We provide full-spectrum API Management Services & Solutions, encompassing design, deployment, security, analytics, and governance to ensure scalable, secure integration across your enterprise. Our API & Integration Governance framework establishes robust policies—covering access control, versioning, lifecycle workflows, and compliance—for both internal and external APIs. Through our API & Microservices Factory Model, we deliver portfolios of APIs and microservices efficiently—using flexible capacity, domain-based delivery, and production-grade support. Our API Platform Management ensures your gateway, developer portal, analytics, and monitoring are unified, enabling high availability, detailed insights, and developer adoption.
Our API & Microservices Capabilities
Transform APIs into Business Enablers
At Top Row Resources, we help organizations unlock the full potential of APIs by integrating them across applications, data, and devices—turning APIs into core drivers of innovation, efficiency, and revenue. We offer end-to-end API strategy and platform support using leading technologies like MuleSoft, Azure API Management, WSO2, IBM API Connect, Kong, Tyk, Apigee, Boomi, and more.
What We Offer
API Strategy & Architecture
Co-create your API platform vision—including productization, governance, and ecosystem design—to align with strategic business outcomes.
Full-Lifecycle API Services
Design, develop, secure, publish, monetize, and monitor APIs through a complete lifecycle—from developer portal to runtime gateway.
Platform Implementations
Deploy and manage APIs on robust platforms—including MuleSoft Anypoint, Azure API Management, WSO2, IBM API Connect, Kong, Tyk, and Boomi—tailored to hybrid cloud, microservice, and compliance needs.
Developer Experience (DX)
Build intuitive developer portals with real-time sandboxes, SDKs, interactive docs, feedback channels, and analytics to boost API adoption.
API Governance & Compliance
Establish robust policy enforcement—covering authentication, throttling, transformation, and auditing—across complex environments.
API Testing & Conformance Validation
Use tools like autoStub® and DigitMarket™ for automated mocking, testing, and ensuring API validation during development and deployment.
Analytics & Monitoring
Monitor usage, performance, and API health with integrated dashboards and drill-down analytics to drive continuous improvement.
Deployment Modes
Choose the model that fits your operations:
SaaS
Fully managed TH‑APIM cloud experience
On‑Prem or Private Cloud
Self-hosted platform for maximum control
Hybrid
Combined environment with unified policy.
Why Top Row Resources?
Independent & Platform-Agnostic
We design API solutions based on your tech strategy, business goals, and ecosystem context, ensuring strategic ecosystem alignment.
Depth of Integration Knowledge
As seasoned API and integration specialists, we offer expertise across platforms and industry-leading governance frameworks.
Recognized Excellence
Rated a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™ for API Management and acclaimed in Gartner Magic Quadrant – reflecting delivery maturity and service breadth.
Developer-Centric DX
We craft portals and onboarding workflows that empower internal and external developers, enabling faster time-to-value.
To consistently deliver high-volume API and integration updates across evolving business initiatives, you need agile yet aligned teams. Our expertise lies in crafting governance frameworks that balance autonomy with centralized oversight—knowing exactly which assets require strict governance and where teams can operate independently. We enable lightweight, adaptive, and automatable governance that empowers speed and control.
Our Capabilities
Maturity Assessment & Roadmap Design
We evaluate your current API and integration maturity, then co-create a tailored roadmap that aligns your processes with organizational culture and strategic goals.
Adaptive Governance Models
We build governance structures and workflows that adjust based on asset criticality—being light-touch for low-risk APIs, and more controlled when security, compliance, and data sensitivity are higher priorities.
Standardized Taxonomies & Patterns
We define clear API/integration classifications, design standards, and decision frameworks to unify your teams and accelerate agile governance.
Culture & Competency Building
We coach your teams to work with autonomy—empowering distributed ownership while maintaining alignment to a cohesive governance strategy.
Tools & Methods—How We Support You
API Program Enablement
We assess governance strength using our maturity model matrix to identify gaps, prioritize improvements, enhance performance, and ensure clear accountability across teams.
Defined Governance Roles
Identifying Decision Rights: We define roles—Beneficiaries, Enablers, Catalysts—for clarity, accountability, and faster alignment to streamline agile coordination and delivery.
Governance Health Checks
We assess governance strength using our maturity model matrix to identify gaps, prioritize improvements, enhance performance, and ensure clear accountability across teams.
Governance Blueprint & Toolset
We deploy a comprehensive integration governance framework and enable tools to enforce guidelines, taxonomies, lifecycle policies, and mapping to critical drivers.
Integration Style Optimization
Whether event-driven approaches, ESB, microservices, or RESTful APIs—our reference architecture and decision-tree models guide you to the most efficient integration style.
Lifecycle & Asset Management
We define and automate end-to-end API lifecycle processes—from intake to retirement—ensuring consistency, scalability, governance, repeatability, and efficiency across teams.
Why This Matters
Adopting a robust yet flexible governance model promotes:
Ownership with oversight.
Agile teams can innovate rapidly while adhering to scalable enterprise standards.
Scalability with structure
Governance scales seamlessly alongside your ecosystem, without stifling creativity.
Strategic management of risk
You introduce rigorous controls only where needed—optimizing efficiency and trust.
If any part of your digital systems demands dedicated, scalable, and expert attention, it’s your API and microservices portfolio. These are the fulcrum of your digital transformation lever—especially those core business APIs that embody your vital digital capabilities. With the right fulcrum, your transformation lever works much harder. Template using the Factory Delivery Model, we offer adaptable capacity to build, maintain, and manage high‑quality APIs and microservices that propel your business forward.
What We Deliver through the API Factory
Quality-first delivery
We build your essential APIs and microservices quickly, while following strong design standards and modern API management practices.
Scalable resource capacity
You only pay for the capacity you need—scaling up or down during key phases without compromising delivery speed or quality.
Lifecycle support at focus.
We strengthen delivery at the most impactful points in your API and microservice lifecycle to accelerate transformation.
API publication and documentation
We organize APIs into clean portfolios and provide clear documentation to engage both internal and external developers.
Skill and competency building
We mentor teams across the design-to-deploy lifecycle to build in-house expertise in APIs and microservices.
Our Collaborative Factory Approach
Tailored precisely to your style
We adapt our factory model to your team structure—whether iterative API-by-API delivery or full portfolio projects.
Embedded domain expertise
Our teams integrate with your business domains, fostering strong collaboration during design and testing phases.
Flexible resourcing aligned to workflow
We monitor your pace and scale our team flexibly. Our ‘Service Point’ pricing ties effort directly to complexity.
Priority-sensitive execution
We identify critical, customer-facing APIs and deliver appropriate support—covering design, testing, management, and support.
Factory Capabilities & Tools
| Factory Feature | Expertise Delivered | Our Toolkit & Platforms |
|---|---|---|
| Offshore delivery setup | Agile development, integration, API gateways, microgateway/service mesh, automated testing, security, quality & governance | Jira, Confluence, THIS DevOps, AutoStub™, Automaton™, Ansible, Terraform, HELM |
| API portfolio management | Business architecture, domain-driven design, customer journey mapping, API product management | API lifecycle platforms, API Farm model, design tools, RepoPro™ |
| Legacy-to-cloud microservices | Legacy decomposition and microservice builds using the factory approach | DigitMarket™, Coupler, Docker, Kubernetes, Istio/LinkerD |
| Production support & observability | L2/L3 support, environment health checks, automation, observability, root-cause analysis | iPaaS, messaging systems, SaaS tools, custom microservices tools |
Validation from Clients & Analysts
Case Study: EE’s lifecycle management includes a business-driven collaboration model and an API build factory managed by us.
- Industry Recognition: Named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™ for Specialist API Strategy & Delivery Services.
Knowledge Base & Thought Leadership
Blog: The Digital (API) Economy – Beneficiaries, Enablers & Catalysts
News: Awarded “Leader” status among specialist API strategy providers
Blog: Cloud-native integration’s role in digital transformation
Case Study: Merging three brands with a unified API foundation
Product Spotlights: DigitMarket™—fast-tracks digital ecosystems; RepoPro™—streamlined API asset tracking and governance
Validation from Clients & Analysts
Case Study: EE’s lifecycle management includes a business-driven collaboration model and an API build factory managed by us.
- Industry Recognition: Named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™ for Specialist API Strategy & Delivery Services.
Validation from Clients & Analysts
Case Study: EE’s lifecycle management includes a business-driven collaboration model and an API build factory managed by us.
- Industry Recognition: Named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™ for Specialist API Strategy & Delivery Services.
Why Choose Our Factory Model?
Dynamic resource scaling fuels innovation without overstretching budgets.
Seamless progression from domain-level APIs to full microservices, with integrated support and governance.
Empowered teams, upskilled through collaboration and mentoring.
Efficient delivery, tested methodologies, and world-class tools—all aligned with your pace.
Validation from Clients & Analysts
Case Study: EE’s lifecycle management includes a business-driven collaboration model and an API build factory managed by us.
- Industry Recognition: Named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™ for Specialist API Strategy & Delivery Services.
Validation from Clients & Analysts
Case Study: EE’s lifecycle management includes a business-driven collaboration model and an API build factory managed by us.
- Industry Recognition: Named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™ for Specialist API Strategy & Delivery Services.
Ready to Transform APIs into Strategic Assets?
Partner with Top Row Resources for a holistic API platform—designed, deployed, and managed to deliver secure connectivity, monetization, developer adoption, and business agility.