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 endIn this book, youll learn about:a. 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. b. 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.c. Consumption and AnalyticsGet 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.Highlights Include:1) Architecture2) End-to-end lifecycle3) Design and development 4) Traffic management 5) Mediation 6) Security 7) Monetization8) Consumption9) Enterprise integration 10) Analytics11) SAP API Business Hub

1.1 ... Trends in Digital Business ... 24 1.2 ... APIs as Digital Building Blocks ... 28 1.3 ... Why Manage APIs? ... 33 1.4 ... SAP API Management: A Full-Lifecycle API Management Platform ... 39 1.5 ... Related and Complementary Products ... 42 1.6 ... Summary ... 43 2.1 ... Architecture ... 45 2.2 ... Introduction to the Real-World Scenario ... 48 2.3 ... Deploying and Running Your First API Proxy ... 52 2.4 ... Summary ... 62 3.1 ... Overview of the API Lifecycle ... 63 3.2 ... Components of SAP API Management ... 67 3.3 ... Lifecycle of APIs ... 103 3.4 ... Summary ... 119 4.1 ... API Development Methodology ... 123 4.2 ... Access the API Designer ... 125 4.3 ... API Providers ... 126 4.4 ... Develop New APIs ... 135 4.5 ... Add Resilience to Your APIs ... 150 4.6 ... Summary ... 152 5.1 ... Policy Editor Basics ... 153 5.2 ... Using Policies ... 156 5.3 ... Traffic Management ... 158 5.4 ... Mediation ... 160 5.5 ... Security ... 162 5.6 ... Extension ... 164 5.7 ... Summary ... 166 6.1 ... Access Control ... 168 6.2 ... Concurrent Rate Limit ... 170 6.3 ... Quotas ... 177 6.4 ... Response Cache ... 181 6.5 ... Spike Arrest ... 184 6.6 ... Summary ... 186 7.1 ... Assign Message ... 188 7.2 ... Extract Variables ... 195 7.3 ... JSON to XML ... 200 7.4 ... XML to JSON ... 205 7.5 ... Key Value Map Operations ... 208 7.6 ... Raise Fault ... 212 7.7 ... Service Callout ... 214 7.8 ... Summary ... 217 8.1 ... Authentication ... 220 8.2 ... API Security Threats ... 241 8.3 ... Summary ... 248 9.1 ... Create API Products and Rate Plans ... 252 9.2 ... View Bills ... 263 9.3 ... Summary ... 265 10.1 ... Building SAP Fiori Applications with SAP Web IDE ... 270 10.2 ... Building Native Applications with SAP Cloud Platform Mobile Services ... 290 10.3 ... Generating Integration Flows from APIs in SAP Cloud Platform Integration ... 305 10.4 ... Summary ... 309 11.1 ... Analyzing API Consumption ... 312 11.2 ... Developing Custom Charts ... 315 11.3 ... Statistics Collector Policy ... 317 11.4 ... Analytics on Cloud Foundry ... 320 11.5 ... Summary ... 323 12.1 ... Why an API Program? ... 328 12.2 ... Best Practices for Setting Up an API Program ... 330 12.3 ... API Products and the API Product Manager ... 333 12.4 ... SAP’s API Program: A Case Study ... 336 12.5 ... SAP API Business Hub ... 339 12.6 ... Summary ... 344 13.1 ... Recent Innovations ... 345 13.2 ... Future Roadmap ... 351 13.3 ... Summary ... 354