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API Management for MicrosoftManage APIs in Azure and On-Premise for Cloud Applications

Akana Family of ProductsOur API Management solution for Microsoft offers a fully integrated, unified, and comprehensive platform for managing Azure and On-Premise Microsoft-based APIs.

Community Manager™ creates a sophisticated developer community for App builders.

Lifecycle Manager™ provides API and App lifecycle management to help customers build APIs that meet business requirements.

API Gateway sets up an API proxy server to secure, monitor, and mediate and offer other runtime capabilities.

Microsoft customers are using Microsoft Azure as a comprehensive platform for new cloud and mobile initiatives. These initiatives are demanding integration with enterprise data stored in on-premise Microsoft environments as well as integration with SaaS-based applications. Akana's API Management solution for Microsoft is helping make this a reality.

With its built-in support for Azure, on-premise Microsoft, and SaaS platforms, Akana is helping Microsoft customers leverage APIs as a core integration technology for cloud-based initiatives. With a comprehensive API program in place, customers can easily expose, secure, and combine all of their resources as APIs into a unified whole to produce next generation cloud and mobile applications.

Manage the Full API LifecycleAkana Lifecycle Manager together with its built-in support for Microsoft Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server helps you to define your API strategy, then build and run your APIs according to your business goals.

● Optimize Your IT Investment – Prioritize and build APIs based on your current and planned needs

● Publish APIs & Services - Use Visual Studio to develop and then publish APIs to the web portal for consumption by mobile apps

● Develop Apps – Use Visual Studio to browse and choose available APIs to consume within your mobile apps

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Run Your APIs Using Microsoft TechnologyThe Akana API Management solution lets you build your APIs uisng a wide range of on-premise and Azure-based technology, including WCF, Service Bus, BizTalk, and Azure App Services. It will ensure that your APIs are consistently secured, monitored and integrated according to your enterprise standards and requirements.

● Secure Your APIs – Use centrally defined security policy to ensure that your APIs have the right level of Microsoft security, including Kerberos, WCF-WSHttp, and Azure Active Directory

● Monitor Your APIs – Use Web-based dashboards and powerful analytics tools to get real-time visibility into API performance, dependencies, and alerts

● Integrate Your APIs – Use powerful mediation and transformation features to ensure your APIs can connect to a wide variety of Azure, SaaS and backend resources including Redis Cache, Salesforce, and enterprise data accessed through NET.TCP services and BizTalk applications.

Use Service Bus for Cloud to On-Premise API IntegrationA compelling mobile app user experience requires deep integration with backend enterprise Microsoft resources. The challenge for enterprise API initiatives is to make Microsoft BizTalk applications, Microsoft SQL Server databases, and other enterprise resources easily yet securely available to APIs running in the cloud.

Utilizing the Microsoft Azure Service Bus safe and secure cloud to on-premise integration technology, Akana’s API Gateway makes it easy to manage the integration of cloud services with enterprise resources. For example, the Akana API Gateway can manage and secure WebAPI services, WCF services and BizTalk applications as APIs available on the public Azure cloud.

Manage APIs in a Microsoft Services EnvironmentEnterprise APIs exist within a larger internal enterprise application services environment. These enterprise services, built on Microsoft WCF, Microsoft BizTalk, Microsoft SQL Server, and other enterprise resources, must exist within the same lifecycle management practice as your Azure APIs to ensure a consistent, unified, comprehensive enterprise application services environment.

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Akana’s API Management solution for Microsoft integrates seamlessly with internal services. This lets organizations manage and

control the entire Microsoft services lifecycle from planning and building services all the way through to running and

sharing them across both internal services and APIs.

The result is a consistent, end to end solution for enterprise services and APIs regardless of whether they are intended for mobile apps or internal line of business applications, whether they run in the Microsoft Azure cloud or in your private data center, or

whether they are built on SOAP or REST or other technologies.

Microsoft Azure, Service Bus, ASP.NET, Web API, Mobile Services, Visual Studio, WCF, Active Directory, Team Foundation Server, SQL Server and BizTalk are trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.

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