The StrikeIron API Management Solution Your data and software assets can provide your organization with new market opportunities and give you a competitive edge by sharing them through APIs. This technology is the conduit to break your digital assets out of their barriers and allow your organization to share, exchange and monetize data. New revenue streams and sales channels are possible for your organization through APIs. The challenge is developing, deploying, and delivering APIs, which requires control, security, hosting, infrastructure and much more. Innovation in digital asset monetization is StrikeIron s mission. For more than a decade, StrikeIron has focused on all things API. StrikeIron enables companies to rapidly launch, control and scale APIs in the cloud with the IronCloud API management platform. The most mature, scalable, and reliable platform on the market, IronCloud is used by thousands of customers on a 24/7 basis. Enterprises including Fortune 100 companies depend on IronCloud to complete mission critical business needs. StrikeIron s cloud architecture processes millions of transactions every day, making it a proven solution that businesses trust and rely upon. Hosting your APIs in IronCloud leverages StrikeIron s ten years of expertise in developing and delivering enterprise grade APIs. IronCloud was built with the goal of monetizing managed data and digital assets while creating a great user experience for business management, sales units, and product owners. Growth in Public APIs, 2005-2013 Nearly 10,000 public APIs exist today. Since 2012, enterprises have begun developing APIs at rising rates, according to ProgrammableWeb. 1 Source: Programmable Web
StrikeIron s methodology walks your organization through all stages of API management. Strategy: StrikeIron is the innovator in monetization of data assets via APIs. We support your organization to assist with the essential planning needed before creating new APIs. This includes setting goals, establishing business use cases and target audiences, determining success measurements, mapping out business projections, and deciding on target platforms. Design: A well-designed API is scalable and standards-based for integration with other applications. StrikeIron s expert support collaborates with your organization to design your APIs for consistency, clarity, and standards for the lifecycle of your API. Operationalize & Support Optimize Deploy Strategy Build Design Build: Instead of being focused on building an API via internal information technology resources with long development times, IronCloud makes building APIs easier and faster. The management console enables your sales team, business development team, or other business unit to access and control many aspects of APIs, such as flexible billing services, including credit cards and invoicing. An easily customizable developers portal enables any developer audience to easily explore and integrate your APIs. Deploy: IronCloud has flexible deployment options for sharing your data and software via APIs including data hosting on the IronCloud infrastructure and connecting to existing, unmanaged APIs. IronCloud can be hosted by StrikeIron, deployed in the public cloud, or hosted in your infrastructure. Operationalize & Support: All infrastructure and APIs are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. The StrikeIron team can help your organization understand the best ways to operationalize APIs. Optimize: Get the most from sharing your data through IronCloud by analyzing your API performance and usage, get visibility about customer churn and upgrade potential, and easily adapt your customer s pricing tiers or subscription levels. Sales operations, project managers, or other areas of your business operations units can control user access, provision users for free trials or other access levels, and report on analytics. 2
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