LOS ANGELES – November 14, 2016 - Akana, a leading provider of API Management, API security, and Microservices solutions for Digital Businesses, announced today that it has been named a Leader by Forrester Research, Inc. in its new report, “The Forrester Wave™: API Management Solutions, Q4 2016.” The report by Randy Heffner takes the perspective that API Management is critical because APIs drive digital business. The Forrester report stated that Akana’s API Management Platform fit very well with enterprise strategies for broad-based, mature and well-governed API strategies.

“We are very pleased and proud to be acknowledged as a Leader for API Management in this Forrester Wave evaluation. We think Forrester Research is unique in their approach and differentiate themselves by performing the most detailed and hands-on inspection of every vendor’s products, services and customer support, “ said Roberto Medrano, Executive Vice President of Marketing at Akana. “We believe it validates our long term strategy of focusing on the most sophisticated enterprise-scale API Management requirements.”

In preparing the report, Forrester evaluated 14 API Management vendors across 27 criteria. The report explores how the various vendor solutions allow API product managers to optimize value to API providers. Other features subject to research include how the API Management Solution manages the relationship between API users and API providers as well as how it enforces agreements on API use and security.

According to the The Forrester Wave™: API Management Solutions, Q4 2016 report, “Akana’s solution fits very well with enterprise strategies for broad-based, mature, well-governed API strategies. Its rich models for organizations and teams, federated LOB publishing and API management, security integration, and closed-loop OAuth2 support give the solution flexibility to address a range of complex enterprise scenarios through product configuration rather than custom coding.” Additionally it states, “Compared with customers of other vendors, Akana’s customers were reasonably satisfied with both the vendor and its solution. They use the solution for a mix of internal, B2B, and open web APIs and gave high marks to the solution’s API implementation and API user portal functions.”

To get a copy of the The Forrester Wave™: API Management Solutions, Q4 2016, click https://www.forrester.com/report/The+Forrester+Wave+API+Management+Solutions+Q4+2016/-/E-RES131050.

The Akana Platform provides an end-to-end API Management solution for designing, implementing, securing, managing, monitoring, and publishing APIs. It is available as a SaaS platform, on-premises, and as a hybrid deployment.  Recently Akana was recognized as most promising banking technology solution provider and the Cloud Platform Innovation winner.  For more information on the Akana Platform and to get a free trial go here http://bit.ly/1sIsUHE.  To request a meeting with an Akana enterprise architect please click here.

Los Angeles, Calif. – Monday, October 31, 2016 – Akana, a leading provider of API Management, API security, and Microservices solutions, announced today that its platform has won TMT (Technology.Media.Telecoms) News’ Technology Award for best API Management Platform. The award recognizes Akana’s leadership in the API management platform category. 

“We are very honored and humbled to be the recipient of this award,” said Roberto Medrano, Executive Vice President of Akana. “It recognizes our leadership in helping clients to quickly deliver scalable applications, share data as APIs, connect and integrate applications, drive partner adoption, monetize their assets and provide intelligent insights into their businesses and operations.”

Kaven Cooper, Awards Coordinator for TMT News, said, “The technology industry is a vital aspect of our lives, and those who work within it are responsible for the livelihoods of thousands, if not millions, of people who depend upon their products for their business and personal lives. As such I am proud to recognize our deserving winners, and would like to wish them every success going forward.”

The Akana Platform provides an end-to-end API Management solution for designing, implementing, securing, managing, monitoring and publishing APIs. It is available as a SaaS platform, on-premises and as a hybrid deployment. It now includes: A single new intuitive UI/UX, graphical API designer, enhanced orchestration capabilities with parallel processing, self-service tenant provisioning and monitoring and global deployment management.

The Akana API Management platform has become the go-to solution for many in the banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI) and healthcare and life sciences sectors.

Recently Akana was recognized as most promising banking technology solution provider and the Cloud Platform Innovation winner.  For more information on the Akana Platform and to get a free trial go here http://bit.ly/1sIsUHE.

About TMT News
Published quarterly, TMT News provides readers with all the latest information from across these three key sectors, exploring every aspect: from legislation changes to the latest deals, new product launches to appointments and everything in between. 2016 Technology Awards winners here
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LONDON – SEPTEMBER 21, 2016 - Akana, a leading provider of API Management, API security, and Microservices solutions, announced today that it will be joining Barclays Bank to support its upcoming hackathon at Rise in Manchester, UK and Mumbai, India on September 24 and 25 2016. The hackathon, which will involve an estimated 500 teams and over 1,000 internal and external developers simultaneously between the two global hubs, is intended to give startups and FinTech ventures the opportunity to showcase their innovations to top decision makers at the bank. Akana is the API Management Platform of choice for the event, making APIs available externally through the Barclays Developer Network (BDN).
“This is an ambitious hackathon,” said Roberto Medrano, Executive VP of Akana. “We’re pleased to be once again, collaborating closely with Barclays to support this event.”

The Rise Hackathon, titled “Rise: Episode II, The Bank Awakens”, offers consumer banking, corporate banking, and payments tracks to surface innovation across a broad area of Fintech challenges.

The two-day hackathon, will allow Barclays – the transatlantic consumer, corporate and investment bank to see first-hand new, innovative solutions from new developers and ventures. There are 20+ other Barclays partners supporting the hackathon including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google, Twitter, Salesforce, IBM, Microsoft and Twillio. External developers will own any Intellectual Property (IP) they create at the hackathon.

Given the importance of APIs to FinTech solutions at Barclays, the bank is using Akana to host relevant Barclays APIs on its platform for the hackathon. Participating developers will use the Akana Platform to manage the consumption of Barclays APIs by their apps. Akana team members will be available in Manchester to coach app developers in API management and help troubleshoot any potential issues.
The growth and opportunities of API consumption across financial services will help organisations like Barclays to create a more integrated service experience for customers across banking channels.

The Akana Platform provides an end-to-end API Management solution for designing, implementing, securing, managing, monitoring, and publishing APIs. It is available as a SaaS platform, on-premises, and as a hybrid deployment.  Recently Akana was recognized as most promising banking technology solution provider and the Cloud Platform Innovation winner.  For more information on the Akana Platform and to get a free trial go here http://bit.ly/1sIsUHE.  To request a meeting with an Akana enterprise architect please click here.

About The Barclays Accelerator/Rise

The Barclays Accelerator is one of several innovation initiatives delivered through Barclays’ flagship programme for connecting startups and corporates, Rise. Where product innovations and industry developments were once born of corporations and institutions, many are now being created by entrepreneurial individuals around the world who are working with increased speed to disrupt the business models of the past. In order to work with these entrepreneurs in a mutually beneficial way, Barclays established Rise. By combining the agility and disruption of startups with the expertise and scale of Barclays, Rise achieves a unique synthesis of speed and security, youth and wisdom, ideas and knowledge. Find out more at thinkrise.com.

About Barclays

Barclays is a transatlantic consumer, corporate and investment bank offering products and services across personal, corporate and investment banking, credit cards and wealth management, with a strong presence in our two home markets of the UK and the US. With over 325 years of history and expertise in banking, Barclays operates in over 40 countries and employs approximately 130,000 people. Barclays moves, lends, invests and protects money for customers and clients worldwide. For further information about Barclays, please visit our website https://www.home.barclays/

Akana’s comprehensive suite of API Management, API security, and Microservices solutions helps businesses accelerate digital transformation by securely extending their reach across multiple channels – mobile, cloud and “Internet of Things.” Akana enables enterprises to quickly deliver scalable applications, share data as APIs, connect and integrate applications, drive partner adoption, monetize their assets and provide intelligent insights into their businesses and operations. The world’s largest companies including Bank of America, Pfizer, and Verizon use Akana to harness the power of their technology and transform their businesses. Akana is also recognized as a “Leader” by several analyst firms

MEXICO CITY - August 30th, 2016 - Akana, a leading provider of API Management, API security, and Microservices solutions, announced today that Aeromexico, Mexico’s global airline, has launched a new eCommerce platform that includes Akana’s API management platform as a core component. Akana enables Aeromexico to be more agile by facilitating secure and manageable application programming interfaces (APIs).

Aeromexico is launching the e-commerce in conjunction with its all-new website, aiming to provide the best digital experience of any Latin American carrier, and part of the total digital transformation of the airline, which serves 45 destinations within Mexico, 17 in the US, 15 in Latin America, 4 in Europe, 3 in Canada and 2 in Asia.
The platform, which the airline integrated in only nine months, includes all-new front-end and middleware components that integrate into its existing back-end. The platform’s secure and scalable APIs power both its new website and new airport check-in kiosks.
Aeromexico delivered the new check-in kiosks within 4 months, reducing transaction processing time by 50% and increasing the number of customers being checked in without the need to be assisted by a person.

Built on the foundation of the Akana API Management platform that provides enhanced visibility, scale and secure integration capabilities, Aeromexico now has a business and technology platform that allows it to leapfrog ahead in its ability to support its customers - critical at a time which A.T. Kearney described as a “tipping point” for e-commerce in Mexico, demanding world-class experiences.

Benjamin Hernandez, CIO of Aeromexico, said, “Akana has allowed us to come to market quickly with our API, which is a critical component of our digital strategy. With our robust API powering the business rules we were able to deliver our customers fantastic new experiences both at the new check-in kiosks and on the new website in parallel and with quick time-to-market. And this is just the beginning - there are many more proprietary and third-party integrations to come, including emerging channels such as mobile OS push notifications and chatbots.”
“It’s gratifying to see the hard work of our partnership pay off with such a strategic platform launch,” said Roberto Medrano, Executive Vice President of Akana.  “We are excited to be working with such a forward-looking company as Aeromexico in its transformation into a digital enterprise.”

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About Grupo Aeromexico

Grupo Aeromexico, S.A.B. de C.V. is a holding company whose subsidiaries are engaged in commercial aviation in Mexico and the promotion of passenger loyalty programs. Aeromexico, Mexico’s global airline, operates more than 600 daily flights and its main hub is in Terminal 2 at the Mexico City International Airport. Its destinations network features more than 80 cities on three continents, including 45 destinations in Mexico, 17 in the United States, 15 in Latin America, four in Europe, three in Canada and two in Asia.
The Group’s fleet of about 130 aircraft is comprised of Boeing 787, 777 and 737 jet airliners and next generation Embraer 145, 170, 175 and 190 models. In 2012, the airline announced the most significant investment strategy in aviation history in Mexico, to purchase 100 Boeing aircraft including 90 MAX B737 jet airliners and 10 B787-9 Dreamliners.
As a founding member of SkyTeam, the airline alliance which this year celebrates its 15th anniversary, Aeromexico offers customers more than 1,000 destinations in 179 countries served by the 20 SkyTeam airline partners rewarding passengers with benefits including access to 636 premium airport lounges around the world. Aeromexico also offers travel on its codeshare partner flights with Delta Air Lines, Alaska Airlines, Avianca, Copa Airlines and Westjet with extensive connectivity in countries like the United States, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia and Peru. www.aeromexico.com www.skyteam.com.

About Akana

Akana’s comprehensive suite of API Management, API Security, SOA Governance, Cloud Integration, and Microservices solutions helps businesses accelerate digital transformation by securely extending their reach across multiple channels – mobile, cloud and Internet of Things. Akana enables enterprises to quickly deliver scalable applications, share data as APIs, connect and integrate applications, drive partner adoption, monetize their assets and provide intelligent insights into their business and operations. The world’s largest companies including Bank of America, Pfizer, and Verizon use Akana to harness the power of their technology and transform their businesses. Akana is also recognized as a “Leader” by several analyst firms. For more information on Akana Platform , please visit http://www.akana.com.

“We are excited to be partnering with U.S. Bank on this external hackathon.  We have previously partnered on several internal U.S. Bank hackathons to drive internal innovation.” said Roberto Medrano, Executive VP at Akana. “And now the U.S. Bank team is ready to extend their innovations to an external audience.”

The APIs will be set up and hosted on Akana’s platform. Developers participating at the Hackathon will be using the Platform to manage access and consumption of the APIs by their apps.  Akana staff will be available during the Hackathon to coach participants in leveraging the APIs and troubleshoot any issues that arise.

“APIs are fundamental building blocks in the digital economy that allow banks to develop new solutions for customers and clients and enable us to partner seamlessly with developers and cutting-edge Fintech start-ups,” said Doug Nielson, Senior Vice President of Innovation Research and Development at U.S. Bank.

The Akana Platform provides an end-to-end API Management solution for designing, implementing, securing, managing, monitoring, and publishing APIs. It is available as a SaaS platform, on-premises, and as a hybrid deployment.  Recently Akana was recognized as most promising banking technology solution provider and the Cloud Platform Innovation winner.  For more information on the Akana Platform and to get a free trial go here http://bit.ly/1sIsUHE.  To request a meeting with an Akana enterprise architect please click here.

LOS ANGELES – August 2, 2016 – Akana, a leading provider of API Management, API security, and Microservices solutions, today announced the availability of version 8 of its industry-leading API Management solution.  Version 8 introduces a host of new functions aimed at offering customers the richest API Management capabilities in ways that are easier than ever for API and App Developers to use. Most prominently, Version 8 offers users a completely intuitive user experience, an industry first, along with next generation API Management capabilities.

“As enterprises seek ways to accelerate their transformation into digital businesses, they are increasingly turning to APIs as a way to make those all-important connections between people, data, and devices,” said Roberto Medrano, EVP of Akana. “With that mind, we have developed a breakthrough interface that facilitates the monetization of their business services, and moving data over internet protocols to integrate applications, databases, and processes regardless of where they are running.”

The Akana Platform provides an end-to-end API Management solution for designing, implementing, securing, managing, monitoring, and publishing APIs. It is available as a SaaS platform, on-premises, and as a hybrid deployment. 

This new version of the Akana Platform includes the following:

• A single new UI/UX covering all major capabilities –  provides a much simplified and automated user experience, saving time and effort to help our customers and their business partners deliver sophisticated production API more quickly.
• Global deployment – the only solution that allows customers to provide a global presence for the APIs and Developer Portals, while complying with regional and country specific data privacy regulations and requirements.
• New graphical API designer capabilities – allow customers to quickly and easily design and build API definitions with an easy to understand visualization tool.
• Multi DL import/generation/export – allow users to import APIs using any API descriptor language, and more importantly, to export any API descriptor regardless of how they defined the API.  This allows API and App developers to select the descriptor language they are most comfortable with.
• Fully integrated process Orchestration
  • Users can now edit processes enabling easy development and integration with back end processes.
  • Processes now include support for split/join and parallel processing which provides exceptional performance, especially when building APIs from a set of microservices and integrating with multiple back end systems.
• Self-service tenant provisioning and monitoring to better understand usage and billing options by a single group or as a shared service

• Enhanced API Documentation publication
  

  • Built-in test client with an improved UX for developers to test their APIs
  • Ability to quickly edit documentation in the Akana designer helping API admins quickly publish documentation and ensure consistency between documentation and the API interface

“This is a next generation API Management solution,” said Alistair Farquharson, Akana CTO.  “Working with global enterprises, we have seen first hand what it really takes to mobilize their data, productize their services, and to go to market quickly with APIs.  It is crucial that an API Management solutions allow for easily designing, implementing, securing, managing and publishing APIs. We’re answering this need with exceptional performance and scale, meeting the most stringent security, privacy, and reliability standards for customers in any country or region.”

Akana Platform comprehensive core capabilities:

• API Design – The Akana Platform provides a comprehensive API design platform. You can use a graphical tool to design your API from scratch or you can import the API descriptor language of your choice. Once design is complete, the platform automatically generates all the common API descriptor documents.
• API Security – secure APIs, protecting sensitive data while allowing access to authorized Apps and users, click here for more information on our security solution.
• Traffic Management – protect against abuse and control the flow of traffic through APIs with a rich set of routing and Quality of Service capabilities 
• Mediation & Integration – easier, lower cost development with seamless mediation capabilities, allowing you to create modern, well-structured APIs from legacy assets with ease. It provides declarative mediation out of the box and includes a comprehensive orchestration capability where needed to create APIs from multiple backend sources.
• Developer Portal – low-cost, strong API marketing with a turnkey developer portal providing a social platform for API developers to design and document their APIs, and App developers to find and consume APIs. The Akana Platform is ideally suited to connect with different audiences
• API Analytics – understand the impact of your program with a powerful analytics engine. Built using a massively scalable, globally distributed noSQL store that is architected to meet international data privacy standards, click here for more information on our analytics capabilities.

Recently Akana was recognized as most promising banking technology solution provider and the Cloud Platform Innovation winner.  For more information on the Akana Platform and to get a free trial go here http://bit.ly/1sIsUHE.

Pricing and Availability
Starting at less than $50k per year, the Akana Platform can grow to meet the needs of even the world’s largest and most demanding companies.  Version 8 of the platform is available now. To request a meeting with an Akana enterprise architect please click here.

LONDON – July 20, 2016 -  Akana, a leading provider of API Management, API security, API Analytics and Microservices solutions for Digital Businesses, announced today that its Akana Platform will power the app development efforts at the upcoming Barclay’s Hackathon. By joining forces with Barclays to sponsor the July 20-21 Hackathon, Akana and Barclays will showcase the same technology that the bank itself is using to manage APIs in its Barclays Developer Network (BDN), a strategic platform for exposing and managing APIs external to Barclays

“We’re excited to be working with our client Barclays on this innovation-intensive event,” said Roberto Medrano, Executive VP of Akana. “This hackathon is a great opportunity to start engaging with the Barclays developer community and support Barclays as they continue to drive innovation with API’s being a key enabler to underpin that.”

Akana will set up and host APIs on their platform. Developers participating at the Hackathon will be using the Akana Platform to manage access and consumption of APIs by their apps. Akana will make a presentation during the event and will provide participants with thought leadership materials and education on API management and security both before and after the event.  Akana staff will be available during the Hackathon to coach participants in the Akana Platform, API Management and troubleshoot any issues that arise. The company will also support any post-Hackathon deployment of prototypes that are developed there.

Akana underpins the BDN.  Alongside branch, web and mobile, APIs could be another channel to market and possibly the biggest channel over time.
The Akana Platform provides an end-to-end API Management solution for designing, implementing, securing, managing, monitoring, and publishing APIs. It is available as a SaaS platform, on-premises, and as a hybrid deployment. For more information and a free trial go here http://bit.ly/1sIsUHE.

Recently Akana was recognized as most promising banking technology solution provider and the Cloud Platform Innovation winner. For more information about Akana’s financial services solutions click here.

LONDON - June 22, 2016 -  Akana, a leading provider of API Management, API security, API Analytics and Microservices solutions for Digital Businesses, announced today that its Akana Platform won the Cloud Platform Innovation of the Year category. The award was given at the 4th Cloud & DevOps World Awards ceremony on 21 June 2016. Other great companies have won this award in the past. In 2015, this award was won by Amazon Web Services.

Cloud and Devops Awards celebrate excellence and innovation in Cloud Computing. The awards have 8 different categories.  The Platform innovation of the Year Award is designed for that game-changer solution provider whose PaaS offerings are able to significantly minimize the cost and complexity of IT.

The Judges looked for a platform that enables further agility, scalability, collaboration and facilitates the development environment in the most cost efficient, high quality and secure manner. See more information at https://cloudanddevopsworldawards.com/.

“We are thrilled to receive this cloud innovation recognition,” said Roberto Medrano, Executive VP of Akana. “Akana has developed a proven API Management solution that exceeds customer expectations. As a category leader working with Fortune 1000 accounts, we will continue helping customers in their digital transformation journey.”

The Akana Platform provides an end-to-end API Management solution for designing, implementing, securing, managing, monitoring, and publishing APIs. It is available as a SaaS platform, on-premises, and as a hybrid deployment. For more information and a free trial go here.

LOS ANGELES - April 21, 2016 - Akana, a leading provider of API Management, API Security, API Analytics and Microservices solutions for Digital Business, announced today that they will host an “Open Banking, PSD2 and API’s Summit” on Wednesday 4th May.  This will be an event for banking and financial service companies to better understand and discuss PSD2 Legislation and HM Treasury drivers for open data in banking and the opportunities and challenges this will present for the UK and European Banking industry.

“This is an opportunity to hear from the industry’s foremost experts on some highly pressing topics related to Banking & FinTech,” said Roberto Medrano, Executive VP of Akana. “Akana has secured a panel of esteemed specialists and interested parties to review not only expected next steps and timescales, but also examples of how different actors in the industry are already supporting Open Banking and Open API’s.”

WHEN & WHERE:
Wednesday, May 4th, 2016
1:00PM – 5:00PM
One Alfred Place, London, WC1E 7EB in the Store Street Room

REGISTER
Please click here to register.

Recently Akana was recognized as most promising banking technology solution provider. For more information about Akana’s financial services solutions click here.

“I congratulate Akana on being recognized with the much coveted title and being a recipient of 20 Most Promising Banking Technology Solution Providers 2016,” said Jeevan George, Managing Editor, CIOReview. “We are glad to showcase Akana this year due to its continuing excellence in delivering top-notch banking technology driven solutions.”

“The Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI) sector is experiencing massive disruptions driven by administrative and regulatory changes, with pressure from FinTech startups. The banking industry has recognized that providing APIs internally and externally is essentially mandatory - to effectively manage their siloed legacy systems while adhering to banking security standards and regulations,” said Roberto Medrano, Executive VP, Akana.  “Our API Management Platform solutions enable businesses to accelerate digital transformation by implementing APIs as strategy.”

For information on Akana’s financial solution see https://www.akana.com/solutions/fintech-api

About CIOReview
Published from Fremont, California, CIOReview is a print magazine that explores and understands the plethora of ways adopted by firms to execute the smooth functioning of their businesses. A distinguished panel comprising of CEOs, CIOs, IT VPs including CIOReview editorial board finalized the “20 Most Promising Banking Technology Solution Providers 2016” in the U.S. and shortlisted the best vendors and consultants. For more info: http://www.cioreview.com/

About Akana
Akana’s comprehensive suite of API Management, API Security, and Microservices solutions helps businesses accelerate digital transformation by securely extending their reach across multiple channels – mobile, cloud and Internet of Things. Akana enables enterprises to quickly deliver scalable applications, share data as APIs, connect and integrate applications, drive partner adoption, monetize their assets and provide intelligent insights into their business and operations. The world’s largest companies including Bank of America, Pfizer, and Verizon use Akana to harness the power of their technology and transform their businesses. Akana is also recognized as a “Leader” by Forrester in API Management Solution Wave, Q3 2014, and by other analyst firms. For more information on Akana’s API Platform, see http://www.akana.com.

Akana’s board member Anders Richardson, of Palisades Growth Capital, commented, “With their proven products, strong team and growth momentum worldwide, Akana is poised for the next level of success as a technology company. We believe Mark Tapling has the experience to lead the company and achieve this success. Mark’s focus on growth and ability to connect with employees, customers and partners alike is a great asset for the company.” Tapling’s background includes over 20 years of progressive experience in the strategy, growth and financial management of both public and private technology companies across a variety of industries. He joined PacketVideo in 2013 as the company’s CEO. At SDL plc Language Technologies, he led the company’s launch of the first commercial SaaS application for high speed statistical machine translation after its acquisition of Language Weaver. Tapling has been recognized as one of the Top 100 People to Watch in Knowledge Management and is a recipient of the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year award. He received his B.S. from Michigan State University.

“Akana is an exciting company with an exciting future,” said Tapling. “Since the launch of the smart phone, consumers and businesses alike have been on a steady march to digitize their personal and business interactions.  We are looking forward to continuing Akana’s leadership in secure and innovative Digital Transformation solutions for enterprise customers. I look forward to working with our talented team, and ensuring that our customers gain measurable value from our partnership. It is very exciting to join Akana after a year of significant growth in 2015.”

About Akana
Akana’s comprehensive suite of API Management, API Security, SOA Governance, Cloud Integration, and Microservices solutions helps businesses accelerate digital transformation by securely extending their reach across multiple channels – mobile, cloud and Internet of Things. Akana enables enterprises to quickly deliver scalable applications, share data as APIs, connect and integrate applications, drive partner adoption, monetize their assets and provide intelligent insights into their business and operations. The world’s largest companies including Bank of America, Pfizer, and Verizon use Akana to harness the power of their technology and transform their businesses. Akana is also recognized as a “Leader” by Forrester in API Management Solution Wave, Q3 2014, and by other analyst firms. For more information on Akana’s API Platform, see http://www.akana.com. ]]> Press Releases, 2016-01-21T17:31:00+00:00 http://www.akana.com/news/press_detail/APIairline http://www.akana.com/news/press_detail/APIairline#When:04:00:00Z API Management Platform Key to Becoming Digital Enterprise

LOS ANGELES – October 21, 2015 – Akana, a leading provider of API Management, API security and Cloud Integration Solutions, announced today that it is the first API Management platform to offer comprehensive support for the leading API description languages, including the ability to translate between them.  The unique ability to translate between different API description languages makes API publication and consumption faster and easier by allowing API administrators to easily define and publish their APIs using the language of their choice. Developers are then able to choose the description language they want to work with based on their own preferences.

“Akana’s new breakthrough in API description language mediation helps our customers quickly bring together their API providers and App developers,” said Alistair Farquharson, Akana CTO.  “API developers can define and document their APIs using a language like RAML, complete with interface definition, model objects and detailed instructions, and the Akana API platform generates all the other description languages with their own formats for interface, model object, and documentation, allowing App developers to choose a language like Swagger that aligns with their preferred development tools.”

There are four primary description languages today based on evolving standards for describing APIs: RESTful API Modelling Language (RAML), Swagger, Web Application Description Language (WADL) and Web Service Description Language (WSDL).  Each of these languages has its strengths and is best suited for one or more specific use-cases.  Some of the languages focus on providing a precise technical definition of the API interface and messages while others are designed to deliver easily consumable developer documentation.  This diversity of focus often leads to different preferences for API developers (providers), and App developers (consumers).

The Akana API Management platform allows API publishers to use whichever of the four primary API description languages they choose to define, document, and publish their API – even choosing different languages for definition and documentation if they wish.  It then automatically generates each of the other description language documents, allowing App developers to choose which description language they want to work with.  Combining this description language translation capability with the Akana API Gateway’s ability to easily mediate between different interface types (e.g. creating RESTful interfaces for SOAP services), provides a rich and powerful environment for bringing together different parts of the internal and external developer communities.

API description language mediation is now available in the latest release of the Akana API Management platform. Customers using the Akana Cloud platform will be automatically upgraded to the new version, while others can download the latest version from Akana Support. For more information on API Description Languages please click here.

About Akana
Akana’s comprehensive suite of API Management, API Security, SOA Governance, Cloud Integration, and Microservices solutions helps businesses accelerate digital transformation by securely extending their reach across multiple channels – mobile, cloud and Internet of Things. Akana enables enterprises to quickly deliver scalable applications, share data as APIs, connect and integrate applications, drive partner adoption, monetize their assets and provide intelligent insights into their business and operations. The world’s largest companies including Bank of America, Pfizer, and Verizon use Akana to harness the power of their technology and transform their businesses. Akana is recognized as a leader in API Management by several analyst firms. For more information on Akana’s API Platform, see http://www.akana.com. Akana was previously known as SOA Software. ]]> Press Releases, 2015-10-21T04:00:00+00:00 http://www.akana.com/news/press_detail/api-gateway-api-world-award http://www.akana.com/news/press_detail/api-gateway-api-world-award#When:05:03:00Z Exemplifies the New Wave of Integration-Centric Services

API World (Booth 305) – September 29, 2015 – Akana, a leading provider of API Management, API security and Cloud Integration solutions, announced today that its API Gateway has won the Integrate 2015 Award for Top Innovator in API Management.  The award recognizes Akana’s leadership in the API management category.  Akana won the award through an online vote conducted by the Integrate 2015 Conference, which takes place together with API World.

“It’s a great honor to be acknowledged by industry peers as the leading innovator for our API Gateway in this critical space,” said Roberto Medrano, Executive Vice President of Akana.  “As API management becomes an important lever of business strategy, we are excited to be at the forefront of the technology.”

Akana’s API Gateway solution streamlines the development, deployment, security, management and operation of APIs.  It enables enterprises to standardize and automate the delivery of APIs and services with high security, performance and availability. The Gateway provides rich service and API integration capabilities across multiple instances in multiple, geographically diverse datacenters.  It provides central definition and management of security, routing, orchestration, mediation, auditing, threat protection and other operational policies. The Gateway enhances security and regulatory compliance through authentication, authorization and audit capabilities.  It can be deployed on-premises, in the cloud or in a hybrid model.

“The technology industry is moving away from purchasing standalone tech products and moving towards building ecosystems of integrated tech solutions. Akana API Gateway is a perfect example of the new wave of integration-centric services,” said Geoff Domoracki, Founder of Integrate 2015.

Integrate and API World 2015, held from September 28 to 30 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, is the nation’s largest API and Integration conference, hosting 3,000 executives and entrepreneurs as well as 200+ speakers from companies such as Google, Facebook,  Akana, Slack, HipChat, IBM, HP, Cisco, and Zendesk.

Akana Executives are presenting multiple sessions at API World:

• Deconstructing APIs, Microservices and SOA      
  • Presented by Sachin Agarwal, Vice President, Product Marketing and Strategy, Akana.
  • Tuesday, September 29, 2:00 PM

• API Security Deconstructed: Choosing The Right Encryption Suite For Your APIs 
  • Presented by Ashish Vaid, Vice President, Technology, Akana.
  • Tuesday, September 29, 4:00 PM

• Be the Disruptor - The Digital API Value Chain    
  • Presented by Laura Heritage, Director, API Strategy, Akana.
  • Wednesday, September 30, 10:00 AM

Akana will be exhibiting at booth 305. 

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About Akana
Akana’s comprehensive suite of API Management, API Security, SOA Governance, Cloud Integration, and Microservices solutions helps businesses accelerate digital transformation by securely extending their reach across multiple channels – mobile, cloud and Internet of Things. Akana enables enterprises to quickly deliver scalable applications, share data as APIs, connect and integrate applications, drive partner adoption, monetize their assets and provide intelligent insights into their business and operations. The world’s largest companies including Bank of America, Pfizer, and Verizon use Akana to harness the power of their technology and transform their businesses. Akana is recognized as a leader in API Management by several analyst firms. For more information on Akana’s API Platform, see http://www.akana.com. Akana was previously known as SOA Software.]]> Press Releases, 2015-09-29T05:03:00+00:00