SAP API Business Hub Next Generation User Experience

SAP API Business Hub is the central catalog for all SAP and partner related APIs and integration content. SAP API Business Hub has more than 1250 artifacts -Integration flows, APIs, Adapters – across 221 packages, with millions of API calls in the API sandbox. To enable the users with the features requested by them and ease of use ,SAP API Business Hub is enhanced with the new design

SAP API Business Hub Next generation user experience is now available at api.sap.com. This blog details the key features, benefits and how the features can be experienced

This enhancement of the SAP API Business Hub enables developers and business users to quickly identify digital content of choice, and consume seamlessly from one store. Users can Search, Discover, Test and Consume Integration, &API content and Engage with SAP API Business Hub

What are the Key New Features of API Business Hub Next Generation

• Group of Content Packages based on product types, business scenarios and other criteria
• Enhanced Search and Refine by options for easy search of content
• Enhanced Package , API,Integration content usability
• Receive updates specific to SAP API Business Hub
• Getting Started guide to get an overview of SAP API Business Hub

Launch SAP API Business Hub Next Generation 

Launch api.sap.com to find the different groups of content packages based on the product types and business scenarios

Each group is represented as anchors below the Search section on launch of API Business Hub

Each group of content package presents the associated content and also provides a link to view the complete set of content in the group

Click on the View More of the content group link to view the complete set of content packages within the group

Select an anchor belonging to a content group to navigate to the required content group

 Visualize the Content Group here  referring to the product type with a heading and                     description detailing the group

Click on View More of Digital Content to view the complete set of contents available in APIBusiness Hub

Select Recently Updated/Usage to sort the content based on the usage and the update of the content packages

Search for a Content and Refine the Results

Search is available prominently, to quickly search for the required content and navigate to the search results.

It is also possible to further refine the search results based on the available content types

Provide a Search Term to search for the specific digital content of interest

For further ease of use, there are options available to refine by based on Types, Products, Line of Business and Vendor to discover the digital content pertinently.

Select a Refine By criteria to filter the searched results

Content Packages, APIs and Integrations can be refined by multiple options and the refined content is available based on the combination of the selected options.

Package Overview

To view the basic details of the package, preview the package Tile and collect information such as the Type of the package ,number and type of digital content available and usage of the content

To view the complete details of the package click on the package Tile .Packages

Each Integration and API package has a name, and brief description in the header section of the package.

To know more about to the package, navigate to the Details option which displays the complete information about the package, including Business Tags and documents

Select the Business Tags Anchor to view the same in the package

Navigate to the Reviews section by using the anchor available in the Details page to read/write the reviews.

Navigating to Related Packages using Business Tags

 It is possible to navigate to related package from the Details section of a package by clicking on Business Tags.

When you click a business tag, content is refined based on the selected tag

Navigating to APIs from Package

 All the relevant APIs available within the package are available in the APIs section

All the Integration content available within the package is available in the Integration section

To further understand the details and test experience the API within the package, use the filter to select a particular API.

APIReferences

 To understand and Tryout a specific API select the specific anchor associated with the API.

On selecting this anchor, the details of the API will be displayed.

API Try Out

 You can experience the API with, Try out (1), Code snippets (2), API Key (3), as well as to download SDK (4) by selecting the option from a  list of APIs (5).

API Details

Details section of the API can be used to understand the API specific documentation and download API specifications

To download API Specifications, select the Download Specifications from the Details page and downloaded the specifications in JSON, YAML, or EDMX

Additional Resources

For help, resources and to stay connected, refer to the section at the bottom of the page.

Engage with Us

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We’re always listening to you. Stay tuned for further updates!