Contact: Carl Lehmann, Tejas Venkatesh
The API management market has been bustling, with three acquisitions and one notable funding round announced just in the past week. APIs and their development, management and integration have become important amid the Internet of Things environment, in which a multitude of connected points communicate via the Web.
The recent acquisitions of Mashery by Intel and Layer 7 Technologies by CA Technologies signal the opening round for an API land grab by all IT vendors that rely on integration to add value to their respective offerings. Players likely to seek similar deals include Software AG, TIBCO, Information Builders, Informatica, Fujitsu, Talend and OpenText. Oracle and SAP could also benefit from having API management capabilities as part of their integration technology portfolios.
In the future, successful API management providers will possess tools and techniques that simplify and automate how APIs are designed, coded and documented, and will also control distribution and use by a community of developers. In addition, these companies will allow existing APIs to be customized, thereby extending their value without having to design new APIs.
The week in API management
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Source: Source: The 451 M&A KnowledgeBase, 451 Research