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Akana: History, Products & Companies

Akana is a provider of computer software products for application programming interface (API) management. The company was founded by serial entrepreneur Eric Pulier as SOA Software. In November 2016, Akana was acquired by Rogue Wave Software. In January 2019, Rogue Wave was acquired by Minneapolis-based application software developer Perforce.

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Akana topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Products and Companies as prominent areas in the source structure around Akana.

Related topics
5
Source areas
2
Connected nodes
7
Extracted relationships
30
Related term clusters
6
Bridge connections
7

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

History · 3 topics
Overview · 2 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Founded
2001
Industry
Computer software
Headquarters
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Founder
Eric Pulier
Key people
Mark Ties, Perforce CEO
Parent
Perforce

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Overview

History

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Advanced semantic analysis

How Akana connects Entity context

The extracted context around Akana shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Akana → Akana's, Akana's API Analytics, Akana's API Gateway, Akana's API Lifecycle Manager, Akana's Developer Portal, API, API Analytics, API Gateway, API Management, APIs, Developer Portal, Lifecycle Manager, Microsoft, SOLA Another extracted example is Akana → Eric Pulier, Flamenco Networks, In September, SOA, SOA Software. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Akana

Top relations

related to Products · 14
Akana → Akana's, Akana's API Analytics, Akana's API Gateway, Akana's API Lifecycle Manager, Akana's Developer Portal, API, API Analytics, API Gateway, API Management, APIs, Developer Portal, Lifecycle Manager, Microsoft, SOLA
related to history · 5
Akana → Eric Pulier, Flamenco Networks, In September, SOA, SOA Software
Founded · 1
Akana → 2001
Founder · 1
Akana → Eric Pulier
Headquarters · 1
Akana → Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Industry · 1
Akana → Computer software
Key people · 1
Akana → Mark Ties, Perforce CEO
Parent · 1
Akana → Perforce
Products · 1
Akana → API Analytics API Gateway API Management Developer Portal Lifecycle Manager SOLA
Type · 1
Akana → Private

Important terminology

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Important terminology

software api company acquired akana's management developer products soa application rogue wave perforce apis founded eric pulier services product external

Akana relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 30 structured relationships around Akana. Examples in this analysis include Akana → Founded → 2001 and Akana → Founder → Eric Pulier. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
AkanaFounded20011.00infobox
AkanaFounderEric Pulier1.00infobox
AkanaHeadquartersMinneapolis, Minnesota, United States1.00infobox
AkanaIndustryComputer software1.00infobox
AkanaKey peopleMark Ties, Perforce CEO1.00infobox
AkanaParentPerforce1.00infobox
AkanaProductsAPI Analytics API Gateway API Management Developer Portal Lifecycle Manager SOLA1.00infobox
AkanaTypePrivate1.00infobox
AkanaWebsitewww.akana.com1.00infobox
Akanais aprovider of computer software products for application programming interface0.90text
role based access control.Lifecycle Managerinstance ofsecure manage and monitor APIs.Developer Portal - Akana's Developer Portal allows internal and external API developer teams to work as a community with features0.80text
Akanarelated to historyEric Pulier0.60section

Related concept clusters Related term clusters

The concept neighborhoods around Akana bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Management, Software and Computer. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Akana
    • Management
    • Software
    • Computer
    • Interface
    • November
    • Programming
    • Website
    • Acquired
    • Products
    • Api
    • Company
    • Application
  • akana
    • Management
    • Software
    • Computer
    • Interface
    • November
    • Programming
    • Website
    • Acquired
    • Products
    • Api
    • Company
    • Application
  • api management
    • Management
    • Akana's
    • Gateway
    • Products
    • Apis
    • Services
    • Analytics
    • Computer
    • Lifecycle
    • Manager
    • Portal
    • Soa
  • rogue wave software
    • Rogue
    • Wave
    • Acquired
    • January
    • Minneapolis-based
    • November
    • Software
    • Perforce
    • Application
    • Developer
    • Akana
    • Sola
  • software development
    • Wave
    • Perforce
    • Developer
    • January
    • Minneapolis-based
    • Sola
    • Analytics
    • Gateway
    • Lifecycle
    • Manager
    • Portal
    • Website
  • perforce
    • Rogue
    • Wave
    • Software
    • Analytics
    • Gateway
    • Lifecycle
    • Manager
    • Portal
    • Pulier
    • Serial
    • Website
    • External

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Akana, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Akana with History. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Akana — History · splits 4 ⟂ 4
Akana — Overview · splits 5 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

Akana

Nodes8
Edges7
Triples30
Avg. degree1.75
Density0.25
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Akana to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Products & Companies, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Akana · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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