This page describes the latest webMethods.io product releases.
February 2024
webMethods.io API Gateway
The latest release of webMethods.io API Gateway includes several enhancements that improve performance and reliability including:
- Enhanced disaster recovery available for Azure: During peak API traffic, a substantial volume of API Analytics data needs to be transmitted to Elasticsearch. The mechanism for dispatching this data has been enhanced to bolster performance.
- Faster provisioning, smaller footprint: Several architectural improvements have been implemented in webMethods.io API Including the deployment of Ignite-based clustering for SaaS cloud users, as well as hosting the policy enforcement runtime engine on the Microservice Runtime (MSR) instead of the Integration Server (IS). Performance enhancements for high-traffic periods: The algorithm has been altered to enhance performance during periods of high API traffic.
webMethods.io Developer Portal
The latest release of webMethods.io Developer Portal includes several enhancements that improve managing and growing your API developer community including:
- Hackathon and beta program support embedded in Developer Portal: You can now run hackathons and beta programs right in the Developer Portal. This release makes it possible to advertise API programs to eager developers, engage with them, collect their feedback, receive enhancements and defect suggestions, and analyze the program metrics directly within Developer Portal.
- Ability to invite users to portal community: It is now possible to invite users to the Developer Portal to grow the reach of your APIs.
- More granular “limited provider” permissions: This enhancement makes it possible to isolate API providers and not allow them to see or to manage each other’s APIs.
- Payment information not stored in Developer Portal: This release enriches the monetization experience. Provider organizations can now request credit card information in this payment gateway to subscribe to APIs without storing payment information in the Developer Portal.
January 2024
webMethods.io MFT
webMethods.io Managed File Transfer is a reliable file transfer solution, now with a hosted cloud offering. It provides guaranteed delivery of critical files across multiple protocols (even streaming) in secure and encrypted form. Users can schedule, track, and alert on exceptions.
Key Features:
- Business, customer, and financial data in files are better protected in the cloud with additional security capabilities and automatic virus scanning. Azure AD support improves the security of file transfers.
- Reliability improves with easy mass resubmitting when issues occur to speed up the error-handling process.
- White labeling gives businesses more control over branding, especially when exchanging files with partners and customers. Branded portals increase trust and create a more professional appearance.
December 2023
webMethods.io Integration
The latest version of webMethods.io Integration offers a completely new way of working. The days of half a dozen different admin consoles and multiple integration products are over; all integrations in the webMethods.io Integration platform are controlled from and visible in a single place. Developers no longer have to be locked into a particular environment or development tool. With sophisticated deployment automation, developer flexibility, and the best security on the market, webMethods.io Integration is the ideal integration platform in the cloud. The latest release includes the following enhancements:
- Design and develop integrations anywhere with your preferred tooling, whether it’s online in our cloud or offline via webMethods Designer.
Build integrations in a cloud editor or build it inside Service Designer offline. Publish them into source code control and pull them into the cloud or run them in your own self-hosted runtimes. Orchestrate cross-platform workflows that incorporate integrations no matter where they’re hosted. Bring your own on-premises packages to the cloud. Now developers can choose whether to use the cloud UI or the full-service Eclipse-based Designer environment. - Deploy anywhere: Deploy integrations anywhere on any runtime, whether cloud or self-hosted. Provision an integration runtime from the central control plane, and your configuration and dependencies will be automatically identified and set up.
- Eliminate duplicate effort and complicated local configurations: Leverage existing webMethods integrations and services in a new unified integration platform. Businesses that are running multiple integration platforms in multiple locations due to regional performance and data protection considerations, and which lack the ability to span hybrid environments, will now be able to manage these environments from a centralized place.
webMethods.io API Control Plane
Today’s businesses regularly have multiple API gateways. Monitoring published APIs across multiple gateways so you can identify issues and apply common governance is challenging when located in different clouds or platforms. The API Control Plane allows you to see all your APIs, their versions, last updates, policies and organize them using tags. You can click on individual APIs and see versions, errors, and where they’re deployed. The API Control Plane offers the following capabilities to help you better manage your APIs:
- Single pane of glass to monitor all of your integration runtimes via the cloud control plane.
- Provision and control remote runtimes directly from the cloud.
- Simplified execution, deployment and dependency management across disparate locations using our patented technology.
- Create distributed integrations that can orchestrate across multiple cloud or self-hosted runtimes.
webMethods.io B2B
In day-to-day B2B operations maintaining accurate data on all the details of connectivity to reduce potential downtime in your core business processes is critical. With partner self-service, partners can now make updates themselves instead of having to go through your internal team, freeing up resources. And giving internal users access to those individual portals makes it easier to debug issues and answer questions without contacting a B2B administrator. These new features make it easier to maintain reliable connections to your essential suppliers and partners. This release provides the following enhancements:
- Enable your Trading Partners: Self-service portal for partners to maintain important information such as contacts, IDs, communication links, and certificates. Link multiple trading partners to a single user for a comprehensive view of complex trading partners.
- Enable your team: Role-based configuration also lets internal users use the portal for document searches on purchase orders, invoices, and other key business documents.
- Long-term transaction archival: Retain B2B transactions for up to 10 years. Transaction data resides in primary and archive storage for up to one year, with the option to move older transactions to cold storage. All data in the primary and main archive can be queried.