api management requirements

https://www.infoq.com/research/api-management

• API Discovery (Catalog, Search and Provisioning)
• API Security (SSL, PKI, threat protection, schema validation, encryption, signatures, etc)
• API Identity (AuthN & AuthZ, API key, OAuth, SAML, LDAP, proprietary IAM, multifactor, token translation & management)
• API Orchestration (adaptation of multiple services, workflow operations, branching policies, etc.)
• Uniform interface/proxy to multiple backend messaging protocols (JMS, RMI etc)
• Developer and App OnBoarding (Client ID/App Key generation, Interactive API console)
• Community Management (Blogs, Forums, Social features etc)
• API Lifecycle governance (Versioning)
• Traffic Mediation (SOAP to REST mediation, data format transformation, legacy application integration)
• Traffic Shaping( Rate limitation, Caching etc)
• Analytics & Traffic Monitoring
• API metering, Billing and Monetization
• Data Protection(Data encryption, Data masking etc for PCI/PII compliance)
• Mobile Optimization (Pagination, Compression, JSON etc)
• Deployment Flexibility (on-premise, cloud, managed service, SaaS, hybrid)
• Operational Integration (System Monitoring, Clustering, Scalability, Migration)
• Mobile Integration (support for push notifications, geolocation, streaming protocols)
• Cloud Integration (SSO to SaaS providers, IaaS integration, SaaS data connectors, hybrid cloud support)