Enterprise-Scale API Management

Akana offers the most profound way to accelerate digital transformation at scale – without compromising governance. How? Conceptually speaking, we separate consumer-facing API products from code. Then we automate the API product development process. Finally, we make it easy for stakeholders to weigh in and approve products at various stages. This simplifies the API lifecycle governance process.

Additionally, we automatically add comprehensive security policies to your API products, based on metadata configured by responsible stakeholders. These metadata can also determine the deployment zones in which the product will be available. Next, automated product promotion allows for stakeholder approval when and where needed. Simple visual dashboards provide stakeholders with all essential details.

Akana’s API management platform offers the easiest way to accelerate digital transformation in the enterprise and accelerate time-to-market. Akana achieves this through full lifecycle API management features which address all aspects of the API ecosystem – from security and authentication to automation and analytics. Akana is trusted by Fortune 500 companies to handle mission-critical APIs and applications. Why? Because our solution can handle complex API management tasks at scale rapidly and with tight security.

Key benefits include:

• Accelerated time to market
• Powerful, automated security and analytics
• Rapid digital transformation 

Online services have become indispensable. More than a convenience, customers around the globe now actually rely on these services. These include online banking services, supported through online portals and mobile apps - anything to effectively allow secure online financial transactions.

Digital banking has been on the rise for a couple of years already. In some geographies, notably the UK and the European mainland, it has been given a boost by government-induced regulation like UK Open Banking and PSD2. Admittedly, these regulations have a limited scope in that they essentially target retail banking (account information and payment services, in particular).

Nevertheless, they clearly help to demonstrate the potential significance of a banking API channel, both in terms of the functional value it may offer as well as the conditions under which it can be offered. Financial data and transactions are highly sensitive, so they and the systems processing them need to be rigorously secured.

The opportunities offered through digital banking clearly surpass regulation. Digital and open banking initiatives have now been launched by banks throughout Asia, the USA, the Middle East and Australia.

Key features of Akana Digital Banking include:

• Documentation details for applicable open banking standards (e.g., UK Open Banking, PSD2, etc.)
• Comprehensive implementation of the relevant security profile, including FAPI-required aspects like OAuth2.0 and OpenID Connect, JWS-based message validation, etc.
• API Sandbox for convenient API testing from a Third Party Provider (e.g. PISP, AISP) perspective.

APIs aren’t new to the enterprise. But their role within organizations has shifted dramatically in recent years. APIs drive disruption, innovation, and digital transformation across many industries.

While the management and design of APIs still requires significant input from IT, the directive for their use is increasingly coming from the business users as a means to offer new experiences, richer services, and achieve strategic goals.

Innovating through API management offers:

• New routes to market for your business
• Improved customer or partner experience
• Increased agility and faster time to market
• Disruptor advantage

Akana offers the easiest way to accelerate digital transformation in the financial services industry. How? Unparalleled onboarding, full lifecycle API management features, and advanced security capabilities. This combination enables:

• Faster innovation by accelerating time-to-market
• Better data and security outcomes through automated features
• A deeper partnership to help you modernize and deliver new services, while also accessing a superior customer experience

As powerful as APIs are, success is not guaranteed. Enterprises must take it a step further by ensuring the processes of API creation, publishing, consumption and operational monitoring are carefully managed. This means adhering to enterprise standards by creating easy-to-consume API products from API code. Furthermore, success comes at a price. More APIs means more endpoints to secure.

Akana mediation and integration capabilities include:

• Ability to effectively create high-quality API products from existing or new services in an automated fashion.
• Secure and easy integration with third-party APIs through easy configurable API process flows, supported through a graphical process editor
• Internal systems API integration and external ecosystem API exposure, consistently managed through a single, centralized control plane, consumption facilitated through out-of-the-box developer portal and API marketplace.
• Powerful data integration via secured RESTful, SOAP or GraphQL endpoints.
• Integration and orchestration of back-end target services and endpoints, including a mix of network protocol (HTTP, JMS, AMQP), message protocol (RESTful, SOAP, GraphQL), and content types (JSON, XML).
• Advanced security policy mediation that allows you to meet diverse back-end endpoint security requirements – with no code required.  
• Highly declarative, low-code, no-code integration using out-of-the-box configurable policies that can apply to virtual and physical endpoints. 

Accelerate time-to-market with shareable and simplified microservices architectures using Akana. APIs streamline consumption and distribution of packaged capabilities via microservices. And with Akana you can trust our automated and powerful security measures. Finally, enlist our digital transformation experts to ensure your API management journey enables rapid digital transformation via microservices. 

Akana enables:

• Policy based DevOps automation
• Service discovery, registry, security enforcement, scaling, routing, and auditing on a variety of containerization or cloud platforms
• Automated out-of-the-box features such as our developer portal and marketplace
• Support for all API languages, including GraphQL, for complex microservices operations

Akana provides the easiest way to accelerate digital transformation in the enterprise – without sacrificing security. Accelerating time-to-market is critical for your business. Akana allows you to do just that – while also applying powerful and automated security. With zero customer security breaches reported, Akana carries a strong track record. Finally, you get unrivaled access to digital transformation experts. They can help you accelerate transformation and customize your security efforts.

Benefits of Akana API security solutions include:

• Protecting customer and corporate data
• Reducing security risk
• Automating compliance