Build an api eco-system you can be proud of
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What do you think of when you hear “Lets build an API for that”? The typical thought process is “Its easy to expose my data/application”. Everyone in the company probably thinks the same– which is great! What happens when we build these API’s though, is that they don’t all follow the same methodology and we don’t think through how to manage their lifecycle. This presentation presents our perspective and guidance on full life-cycle management and governance of API’s – from defining with the customer in mind, building, publishing on a single platform, supporting and retiring API’s for the business outcomes you’re driving! Top Three Take-Aways For Participants: 1. Its easy to manage API’s as long as we think through the life-cycle and have a process. 2. The RAML “Design-First” methodology works great for API adoption by application builders. 3. Managing API’s allows easy policy enforcement, security, analytics and monetization opportunities – with benefits across business, technology and operations aspects.
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Build an api eco-system you can be proud of
- 1. Build An API Eco-system You Can Be Proud Of Jaideep Subedar Product Management Applications Platforms Group, Cisco January 27, 2015
- 2. • Everyone has some • Every group wants to make new ones • Most organizations are not managing API’s (yet) Effectively managing your API’s can result in significant benefits for your organization API’s – What Is The Big Deal?!
- 3. Cisco Confidential 3© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. With the rise of social, mobile, analytics and cloud driving innovation, businesses can gain a competitive advantage with APIs. $2B Expedia Annual Revenue based on data made available through their API 50% Salesforce % Revenue generated through APIs
- 4. Companies are Challenged with Exposing and Managing APIs Effectively Grow in new markets Ignite innovation Enable Mobility Initiatives Develop IoT / IoE Applications and Insights Some reasons companies want to use APIs
- 5. “Creating APIs in front of back-end systems can be an extremely difficult task. A notable portion of overall mobile app project cost – as much as 70% in some cases – can be attributed to integrating the mobile app with established enterprise applications, service and data sources.” Gartner Group What IT leaders need to know about the mobile app integration puzzle July 2, 2014
- 6. Retire Define Develop Publish Support GOVERNANCE API Lifecycle Management Approach Define: Identify API that delivers value and benefit to enterprises Develop: Design, Code, Test, document, Standardize templates Publish: Run securely with policies and security surrounding it Support: Offer community forums, documentation to interact and collaboration Retire: EOL, un-publish and delete from market place Governance: Applies to various stages – business issues @ Define; technology issues @ Develop
- 7. API Lifecycle Management Business Technical Operational Define Early customer feedback Customer- centric design Standardization across products and groups Develop Rapid prototyping and feedback Consistent development methodology, mock services Ease of managing infrastructure Publish Classification, Security and monetization Policy enforcement and analytics User adoption metrics & ecosystem expansion Support Security and monetization Community feedback and evolution Monitoring, metering and distributed support model Retire Notification of changes Ease of migration Full LCM and governance
- 8. What’s available now! Cisco Integration Platform (CIP) Capabilities Define • RAML definition • Portal creation Develop • Mocking Service • Notebook Service Publish • Unified platform • Portal capabilities per API Support • Forums and feedback Retire • Full LCM on Cisco Integration Platform
- 9. Benefits of API Management API Consistency Exposure Increased exposure of APIs for use in application development Standardization and Documentation Role based Capabilities Through API Lifecycle Management and Governance API Guidelines, Templates Testing, Documentation Consumption ready APIs. Simple, Smart & Secure
- 10. This week: Ask us for a demo of how we’re doing it As soon as you get back: Check out Cisco.com/go/applicationplatforms This year: Think through and develop your API ecosystem and expand your business! Action Plan Make it easy for your API’s to be consumed – gain that competitive advantage!
- 11. Q & A
Editor's Notes
- Organizations are beginning to understand the importance of APIs and the value they deliver to business. But what exactly is causing all the fuss? Business agility: Much more effective than creating business logic and exposing it as a website is creating business logic and exposing it as an API. With APIs, it doesn’t matter how the logic is used; clients and consumers can consume the API and expose it to their liking, delivering efficiency and enabling innovation for the enterprise. API economy: Businesses are developing “API products” as new sources of revenue. Expedia generates over $2 billion annually through the data made available through their API. Salesforce generates 75% of their revenue through API activity. The API economy is here and growing fast. Internet of things: The number of things that can be connected is growing fast; everything from your coffee pot to your thermostat to your car can now be accessed via API. As a result, businesses are finding more and more opportunities to create connectivity in new places. · Amazon: Leveraged APIs to create new business with AWS, now generating $3B/year in revenue · Expedia : Leveraged APIs to launch Expedia Affiliate Network, now generating $2B annual revenue · Salesforce : Now generates ½ their revenue ($1.2B) through APIs · Ebay: 25,000 developers, 1,900 certified applications