Redefining API Management for the AI-Driven Enterprise

For years, API management sat comfortably in the “connectivity” bucket of enterprise architecture. Teams focused on building, exposing and securing APIs so that mobile apps, partner ecosystems and backend systems could exchange information in a predictable way. API gateways enforced traffic rules. Developer portals drove consumption. Monitoring tools checked latency and uptime.

But the rise of enterprise AI — especially multimodal foundation models, agentic systems and retrieval-augmented workflows — has radically modified the API…