April 28th, 2013

Facebook And The Sudden Wake Up About The API Economy

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What a two weeks it’s been. Something happened that has been simmering for a while. The API market exploded. Intel bought Mashery for more than $180 million and CA acquired Layer 7. 3Scale received a new $4.2 million round of funding from Javelin Ventures. Mulesoft acquired Programmable Web. And then Facebook jumped in and bought Parse. The acquisitions and funding point to a maturing market… → Read More

February 13th, 2013

A New Data Analytics Platform From Apigee Leverages APIs, Google Analytics And Other Data For Insight And Context

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Apigee  launched a new big data analytics platform today that extends the company’s mission beyond API management and into a new space that uses apps and data from APIs and other sources to gain context and insight.

Here’s the problem as Apigee sees it. Let’s say you have an app and an API. → Read More

November 15th, 2012

3Scale Discounts Cost Of Managing APIs Through Nginx Open-Source Server, Gives Developers Access, Services, Quality

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3Scale has discounted the cost for managing APIs in the enterprise through a new plug-in it has added to Nginx, the open-source web Server technology. → Read More

November 11th, 2012

5 Rules For API Management

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APIs are the glue that connect apps. It’s as true for consumer apps as it is for the enterprise. API management platforms have come into vogue as apps proliferate across the enterprise.

As APIs rise in importance, so has the need for better practices in their creation, development and management. All the major API management services have built strategies that they use as guiding principles… → Read More

November 8th, 2012

SOA Software’s API Management Platform And How It Compares To Its Sexy Counterparts

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SOA Software has a new management platform that company executives say better addresses the enterprise API market more so than the open API providers whose services have come into vogue in the past few years. → Read More

September 25th, 2012

Apigee Builds New API Management Service For The Programmable Data Center

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To address the new reality of our data driven world, we need better ways to manage the network. Google and later Amazon Web Services (AWS), embarked on that journey long ago. Now the market is beginning to catch up with new networked environments that are controlled more by software than physical switches, routers and controllers.

Apigee is now providing management for these Software-Defined… → Read More

August 16th, 2012

Alcatel-Lucent Creates Methodology For APIs And Makes Available Under Creative Commons

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Alcatel-Lucent is releasing a methodology for APIs that it is making available through Creative Commons. It is part of a new consulting practice the telecommunications company has established to help its service partners and enterprise customers develop, deploy and maintain APIs.

Alcatel-Lucent has made APIs a focal aspect of its business by offering them to carriers and other service… → Read More

July 24th, 2012

API Management Heats Up: Apigee Follows Mashery With Its Own $20 Million Round

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Well, look at this – only yesterday, API management platform Mashery announced its close of an additional $10 million in Series D funding, and today competitor Apigee is announcing a $20 million round led by new investor Focus Ventures. Also participating in the round were existing investors Bay Partners, Northwest Venture Partners, SAP Ventures and Third Point Ventures. This API business? It’s… → Read More

July 17th, 2012

WAC Whacked: Telecom-Backed Alliance Merges Into GSMA, Assets Acquired By API Management Service Apigee

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Apigee, the API management company that was most recently spotted powering that new “print to Walgreens” feature in half a dozen or so mobile applications, is now acquiring the technology assets of WAC, aka the Wholesale Applications Community. WAC, an alliance of global telecom companies, like AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, Deutsche Telecom, China Mobile, Orange, and others (and pegged by TechCrunch… → Read More

January 18th, 2012

API Management Service Apigee Acquires Mobile Data Platform Usergrid

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Apigee, a provider of API management products and services, which we’ve referred to in the past as a “Google Analytics for APIs” has acquired the mobile cloud platform Usergrid. For those unfamiliar, Usergrid helps to make mobile app development easier by providing the APIs needed to manage data, users and events. The company provides these kind of core APIs for the backend so mobile developers… → Read More

September 22nd, 2010

Google Analytics For APIs Apigee Launches Premium Products

We’ve written about Apigee, which offers Web developers and publishers a dashboard for managing both the APIs they provide to others and the ones they consume for themselves. It’s essentially a Google Analytics for APIs. For developers who rely on data from other sites and companies, it monitors how much data they are using (message requests), the error rate, response times, and downstream users. → Read More

September 22nd, 2010

Google Analytics For APIs Apigee Launches Premium Products

We’ve written about Apigee, which offers Web developers and publishers a dashboard for managing both the APIs they provide to others and the ones they consume for themselves. It’s essentially a Google Analytics for APIs. For developers who rely on data from other sites and companies, it monitors how much data they are using (message requests), the error rate, response times, and downstream users. → Read More

April 14th, 2010

In Time For Chirp, Apigee Adds A Twitter API Dashboard For Developers

Thousands of developers rely on Twitter’s APIs to build their apps and Websites. In time for this week’s Chirp conference for Twitter developers, Apigee is coming out of public beta and launching a special dashboard to keep track of the Twitter API.

Apigee is a Google Analytics for APIs. For developers who rely on data from other sites and companies, it monitors how much data they are using… → Read More

August 25th, 2009

Apigee's Ambition Is To Be The Google Analytics For APIs

The Web has come a long way from a collection of Web pages to repositories of programmable data freely flowing from one site to another through APIs (Application Programming Interfaces). But it is difficult to keep track of all of the thousands of APIs out there. Wouldn’t it be great if there was a Google Analytics for APIs?

Today, Sonoa Systems is taking the first step towards building just… → Read More