API & Integration Governance · Open Core
SoaScape
A continuously accurate, navigable view of how your enterprise applications connect — maintained automatically, without surveys or manual inventories.
What connects to what — and with what consequences?
API gateways control traffic. SoaScape answers the question gateways leave unanswered: what connects to what, why, and with what consequences?
Conceived in 2009 and in production use since 2013, SoaScape is a mature, proven platform with a negligible technical footprint. It maintains a structured, always-current registry of all application-to-application (A2A) interconnections — including REST and SOAP APIs, message queues, topics, file shares, and shared databases.
Where an API gateway is in use, SoaScape automatically retrieves connection details through the gateway's management API, keeping the registry current with minimal administrative overhead.
The questions SoaScape answers
- How many API connections exist, and can they be audited for performance, reliability, and security?
- What are the cascading failure risks when one application goes down?
- Which APIs are externally exposed, and are mobile clients properly managed?
- How far has the actual landscape drifted from the enterprise architecture models?
- Is the organisation unknowingly managing "spaghetti APIs"?
Discover. Visualise. Govern. Monitor.
SoaScape is structured around four capability areas — from automatic discovery of connections to governance reporting and real-time monitoring.
Discover
Automatically maintain an always-current registry of every A2A connection — REST APIs, SOAP services, message queues, topics, file shares, and shared databases. Where an API gateway is deployed, configuration details are ingested with no manual input.
Visualise
Navigate your integration landscape at any level of detail. Desktop and web views provide tabular, tree, and interactive 3D dependency diagrams — from a CIO-level strategic overview to the individual API configuration an operations team needs during an incident.
Govern
Keep your "as-is" architecture models continuously current. Synchronise the registry with ArchiMate enterprise architecture models, identify exposed endpoints and policy drift, and export data for governance reporting and compliance evidence.
Monitor
Detect configuration drift before it becomes an incident. SoaScape periodically checks API gateway configurations and flags deviations — keeping what's in the registry consistent with what's actually deployed.
Built for enterprise-scale API governance
Complete Interconnection Registry
Structured registration of all A2A interconnection types: REST/SOAP APIs, message queues, topics, shared files, and shared databases — all in one place.
Automated Gateway Integration
Configuration changes in connected API gateways are detected and processed automatically — no manual input, no lag between reality and the registry.
Version Management
Track versions of APIs and application components over time. Understand what changed, when, and what downstream impact those changes may have.
Rich Visualisations
Tabular views, tree representations, and interactive 3D dependency diagrams. Navigate your application landscape at any level of detail — from strategic overview to individual API configuration.
Multi-Environment Support
Maintain separate, isolated registries for development, test, acceptance, and production environments with independent data sets.
ArchiMate Integration
Synchronise the registry with enterprise architecture models. Import and export in ArchiMate exchange format to keep your "as-is" architecture views continuously up to date.
API Observability
Verify consistency of API configurations and identify potential security gaps — exposed endpoints, missing authentication, policy drift — across the entire landscape.
Data Export
Export registry data in Excel and ArchiMate exchange format for integration with other enterprise tools, reporting processes, and governance workflows.
Who benefits from SoaScape
| Stakeholder | What SoaScape delivers |
|---|---|
| API & Integration Teams | A single authoritative source for all A2A connections, maintained automatically with minimal overhead. |
| IT Operations | Rapid identification of API dependency chains, API owners, queue and topic configurations, and relevant policies when incidents occur. |
| Software Architects | A live API registry as a reliable starting point for navigating documentation, design artefacts, and impact analysis. |
| Application Owners | An accurate, real-time view of how their services are consumed and how they depend on other applications. |
| Enterprise Architects & CIOs | A continuously updated "as-is" view of the entire application landscape, synchronised with ArchiMate models and ready for governance reporting. |
Open core — free to use, commercial where it creates value
SoaScape follows an open core model. The base application is free and open source. The commercial tier covers organisations that need a support SLA, commercial deployment rights, or premium gateway connectors.
Free
Full functionality for any team deploying SoaScape internally — no trial period, no feature gates.
- Complete registry and all four components
- All visualisation modes including 3D
- All data export formats
- ArchiMate integration
- Community support
Commercial
For organisations that need a support SLA, commercial deployment rights (client environments), or premium connectors for additional API gateways and identity providers.
- Guaranteed support SLA
- Priority issue resolution
- Commercial deployment rights
- Premium connectors (Entra ID, Okta, additional gateways)
- Early access to new features