Simplified development and collaboration
Democratize API management with Frends’ easy UI and visual tools that allow users of all technical levels to create and manage APIs efficiently and promote collaboration.
API management
Data is one of your most valuable assets. With Frends iPaaS, you get easy and secure API management for streamlined operations, improved agility and new business opportunities.
Get the most out of our iPaaS capabilities
Enterprise-level security for your data
Frends API Management gives you granular control over how APIs are accessed, used and secured. Not only is your data protected, but you gain insights into how it’s being used.
Scalable efficiency with automated tasks
Managing APIs can be an error-prone process. With Frends iPaaS, you can automate API creation, deployment and monitoring and scale seamlessly as the demand grows.
Cost reductions and new revenue streams
Our centralized and low-code platform reduces the need for multiple tools and brings down costs while providing new revenue opportunities with API monetization.
How can API management support your business?
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Every type of API in one iPaaS
From extending the lifecycle of legacy systems to ensuring your data can scale endlessly, Frends iPaaS connects all four types of APIs to give your business exactly what it needs.
Unified API policies and portal
Get centralized control for access management, throttling and monitoring through unified API policies, and a fully customizable API portal for documentation, instructions and more.
Frends iPaaS in action
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Success Stories
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Easily manage entire API ecosystems
Forget the hassle of juggling multiple tools — Frends simplifies API management, improves security and makes life much easier.
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With private application registration in Frends iPaaS, you get access to secure, modern authentication for app-to-app communication, perfect for environments with multiple applications. This feature boosts security and simplifies managing authentication across various systems.
Plus, with adaptable authentication, Frends supports multiple methods, giving you consistent control over different security protocols.
With Frends iPaaS, you get access to tailored API policies that let you set access limits and implement throttling rules to optimize API usage and prevent misuse.
You can also define precise access levels for your APIs, specifying which resources can be accessed and what actions are allowed, ensuring full control over your API interactions.
Frends iPaaS lets you manage access to internal APIs, ensuring only authorized applications can interact within a microservices architecture.
You also get secure inter-service communication, preventing unauthorized access and protecting your data from potential breaches.
With Frends iPaaS, you get effective version control, allowing you to manage access to specific API versions, ensure smooth rollouts and quickly revert changes if needed.
Plus, you can speed up API development and deployment with tools designed to streamline creation, publishing, management and monitoring.
Frends iPaaS gives you the tools to keep track of your APIs with simple monitoring and auditing. You can set limits on access and control usage to avoid overloading or misuse.
With detailed access settings, you decide who can use which parts of your APIs and what actions they can take. This keeps everything running smoothly and securely.
Frends manages API Governance through centralized policy management, private application registration for secure app-to-app interactions, and complete API lifecycle management, including version control and rollback.
With advanced governance features like SSO and VPN in addition to detailed monitoring and auditing you can ensure compliance and performance. These enable you secure, scalable, and well-controlled API ecosystems.
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FAQ
Combining iPaaS and API Management offers several key benefits:
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Seamless Integration: iPaaS integrates various applications and systems, while API Management provides secure access to these integrations through APIs.
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Enhanced Security: API Management ensures APIs are secure and authenticated, protecting data during integration.
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Scalability: iPaaS scales integrations as your business grows, and API Management supports this by efficiently managing a growing number of APIs.
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Operational Efficiency: Automation of workflows reduces manual work and increases efficiency, saving time and resources.
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Improved Agility: Rapid development and deployment of services are possible, allowing quick responses to market changes and customer needs.
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Comprehensive Monitoring: API Management tools monitor and analyze API usage and performance, helping identify and resolve issues promptly.
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Streamlined Development: iPaaS enables low-code integration building, while API Management simplifies publishing and managing these integrations as APIs.
Together, iPaaS and API Management create a robust, secure, and scalable integration ecosystem that supports digital transformation and drives innovation.
In Frends API Management, you always start by creating an API definition using the OpenAPI Specification. Your API definition then acts as the basis for all other API functionality.
With a ready API definition, you can add the back-end logic to the APIs by using the same low-code approach as in other integrations.
The two main scenarios for implementing back-end logic are:
- Data APIs: Where you retrieve data from a back-end system or data sources and return that data through the API.
- Functionality APIs: Where you receive a request through an API that starts an integration process, such as inserting a new order into an ERP and all the necessary automation steps. In these cases, the API acts as a starting point for the underlying business process automation.
With the Distributed Architecture of Frends, each remote integration runtime (or Frends Agent) has the capability of publishing and securing APIs. This means that for external Open APIs, you should choose to deploy and expose the API from an Agent installed on a public resource such as Azure or AWS. You can also deploy internal APIs that are only accessible within the same network by choosing to deploy the API to an Agent hosted in a private cloud or on-premises environment.
Yes, you can mix internal and external APIs and connectors as needed.
Frends APIs can be secured in two ways:
- Using OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0: You need to connect your existing identity management system to Frends, as Frends does not offer an identity server by itself. This is done to prevent users and user management from splitting between multiple tools within the IT infrastructure of the customer. OpenID Connect and OAuth are most suitable for securing APIs that serve front-end applications or systems directly.
- Using API Keys: You can secure APIs with API keys that are managed and stored within the Frends platform directly. API keys are most suitable for APIs where the consumer of the API is another system or application, and there is no requirement to identify or authenticate the actual end-user. API keys are managed using API rule sets, which define what API keys have access to which API.
Frends has a full API Lifecycle Management suite to manage the APIs and various aspects of APIs over their lifecycle.
As the API functionality in Frends is built on top of the OpenAPI Specification, each deployed API also exposes a developer-friendly API Portal based on the industry-standard Swagger UI. This acts as the API documentation for developers wishing to connect to the APIs.
Frends allows centralized control over API access and usage policies. Administrators can define and enforce policies for access control, rate limiting, throttling, and other restrictions, ensuring that API usage aligns with organizational rules and compliance requirements.
To support secure and flexible API interactions, especially in environments like IoT and microservices, Frends includes a feature for private application registration. This allows for controlled, application-specific access and is useful for managing app-to-app interactions with precise access permissions.
For larger organizations, Frends’ Enterprise tier adds governance tools like SSO, VPN, and dedicated resources, allowing tailored security and access configurations across environments.
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