Apigee

Apigee let to design, secure, analyze, and scale your APIs with the Apigee API platform. Apigee easily create and deploy API proxies in the cloud from your Open API (Swagger) specs, transform your SOAP services into scalable, REST APIs with out-of-the-box policies and deploy and run your APIs where your apps are, but manage them centrally.

Apigee is the leading provider of API technology and services for enterprises and developers. Hundreds of companies including Walgreens, Bechtel, eBay, Pearson, and Gilt Groupe as well as tens of thousands of developers use Apigee to simplify the delivery, management and analysis of APIs and apps.

Apigee's global headquarters are in Palo Alto, California, and it also has offices in Bangalore, India; London; and Austin, Texas. Companies today want to make their backend services available on the web so that these services can be consumed by apps running on mobile devices and desktops.

A company might want to expose services that provide product pricing and availability information, sales and ordering services, order tracking services, and any other services required by client apps. Companies often expose services as a set of HTTP endpoints. Client app developers then make HTTP requests to these endpoints.

Depending on the endpoint, the service might then return data, formatted as XML or JSON, back to the client app.The client apps that consume these services can be implemented as standalone apps for a mobile device or tablet, as HTML5 apps running in a browser, or as any other type of app that can make a request to an HTTP endpoint and consume any response data.

These apps might be developed and released by the same company that exposed the services, or by third-party app developers who make use of publicly available services.