Salesforce (MuleSoft) Named a Leader in 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for API Management

Salesforce today announced that MuleSoft has been named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for API Management. This year’s placement marks the ninth consecutive year MuleSoft has been recognized.

Why it’s important: With organizations using an average of 1,061 applications and between 10 and 30 APIs per application, API “sprawl” makes it difficult for IT teams to find and secure their APIs. According to Gartner, these APIs — especially shadow and dormant ones — are causing data breaches among organizations that, on average, exceed the magnitude of other breaches.¹ 

Innovation in action: MuleSoft addresses API sprawl with API Management on Anypoint Platform, a collection of full lifecycle API management capabilities to build, discover, govern, and manage any API built and deployed anywhere. The tool enables organizations to deliver API-driven services, including AI technology, with governance, security, and control features, and:

• Helps IT teams accelerate application and automation delivery, gain consistent security and quality of their APIs, modernize architecture, and create vibrant API ecosystems. 
• Empowers developers to compose APIs and re-use any API built across any environment. They can adapt any architectural pattern to manage APIs anywhere they reside — on-premise, hybrid, or in the cloud.  
• Helps architects implement governance and apply specific security policies to manage and control access to AI APIs. 

MuleSoft also helps customers achieve their digital transformation goals with:

• Anypoint Code Builder, which gives developers AI-powered capabilities to design, develop, and deploy APIs including event-driven APIs, integrations, and automation using a modern IDE.
• Anypoint API Manager, which provides a centralized control plane to configure and deploy security policies across API gateways, manage and analyze API usage, simplify API consumption, and deliver API programs.
• Anypoint Flex Gateway, which helps manage and secure any API while delivering the performance required for the most demanding applications while providing enterprise security and manageability across any environment.
• Anypoint API Governance, which provides end-to-end API governance support from design to implementation. This helps to ensure all enterprise APIs comply with industry regulations and internal policies without adding more steps to API development.
• Anypoint API Experience Hub, which empowers users to build, grow, and engage ecosystems for their APIs in minutes with easy to use templates to productize, publish, and govern APIs built across any technology or platform.

The Salesforce perspective: “APIs are the foundation for delivering AI-powered applications and experiences. At MuleSoft, we continue to advance our vision to make API Management universal and through that effort, bring our customers the benefits of greater visibility, consistent governance, flexible control, and improved engagement across all their API initiatives.” – Param Kahlon, EVP, Automation and Integration 

At MuleSoft, we continue to advance our vision to make API Management universal and through that effort, bring our customers the benefits of greater visibility, consistent governance, flexible control, and improved engagement across all their API initiatives.

Param Kahlon, EVP, Automation and Integration

The customer perspective: “MuleSoft provides us with a robust, reliable, and stable integration platform. Its robust integration and API Management capabilities have empowered us to quickly and securely connect data and applications to power our business initiatives. We have adopted API-led connectivity as the cornerstone of our integration strategy to increase interoperability, reusability, and accelerate time-to-market. MuleSoft’s Full Lifecycle API Management helps us standardize our integration landscape and eliminates technology fragmentation in this space. It provides us with a layer of trust and control which is very important in our industry.” – Harsh Soni, Director of Integration, Alexion, AstraZeneca Rare Disease.

Fast facts:

• MuleSoft was recognized as a Leader in this Magic Quadrant report based on its Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute.
• MuleSoft’s latest Universal API management innovations include the launch of Salesforce API Catalog (available in Q1 CY2025), AsyncAPI support (generally available), Einstein for Anypoint Code Builder (generally available), Actionable API Insights (available in Q4 CY2024), and policy enhancement for Flex Gateway (generally available).

Additional information:

• View a complimentary copy of the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for API Management
• Learn more about Universal API Management 
• Learn more about next evolution of API Management in the CIO Guide to Universal API Management

Any unreleased services or features referenced here are not currently available and may not be delivered on time or at all. Customers should make their purchase decisions based upon features that are currently available. 

Gartner citations and disclaimer:

¹Gartner, Market Guide for API Protection, Dionisio Zumerle, Aaron Lord, Esraa ElTahawy, Mark O’Neill, May 29, 2024

Gartner, Magic Quadrant™ for API Management, Shameen Pillai, John Santoro, Nicholas Carter, Andrew Humphreys, Mark O’Neill, 16 October 2024

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