Build REST APIs Over Your Data

Your systems and partners need your data, and hand-coding an API for each request is slow. Expose your data as secure REST APIs, and consume third-party APIs too, all without coding, over your own database. Lock them down with API keys, bearer tokens, or basic auth, and skip the per-seat fees.

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Why Build APIs With m-Power?

Standing up an API usually means a developer, a framework, and a security review: Who's allowed to call it? How is it authenticated? What happens when a parameter is bad? m-Power answers each one. It builds and secures REST APIs over your own database with a point-and-click interface, on the same security model as your other applications. Build them internally with m-Power, or have our consultants build for you.

Real m-Power Web Services screen defining a REST API service with its method, URL, and response settings
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Expose only the data you choose

Publish an API over exactly the tables, columns, and operations you want, and nothing else. Set each endpoint to read-only or read and write. The rest of your database stays private.

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Secure it with standard auth

Protect every endpoint with the methods your callers already use, on top of your existing security model.

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Add your own business logic

An API rarely just returns a table. Validate input, transform the response, and even call other APIs, so each endpoint fits your requirement exactly.

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Consume other APIs too

It works both ways. Call third-party and partner APIs from m-Power and fold their data into your apps and workflows.

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Runs over your data, in your environment

APIs run next to your database, on-prem or in your cloud, so your data never leaves your environment.

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Build as many APIs as you need

Perpetual license, no per-user or per-call fees. Build as many APIs and back ends as your systems need.

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Another aspect of m-Power is the speed at which we can produce most of the applications. Now, we can actually build applications in hours instead of weeks.

Hayes Howard, Founder and CEO, ComPair Data

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We are really able to fine tune m-Power to match our business processes. You just can't get that from out-of-the-box software.

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Overall it's a big success. We have lots of information available now that just wasn't possible beforehand.

Matt Craig, Senior Technical Specialist, IBP

What Can You Build?

Build over your existing database tables, on-premise or in the cloud. Whether your team builds with m-Power or our consultants build for you, here's what you can wire up:

01 · REST API

Build a REST API in Five Minutes

Watch a secure REST API come together over live data and then get called from a third-party web app, in about five minutes, with no framework code written by hand.

  • A working endpoint over your data
  • Secured with standard auth
  • Called from an outside app
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02 · Expose Data

Expose Your Data as REST APIs

Give your other systems, apps, and partners a clean way to reach your data. Publish read or read-and-write endpoints over exactly the tables and columns you choose.

  • Endpoints over your own tables
  • Read-only or read and write
  • Back ends for your web and mobile apps
Your tables GET GET POST PUT { JSON } Web app Mobile Partner
03 · Business Logic

Custom Business Logic on Every Call

Make each endpoint do exactly what the requirement needs. Validate the input, shape the response, apply your rules, and even call another API before the response goes back.

  • Validate and constrain input parameters
  • Transform responses to fit the caller
  • Call other APIs as part of the request
Request YOUR ENDPOINT Validate input Apply your rules Call another API { } Shaped response
04 · Integrate

Consume and Integrate Other Systems

Pull data in as well as push it out. Call your ERP, CRM, or a partner's API, combine the results with your own data, and use it in an app or a workflow.

  • Consume third-party and partner APIs
  • Integrate your ERP and CRM
  • Feed the results into apps and workflows
ERP CRM Partner m-Power Your data Your apps Workflows

Use Cases

A few of the ways teams use m-Power for APIs and web services. Build these yourself, or have our consultants build them for you:

Expose data as REST APIs

Publish secure endpoints over your own tables for other systems to call.

Consume third-party APIs

Call outside APIs and fold their data into your apps.

App and mobile back ends

Stand up the API layer behind your web and mobile apps.

System integration

Connect systems that don't natively talk to each other.

Partner data feeds

Give partners a secure, scoped feed of the data they need.

ERP and CRM integration

Move data between your ERP, CRM, and custom apps.

Custom business logic

Validate, transform, and enforce rules on every call.

Secured with standard auth

Protect endpoints with API keys, bearer tokens, or basic auth.

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Every API Runs on Your Security Model

Run every API on the same security model as the rest of your applications, with standard authentication on top.

Standard authentication

API keys, bearer tokens, or basic authentication per endpoint.

Row-level permissions

Control which rows and columns an API can return.

Use your authentication

Integrate with Active Directory, OAuth2, or SAML.

Audit trails

Full logging of API calls and access.

Frequently asked questions

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What is m-Power's REST API builder?

m-Power is the low-code development platform from mrc that creates and consumes REST APIs and web services over your existing databases. You build secure endpoints with a point-and-click interface, no framework code required, all over your own data and under your security model.

Yes. m-Power exposes your data as REST APIs for other systems to call, and it can also consume third-party and partner APIs, folding their data into your apps and workflows.

With standard methods: API keys, bearer tokens, or basic authentication, on top of your existing security model. You also control exactly which tables, columns, and rows an endpoint can reach, plus role-based access.

Yes. Add business logic to validate input parameters, transform responses to suit the caller, apply your rules, and even call other APIs as part of the request, so each endpoint fits your requirement exactly.

No. m-Power's point-and-click interface lets analysts and developers build APIs without hand-writing framework code. The build video creates a working REST API in about five minutes. Our consultants can also build them for you.

No. m-Power is a one-time perpetual license with no per-user or per-call fees, so you can build as many APIs and back ends as your systems need without the cost climbing. See the pricing page for how licensing works.

In your environment. APIs run next to your database, on-prem or in your cloud, so your data doesn't leave your environment. There's no separate API cloud in the middle.

Any supported relational database, including SQL Server, Oracle, Db2, MySQL, and more, on-prem or in the cloud. If your data lives in a database, m-Power can build an API over it.

No. APIs are one thing m-Power builds. The same platform builds web apps, reports, dashboards, portals, and automated workflows over your data, so an API can be part of a larger system you build in one place.

Both. Your team can build with m-Power's low-code tools after a 5-day training, or our consultants can build it for you or alongside you. 96% of first-time services clients come back for another project.

Last updated: July 2026

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