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API Management - Why it matters!
The document discusses the importance of API management as a crucial factor for digital transformation, outlining the benefits such as increased efficiency, customer satisfaction, and security. It emphasizes the core concepts of APIs and their role in facilitating access to enterprise services and data while differentiating API management from merely being a technology or a platform. Additionally, the document presents various scenarios highlighting how effective API management can lead to innovation, simplification, and improved user experiences.
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Introduction to API Management by OPITZ CONSULTING highlighting its importance and agenda.
Real-world examples showing the need for API Management, its definitions, types, and key drivers including efficiency and revenue.
Distinguishing API Management from technology, explaining gateway functionalities, and discussing bi-modal IT. Emphasizes security, analytics, and agility to maximize the benefits of APIs and enable digital transformation.
Detailed steps of the API delivery lifecycle, including involvement of human actors and design-first approaches.
Various scenarios illustrating API management applications like UI modernization, simplification, and innovation.
Insight on the API platform cloud service, discussing creation and functionality of APIs for on-premise and cloud services.
Summarization of key points, cooperation with Oracle in API solutions, and invitation for Q&A.
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- 1. © OPITZ CONSULTING2016 ¢¢¢ überraschend mehr Möglichkeiten! © OPITZ CONSULTING 2016 Why it matters! Sven Bernhardt, Danilo Schmiedel API Management
- 2. © OPITZ CONSULTING2016 Seite 2 Agenda 1 2 3 4 Core Principles & Concepts API First API Management scenarios API Platform Cloud Service API Management: Why it matters! 5 Wrap up
- 3. © OPITZ CONSULTING2016 API Management: Why it matters!
- 4. © OPITZ CONSULTING2016 API Management: Why it matters! OPITZ CONSULTING – Real World Example ¢ Grown system for ¢ ERP ¢ Financials (Billing, etc.) ¢ Project Management ¢ Controlling ¢ Human Resources ¢ CRM ¢ Canteen Management ¢ Time Management Lack of maintainability Dying knowledge Lack of maintainability Decreasing data quality Decreasing benefit Increasing costs
- 5. © OPITZ CONSULTING2016 Seite 5 Core Principles & Concepts 1 API Management: Why it matters!
- 6. © OPITZ CONSULTING2016 API Management: Why it matters! What is an API? ¢ Application Programming Interface (API) is a set of routine definitions, protocols, and tools for building software and applications ¢ Expresses a software component in terms of its operations, inputs, outputs, and underlying types, defining functionalities that are independent of their respective implementations Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface
- 7. © OPITZ CONSULTING2016 API Management: Why it matters! Seite 7 API definitions, protocols, tools… ¢ SOAP-based APIs ¢ WSDL ¢ XSD ¢ REST-based APIs ¢ WADL ¢ RAML ¢ Swagger 2.0 ¢ API Blueprint ¢ Procedural APIs ¢ PLSQL ¢ Cobol ¢ … ¢ Object-oriented APIs ¢ Java ¢ C++ ¢ …
- 8. © OPITZ CONSULTING2016 API Management: Why it matters! Seite 8 API – a door to the enterprise ¢ Providing access to and enterprises services and data ¢ Authorized access only ¢ Provides additional value for consumers ¢ Enables new digital business models Source: Pinterest, https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/c8/b2/e8/c8b2e84415a69d15852019202d4385d9.jpg
- 9. © OPITZ CONSULTING2016 API Management: Why it matters! Seite 9 Drivers for API Management ¢ Increased Efficency ¢ Increased Revenue ¢ Increased Customer Satisfaction & Engagement ¢ Increased Partner Contribution & Ecosystem ¢ Improved API Security
- 10. © OPITZ CONSULTING2016 API Management: Why it matters! Seite 10 API Management | What it is not! ¢ API Management is not a technology or platform ¢ API Management is not ¢ Only API Lifecycle Management ¢ SOA or SOA Governance ¢ Integration-based architecture ¢ Monolithic applications Source: http://microservices.io/patterns/apigateway.html It’s not just an API Gateway!
- 11. © OPITZ CONSULTING2016 API Management: Why it matters! Seite 11 API Gateway vs. ESB (?) API Gateway ¢ Acts as a central entry point to a company ¢ Exposes public APIs ¢ Should not implement any business logic ¢ Responsible for API analytics, like usage tracking ESB ¢ Acts a central integration backbone ¢ Used internally for integrating heterogenous systems and services ¢ Should not expose functionality to the outside world ¢ Provides new internal services and APIs
- 12. © OPITZ CONSULTING2016 API Management: Why it matters! Seite 12 API Management | What it is about! Source: http://www.soa4u.co.uk/2015/08/oracle-api-management-implementation.html
- 13. © OPITZ CONSULTING2016 API Management: Why it matters! Seite 13 API Management maximizes the benefits of APIs ¢ Security ¢ Ensure that only the right consumer can access the right resources ¢ Prepare a defense from potential attacks on your infrastructure ¢ Analytics & Insights ¢ Understand how your API is discovered, used and by whom ¢ Stay aware of important happenings in your API ecosystem ¢ Agility ¢ Scope interfaces by resource, method, and field ¢ Manage access quantity by application, API, resource, and plan ¢ Route requests to the optimal service
- 14. © OPITZ CONSULTING2016 API Management: Why it matters! Seite 14 Manage agility – Bi-modal IT Standardization Differentiation InnovationNew ideas Better ideas Typical ideas Customer-specific solutions Standard Software solutions Systems of Innovation Systems of Differentiation Systems of Record Based on Pace Layered Application Strategy, Gartner 2012
- 15. © OPITZ CONSULTING2016 API Management: Why it matters! Seite 15 Bi-modal IT is rising API Management: Why it matters! Seite 15 Standardization Differentiation InnovationNew ideas Better ideas Tipical ideas Customer-specific solutions Standard Software solutions Systems of Innovation Systems of Differentiation Systems of Record Based on Pace Layered Application Strategy, Gartner 2012 Non-linear IT § Not sequential § Agile § Fast § Innovation § Disturbance Traditional IT § Security § Efficiency § Accuracy § Tranquility
- 16. © OPITZ CONSULTING2016 API Management: Why it matters! Seite 16 API Management enables digital transformation ACCELERATE DEVELOPMENT SECURE THE OPEN ENTERPRISE UNLOCK THE VALUE OF DATA INTEGRATE AND CREATE APIs
- 17. © OPITZ CONSULTING2016 API Management: Why it matters! Seite 17
- 18. © OPITZ CONSULTING2016 Seite 18 API First 2 API Management: Why it matters!
- 19. © OPITZ CONSULTING2016 API Management: Why it matters! Seite 19 API Delivery Lifecycle API Lifecycle Design Implement Deploy Manage Discover Monitor ¢ Human Actors involved ¢ API Designers/Producers ¢ API Managers ¢ Gateway Managers ¢ API Consumers/Application developers
- 20. © OPITZ CONSULTING2016 API Management: Why it matters! Seite 20 Classic approach vs. Apiary approach Preparation Design Development Delivery Consumption Analysis Preparation Design & Prototype Development Delivery Consumption Analysis
- 21. © OPITZ CONSULTING2016 API Management: Why it matters! Seite 21 API First approach ¢ Design First approach ¢ Supported API description dialects: ¢ API Blueprint ¢ Swagger (Beta) API as a by- product of building apps API documentation generated from code Design-first API Development API Design Consistency
- 22. © OPITZ CONSULTING2016 API Management: Why it matters! Seite 22 Scenario #3: Innovation
- 23. © OPITZ CONSULTING2016 Seite 23 Demo – API First API Management: Why it matters!
- 24. © OPITZ CONSULTING2016 Seite 24 API Management Scenarios 3 API Management: Why it matters!
- 25. © OPITZ CONSULTING2016 API Management: Why it matters! Seite 25 Our monolithic system ¢ Complex system without public APIs ¢ Controls whole business use cases ¢ Difficult to maintain und extend ¢ Fragile solution (each change can lead to inconsistency) Project Management Financials Controlling HR CRM Time Management Canteen Mgmt.
- 26. © OPITZ CONSULTING2016 API Management: Why it matters! Seite 26 Scenario #1: UI Modernization & Customer Satisfaction Managed API Integration API Provide a new User Interface with Location- Based Services
- 27. © OPITZ CONSULTING2016 API Management: Why it matters! Seite 27 Scenario #1: UI Modernization & Customer Satisfaction Integration APIs Java CS Connect Transform Orchestrate Integration CS SOA CS Managed APIs API Platform CS Validation Authentication Throttling Routing Filtering {json} {json} {json} Inspired by Luis Weir, Capgemini
- 28. © OPITZ CONSULTING2016 Managed APIs API Management: Why it matters! Seite 28 Scenario #2: Simplification & Efficiency Integration APIs API Platform CS Java CS Validation Authentication Throttling Routing Connect Transform Orchestrate Integration CS SOA CS {json} {json} {json} Filtering https://guidelines.axonivy.com/projects/guides/wiki/ Continuous_integration_delivery Container CS {json} Inspired by Luis Weir, Capgemini
- 29. © OPITZ CONSULTING2016 API Management: Why it matters! Seite 29 Scenario #3: Innovation
- 30. © OPITZ CONSULTING2016 API Management: Why it matters! Seite 30 IoT CS
- 31. © OPITZ CONSULTING2016 Systems of Engagement Systems of Records Microservices Managed APIs API Management: Why it matters! Seite 31 Scenario #3: Innovation Integration APIs API Platform CS Java CS Validation Authentication Throttling Routing Connect Transform Orchestrate Integration CS SOA CS {json} {json} Filtering Container CS {json} Inspired by Luis Weir, Capgemini
- 32. © OPITZ CONSULTING2016 Seite 32 Demo – Oracle API Platform API Management: Why it matters!
- 33. © OPITZ CONSULTING2016 Seite 33 API Platform Cloud Service 4 API Management: Why it matters!
- 34. © OPITZ CONSULTING2016 API Management: Why it matters! Seite 34 API Platform Cloud Service Source: R. Wunderlich OOW 2016, https://static.rainfocus.com/oracle/oow16/sess/1465790116096001ynce/ppt/APIPCS_Overview_CON_6969_v1.pdf
- 35. © OPITZ CONSULTING2016 API Management: Why it matters! Seite 35 Creating On-Premise APIs for On-Premise Services Source: R. Wunderlich OOW 2016, https://static.rainfocus.com/oracle/oow16/sess/1465790116096001ynce/ppt/APIPCS_Overview_CON_6969_v1.pdf
- 36. © OPITZ CONSULTING2016 API Management: Why it matters! Seite 36 Creating On-Premise APIs for On-Premise Services for Both External and Internal Clients Source: R. Wunderlich OOW 2016, https://static.rainfocus.com/oracle/oow16/sess/1465790116096001ynce/ppt/APIPCS_Overview_CON_6969_v1.pdf
- 37. © OPITZ CONSULTING2016 API Management: Why it matters! Seite 37 Creating On-Premise APIs for Cloud Services Source: R. Wunderlich OOW 2016, https://static.rainfocus.com/oracle/oow16/sess/1465790116096001ynce/ppt/APIPCS_Overview_CON_6969_v1.pdf
- 38. © OPITZ CONSULTING2016 Seite 38 Wrap up 5 API Management: Why it matters!
- 39. © OPITZ CONSULTING2016 API Management: Why it matters! Seite 39 Be prepared for Oracle API solutions ¢ Enterprise–grade MBaaS solution (Presentation API) ¢ Impressive developer experience (DX) ¢ Improving analytics ¢ Completely designed and implemented from scratch ¢ Security concerns are addressed in combination with IDM CS Source: https://blogs.oracle.com/mobile/entry/forres ter_wave_mobile_development_platforms
- 40. © OPITZ CONSULTING2016 API Management: Why it matters! Seite 40 Be prepared for Oracle API solutions ¢ Cooperation of Apiary and Oracle – powerful API Design ¢ Combination with MCS – Rich capabilities for mobile backends ¢ Simple and evolving solution ¢ Completely designed and implemented from scratch Source: https://www.gartner.com/doc/reprints? id=1-3J3G4AE&ct=161003&st=sb
- 41. © OPITZ CONSULTING2016 API Management: Why it matters! Seite 41 Closing remarks ¢ API management is a key factor for mastering digital transformation ¢ Multiple platforms from different vendors available ¢ MuleSoft ¢ Computer Associate ¢ Oracle ¢ So the question should be, when to start!
- 42. © OPITZ CONSULTING2016 Seite 42API Management: Why it matters! Q & A
- 43. © OPITZ CONSULTING2016 ¢¢¢ überraschend mehr Möglichkeiten! @OC_WIRE OPITZCONSULTING opitzconsultingWWW.OPITZ-CONSULTING.COM Seite 43 In case of any questions, please contact us! Danilo Schmiedel Managing Consultant Solutions | Oracle ACE Director OPITZ CONSULTING Deutschland GmbH Tempelhofer Weg 64, 12347 Berlin, Germany Phone: +49 173 7279001 Mail: danilo.schmiedel@opitz-consulting.com @dschmied http://inside-bpm-and-soa.blogspot.com Sven Bernhardt Solution Architect | Oracle ACE OPITZ CONSULTING Deutschland GmbH Kirchstrasse 6, 51647 Gummersbach, Germany Phone: +49 172 2193529 Mail: sven.bernhardt@opitz-consulting.com @sbernhardt https://svenbernhardt.wordpress.com API Management: Why it matters!