“Every successful business leverages an agile architecture built on APIs and microservices to build better apps faster,” said Tass Melissinos, VP, API Management, CA Technologies Asia Pacific & Japan.
“We believe this recognition from Gartner further validates the strategy and strength of our market-leading solutions that include the design, development, testing, security, management and monitoring capabilities of APIs. Through our full lifecycle API management, microservices and Internet of Things (IoT) solutions we feel we’re able to help every modern software factory deliver better experiences and meet evolving business objectives for revenue growth.”
According to Gartner, “Leaders are vendors that execute strongly and that lead and influence the market. Recent entrants to this market that have a limited record of execution are less likely to be Leaders. The same applies to strongly executing vendors that are overly cautious about innovation and risk."
According to Gartner, “Leaders are vendors that execute strongly and that lead and influence the market. Recent entrants to this market that have a limited record of execution are less likely to be Leaders. The same applies to strongly executing vendors that are overly cautious about innovation and risk."
The most distinctive attribute of Leaders, Gartner says, is that they are able to address the widest variety of API use cases: internal (application-to-application), business-to-business (B2B), business-to-consumer (B2C), on-premises and in the cloud, and everything from traditional, next-generation service-oriented architecture (SOA) "Mode 1" projects to the most dynamic, agile and digital-driven "Mode 2" undertakings. An associated Critical Capabilities report*** provides further details.
“The advent of sweeping digital transformation and the platform/ecosystem business model have put API programmes on CIOs' agendas. They also require the attention of higher management (see Articulating the Business Value of APIs)***. API programmes frequently start small with innovative ideas, and might involve a few hackathons before they take off, but then they need to execute really fast.
“Leaders have made sure their offerings can help their clients thrive in this dynamic environment. In this Magic Quadrant, there are many Leaders. There are three ways of becoming one:
“The advent of sweeping digital transformation and the platform/ecosystem business model have put API programmes on CIOs' agendas. They also require the attention of higher management (see Articulating the Business Value of APIs)***. API programmes frequently start small with innovative ideas, and might involve a few hackathons before they take off, but then they need to execute really fast.
“Leaders have made sure their offerings can help their clients thrive in this dynamic environment. In this Magic Quadrant, there are many Leaders. There are three ways of becoming one:
By powerfully marketing and enriching a mature API management platform — the obvious way;
By acquiring Leaders or Visionaries, integrating them into a wider application infrastructure offering and keeping up the pace of API management innovation;
By addressing digital transformation and their integration challenges head on, and adding fully functional API management. Leaders understand the market trends that will benefit them and their clients' business strategies, frequently in the form of digital transformations. Leaders see the business potential of API programmes, communicate this potential to business units, and help their clients realise it. There are no fully open-source Leaders in this market. But this situation is only temporary, as we expect many open-source providers to improve their positions.”
CA API Management is a suite of products that helps organisations achieve digital transformation by unlocking the value of data and empowering developers to grow the business and capitalise on new opportunities. CA API Management includes CA Live API Creator, CA API Gateway, CA Mobile API Gateway, CA API Developer Portal, CA Microgateway, and CA API Management SaaS, and is #1 ranked on ITCentral Station, an online community for product reviews.****
According to the report, Gartner says “innovation is out there, but in order to get fresh ideas, you need to publish the right APIs and aim to create new business value, which is ultimately what digital business is about.”
In the report, vendors were evaluated on completeness of vision and ability to execute. Under the completeness of vision evaluation criteria Gartner includes market understanding, marketing strategy, sales strategy, offering (product) strategy, business model, vertical/industry strategy, innovation, and geographic strategy. Gartner segments the ability to execute evaluation criteria for a product/service, into five categories which correspond to stages in an API’s life cycle: planning and initial design, implementation and testing, deploy and run (basic), deploy and run (advanced), versioning and retirement.
“Digital initiatives based on APIs are all about providing scalable, reliable connectivity between data, people, apps and devices. We believe this recognition demonstrates our effort to give customers access to advanced functionality for backend integration, mobile optimisation, cloud orchestration and developer management to create and adapt to modern architectures,” continued Melissinos.
Explore:
To download a complimentary copy of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Full Life Cycle API Management, please click here.
*Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Full Life Cycle API Management, by Paolo Malinverno and Mark O’Neill. April 30, 2018
**In the 2009 and 2011 versions of the report, CA Technologies is listed as Layer 7 since it acquired Layer 7 in April 2013. This report was previously titled Magic Quadrant for Application Services Governance,” “Magic Quadrant for SOA Governance Technologies, and Magic Quadrant for Integrated SOA Governance Technology Sets.
***The Critical Capabilities and Articulating the Business Value of APIs reports require a subscription.
**** CA API Management is ranked 1st in API management based on ITCentral Station’s crowdsourced ranking score for February 2018.
CA API Management is a suite of products that helps organisations achieve digital transformation by unlocking the value of data and empowering developers to grow the business and capitalise on new opportunities. CA API Management includes CA Live API Creator, CA API Gateway, CA Mobile API Gateway, CA API Developer Portal, CA Microgateway, and CA API Management SaaS, and is #1 ranked on ITCentral Station, an online community for product reviews.****
According to the report, Gartner says “innovation is out there, but in order to get fresh ideas, you need to publish the right APIs and aim to create new business value, which is ultimately what digital business is about.”
In the report, vendors were evaluated on completeness of vision and ability to execute. Under the completeness of vision evaluation criteria Gartner includes market understanding, marketing strategy, sales strategy, offering (product) strategy, business model, vertical/industry strategy, innovation, and geographic strategy. Gartner segments the ability to execute evaluation criteria for a product/service, into five categories which correspond to stages in an API’s life cycle: planning and initial design, implementation and testing, deploy and run (basic), deploy and run (advanced), versioning and retirement.
“Digital initiatives based on APIs are all about providing scalable, reliable connectivity between data, people, apps and devices. We believe this recognition demonstrates our effort to give customers access to advanced functionality for backend integration, mobile optimisation, cloud orchestration and developer management to create and adapt to modern architectures,” continued Melissinos.
Explore:
To download a complimentary copy of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Full Life Cycle API Management, please click here.
*Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Full Life Cycle API Management, by Paolo Malinverno and Mark O’Neill. April 30, 2018
**In the 2009 and 2011 versions of the report, CA Technologies is listed as Layer 7 since it acquired Layer 7 in April 2013. This report was previously titled Magic Quadrant for Application Services Governance,” “Magic Quadrant for SOA Governance Technologies, and Magic Quadrant for Integrated SOA Governance Technology Sets.
***The Critical Capabilities and Articulating the Business Value of APIs reports require a subscription.
**** CA API Management is ranked 1st in API management based on ITCentral Station’s crowdsourced ranking score for February 2018.
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