We are excited to share that Gartner® has positioned Microsoft as a Leader within the 2022 Magic Quadrant™ for Full Life Cycle API Management. This 12 months’s placement marks the third consecutive 12 months Microsoft has been acknowledged as a Leader. We consider our placement is a testomony to our deep understanding of buyer wants, robust buyer adoption, optimistic suggestions, and continued investments in constructing a differentiated platform.
Powering our prospects’ digital transformation initiatives
APIs are crucial to drive digital transformations in fashionable organizations. Thousands of the world’s largest enterprises belief Azure API Management to construct, safe, and scale their API initiatives. With over one million APIs revealed on the Azure API Management platform right this moment – it’s a battle-hardened, production-ready, and extremely scaled platform that stretches from on-premises to multicloud. Our buyer use instances span a broad vary from modernizing legacy purposes to adopting API-first methods to ship improvements quicker, create new income streams, and generate worth for his or her prospects and companions. Wegmans, a grocery store chain that re-invented the buying expertise in lower than eight weeks, and Vipps, a number one Norwegian cellular cost supplier that made cellular funds a norm, are examples of shoppers which might be supercharging their digital transformation journey with the Azure API Management platform.
Delivering new capabilities for Azure API Management
Here are a number of highlights of our newest options which might be serving to drive superior enterprise outcomes for our prospects all over the world:
- Support for brand spanking new API varieties: Customers can now publish present WebSocket and GraphQL backends as APIs in Azure API Management with high-fidelity expertise in each Azure and the developer portal.
- Support for hybrid and multicloud API administration: To enable our prospects to harness the facility of hybrid or multicloud, we’ve enhanced the self-hosted gateway function making it simpler to effectively and securely handle APIs hosted on-premises and throughout clouds from a single API Management service in Azure.
- Security enhancements: Security is prime of thoughts for all our prospects, and we have now added a number of new options—non-public hyperlinks, managed certificates, authorizations to configure, retailer and swap authorization tokens, and extra additions that assist fortify their safety and compliance posture.
- Geographic growth of present Azure API Management availability areas: We have added 4 extra areas to Europe and China, making Azure API Management obtainable throughout 58 Azure areas.
Partnering for fulfillment in your digital transformation journey
Microsoft is dedicated to accelerating the tempo of digital transformation for our prospects.
Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Full Life Cycle API Management, Shameen Pillai, Kimihiko Iijima, Mark O’Neill, John Santoro, Paul Dumas, Akash Jain, 14 November 2022.
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