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title: "API Lifecycle Management | Postman API Platform"
description: "Postman runs every API lifecycle stage from a single spec. Collections, tests, mocks, docs, and SDKs all project from one source of truth."
url: https://www.postman.com/solutions/api-lifecycle-management/
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# API Lifecycle Management | Postman API Platform

> Postman runs every API lifecycle stage from a single spec. Collections, tests, mocks, docs, and SDKs all project from one source of truth.

## Run the whole API lifecycle on one platform

Postman runs the full API lifecycle as one connected system for humans and agents.

[Download e-book](#contact)

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### API Lifecycle Management: The Four Practices

A platform leader's guide to running the lifecycle as one system. Four practices, a five-question diagnostic, and what to do this month.

[Download e-book](#contact)

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*SIX CHALLENGES*

## Where API lifecycle programs come apart

Most enterprises run the API lifecycle as disconnected projects, with separate tools, separate teams, and separate sources of truth. The seams between them are where the program comes apart. These are the six challenges we see consistently across organizations.

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> Postman has helped us make shift-left real. Test coverage and code are embedded in CI/CD, enabling both developers and testers to collaborate and run the single test collections.

— Prabhu Nataraj, Senior Automation Specialist, Medibank

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*THE POSTMAN PLATFORM*

## One platform, the full API lifecycle

Postman replaces disconnected projects, separate tools, and multiple sources of truth with one platform that spans the API lifecycle stages.

### Define

### Design

### Develop

### Test

### Deploy

### Observe

### Distribute

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## API Lifecycle Management: The Four Practices

A platform leader's guide to running the lifecycle as one system. Four practices, a five-question diagnostic, and what to do this month.

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## Broken collaboration leads to broken APIs.

Ninety-three percent of API teams still face collaboration blockers. The 2025 State of the API report reveals how you can unlock the productivity gains that API-first promises, but scattered tooling prevents.

[Read the Report](/state-of-api/2025/)