2. 2
Focus
industries
● banking
● insurance
Value proposition
Getting real business
value out of your APIs
Organisation
40+ API First team out of Munich
Partners
Product
White-label API Marketplace + public API ecosystem
About us
Companies we
work with
IT
architecture
MACH
3. The industry experiences a drastic increase in the
amount of APIs…
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…so more and more companies launch own API
Marketplaces to participate in the API economy
4. … of Salesforce’s
revenue is generated
through APIs.
*Gartner, 2018
… of all transactions
will require open
APIs.
*Gartner, 2021
… better business
results with advanced
APIM processes.
*Forbes 2020
50% 25% 47%
Participating in the API economy is crucial
API Economy is the opportunity of APIs to generate new value and revenue streams to
organizations via the use of APIs
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5. 3 success criteria for participating in the API economy
Transparency
to find share and scale APIs
Standardization
to reduce complexity and offer a
great API experience
Productization to open up
new revenue streams
Include all stakeholder to
allow IT & Business to work together
closely
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6. One platform to rule them all
Whether you want to standardize 3rd party integrations, share and reuse internal APIs or plan to
offer APIs to external partners. Our white-label API Marketplace empowers your business to start
an own API ecosystem without any development efforts.
Integrating 3rd party
services
Share, re-use & scale
internal APIs
Publish own APIs to
external partners
7. Key success factors covered with apinity
Increase transparency
● Create one or multiple catalogues
for all your APIs
● Govern performance & usage
● Get access to 3rd party solutions
via apinity marketplace
Foster standardization
● Orchestrate your API strategy
across different clouds & multiple
API gateways
● Standardize documentation &
authentication methods
● Use tags & visibility settings
Present APIs as products
● Launch your own storefront with
custom branding
● Add pricing plans with simple
contracting & billing
● Offer & promote your APIs on
apinity marketplace
Include all stakeholder
● Business oriented UX
● Offer self-service flow to consume
& publish your APIs
● Make all needed information
available in one place
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8. Different stakeholders, different benefits
“I want to promote API as
products in our own storefront
to generate leads and
collaborate with partners”.
Sales & Marketing
“I want to scale our standard API solution
across the company and gain insights on
the usage & performance”.
“ I want to deliver new capabilities
faster by ordering APIs in a self
service manner getting all the
necessary documentation”.
Procurement
“I want to unlock the IT infrastructure and
open up data silos by exposing our legacy
systems via API to our colleagues”.
Architect
“I want to gain insights about APIs'
usage to allocate costs accordingly
and verify invoices of 3rd party
services”.
Accounting
Developer
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9. 9
Publish APIs
Make APIs available on the
platform and set necessary
policies and prices
Monetize APIs
Monetize APIs externally and
allocate costs internally
Share APIs
Select, who has access to
APIs. Share APIs with
external partners
Monitor API
consumption
Use Analytics and the billing
engine to monitor the
consumption.
Manage subscriptions &
credentials
All users can manage their API
subscriptions and access credentials
within the portal
All in one
platform
10. Getting real business value
out of your APIs
Leander Lork
Sales Manager
leander.lork@apinity.io
+49 1573 0043 639
Editor's Notes
Microservices: We: full on
Meaning: Individual pieces of business functionality that are independently developed, deployed and managed.
API-First: We: All our functionality is served via APIs and we have a microservice dedicated for this (backend for frontend, offering APIs to the frontend)
Meaning: All functionality is exposed through an API, making it possible to tie together two or more applications or services.
Cloud-Native SaaS: We are cloud native (forgot that one, but we are)
Meaning: Software-as-a-Service that leverages the full capabilities of the cloud, beyond storage and hosting, including elastic scaling of highly available resources. Functionality is updated manually, eliminating the need for upgrade management.
Headless: Decoupling of frontend and backend, absolutely: We have a frontend angular application that consumes from a microservice (BFF) which offers APIs that hide and decouple from the rest of backend microservices
Meaning: The front-end user experience is completely decoupled from the back-end logic, allowing for complete design freedom in creating the user interface and for connecting to other channels and devices (i.e. existing applications, IoT, A/R, Vending Machines, sensors, etc.).
More and more companies build API Marketplace Over many years, companies have built up masses of valuable data about their customers, products, supply chains, operations, and more. However, they are not always good at making it available in useful ways. That is a missed opportunity at best and a fatal error at worst. Within today’s digital ecosystems, business is driven by getting information to the right people at the right time.
Companies like Salesforce generate 50% of the revenue just through APIs, eBay generates 60% and Expedia even 90%. (Gartner, 2018)
By 2024, 25% of all insurance transactions involving new ecosystem partners will require open and public APIs, up from less than 5% in 2021 (Gartner, 2021).
Enterprises with advanced API management processes experience up to 47% better business results as compared to enterprises with basic API management.
apinity Marketplace = amazon
apinity Exchange = your own webshop
Creating transparency: many companies do not know how many APIs they have, what kind of APIs they are or who uses them at all.
Standardization: standardizing authentication methods or setting a certain quality standard for the API description and documentation → good API experience to increase adoption
APIs as products: just building an API is not enough, APIs have to be actively advertised and made available as conveniently as possible → only then will they be used and create value for your company
Include all stakeholders: IT and business need to work together on APIs, it requires the expertise of developers to provide the API technically, someone from marketing to make the service attractive, accounting, legal…
A large, thriving and active community will lead to greater adoption of your APIs and drive growth.