API Center is a service in Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services℠ that you can use to design, publish, manage, and monitor APIs in the organization. You can provide API consumers with access to the APIs for enterprise services and processes that you create with API Center.
When you log in to Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services, the My Services page displays the API Center service and services that apply to API Center. The My Services page might also include other services that you subscribe to and trial versions of other services.
The following image shows the My Services page:
You can choose the domain name when you log in to API Center the first time, and then provision the domain. For more information about, see API domain name.
Use API Center to perform the following tasks:
Create REST APIs
To create and define REST APIs, you can create API operations or import existing API definitions.
Assign API policies to APIs and API operations
You can create policies and assign them to APIs and to API operations. Policies are rules that you use to enforce API security and control access to APIs.
Publish APIs
You create a published API using either a top-down approach or a bottom-up approach. Using the top-down approach, you can create a REST API with at least one operation and then publish the API. Using the bottom-up approach, you can a create published API from an existing Application Integration process.
Group APIs
API groups are collections of APIs that organization administrators and developers can consume. You can group your published REST APIs across your organizational and business boundaries by adding them to API groups. You can then share the API group endpoint URLs with API consumers so that they can easily access the related operations in a managed API group.
Manage APIs
You create managed APIs from published APIs. You can then share the API endpoint URLs with API consumers so that they can access the operations of the managed APIs.
Monitor API usage
You can view and monitor the invocations of managed APIs in the organization.
