10 months ago

NEW YORK — The recent https://www.apidays.global/new-york/ conference delved into current API management trends, indicating that the market continues to grow with a clear trend toward breaking out components of current API management to create best-of-breed solutions for specific capabilities such as API security, federated marketplaces, and analytics, and testing. For instance, in a keynote, API Days co-founder and Chairman https://www.linkedin.com/in/mehdimedjaoui/?locale=en_US said that API management has become a commodity.

Meanwhile, Gartner’s Chief of Research for Software Engineering, https://www.linkedin.com/in/markwoneill/, said that 94% of organizations are adopting APIs and two-thirds are using some form of API management software. Gartner sees a trend toward lighter-weight gateways, and unbundling functionality for security, third-party API governance, and AI bot monetization.

The API software industry is responding with innovative best-of-breed solutions for observability and analytics, lightweight gateways, federated portals, testing, security, and development productivity tools.