Partner API Gateway
Increasingly, API consumers, such as applications, are running outside of a company’s control. This might include mobile applications that are running on employee or customer devices, as well as partner-developed solutions.
Although the internal and external partners are well-known and application use cases are predefined, there is much lower trust, because not only are there erratic consumers, but there is also the possibility of compromised systems and networks. Changing and documenting APIs is more difficult with developers working in different organizations on different timelines and on different business problems.
In the partner API Gateway scenario, TIBCO API Exchange is used to open up business data and services to internal and external partners in a controlled and secure manner. TIBCO API Exchange does this in the following ways:
- Protects against malicious or accidental attacks
- Sets usage limits by partner or application
- Routes requests to different services based on version or other context
- Maps external to internal protocols, such as REST to SOAP and HTTP to JMS
- Creates and monitors custom SLAs
- Audits access
- Allows partners to manage developers and debug API usage
- Enables an Extranet to acts as a centralized API repository
With a partner API gateway, companies can lower the cost of onboarding new organizations and manage them more efficiently. With tighter partner integration, they can extend their digital value chain to take their business into new channels.