TechValidate Research on CA API Management

Introduction

This case study of a federal government is based on a June 2015 survey of CA Technologies API Management customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled organization asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

Challenges

• Primary business goals of API Management project:
  • Improve operational efficiency and agility
• Primary digital initiatives for API Management project:
  • Open up data securely and capture new markets

Use Case

• Areas digital transformation investments are directed:
  • Infrastructure and tools to accelerate software development/delivery
• Systems/environments that will be integrated with CA API Management:
  • Legacy systems

Results

• Solved the following operational challenges after deploying API management:
  • Reduced IT infrastructure costs
• API programs benefited business by:
  • Creation of new business models
• Achieved significant measurable benefits from:
  • Customer acquisition
  • Customer retention

Introduction

This case study of a large enterprise health care company is based on a May 2014 survey of CA Layer 7 customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

Challenges

• Purchased CA API Gateway to achieve the following:
  • Streamline the development process
  • Improve security
• Solved the following challenges with CA API Gateway:
  • Increased development velocity/project execution speed
  • Improved data protection of critical corporate/customer information

Use Case

• Uses CA API Gateway to expose APIs to the following:
  • Internal developers
• Has 11-25 APIs running using CA API Gateway.
• Connects to the following operating system end points with CA API Gateway:
  • Microsoft Windows
  • Intel-based UNIX
  • Solaris

Results

• Chose CA API Gateway over the following competitive options:
  • Intel (Mashery)
  • Apigee
• Rates the following CA API Gateway capabilities as they compare to the competition:
  • performance: very differentiated
  • security: differentiated
  • flexibility: very differentiated
  • integration: very differentiated
  • manageability (ops/analytics): very differentiated
• Met customer goals with CA API Gateway in the following ways:
  • Simple access to data through web services