Perforce Akana API Management Platform
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Features
41 features across 23 categories
API Design(1)
Ability to effectively create high-quality API products from existing or new services in an automated fashion
API Protocols(3)
Support for GraphQL endpoints for complex microservices operations
Support for creating and managing secured RESTful API endpoints
Support for SOAP protocol endpoints with security and management capabilities
Analytics(1)
Powerful automated analytics for monitoring and understanding API usage and performance
Architecture(1)
Enable accelerated time-to-market with shareable and simplified microservices architectures
Automation(1)
Policy-based DevOps automation for API management and deployment
Compliance(2)
Automated compliance features for meeting regulatory requirements
Documentation details for applicable open banking standards such as UK Open Banking and PSD2
Core Functionality(1)
Manage the full API lifecycle from creation through deployment and retirement
Data Formats(1)
Support for multiple content types including JSON and XML
Developer Tools(2)
Built-in API marketplace for discovering and consuming API products
Out-of-the-box developer portal for API consumption and exploration
Development(2)
Highly declarative, low-code integration using out-of-the-box configurable policies
No-code integration capabilities for virtual and physical endpoints
Governance(1)
Simplifies API governance by separating consumer-facing API products from code and automating the API product development process
Industry-Specific(1)
Comprehensive support for digital banking including UK Open Banking and PSD2 compliance
Infrastructure(3)
Support for scaling, routing, and auditing across various cloud platforms
Security enforcement and auditing on a variety of containerization platforms
Deploy APIs across multiple cloud platforms
Integration(2)
Integration and orchestration of back-end target services supporting HTTP, JMS, and AMQP network protocols
Secure and easy integration with third-party APIs through easy configurable API process flows with graphical process editor
Licensing(1)
Features to apply and manage API licensing policies
Mainframe Integration(2)
Akana Sola enables API creation from mainframe systems and data
Enable migration of mission-critical mainframe data to the cloud in minutes
Management(1)
Centralized control plane for managing internal systems API integration and external ecosystem API exposure
Microservices(2)
Service discovery and registry capabilities for microservices architectures
Advanced service routing and load balancing capabilities
Portal(2)
Specialized portal for managing and testing digital banking API products
Centralized portal for API access control, creation, and management
Reporting(1)
Simple visual dashboards provide stakeholders with all essential details
Security(8)
Automatically add comprehensive security policies to API products based on metadata configured by stakeholders
Protecting customer and corporate data with automated security measures
Comprehensive implementation of FAPI-required security aspects including OAuth2.0, OpenID Connect, and JWS-based message validation
JSON Web Signature based message validation for enhanced security
Built-in support for OAuth2.0 authentication and authorization
Support for OpenID Connect for identity and authentication
Advanced security policy mediation allowing you to meet diverse back-end endpoint security requirements with no code required
Features designed to reduce security risk and prevent breaches
Testing(1)
Convenient API testing environment from a Third Party Provider perspective, supporting PISP and AISP scenarios
Workflow(1)
Make it easy for stakeholders to weigh in and approve API products at various stages with automated product promotion
Pricing
Free Trial
- ✓Full Akana suite access
- ✓30-day trial period
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Integrations
9 known integrations