Benefits of using API Gateway

Infor API Gateway offers numerous advantages for both API consumers and providers, establishing itself as an essential tool for efficient API management.

Below are some of the key benefits of using API Gateway:

Common base URL path

By offering a common base URL path, Infor API Gateway simplifies the process of accessing various APIs. This feature allows API consumers to easily locate and interact with APIs without having to remember different URLs for each service.

Common authentication mechanism

Infor API Gateway integrates with Infor OS Security to provide a common authentication mechanism. The unified authentication mechanism ensures that only authorized users can access APIs, protecting sensitive data and maintaining system integrity.

Efficient request brokering

As a reverse proxy, Infor API Gateway efficiently brokers requests between API consumers, such as web, mobile, or backend applications, and API providers, including Infor enterprise and third-party services. This intermediary role allows API Gateway to optimize request handling and response times.

Enhanced integration and functionality

The Infor API Gateway plays a pivotal role in facilitating seamless integration across various systems and applications, each of which may have different target authentication servers. By offering a centralized platform for API management, it enables administrators to effectively coordinate and oversee API interactions. This ensures that diverse systems, regardless of their underlying technologies, can communicate and function harmoniously.

Unified monitoring and troubleshooting

Administrators can use the Infor API Gateway to monitor API traffic and troubleshoot issues in real time. API Gateway's comprehensive monitoring capabilities allow for quick identification and resolution of problems, minimizing downtime and ensuring smooth operation.

API orchestration

The API Flows feature within Infor ION is powered by the Infor API Gateway, which allows API administrators to design and manage complex workflows involving multiple APIs. This enables the automation of processes that require interaction between various services. By orchestrating these flows, organizations can achieve higher efficiency and ensure that tasks are performed in a precise and orderly manner. This feature also supports conditional logic, enabling dynamic decision-making based on the responses received from interconnected APIs.

Enterprise Connector

The Enterprise Connector enables secure communication between API Gateway and on-premises APIs, even when there is no direct network connection. It works by running the API Gateway hybrid service as an independent application within the Enterprise Connector.

Backend as a Service (BaaS)

Infor BaaS enables you to build services locally and deploy them in a cloud environment. This approach allows developers to focus on creating and testing back-end functionalities within their own infrastructure before transitioning to a scalable, managed cloud platform.

WIth BaaS, organizations can use prebuilt back-end components, minimize the need for extensive custom coding, and accelerate the deployment process. Additionally, BaaS provides consistent security, efficient data management, and enhanced reliability.

Note:  BaaS requires an add-on license in addition to your Infor OS core license. To learn more about Infor BaaS, please visit the Infor documentation site.

Summary

By using the Infor API Gateway, organizations can enhance the efficiency, security, and functionality of their API interactions, ultimately driving better integration and performance across their technological landscape.