Trends Report

Brief: Apigee Will Strengthen Google's Global Cloud Platform But Pose A Strategic Challenge

Will Google Treat Apigee As A Technical Platform Or A Business Solution?

September 20th, 2016
Randy Heffner, null
Randy Heffner
With contributors:
Merritt Maxim , Christopher Mines , Jeffrey Hammond , John Rymer , Claudia Tajima

Summary

As API adoption continues to grow across the industry, Google announced its intention to acquire Apigee, a prominent API management solution vendor, for $625 million. Google is paying a considerable premium — Apigee's 2016 revenues will be around $100 million — to fill a gap in its public cloud services portfolio. This brief elaborates on the key question that application development and delivery (AD&D) pros and Apigee customers and prospects need to ask: Does Google know what it bought and how to handle it?

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