Torry Harris API Manager

Our API Management platform, Torry Harris API Manager (TH-APIM) is a complete package to help manage your APIs and turn them into tools that propel your business forward. It has four components that work in unison to provide the following basic runtime functionality:

The API Publisher Portal

This portal allows API publishers to configure the APIs, API packs, usage plans, usage policies, etc. Key features include:

• Create secure API proxies
• Create API packs from multiple APIs
• Advanced Policy library with the facility to share policies across multiple APIs
• Workflow/approval cycles on policy lifecycle
• Configure transformations at API and resource levels
• Ability to create multiple usage plans with a different set of runtime policies for each plan. For instance, Basic, Gold, Silver, Platinum, etc.
• Ability to selectively deploy and manage plans on different gateway runtime instances from a single screen
• Near-real-time statistics visualization
• Advanced and highly granular role-based access control for all features - API visibility, management, publishing, and consuming

The API Developer Portal

The Developer Portal helps developers discover, explore, try out and subscribe to the publishers’ APIs. The publisher can tailor the appearance of the developer portal as per their needs. Key features include:

• Developer self-registration
• Ability to search and navigate the API developer portal with the same user experience of an online store; with a clear listing of most popular APIs, What's new, API price, description, etc.
• Facility to manage the subscriptions through an easy-to-use interface
• The ability for internal and external developers and API providers to quickly view statistics of their API usage
• Facility for API providers to easily expose/create APIs by proxying existing endpoints and attaching policy templates
• Help/support ticket system built-in for API developers to report issues, bugs, etc.

The API Gateway

The API gateway enforces the policies defined by the publishers, validates the subscriptions, collects metrics, and enforces quotas. It is configured and managed using the publisher portal. No coding or customization is required. Key features include:

• The event-driven paradigm used to implement the API gateway, easily achieving high concurrencies
• Policy enforcement (details of each policy is described in our answer to the next question)
• Cluster-wide policy enforcement
• Quota overrun alerts with configurable threshold
• Transaction recording for analytics
• Multi-gateway runtime architecture to support isolation of high-traffic, high-volume APIs. Configuration and management is central though
• Subscription validation and auto-renewal facility

OAuth Authentication Server

The OAuth authorization server is a software system that implements network protocol flows that allow a client software application to act on behalf of a user. Key features include:

• Token management
• Supports OAuth custom grant types

Enterprises operating in the digital economy are collecting, storing and managing enormous amounts of data. Many of them, however, don’t have the infrastructure in place to effectively access each data source and leverage their business intelligence for maximum value.

One of the ways integrated applications help your business is that they facilitate seamless, frictionless data exchange and accessibility across all systems, teams and departments within the enterprise. Application integration unites and enhances data flows between multiple software applications. Businesses often use application integration to connect new cloud applications and legacy applications, enabling a wide range of independently designed applications to work together.

DM-APIM and our associated service offerings provide features that are specifically aimed at supporting multi-experience strategy:

• Configurable content compression at the gateway to support low-footprint API payloads to support use cases in IoT, wearables, etc
• Support for integration with third-party services to enable voice-driven applications and chatbots
• Support for channel-specific APIs and creation of separate architectural layers tailored for front-end channels. This is commonly referred to in the industry as the BFF pattern (Back-end For Front-end). Microservices exposed through micro gateways are good candidates to build the BFF layer.
• System Integration and custom solution development to build industrial Augmented Reality applications using frameworks like ARKit in the Energy management domain.

The key consideration in API Management to support all the above-mentioned multi-experience touchpoints is the ability to tailor specific security policies, support streaming, pluggable state management, data compression, etc.

Our industry vertical templates provide the required specs, principles, and reference models to integrate Open Banking APIs to your core banking and associated systems. Our complementing offering, Concierge Bank is a comprehensive marketplace-banking solution built on the foundation of Open Banking. It allows quick integration to third-party services helping banks to create their own marketplace via the managed API platform.

Seven days before your account subscription expires, you receive an email notifying you that your account is about to expire and prompting you to contact your account representative to retain your account.

When your subscription expires, you can’t restart existing apps or create new apps. Running apps might stop without notice at the discretion of Torry Harris. To renew your subscription, contact your account representative.

Professional services and consultancy form a very important part of our model since we offer consolidated end-to-end services in our focus areas. Depending on the phase the customer is in with respect to their API journey, any of the blocks within Torry Harris API Manager could be used by the customer and made to work (coexist) with any other commercial or open-source products.

We also assist clients from time to time in product selection for their enterprise. Though Torry Harris API Manager is open standards-based and the client can choose to engage with any vendor for the professional services and consultancy bit, they generally tend to engage us to offer both these services.