#12 The "API economy” has changed how developers think about building apps, and how organizations deploy software in the cloud.
Everywhere you look on the Web these days, it seems as if somebody’s launching new APIs.
There are over 10,000 API documented on programmable web today… and is significantly increasing as we speak.
#13 Gartner predicts that by the end of 2014 75% of the Fortune 1000 will offer public Web APIs and that by 2016 50% of B2B collaboration will take place through Web APIs. Whether or not these predictions come to pass to make such predictions shows the incredible growth rate of Web APIs (also called Business APIs), as we create an API Economy.
#21 Already 87 services! スピード感!
Not only IBM, but also lots of 3rd party and open source.
We supply the BEST tools (box for documents, sendgrid for email, twilio for phone etc)
Use open source aggressively… mongodb, redis, spark
Have key services like Watson and on premises integration features
so, what’s cool about that?