SAP API Management

Unpack your API toolkit with this guide to SAP API Management. Learn how to use the API Designer to create enterprise APIs and discover how to manage their lifecycle. Walk through key processes that optimize your APIs and keep them running smoothly: traffic management, mediation, security, and monetization. Get expert guidance on building applications, generating integration flows, and running analytics. Master API management from end to end!

• Design and architect your enterprise APIs with SAP Cloud Platform
• Use traffic management, mediation, and security policies to manage the API lifecycle
• Learn to monetize, monitor, analyze, and consume APIs

API Lifecycle

Walk through API management from end to end: design, management, consumption, and more. Understand how components such as the Developer Portal and API Gateway support the API lifecycle.

Key Processes

Make the most of your APIs. See how to monitor traffic; perform message transformation, parsing, and validation; handle API security threats; and monetize API products.

Consumption and Analytics

Get your APIs working for you. Learn how to consume APIs in SAP Fiori apps, mobile apps built with SAP Mobile Services, and more. Then, analyze API consumption to gain insight into usage trends and performance.

• Architecture
• End-to-end lifecycle
• Design and development
• Traffic management
• Mediation
• Security
• Monetization
• Consumption
• Enterprise integration
• Analytics
• SAP API Business Hub

About the Authors

Carsten Bönnen works for SAP SE within the strategic product management for SAP Cloud Platform. He received his MA in computer linguistics and artificial intelligence in Germany in 2001 and started working at SAP that same year. Initially a Java developer and trainer, he soon became a consultant and led strategic projects in the then-new field of enterprise portals. Since 2002, he has worked as a product manager for SAP NetWeaver Portal, SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer, SAP Gateway, and SAP API Management. For another four years, he has worked as director for technology strategy for the Strategic Alliance Management at Microsoft.

Harsh Jegadeesan is the head of product management for SAP's integration platforms.

Divya Mary is the lead solution architect for SAP Cloud Platform API Management and SAP API Business Hub, covering SAP's integration portfolio.

Shilpa Vij is a product manager for SAP's integration platform. She started her professional journey at Tata Consultancy Services Pvt Ltd as a C++ developer after receiving her bachelor's degree in electronics and communication engineering in 2007. She then worked towards being a business analyst, pursuing her passion for client interfacing and consultancy roles. Shilpa has spent almost a decade at SAP Labs India, where she has been a seasoned cloud engineering expert, program lead, product expert, and now works as a product manager. At SAP, she is dedicated to and contributes to product and customer success. She provides enablement sessions and expert-level workshops in the areas of API management, SAP Cloud Platform Integration, and open connectors. Currently, her area of interest lies in discovering and projecting product management as an art.