Lifecycle Manager

Lifecycle Manager is part of the Akana API platform, now sold as Perforce Akana. It manages the whole lifecycle of an organisation's APIs and automates software delivery processes around them.

What Lifecycle Manager offers

• API creation and deployment — Build and release APIs, across several clouds if needed.
• Governance — Consumer-facing API products are kept apart from code, with stakeholder approval at set stages.
• Security policies — Policies are applied automatically from metadata set by the responsible stakeholders.
• Testing and monitoring — Works with BlazeMeter for continuous API testing, synthetic monitoring and mock services.
• Mainframe modernisation — Akana Sola covers older mainframe systems.

Who it works with

Enterprises, including banks and digital banking projects.

Key facts

• Vendor: Perforce
• Support: Includes professional services and training
• Newer feature: Support for GraphQL APIs