The document summarizes the findings of a study on the state of API integration. It found that the number of public APIs increased 757% from 2010 to 2016. It also found that over 59% of APIs do not use OAuth2 for authentication, and only 29% support webhooks despite them being preferred by 80% of developers. The document provides examples of scoring APIs based on integratability to evaluate how easy they are for consumers to integrate.
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State of API Integration Report Highlights Growth and Challenges
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THE PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
Focus on how the growth in APIs has had an
impact on the growing demand for connectivity.
To determine how well APIs are optimized for integration.
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METHODOLOGY
DATA COLLECTION
Data collected between September 2016 - March 2017 .
PRIMARY SOURCE: Cloud Elements Platform of APIs
- 165 Public Apps and Services
- 28,000 Integration Instances
- 1.6 Billion API Calls
Complementary Research from:
- SmartBear State of API Report 2016
- Datanyze Market Share Reports of 2016
- ProgrammableWeb API Directory - Growth in Web APIs 2005 - 2016
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Enterprises have over 1,031 internal cloud services. Of
those enterprises, 39% want easier integration between the
tools they already use.
THE BIGGESTCHALLENGES IN API TECHNOLOGY
SMARTBEAR STATE OF API REPORT 2016
https://smartbear.com/resources/ebooks/state-of-api-survey-report-2016/
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58% OF ENDPOINTS SUPPORT
SOME METADATA DISCOVERY
One caveat to this research is that it’s
heavily weighted by the custom
integrations provided by Cloud Elements.
It’s natural for us to support cooperative
endpoints.
Our sense that industry-wide, less than
15% of endpoints actually support
discovery.
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“Enterprise users are often dealing with vast data
lakes that need to be synchronized, analyzed,
migrated, or even shared. Application providers
must think carefully about the functionality they
offer to handle this scale of data.
ROSS GARRETT
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THE API CALCULATOR
To wrap things up, we wanted to give our readers a tool, mechanism,
and calculator to gauge how your API currently stacks up against
other APIs - focused on how easy it is for API consumers can
integrate with your service.
Here are two APIs we have scored based on the research and findings from
this report. One good and one not so good -- we’re not calling out products
or vendors in particular, so we haven’t listed the actual endpoints, but
rather ofer these examples to further quantify the current State of API
Integration.
25. In order to compile the most comprehensive
breakdown of the industry’s trends and highlights, we
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