Building vs. Buying an API Hub

Guide

To become powerful digital businesses, leading organizations recognize the need for a well executed API strategy with an API hub at its core. Whether it’s accelerating innovation, creating new revenue streams, or extending product life cycles, an API Hub provides the critical meeting point where API builders and consumers can discover, consume, and collaborate with APIs. But many organizations debate whether it is better to build or buy an API Hub.

This guide will walk you through the key decision criteria of building vs. buying an API Hub and will demonstrate how buying is the right choice for most organizations.

This guide will provide:

• The Evaluation Criteria for Assessing Build vs. Buy
• The Risks and Challenges with Building an API Hub
• A Scoring System for Self-Assessment