For a large company like Black Knight, an API management tool is something we don’t want to spend a lot of time on. Its ease of use was the deciding factor for our developers, and the Apigee analytics capabilities provided considerable insight into the anatomy of an API call-something the other platforms we considered didn’t do as well.Ĭhoosing Apigee meant that we didn’t have to focus on developing and maintaining a tool or spend enormous amounts of money trying to keep up with security patching.

In our opinion, Apigee was the most complete, robust, technically sound and full-featured option from among all of the API management tools we evaluated. Knowing how complicated such a platform would be to build ourselves, we decided that our developers were better off focusing on providing core solutions to Black Knight clients engaging with an outside provider was the right way for us to advance our API strategy.Īfter a lengthy proof-of-concept process, we went into production with the Apigee API Management Platform from Google Cloud in 2018.

We knew we needed to move toward an API platform that would support RESTful architecture and that would fully enable mobile solutions. Despite being largely successful with one of these solutions, we saw that technology advances were outpacing our capacity to update our solutions in-house. To start, we created some homegrown API solutions.

Needless to say, this was inefficient we knew we had to do something to centralize this process.īuilding versus buying an API management platform Whenever a bank needed to connect with a Black Knight app, we’d launch another integration project. Over the past few decades, we tended to manage customer integrations on a case-by-case basis. Read on to learn how Black Knight uses APIs to facilitate and automate many of the business processes across the homeownership life cycle.īlack Knight is a leading provider of technology, data, and analytics to the mortgage industry, catering to both large and mid-tier banks in the United States. Editor’s note: Today we hear from Brad Homer, Senior API Strategy Product Manager at Black Knight Inc., on how the company uses the Apigee API Management Platform from Google Cloud to transform integrated software, data, and analytics solutions for the mortgage industry.

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