What Are APIs?

APIs are the faces of enterprise applications and processes. From the perspective of the API consumers, the APIs are the applications. Organizations can use different APIs to create optimized applications for customers, partners, and employees. It is imperative that organizations apply the same rigor they apply to application lifecycle management to API lifecycle management. Vordel's products enable complete API lifecycle management. Vordel API Server provides drag-and-drop API creation, centralized API administration and API registry, comprehensive monitoring and reporting. The free Vordel API Tester provides extensive functional and security testing capabilties for API developers and administrators. See the API Server Datasheet for a full overview of our API Server.

What Is Vordel API Server?

Vordel API Server, is an API Gateway that provides a comprehensive platform for managing, delivering, and securing APIs. Vordel API Server is for APIs of all types, including REST APIs for mobile and Web, SOAP APIs for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), file based interfaces for B2B integration, and other types of application integration interfaces. Vordel API Server enables enterprises to achieve standardized API delivery to ensure security, performance, and high availability. API Server is the next- generation technology that encapsulates capabilities from Application Gateway, Cloud Services Broker, and API Management into a unified API operating platform.

Why Do You Need Vordel API Server?

APIs enable enterprises to deliver business services via Cloud, mobile, and partner channels. Enterprises need an agile API platform to ensure quick time-to-market with new business services. APIs handle critical business transactions and often have direct impact on customer interactions and business’s ability to execute. Poor API security and performance can result in lost sales, missed opportunities, and inability to deliver. Every API requires a supporting infrastructure to make sure the APIs are properly managed, delivered, and secured. Vordel API Server provides an enterprise platform for API delivery, removing the need for API owners to build repeatedly one-off support infrastructures. By operationalizing API delivery using Vordel API Server, enterprises can improve development efficiency, operating efficiency, time-to-market, business agility, security posture, and compliance posture.

What Does Vordel API Server Do?

Vordel API Server provides the following six categories of services for API operations. Visit the Vordel API Server features page for more details.

• API transformation
• API control and governance
• API security
• API monitoring
• API development lifecycle
• API administration

Why Is Vordel API Server The Best?

Vordel has long been the innovation leader in application connectivity technologies. Vordel has been at the forefront of delivering next-generation solutions that help enterprises accelerate their adoption of new technologies. Since Vordel invented the original XML Firewall back in 2002, Vordel has diligently evolved its technology to meet the needs of emerging technology trends. When enterprises began adopting Service Oriented Architecture, Vordel expanded the XML Firewall technology to SOA Gateway to meet the needs of SOA security and governance. When Cloud computing started to gain traction, Vordel extended the technology to become Application Gateway and offered Cloud Services Broker capabilities.

Now with mobile computing and web oriented architecture emerging within the enterprise, Vordel once again leads the industry by expanding the technology into the world’s first API Server for Cloud and mobile, the next generation application connectivity solution.

Other API management solutions focus on only some of the API delivery challenges, such as development tooling and developer portal. Vordel offers the most comprehensive API delivery platform that address all six key areas listed above. No other API solutions can match Vordel’s combination of feature offerings, deployment flexibility, and product performance.

Vordel’s technology is in its seventh generation. After 12 years of refinement, Vordel API Server is the most feature-rich, robust, flexible, high performance, and easy-to-use offering on the market. Tests performed by an independent third party showed the Vordel API Server delivering APIs at 15 times the throughput of competing products. Vordel backs up our first-rate engineering with the best product support in the industry. Do not take our word for it. Let us introduce you to our happy and loyal customers.