Oracle API Management Implementation 12c Book Overview

Digital transformation is at the core of every business strategy regardless of what type of business an organisation is in. Companies that embark on a on a digital transformation journey are able to create innovative and disruptive solutions that are capable of delivering a much richer, unified and personalised user experience, at a lower cost. They are able to engage the customer in a seamless fashion through many channels such as mobile apps, responsive websites and social media. Organisations that adopt innovative digital business models gain considerable competitive advantage over those that don’t.

Why transform digital?

The fundamental driver for digital transformation is the ability to unlock key information assets and business functionality, which is often hidden inside an organisation’s enterprise systems and in SOA based web services which are only internally accessible. To materialise these assets, organisations need to build web based Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that not only provide standard, lightweight web access to these assets but also do so in a secured and controlled fashion. The lightweight nature and ease of use of these web APIs, ensure that they soon become the main mechanism for accessing information and functionality that is needed to build mobile applications, responsive websites and other cloud based solutions.

Why API Management

API management is the discipline that governs the software development lifecycle of APIs. It defines the tools and processes needed to build, publish and operate APIs including the management of the community of developers around it.

API Management

Oracle API Management 12c Implementation is a complete and comprehensive guide to implementing API management in an enterprise. The book explains in great details how API management relates to other disciplines such as SOA governance and DevOps. It explains how and where SOA governance and API management converge giving rise to Application Services Governance (ASG). Very importantly, it uses real life case studies and many examples to show how to successfully define and implement a single and robust API management strategy with the Oracle API management solution.

Application Services Governance

The book starts by describing all of the fundamental concepts around API management and related disciplines such as SOA Governance and DevOps in order to dispel the confusion surrounding these topics.

All of these concepts are then put into practice by the elaboration of a realistic case study of an organisation, which had previously succeeded in the implementation of a SOA governance solution, and now needs to extend this with API management. During the elaboration of the case study it is explained:
  • The business requirements that lead to the identification of API management as a potential solution
  • All of the steps taken to define a API management strategy
  • Definition and execution of an API readiness assessment and gap analysis: in terms of people, tools and technology
API Management Strategy

  • Product evaluation and selection explaining why Oracle is the answer
APIM ProductSelection
  • API management implementation roadmap
API Management Implementation
The book goes on to show the steps required to implement the following API Management Reference Architecture using Oracle API Management solution (Oracle API Catalog, Oracle API Manager and Oracle API Gateway) to solve the specific business needs described in the use cases.

API Management Reference Architecture

In summary what you will learn from this book:
  • API Management, its concepts, goals and objectives
  • The differences and similarities between API Management and SOA Governance; where and how these two disciplines converge into Application Services Governance (ASG)
  • Application Service Governance (ASG) and how to define an ASG governance framework 
  • Elaboration of an API management strategy including: identification of business drivers, API management readiness assessment, gap analysis, creation of a digital reference architecture and elaboration of an implementation roadmap 
  • Definition and execution of an API readiness assessment and gap analysis: in terms of people, tools and technology
  • Product selection criteria and evaluation - Why Oracle API Management?
  • Implementation of Oracle API Catalog (OAC) including topics such as OAC bootstrapping and harvesting using the shell and ANT harvester scripts and also from JDeveloper, OAC console, user creation and management, API metadata, API discovery and also how to extend the functionality of OAC using the REX API
  • Understand how to manage a set of APIs. Explain the general challenges of API Management 
  • Implementation of Oracle API Manager (OAPIM) including creation, publishing, management and deprecation of APIs, API runtime monitoring, API key generation, API subscriptions and API community management with the OAPIM portal
  • Understand the challenges for organizations looking to expose APIs to the external world. Identify common scenarios in this regard and how to solve them
  • Implementation of Oracle API Gateway (OAG) including creation of policies with different filters, OAuth authentication, LDAP configuration, REST/SOAP conversations and API deployment and testing
  • Definition of an Oracle API management deployment topology 
  • Installation and configuration of Oracle API Catalog (OAC), Oracle API Manager (OAPIM) and Oracle API Gateway (OAG)
The target audience for the book is Enterprise Architects, Solution Architects, Technical Architects and SOA and API consultants who want to successfully implement API Management using the Oracle API Management Solution products.

The book is now available for pre-order from the Packt website:
https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/oracle-api-management-12c-implementation

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