3scale | API Management

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APIs are Business Development 2.0

APIs provide new channels for your business to reach customers, empower partners and grow new revenue opportunities. With an API, digital content and services can be leveraged in new creative ways to add value to other web applications, widgets and mobile applications. In order to help you unleash this power, 3scale provides powerful infrastructure to handle all the business aspects of your API, while you focus on delivering great services.

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In order to secure your web services you need to control access to your API and identify users.

3scale’s solution handles key generation and control, violation management and many other access management features.

Having developed an API, the next step forward if creating a great user experience around it and growing your community by promoting it.

3scale's solution provides a fully branded community portal enabling you to post information and interact with your API users.

Visibility and control of your API traffic load (live and historical) is key to proactively improving and optimizing your service.

3scale’s solution provides you with detailed analytics on your API traffic.

Looking to generate revenues from your API but haven’t done so because of the hassle of managing billing & payments?

3scale’s solution provides you with an easy and flexible billing & payment management tool.

The Benefits

3scale’s solution enables you to centralize and automate the sign-up of your API users and therefore helps you focus on your core business and its development

3scale provides you not only with web exposure through the community portal but also through PR, promotion and registration of your API on internationally recognized specialized API listing platforms.

When others build applications and create mash-ups, you gain fresh insights into how your business can be re-imagined. 3scale’s solution provides you with all the tools enabling you to foster innovation.

API Insights

API Management

Take control.

3scale’s solution gives you full control of your API at all times. Features include:

Access key control
Usage limit setting and monitoring
Contract management with partners and customers
Customer metric and tracking
API traffic filtering

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Developer and Partner Community

Connect.

3scale provides you with a comprehensive tool box to enable you to manage your partners and drive traffic:

Content management system for your API documentation
Flexible forums to provide support and encourage discussion
Application galleries to highlight success stories

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Monitoring and Analytics

Find opportunities.

3scale’s configurable GUI reporting allows you to easily:

Track account sign-ups
Monitor account usage
Track method usage in calls
Plan capacity and react to trends on time

Data collected in the system is exportable in various formats.

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Billing and Payment

New revenue opportunities.

3scale's automated billing and payment tools integrate directly with the analytics and reporting services. Set up multiple plans and pricing rules, track usage on individual keys and receive payments on a monthly basis in a single settlement.

Configure your own usage plans per service
Set pricing rules according to any metric tracked
Receive settlement without having to handle client credit card information
Easy installation and usage

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