SAP API Management, a capability within the SAP Integration Suite, serves as a proxy layer for backend services, enabling the full lifecycle management of APIs. Its standard benefits include creating new business models and revenue streams by securely exposing data and services to external ecosystems as products (Data as a Service). It also simplifies integration for partners, third-party developers, and marketplaces by providing a centralized, secure, and well-documented developer portal. This abstracts the complexity of the backend landscape and standardizes API consumption.

A. This describes an event-driven architecture (EDA). While part of the broader SAP Integration Suite, this pattern is primarily handled by the SAP Event Mesh capability, not SAP API Management.

C. SAP API Management is used to manage, secure, and publish existing APIs. It does not implement the core business logic or code for new APIs; that is the function of backend development.

1. SAP Help Portal

SAP Integration Suite Documentation

"API Management": "With API Management

you can publish

promote

and oversee APIs in a secure and scalable environment... Engage with developers and partners to build new apps

business models

and revenue streams." This statement directly supports options B and D by highlighting the creation of new business models and engagement with external ecosystems (partners

developers).

Source: SAP Help Portal

What Is SAP Integration Suite? > Capabilities > API Management.

2. SAP Help Portal

SAP Integration Suite Documentation

"Key Use Cases and Value Proposition": The documentation outlines key use cases such as "Create an API-based platform business" and "Simplify access to heterogeneous landscapes." Creating a platform business directly relates to generating new revenue streams (B)

and simplifying access is the core of simplifying integration with ecosystems (D).

Source: SAP Help Portal

SAP Integration Suite > Key Use Cases and Value Proposition.

3. openSAP Course

"SAP Integration Suite in a Nutshell": Unit 3

"API Management

" explains that a key driver for API Management is to "Expose digital assets to new channels and markets" and "Build and manage developer ecosystems." These directly correspond to generating new revenue (B) and simplifying integration for partners (D).

Source: openSAP Course: SAP Integration Suite in a Nutshell

Week 1

Unit 3: API Management.