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Apigee Edge Developer Services Scaling the reach and revenue of your APIs

Apigee Edge Developer Services provides the tools and infrastructure needed to drive your developer and partner success. Internal and external app developers and partners represent brand new channels. The greater the success of the developer’s product - the app - the more likely is the success of your digital strategy.

Fig. 1: Self-service portal for Kaiser Permanente developers

Empowering developers Edge Developer Services enables you to create an onboarding and community experience that empowers developers, streamlines their adoption and supports them in a successful development experience.

• Secure, frictionless onboarding to connect your API teams to app developers. Edge Developer Services allows you to streamline the API adoption process with automatic workflow for registration and key management with the flexibility of implementing custom registrations. Key management processes and authentication enable you to maintain compatibility with enterprise security standards.

Fig. 2: Key request notifications and approval

• Beautiful API documentation that delivers great developer experiences. API providers can generate richly detailed method-level SmartDocs that remember the values a developer uses, thus providing developers everything they need to successfully use the APIs.

• Developers can test-drive and explore APIs quickly and efficiently using the API Console. Like a test-harness, it presents well-formed requests, making it easy to validate requests and responses.

• A customizable developer portal with thousands of open source themes to very quickly get your branded developer portal up and running.

• An engaging, interactive community is made possible by configuration of the developer portal to showcase news on the latest API developments as well as social media conversations, discussion forums and blogs.

Fig. 3: Feature requests, forums and blogs for an engaged Gracenote developer community

Building new revenue streams Edge Developer Services delivers unique capabilities for monetization of your API Products. API Providers can implement a cost effective, flexible, easy to manage set of tools, while still integrating with existing financial systems. Developers can seamlessly purchase and manage packages, plans and billing documents via the portal.

• Flexible business models enable you to easily create value for your digital strategy. Edge Developer Services offers the flexibility to chose from three different types of monetization models: • Revenue-sharing Models: You incentivize developers

and pay them for the usage of your APIs • Fee-based Models: Developers pay you for their API

usage • Freemium Models: You offer an initial set of usage for

free, and then charge developers as their API usage grows

Fig. 4: Revenue-share model of Walgreens QuickPrints API

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• Monetization packages and rate plans for any of these business models can be implemented easily in Edge Developer Services.

Fig. 5: Revenue-share rate plan created as part of a monetization package

• Complex business needs can be handled by Edge monetization functionality. Transaction recording policies uniquely for monetization can use a variety of out-of-the-box attributes, as well as custom attributes. You can also create commercial relationships with developers from a partner company, not just with individual developers. Plans can be related to all or specific API products. Edge monetization also caters to complex holding company, corporate group and branch office scenarios. Integration with enterprise financial systems enables the management of billing documents and invoices from existing business solutions.

• Purchases, utilization, and payments management for individual as well as developers from your partner company. They have easy access to API products, packages and plans and can view catalogs, compare and purchase plans and complete financial transactions right from the developer portal.

Fig. 6: Browse, compare and purchase API packages on the Earth Networks developer portal

• Integration with payment gateways allows developers to securely pay for their purchases. They can view their plan utilization in the developer portal and top-up their pre-paid balances and also manage recurring billing.

• Monetization limits and real-time notifications Edge Developer Services allows API Providers to implement real-time monetization notifications on events and plan limits that can be sent to the API Provider, a specific developer or to all developers.

End-to-end Visibility

• App performance reports allow developers to monitor performance, errors and usage relating to all or specific sets of their apps and APIs.

Fig. 7: Performance and adoption reports for developers

• API Provider monetization reports give you visibility into the monetization performance of your digital assets. Revenue, billing and balance reports provide information across all products, packages and developers or selected ones across date ranges.

Fig. 8: Billing, pre-paid balance, revenue and variance reports for Monetization

• Developer monetization reports give developers the

ability to view prepaid plans, invoices and statements (such as revenue share) and receive these either from Edge monetization directly or through the integration with backend financial systems.

Advanced hosting platform for the developer portal Edge Developer Services provides a high availability (HA) and web-scale infrastructure with access to separate development, staging and production developer portal environments.

Edge Developer Services provides capabilities to quickly maximize the reach and business value of your internal and external APIs.

Licensing and Deployment

Developer Services can be deployed in the cloud or on-premises and includes 1 production portal that can be deployed additionally in developer and test environments to fit enterprise software lifecycle requirements. The on-premises license can be deployed on 4 or 8 core servers.