We are excited to share a new webinar series from the IBM API Connect team that dives into key API management capabilities and how you can get more value out of your APIs while ensuring they’re reliable, seamless, and secure.

The event series starts with a joint webinar from IBM and Gartner on the latest API trends and practices. Then we dive into the IBM API Connect product so you can see API testing, API security, API analytics, and Developer Portals in action.

You are invited to watch these on-demand webinars at your own pace. Please see below for a description and link for each of the five webinars in the series.

1. The Latest API Trends and Practices: Insights from IBM and Gartner

In this session you will learn about the latest API trends and practices we’re seeing in the market. Paul Dumas at Gartner highlights the recent shifts in how APIs are created and managed, with a deep-dive into API security. Then, Mike Thompson at IBM talks about how organizations such as IBM are responding to these trends through new product innovations and partnerships to help clients get the most out of their APIs.

QuickLearn Session: 30-minute

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2. API Testing: Improve API quality, consistency, and developer productivity

Join Swetha Sridharan, Senior Product Manager for IBM API Connect, while she demonstrates how to:

• Deliver higher-quality, more consistent, and more reliable APIs while adapting to changing business requirements
• Apply AI and automation to simplify and accelerate API testing during the design and production lifecycle
  

QuickLearn Session: 30-minute

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3. API Security: Protect your APIs from evolving threats

This session focuses on API security across the API lifecycle, including in design and runtime. We show what capabilities are critical to ensuring your APIs are fully protected, including a deep-dive into advanced API security. You’ll see a demo of how to apply automation and machine learning to identify unmanaged and potentially insecure APIs, assess APIs for misconfigurations and vulnerabilities, and detect and block malicious traffic in real-time.

QuickLearn Session: 1-hour

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4. KPIs for APIs: Get real-time visibility into your APIs with comprehensive analytics

Nick Glowacki, Principal Automation Technical Specialist at IBM, shows you how to:

• Use the pre-built dashboards to easily tap into your API data to view the health of the overall system and optimize how APIs are being used.
• Analyze both the technical side of how your APIs are running, as well as the business side, such as identifying the customers using them and how much revenue they are generating.
• Get answers to specific questions, like “What is causing my API’s latency?” and “What are the root causes of the errors I’m getting?”
  

QuickLearn Session: 30-minute

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5. Engage your API Community: Best practices around Developer Portal

In this session focused on Developer Portal, Anne Redwood, Development Squad Lead for IBM API Connect, demonstrates how to:

• Get more value from your APIs by making them easily available to internal and external developers
• Build a customized, branded Developer Portal with quick onboarding and API discovery
• Build your community to communicate and engage with your APIs
• Make your portal part of your CI/CD pipeline to provide the latest updates

QuickLearn Session: 30-minute

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