Through integration with leading API Management platforms, Solace enables businesses to manage bothevent APIs and REST APIs in one place.
Why do you need
unified API management?
- Create compelling user experiences by giving developers easy Acess to both REST APIs and event APIs.
- Create new revenue opportunities by exposing and monetizing event APIs as event API products.
- Reduce risk with improved security for coherent and consistent runtime access controls.
- Eliminate the need for resource-heavy polling, caching, or scaling API Gateways by enabling real-time data access with event-driven protocols.
- Reduce infrastructure and data transfer costs while delivering faster, more efficient user experiences.
The Value of Unified API Management
Self-service access to all your APIs
Giving developers a unified way of discovering both REST APIs and event APIs enables them to more quickly and efficiently create new applications that leverage real-time data, or enhance existing applications.
It also simplifies onboarding, helps you expand your partner network and better serve your customer base while reducing delays from complex legal, security, or technical steps.
Take control of all your APIs
Take charge of your event and event API lifecycle from design to retirement with a governance framework that aligns to your API management processes.
Centralized governance helps reduce risks by ensuring consistency and compliance across all APIs, and streamlines management so you have the confidence to drive reliable, scalable digital experiences.
Empower your team to scale API management
With consistent tools and processes, your team can scale operations effortlessly, adapt quickly to market demands, and maximize the reuse of APIs to deliver reliable, impactful digital experiences.
Democratizing access to event APIs accelerates innovation and improves the efficiency of your event mesh by removing bottlenecks.
Customers Benefiting from Unified
Management of APIs and Events
Leading Shipping Company
Problem: Needed insight into assets for tracking shipments & increase supply chain efficiency.
Solution: Solace technology is the core event distribution within their platform, and Gravitee API-Management exposes tracking events as Event APIs via Web Protocols.
Benefit: Event APIs allow customers and partners to easily gain access to real-time notifications and sensor readings from their containers.
Global Investment Management Firm
Problem: Portfolio Managers lack real-time trading platform access. Manual submission of trades leads to slow execution and poor customer experience.
Solution: Gravitee API-Management exposes trading services as event APIs so trades can be processed as soon as they are submitted.
Benefit: Provides faster and better trading services to clients, with consistent security practices and access controls preventing unauthorized access.
Freight Company
Problem: Fragmented approach to freight tracking across multiple legacy systems was causing inconsistencies and inefficiencies that affected the quality of service provided to both internal and external stakeholders.
Solution: Gravitee API-Management exposes geolocation APIs enabling geo data submission from trailers and trucks, and event APIs provide real-time notifications to internal and external users.
Benefit: Partners can now easily consume updates as to their deliveries’ status, operations staff has real-time visibility of asset location and status, and all employees are notified about routing and scheduling changes as they occur.
Pharmaceutical Leader
Problem: Fragmented approach to freight tracking across multiple legacy systems was causing inconsistencies and inefficiencies that affected the quality of service provided to both internal and external stakeholders.
Solution: An integration marketplace combining events and APIs from Solace Event Portal and Mulesoft Anypoint enables self-service onboarding so consumers can request access to APIs and events.
Benefit: By adding events to their API mix and enabling real-time data distribution across their organization, the company has accelerated new system rollouts by 50%, and accelerated their ability to roll out new sales channels.
Event & API Management Unite!
Watch this 5-minute summary of a talk that Solace’s Shawn McAllister and Gravitee’s Linus Hakansson gave at EDA Summit 2024 to learn:
- How unified tooling for REST and event APIs helps organizations simplify their system, more effectively govern interactions, and give developers a consistent experience.
- How Solace and Gravitee are unifying the worlds of EDA and API management to simplify discovery, access control, productization, and monitoring of REST and event APIs.