- Why APIs? Anatomy of a Partner API Initiative Last time we looked at the archetype of an Internal API initiative, which is often the first stage in a company’s API strategy. The second stage is often to collaborate with partners. A partner API initiative is one that focuses first on collaboration with strategic partners. Those partners create applications, add-ons, or integrations with the API. At this stage the API gets hardened and because the API is used across organizational boundaries, the API team will learn a new set of lessons including support, documentation, authentication schemes and so on. Anatomy of a partner API Initiativ...
- Why APIs? Anatomy of an Internal API Initiative In a recent post, I made the argument that the key to bridging the gulf between IT requirements and those of the new app economy is an API. We categorize the API initiatives that support the app economy in four flavors - Internal, Partner, Customer, or Open - according to the different roles that app developers can play. So what does each of these API initiatives look like? What are common scenarios in which you see them employed and how do you align your business goals with a particular strategy? Let’s start from inside a business with an Internal initiative and work outwards to the Open i...
- Why APIs? Bridging the Gulf between IT and the App Economy In my previous post, I talked about the challenges of ubiquity and an explosion in consumption driven by the threesome of cloud, social, and mobile apps. Businesses need to effectively target and support their customers and partners in these new contexts. This time, what do the forces of cloud, social, and mobile apps mean for the way businesses create, evolve and offer apps, data, and services? What does it mean for IT? How to bridge the gap between IT requirements and those of the new app economy? The big bet of yesterday; the many bets of today The traditional axiom is that IT resources...
- New Consoles & V2 Console To-Go Time for a quick recap of what’s new and improved with Apigee Consoles. First, there are five new Consoles, bringing the total to 75 Consoles! Heroku Pinboard MailChimp Weather Bug Flickr We’ve refreshed the API definitions for 12 consoles including: Delicious, Fitbit, Google AdSense, MySpace, NYTimes, Reddit, Ruby Gems, Salesforce, SendGrid, Spotify, Twitter, and Yahoo Weather. We’ve also fixed some problems and restored full support for Internet Explorer 8 and 9. Google-style queriesIn addition to being able to easily search an API’s methods in the v2 Console, you can now sear...
- Why APIs? On doing Business in the Full Context of Customers We received some strong interest in our recent webcast Why APIs in which we explored why APIs are important to successful businesses and the different API strategies (Internal, Partners, Customers or Open) we see employed. So I thought we’d drill down into the core ideas in a few blog posts. What challenges are businesses facing in 2012? The three major trends of social, mobile, and cloud in the market today are driving huge changes in how individuals connect, how businesses connect, how businesses engage with their customers and employees, and therefore how Information Technology (IT) wo...
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