Google Cloud named Leader in 2020 Forrester Wave for API Management Solutions

Google Cloud has been recognised by Forrester as a leader in The Forrester Wave: API Management Solutions, Q3 2020. 

In this report, Forrester assessed 15 API management solutions against a set of pre-defined criteria. In addition to being named a leader, Google Cloud received the highest possible score in the market presence category, and the strategy category criteria of product vision, and planned enhancements, and current offering criteria such as API user engagement, REST API documentation, formal lifecycle management, data validation and attack protection, API product management, and analytics and reporting.

“As a long-standing player in the market, Google Cloud has rich resources for educating customers and prospects on API business potential, including using them to create new ecosystem models. This shows in the product’s rich set of API product and pricing definition features,” according to the Forrester report. 

Forrester also noted that Google Cloud has deepened its integration of Apigee with other Google Cloud capabilities such as reCAPTCHA, machine learning and Istio-based service mesh. Forrester also noted that Google Cloud’s reference customers expressed high satisfaction with Apigee API management. 

Download the full The Forrester Wave: API Management Solutions, Q3 2020 report here.