Akana API Developer Portal & Marketplace

Why Use the Akana API Developer Portal?

The Akana API developer portal is a key component of the Akana API platform. It’s more than a portal — it’s a portal, marketplace, catalog, and directory all in one.

It provides the easiest way to accelerate digital transformation in the enterprise. Why? Because with Akana, you’re not just coding an API. You’re building an high-quality consumable API product that enriches the code with security and compliance.

In fact, Akana:

Accelerates API delivery: Developers and consumers can create, review, or access API products quickly in the portal.
Enhances security: Akana ensures authenticated and authorized access, as well as applies security policies automatically.
Partners with you: Akana can help you customize a portal/marketplace that scales to meet your business needs.

With Akana, you can support all of your API stakeholders with an all-in-one platform. Each stakeholder gets the interface and functionality they need. And your API products will always be in sync — no matter what. This helps you accelerate time-to-market and gain efficiency.

Engage Developers and Partners With the API Developer Portal

Akana provides the best platform to engage your developers and partners. And the Akana portal is the key to better engagement — and delivering value to the business.

With Akana, you can make it easy to:

Publish and deploy consumable API products.
Find existing API products.
View API product documentation and understand how to use the APIs.
Adopt and share APIs.

By using Akana, you can foster engagement in the developer community. The Akana portal doubles as a community for developers to contribute, discuss, and provide feedback — on APIs and beyond.

Akana API marketplace developer portal screenshot on computer.

“Akana has been an excellent choice in securing and managing the full lifecycle of the APIs with very easy to use portal. Provides loads of out-of-the box security policies and configurations that helps in managing the APIs without any customizations.”

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Benefits of the Akana API Developer Portal & Marketplace

Automation is key to reducing your time-to-market. And Akana makes it easy.

That’s because the Akana portal is fully integrated with everything else in the API platform, including the Akana API gateway. This means Akana supports APIs deployed across multiple gateways. And it provides a centralized catalog of all APIs available — even APIs that aren’t deployed on Akana.

You can then use these APIs as building blocks to create specific API products, helping you to reduce time-to-market.

The Akana API developer portal and marketplace makes it easy to drive API adoptions and unlock new business channels.

That’s because with Akana, you can:

Find the API you’re looking for.
Verify: Is this really the API you’re looking for?
Access: Manage access to live endpoints.
Monitor behavior through metrics, charts, and dashboards.
Collaborate: Allow for feedback, questions, and notifications.
Monetize your data by using APIs.

By choosing the Akana portal, you can create a compelling network of collaborators who — by sharing data and functionality — provide new channels for your business.

With Akana, you’ll have one marketplace for all stakeholders — your developers, API admins/product owners, and API consumers. This helps you ensure consistency by maintaining a single user interface.

What each stakeholder can see and do in Akana will depend on their role and permissions. Akana offers fine-grained permissions, to help you ensure security. And you can guarantee consistent, accurate API production through all environments and stages of the software development lifecycle.

Plus, all of this is out-of-the-box in Akana. You won’t have to write a single line of code.