses.
Developer Experience:
Focuses on improving the developer experience by providing tools for API documentation, testing, versioning, and lifecycle management. It enables developers to discover and consume APIs easily.
Analytics and Monitoring:
Offers comprehensive analytics and monitoring features to track API usage, performance, and health. It provides insights into API usage patterns, trends, and potential issues.
Integration with Existing Systems:
Integrates with existing systems such as identity providers, monitoring tools, CI/CD pipelines, and API gateways to provide a unified and integrated API management solution.
By adopting Universal API Management, organizations can streamline their API initiatives, accelerate digital transformation efforts, and ensure consistent management and governance of APIs across their entire ecosystem, regardless of the underlying technologies or deployment environments.
See this also: UAM
