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Simplify your API Management in one Integration Platform
Why juggle multiple tools when you can centralize API management with Frends iPaaS? Simplify API creation, deployment, and monitoring — all with complete control and visibility in one secure integration platform.Take control of your APIs with Frends
Gain control of your API usage to prevent costly overloads and ensure uninterrupted service for your users. Stay ahead of performance issues, manage demand spikes, and keep costs in check before they impact your business.
Frends makes API development, API management, and data transfers easy
How you can benefit from Frends iPaaS
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What others think of Frends for API Management
With Frends we can take care of all our API management requirements. We selected Frends as our long-term API management solution and so far, it has proven flexible, reliable and cost-efficient.
Linda Pihl
Head of Digital at St1 Nordic
Frends iPaaS is a cost-efficient and easy solution to understand, with clear architecture on API development, API management, and data transfers between different parties of the project.
Jukka Niskanen
IT manager, Hippos
Frends is very user-friendly and offers a shallow learning curve to get started while offering the tools to design more complex and demanding processes. From simple file-based transfer integrations to more complex mapping and API handling, building integrations in Frends is mostly straightforward and visual.
Christopher S
Integation team leader, Enterprise
Easily manage entire API ecosystems
Managing APIs doesn't have to be complicated. Frends brings everything together in one simple platform, making it easier to keep your APIs secure, compliant, and running smoothly. Forget the hassle of juggling multiple tools — Frends simplifies API management, improves security, and makes your life a whole lot 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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What others have achieved
Tokmanni stays competitive with cost-efficient integrations
Finland's largest discount retailer, Tokmanni, uses Frends iPaaS reusable integration components, APIs, and process parts to reduce implementation costs. Through Frends' cost-effective digitalization and automation, Tokmanni remains competitive, ensuring they can continue to offer low prices to their customers.
Read moreRaisio improves its data flow with Frends
Food producer Raisio used Frends iPaaS to consolidate and streamline its operations. By integrating multiple ERPs into one system using Frends iPaas, Raisio has achieved significant cost savings, improved data flow, and enhanced efficiency in its business processes across multiple countries.
Read moreOtava improves process transparency
Media company Otava Group uses Frends across all its business units and finance-related processes, with over 400 integrations in place. The extensive use of Frends has saved Otava 60,000€ annually – in maintenance costs alone. By automating processes throughout its digital and print media operations, Otava has reduced manual workloads, improved process transparency, and enhanced data accuracy.
Read moreFAQ
An API, or Application Programming Interface, is a set of rules and protocols that allows one software application to interact with another. APIs define the methods and data structures that developers can use to communicate with the software component, service, or application.
API Management refers to the process of creating, publishing, securing, monitoring, and analyzing APIs in a secure and scalable environment. It includes tools and services to manage the entire lifecycle of APIs, ensuring they are used effectively and securely by developers and applications.
iPaaS, or Integration Platform as a Service, is a cloud-based service that provides tools and infrastructure to enable the integration of different applications, systems, and services. It allows businesses to connect disparate systems, automate workflows, and manage data across multiple environments seamlessly.
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.
With Frends, you can design, publish, and manage APIs using the API Management functionality. Additionally, you can seamlessly add API endpoints for your integration processes to orchestrate and define the back-end API logic.
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 included. In these cases, the API acts more 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.
By combining iPaaS and API Management, you can achieve seamless integration of various applications and systems, enhanced by the efficient management and security of APIs. This combination allows for automated workflows, real-time data synchronization, and the creation of robust, scalable, and secure integration solutions. It empowers businesses to streamline operations, improve agility, and enhance the overall efficiency of their IT ecosystems.
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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