Akana's API Gateway Wins Award for Top Innovator in API Management

Exemplifies the New Wave of Integration-Centric Services

API WORLD, September 28, 2015 – Akana, a leading provider of API Management, API Security and Cloud Integration solutions, announced today that its API Gateway has won the Integrate 2015 Award for Top Innovator in API Management. The award recognizes Akana's leadership in the API management category. Akana won the award through an online vote conducted by the Integrate 2015 Conference, which takes place together with API World.

"It's a great honor to be acknowledged by industry peers as the leading innovator for our API Gateway in this critical space," said Roberto Medrano, Executive Vice President of Akana. "As API management becomes an important lever of business strategy, we are excited to be at the forefront of the technology."

Akana's API Gateway solution streamlines the development, deployment, security, management, and operation of APIs. It enables enterprises to standardize and automate the delivery of APIs and services with high security, performance and availability. The Gateway provides rich service and API integration capabilities across multiple instances in multiple, geographically diverse datacenters. It provides central definition and management of security, routing, orchestration, mediation, auditing, threat protection, and other operational policies. The Gateway enhances security and regulatory compliance through authentication, authorization, and audit capabilities. It can be deployed on-premises, in the cloud, or in a hybrid model.

"The technology industry is moving away from purchasing standalone tech products and moving towards building ecosystems of integrated tech solutions. Akana API Gateway is a perfect example of the new wave of integration-centric services," said Geoff Domoracki, Founder of Integrate 2015.