Manage all your APIs from a single platform.
Ensure security, standardization, and real-time visibility for every integration in your organization.
SAP API Management provides a central platform for managing, securing, and monitoring APIs across your organization. Operating as a core service within the SAP Integration Suite on the SAP Business Technology Platform, it adds a control layer, enhances security, ensures standardization, and facilitates efficient communication between systems.
By addressing these integration challenges, SAP Integration Suite helps businesses simplify architectures, reduce complexity, and unlock new opportunities for growth and innovation.
Track all APIs, their usage, performance, and dependencies from a single interface for better decision-making.
Apply uniform security policies across all APIs, reducing unauthorized access risks and ensuring compliance.
Monitor traffic and set usage limits to prevent overuse, control infrastructure costs, and optimize resource allocation.
Track and analyze API response times, error rates, and throughput. This allows organizations to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks before they impact business operations.
Accelerate integration projects with a central portal where teams can discover, test, and subscribe to APIs.
Identify and resolve bottlenecks through real-time monitoring of response times, error rates, and throughput.
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API Management adds an additional layer of control and governance to your API ecosystem. It acts as a central hub that simplifies how APIs are secured, monitored, and consumed, ensuring consistent communication across all systems and services.
Controls API traffic, enforces security policies, and routes requests between applications and services.
Provides access for developers to discover, test, and subscribe to available APIs, accelerating integration.
Enables control of security measures like authentication, authorization, and encryption across all APIs.
Tracks API usage, performance metrics, and error rates in real-time for optimization and troubleshooting.
Safely expose internal systems to partners and customers through API proxies with strict security policies including authentication and rate limiting.
Create consistency in data formats and interface design across multiple applications and platforms through centralized API development.
Manage APIs across on-premise and cloud environments for secure communication in hybrid infrastructures.
Extend the life of older systems by creating modern API interfaces that allow new applications to interact with legacy data and functions.
Enable business units to access data and services through well-documented APIs, fostering new application development without direct database access.
Learn how SAP API Management enhances security and improves visibility across your integrations.
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SAP API Management supports various types of APIs, including REST, OData, SOAP, GraphQL. It can manage both internal and external APIs across SAP and non-SAP systems.
Common policies include OAuth, API keys, rate limiting, traffic throttling, data encryption, and input validation. You can also extend with custom scripts.
Yes, SAP API Management works with both SAP and non-SAP platforms to provide unified control.
It enforces consistent security policies like encrypted communication, access control, and token-based authentication across all APIs.
Yes, by monitoring API usage and implementing rate limiting, it prevents excessive traffic and optimizes infrastructure costs.
SAP API Management provides a Developer Portal where teams can discover APIs, access documentation, and test endpoints. This promotes faster integration and reduces development time.
No, SAP API Management can work with your existing APIs without requiring changes to their implementation. It adds a management layer on top of your current infrastructure.
The platform provides tools to manage multiple API versions simultaneously, allowing you to update APIs while maintaining backward compatibility for existing consumers.
Yes, you can begin with managing a few critical APIs and gradually expand coverage as your team gains experience with the platform and processes.
Every digital connection to your SAP systems creates both opportunity and risk. As organizations expose more business functionality through APIs, they need control mechanisms that go beyond traditional security approaches.
SAP API Gateway serves as the front door to your business systems, filtering and monitoring all API traffic before it reaches core applications. Unlike conventional network security that primarily blocks unauthorized access, an API gateway understands the context of each request – who’s making it, what they’re asking for, and whether that fits expected patterns.
For SAP environments storing financial data, customer information, and operational details, this contextual security is crucial. The gateway examines each API call for proper authentication, checks authorization against business rules, and inspects payload content for potential threats. Suspicious requests never reach your backend systems, while legitimate traffic flows through with minimal latency.
Organizations implementing SAP API Management typically report significant security improvements in their first three months. Common benefits include elimination of unauthorized access attempts, consistent policy enforcement across all integration points, and comprehensive audit trails that simplify compliance verification.
SAP environments contain essential business data and processes, but traditional integration approaches often create barriers to innovation. SAP API Management bridges this gap by transforming how your SAP systems connect with the broader technology landscape.
What makes SAP integration challenging? First, SAP’s business objects use complex data structures that don’t naturally align with modern API conventions. Second, SAP systems contain critical business logic that must be securely exposed without creating vulnerabilities. Third, performance requirements for business transactions demand careful API design and management.
SAP API Management addresses these challenges through specialized capabilities. The platform seamlessly handles SAP-specific protocols like OData and RFC alongside standard web technologies. It includes pre-built connectors for S/4HANA, ECC, and BTP services that understand SAP’s security model, data structures, and transaction patterns.
A manufacturing company recently used SAP API Management to connect their ERP system with custom mobile applications for warehouse staff. Rather than building direct integrations that would require ongoing maintenance, they created standardized APIs that exposed inventory data and goods movement functions. The approach reduced integration time by 40% while providing a stable foundation for future applications.
Leading organizations are moving beyond thinking of APIs as mere technical connections. Instead, they’re developing comprehensive API strategies that treat these interfaces as valuable products that enable business capabilities.
For SAP-centric organizations, this shift brings unique considerations. The most successful implementations treat SAP API Management as more than just a technical tool. They establish clear governance that balances standardization with flexibility, ensuring APIs follow consistent patterns while allowing for innovation.
Effective SAP API strategies begin with business needs rather than technical details. Before writing a single line of code, organizations identify which SAP capabilities would create the most value when exposed through APIs. This might include enabling self-service for customers, connecting operational data with analytics platforms, or simplifying partner integrations.
This business-first approach leads to more focused implementation. Rather than creating generic interfaces to SAP tables, teams design purpose-built APIs that expose specific business functions with appropriate controls. They document these APIs thoroughly, making them easily discoverable in a central catalog that serves as the single source of truth for all integration options.
Organizations that establish this foundation report significant improvements in development speed. New projects leverage existing APIs rather than creating redundant connections, allowing teams to focus on creating value rather than solving the same integration challenges repeatedly.
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