Designed a framework for “API Strategy in the cloud” which explains challenges of API,
current trending API management platforms and the role of API management in delivering successful API programs. The report provides the strategy for building API which mainly focuses on the API maturity models, business values, business strategy: Alignment and Usefulness, engagement and usability, scalability and evolvability, manageability and security of APIs.
Survive the fog of system development! Developers' lives have gotten more complex in the last decade. There is too much to learn and understand now, and you need a co-pilot. Let AIOps be that co-pilot.
In this webinar, we'll share use cases and discuss:
What is AIOps?
Why AI and ML are well-suited for Ops and DevOps
A guide for assessing where to automate
Customers migrating workloads to AWS have a variety of tools to monitor their infrastructure, generating large volumes of alarms from services such as Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Config, and other third party tools. Without careful curation, events and tickets can exponentially multiply and overwhelm ITSM systems and the teams operating them, obscuring real problems and wasting time. Using advanced Machine Learning techniques, customers can reduce noise from these events and tickets and increase their service quality. In this presentation, we explore challengs of adopting AIOps, and provide examples of how AIOPs can be used to reduce Mean Time To Restore and improve customer outcomes
This presentation explains the three layer API design which organisations can use to get most out of there systems with less development and maintenance time spent on fixing issues as a whole in org.
Digital transformation is on its way and the industry is required to adopt new concepts and techniques, like the Internet of things (IoT), Cloud and Enterprise Mobility. As a matter of that, new business models arise, which need to be evaluated by companies to not lose market shares and stay in touch with the competitors.
Gartner’s vision of Bi-modal IT seems to become more and more the reality, which besides all chances, also brings a lot of challenges companies have to deal with. One essential topic for implementing the ideas of Bi-modal IT is API Management – at least from our point of view. In addition, it is also a key enabler to define a solid strategy, in order to meet the challenges with respect to digital transformation.
Architecting an Enterprise API Management StrategyWSO2
A good internal and external API management strategy and architecture is key to building ecosystem platforms that lead to successful API economies in the enterprise. This workshop will look at best practices in API management using the WSO2 API Manager and Integration Platform products, which are used to rapidly implement RESTful design, enforce governance policies, safely scale solutions, orchestrate complex interaction sequences, and re-use assets. The session will also look at reference architectures and architectural recommendations of building large scale API ecosystems.
Director - Solutions Architecture at WSO2, Mifan Careem presented this session at APIdays Sydney 2015.
Amidst an industry cloud of confusion about what “AIOps” is and what it can do, these slides--based on the webinar from EMA research--delineates a clear path to victory for business and IT stakeholders seeking to use machine learning to optimize the performance of critical business services.
API Management Part 1 - An Introduction to Azure API ManagementBizTalk360
Building APIs is not just about technology. APIs enable many new business opportunities, but only if done correctly. Enter API Management platforms to provide the building blocks behind a successful API program. As a result of lucrative opportunities, many Software vendors have emerged or pivoted from their SOA management roots to provide API Management capabilities.
In this session, Kent will introduce you to Microsoft’s Azure API Management platform by providing an overview that highlights its capabilities and the opportunities that emerge for organizations. As part of this presentation, Kent will demonstrate how developers can create their first API and discuss strategies for transforming existing services to leverage Azure API Management.
This presentation will consist of general guidance on API Management, an Azure API Management portal walk-through and demos that re-enforce the concepts that were introduced.
Survive the fog of system development! Developers' lives have gotten more complex in the last decade. There is too much to learn and understand now, and you need a co-pilot. Let AIOps be that co-pilot.
In this webinar, we'll share use cases and discuss:
What is AIOps?
Why AI and ML are well-suited for Ops and DevOps
A guide for assessing where to automate
Customers migrating workloads to AWS have a variety of tools to monitor their infrastructure, generating large volumes of alarms from services such as Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Config, and other third party tools. Without careful curation, events and tickets can exponentially multiply and overwhelm ITSM systems and the teams operating them, obscuring real problems and wasting time. Using advanced Machine Learning techniques, customers can reduce noise from these events and tickets and increase their service quality. In this presentation, we explore challengs of adopting AIOps, and provide examples of how AIOPs can be used to reduce Mean Time To Restore and improve customer outcomes
This presentation explains the three layer API design which organisations can use to get most out of there systems with less development and maintenance time spent on fixing issues as a whole in org.
Digital transformation is on its way and the industry is required to adopt new concepts and techniques, like the Internet of things (IoT), Cloud and Enterprise Mobility. As a matter of that, new business models arise, which need to be evaluated by companies to not lose market shares and stay in touch with the competitors.
Gartner’s vision of Bi-modal IT seems to become more and more the reality, which besides all chances, also brings a lot of challenges companies have to deal with. One essential topic for implementing the ideas of Bi-modal IT is API Management – at least from our point of view. In addition, it is also a key enabler to define a solid strategy, in order to meet the challenges with respect to digital transformation.
Architecting an Enterprise API Management StrategyWSO2
A good internal and external API management strategy and architecture is key to building ecosystem platforms that lead to successful API economies in the enterprise. This workshop will look at best practices in API management using the WSO2 API Manager and Integration Platform products, which are used to rapidly implement RESTful design, enforce governance policies, safely scale solutions, orchestrate complex interaction sequences, and re-use assets. The session will also look at reference architectures and architectural recommendations of building large scale API ecosystems.
Director - Solutions Architecture at WSO2, Mifan Careem presented this session at APIdays Sydney 2015.
Amidst an industry cloud of confusion about what “AIOps” is and what it can do, these slides--based on the webinar from EMA research--delineates a clear path to victory for business and IT stakeholders seeking to use machine learning to optimize the performance of critical business services.
API Management Part 1 - An Introduction to Azure API ManagementBizTalk360
Building APIs is not just about technology. APIs enable many new business opportunities, but only if done correctly. Enter API Management platforms to provide the building blocks behind a successful API program. As a result of lucrative opportunities, many Software vendors have emerged or pivoted from their SOA management roots to provide API Management capabilities.
In this session, Kent will introduce you to Microsoft’s Azure API Management platform by providing an overview that highlights its capabilities and the opportunities that emerge for organizations. As part of this presentation, Kent will demonstrate how developers can create their first API and discuss strategies for transforming existing services to leverage Azure API Management.
This presentation will consist of general guidance on API Management, an Azure API Management portal walk-through and demos that re-enforce the concepts that were introduced.
APIs have revolutionized how companies build new marketing channels, access new customers, and create ecosystems. Enabling all this requires the exposure of APIs to a broad range of partners and developers—and potential threats.
Learn more about the latest API security issues.
DevOps, BA and COBIT don’t really align, or do they?IIBA-Canberra
n November 2018, ISACA launched COBIT 2019.
From its foundation in the IT audit community, COBIT has over the years become broader and more comprehensive.
COBIT is a framework for the governance and management of enterprise information and technology, providing guidance of what (strategic, transition, operational and monitoring) IT enablers to establish in order to achieve enterprise goals.
COBIT 2019 provides best practice guidance for 35 ICT Management Processes and 5 ICT Governance processes, including processes for:
• Managed Architecture (APO03)
• Managed Requirements Definition (BAI02)
• Managed IT Changes (BAI06)
• Managed Configuration (BAI10)
• Managed Security Services (DSS05)
This presentation provides a high level overview of:
• The COBIT 2019 Framework,
• DevOps in relation to the COBIT framework,
• Implementing and aligning frameworks and best practices.
Speaker Biography: Harold Petersen, north BDT
Harold Petersen is a management consultant for north BDT with over 25 years of experience, specialising in areas of Digital Strategy, DevOps, SIAM, ITSM, ICT Governance and Project, Programme, Portfolio Management.
He holds the ITIL Master certificate (one of only three in Australia) and is a DevOps, COBIT, MSP, P3O, PRINCE2 and PRINCE2 agile accredited trainer and implementer.
Harold has lived and worked in Asia Pacific, Australia, New Zealand, Europe and Africa.
#iibacanberrabranch #eventsincanberra #professionallyadventurous
Presentation was delivered at Sangam21 (AIOUG)
API design-first allows the collaborative development of user-centric business APIs. In this context, the API specification is developed first and then the development of the frontend and backend can be started directly, whereby the API is mocked in the first step and feedback from the development is continuously incorporated into the specification. In order to do this efficiently, the delivery of specification changes needs to be as automated as possible, i.e. from spec change (commit) to deployment on the API gateway to publishing on the Dev Portal.
AIOps is becoming imperative to the management of today’s complex IT systems and their ability to support changing business conditions. This slide explains the role that AIOps can and will play in the enterprise of the future, how the scope of AIOps platforms will expand, and what new functionality may be deployed.
Watch the webinar here. https://www.moogsoft.com/resources/aiops/webinar/aiops-the-next-five-years
The Future of Mainframe Data is in the CloudPrecisely
As organizations make the move to cloud platforms to support modern analytics and applications, they often need to move more than their on-premises data warehouses and lakes. Organizations often have legacy mainframe systems that run their mission-critical and revenue-generating applications, and that should be included in modern cloud projects.
Yet it can be difficult to replicate mainframe data onto cloud platforms to make it a part of your data-driven initiatives, due to the data’s complex format. When moving data to the cloud it needs to maintain accuracy, consistency, and context to be considered trusted data. At the same time, the data needs to be available in real time to cloud-based data management and analytics applications.
Join this session for a discussion with experts from Precisely and AWS about how to bring your data to applications and services on the cloud. Topics include:
The importance of mainframe data for organizationsHow to migrate/replicate mainframe data to cloud platformsHow to ensure trusted data on cloud platforms
What do you mean by “API as a Product”?Nordic APIs
You may have heard the term “API Product.” But what does it mean? In this talk I will introduce the concept and explain the benefits and challenges of transforming your organization to view your APIs as measurable products that expose your companies capabilities creating agility, autonomy, and acceleration. Traditional product manufacturers create new product and launch them into the marketplace and then measure value; we will teach you to view your APIs in the same way. Concepts covered in this presentation will be designing APIs with Design Thinking, funding your product, building teams, marketing your API, managing your marketplace, and measuring success.
Are your APIs becoming too complicated and ad hoc? Feeling the need to set up policies for your API? This presentation will give you strategy options for designing and developing your APIs.
Historically, IT operations management (ITOM) teams have been focused on system health and up-time, while separately, IT service management (ITSM) teams manage and remediate end-user issues. The silos between these two functions have spurned challenges that can be overcome with improved integration, collaboration, and transparency across practices. ITSM and ITOM teams are working toward the same goals of up-time, accessibility and improved customer experience. So why can’t they integrate better for delivering on these objectives?
In this presentation, we explore:
The cause and business impact of silo'ed ITSM and ITOM practices
The benefits of improving integration, collaboration, and transparency across practices
Ways for you to exploit the inefficiencies and key metrics you can present the business in advocating for a better solution
And, we’ll introduce the solution of platform thinking, where silos are broken down between IT practices, and technology is operated and managed as a unified front with an open framework of adaptability.
Learn how to present a better solution for improving IT efficiencies, delivering improved customer experience, and enabling innovation throughout your organization, by bringing ITSM and ITOM practices together.
ITOM Platform features to look for if ITSM integration is important to your organization:
SERVICE HEALTH MANAGEMENT: Unified discovery and intelligence, Live asset Inventory, Unified service performance, Visual workflows in service maps
AIOPS MACHINE LEARNING: Intelligent event correlation, Noise suppression, Situational awareness, Incident Response
INTEGRATED TICKETING REQUESTS: Automated Escalations, Comprehensive Incident Collaboration
POLICY AUTOMATION SCRIPTS: Out of the box scripts, Customize scripts
SERVICE REMEDIATION: Enforce Process Governance, Automated Remediation Policies, Secure Infrastructure Access
Learn more at https://www.opsramp.com
Also, follow us on social media channels to learn about product highlights, news, announcements, events, conferences and more:
Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/OpsRamp
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/opsramp
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/OpsRampHQ/
Since 2012, leading IT research firm EMA has conducted more than five separate AIOps research projects, including reviews of more than 70 AIOps-related customer deployments. Deep insights into this topic continue with these slides—based on the research webinar--that provide the latest insights into how to best succeed in AIOps deployments and unify IT in the process.
Apigee and Amazon Web Services join together in this webcast to discuss using Apigee's API management for AWS-powered backends. API management makes it easy to expose and consume APIs from services built on AWS. Whether your backend runs on EC2, DynamoDB, or AWS Lambda, we'll show you the best way to build AWeSome APIs.
Digital Transformation & Cloud ProfitabilityGui Carvalhal
A quick view about Digital Transformation and what's happening with Industries across the globe.
A guidance to IT Channel to accelerate Cloud Profitability with valuable resources for download.
Breaking down an Industrial IoT reference architecture.pptxNeel Sendas
This talk at Hannover Messe shares the best practices of designing a large scale IIOT infrastructure using AWS services. It explore the pitfalls and common problems customers face when they plan to implement IoT Infrastructure and discovers the top IIoT golden rules to improve the design posture in the factory.
The numbers tell the story: 84% of C-suite executives believe they must leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to achieve their growth objectives, yet 76% report they struggle with how to scale. With the stakes higher than ever, what can we learn from companies that are successfully scaling AI, achieving nearly 3X the return on investments and an average 32% premium on key financial valuation metrics?
To answer that question, Accenture conducted a landmark global study involving 1,500 C-suite executives from organizations across 16 industries. The aim: Help companies progress on their AI journey, from one-off AI experimentation to gaining a robust organization-wide capability that acts as a source of competitive agility and growth.
Read the full report:
http://www.accenture.com/AI-Built-to-Scale-Slideshare
APIs may have no intrinsic value, but they do bring enormous value to the business.
They do so through their backend data and the application functionality the interface enables.
The API allows systems with great organizational value to be reused.
The slides provide a quick overview of the API Economy trend. The slides provide summary information, a list of trends to watch and links to additional resources
APIs have revolutionized how companies build new marketing channels, access new customers, and create ecosystems. Enabling all this requires the exposure of APIs to a broad range of partners and developers—and potential threats.
Learn more about the latest API security issues.
DevOps, BA and COBIT don’t really align, or do they?IIBA-Canberra
n November 2018, ISACA launched COBIT 2019.
From its foundation in the IT audit community, COBIT has over the years become broader and more comprehensive.
COBIT is a framework for the governance and management of enterprise information and technology, providing guidance of what (strategic, transition, operational and monitoring) IT enablers to establish in order to achieve enterprise goals.
COBIT 2019 provides best practice guidance for 35 ICT Management Processes and 5 ICT Governance processes, including processes for:
• Managed Architecture (APO03)
• Managed Requirements Definition (BAI02)
• Managed IT Changes (BAI06)
• Managed Configuration (BAI10)
• Managed Security Services (DSS05)
This presentation provides a high level overview of:
• The COBIT 2019 Framework,
• DevOps in relation to the COBIT framework,
• Implementing and aligning frameworks and best practices.
Speaker Biography: Harold Petersen, north BDT
Harold Petersen is a management consultant for north BDT with over 25 years of experience, specialising in areas of Digital Strategy, DevOps, SIAM, ITSM, ICT Governance and Project, Programme, Portfolio Management.
He holds the ITIL Master certificate (one of only three in Australia) and is a DevOps, COBIT, MSP, P3O, PRINCE2 and PRINCE2 agile accredited trainer and implementer.
Harold has lived and worked in Asia Pacific, Australia, New Zealand, Europe and Africa.
#iibacanberrabranch #eventsincanberra #professionallyadventurous
Presentation was delivered at Sangam21 (AIOUG)
API design-first allows the collaborative development of user-centric business APIs. In this context, the API specification is developed first and then the development of the frontend and backend can be started directly, whereby the API is mocked in the first step and feedback from the development is continuously incorporated into the specification. In order to do this efficiently, the delivery of specification changes needs to be as automated as possible, i.e. from spec change (commit) to deployment on the API gateway to publishing on the Dev Portal.
AIOps is becoming imperative to the management of today’s complex IT systems and their ability to support changing business conditions. This slide explains the role that AIOps can and will play in the enterprise of the future, how the scope of AIOps platforms will expand, and what new functionality may be deployed.
Watch the webinar here. https://www.moogsoft.com/resources/aiops/webinar/aiops-the-next-five-years
The Future of Mainframe Data is in the CloudPrecisely
As organizations make the move to cloud platforms to support modern analytics and applications, they often need to move more than their on-premises data warehouses and lakes. Organizations often have legacy mainframe systems that run their mission-critical and revenue-generating applications, and that should be included in modern cloud projects.
Yet it can be difficult to replicate mainframe data onto cloud platforms to make it a part of your data-driven initiatives, due to the data’s complex format. When moving data to the cloud it needs to maintain accuracy, consistency, and context to be considered trusted data. At the same time, the data needs to be available in real time to cloud-based data management and analytics applications.
Join this session for a discussion with experts from Precisely and AWS about how to bring your data to applications and services on the cloud. Topics include:
The importance of mainframe data for organizationsHow to migrate/replicate mainframe data to cloud platformsHow to ensure trusted data on cloud platforms
What do you mean by “API as a Product”?Nordic APIs
You may have heard the term “API Product.” But what does it mean? In this talk I will introduce the concept and explain the benefits and challenges of transforming your organization to view your APIs as measurable products that expose your companies capabilities creating agility, autonomy, and acceleration. Traditional product manufacturers create new product and launch them into the marketplace and then measure value; we will teach you to view your APIs in the same way. Concepts covered in this presentation will be designing APIs with Design Thinking, funding your product, building teams, marketing your API, managing your marketplace, and measuring success.
Are your APIs becoming too complicated and ad hoc? Feeling the need to set up policies for your API? This presentation will give you strategy options for designing and developing your APIs.
Historically, IT operations management (ITOM) teams have been focused on system health and up-time, while separately, IT service management (ITSM) teams manage and remediate end-user issues. The silos between these two functions have spurned challenges that can be overcome with improved integration, collaboration, and transparency across practices. ITSM and ITOM teams are working toward the same goals of up-time, accessibility and improved customer experience. So why can’t they integrate better for delivering on these objectives?
In this presentation, we explore:
The cause and business impact of silo'ed ITSM and ITOM practices
The benefits of improving integration, collaboration, and transparency across practices
Ways for you to exploit the inefficiencies and key metrics you can present the business in advocating for a better solution
And, we’ll introduce the solution of platform thinking, where silos are broken down between IT practices, and technology is operated and managed as a unified front with an open framework of adaptability.
Learn how to present a better solution for improving IT efficiencies, delivering improved customer experience, and enabling innovation throughout your organization, by bringing ITSM and ITOM practices together.
ITOM Platform features to look for if ITSM integration is important to your organization:
SERVICE HEALTH MANAGEMENT: Unified discovery and intelligence, Live asset Inventory, Unified service performance, Visual workflows in service maps
AIOPS MACHINE LEARNING: Intelligent event correlation, Noise suppression, Situational awareness, Incident Response
INTEGRATED TICKETING REQUESTS: Automated Escalations, Comprehensive Incident Collaboration
POLICY AUTOMATION SCRIPTS: Out of the box scripts, Customize scripts
SERVICE REMEDIATION: Enforce Process Governance, Automated Remediation Policies, Secure Infrastructure Access
Learn more at https://www.opsramp.com
Also, follow us on social media channels to learn about product highlights, news, announcements, events, conferences and more:
Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/OpsRamp
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/opsramp
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/OpsRampHQ/
Since 2012, leading IT research firm EMA has conducted more than five separate AIOps research projects, including reviews of more than 70 AIOps-related customer deployments. Deep insights into this topic continue with these slides—based on the research webinar--that provide the latest insights into how to best succeed in AIOps deployments and unify IT in the process.
Apigee and Amazon Web Services join together in this webcast to discuss using Apigee's API management for AWS-powered backends. API management makes it easy to expose and consume APIs from services built on AWS. Whether your backend runs on EC2, DynamoDB, or AWS Lambda, we'll show you the best way to build AWeSome APIs.
Digital Transformation & Cloud ProfitabilityGui Carvalhal
A quick view about Digital Transformation and what's happening with Industries across the globe.
A guidance to IT Channel to accelerate Cloud Profitability with valuable resources for download.
Breaking down an Industrial IoT reference architecture.pptxNeel Sendas
This talk at Hannover Messe shares the best practices of designing a large scale IIOT infrastructure using AWS services. It explore the pitfalls and common problems customers face when they plan to implement IoT Infrastructure and discovers the top IIoT golden rules to improve the design posture in the factory.
The numbers tell the story: 84% of C-suite executives believe they must leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to achieve their growth objectives, yet 76% report they struggle with how to scale. With the stakes higher than ever, what can we learn from companies that are successfully scaling AI, achieving nearly 3X the return on investments and an average 32% premium on key financial valuation metrics?
To answer that question, Accenture conducted a landmark global study involving 1,500 C-suite executives from organizations across 16 industries. The aim: Help companies progress on their AI journey, from one-off AI experimentation to gaining a robust organization-wide capability that acts as a source of competitive agility and growth.
Read the full report:
http://www.accenture.com/AI-Built-to-Scale-Slideshare
APIs may have no intrinsic value, but they do bring enormous value to the business.
They do so through their backend data and the application functionality the interface enables.
The API allows systems with great organizational value to be reused.
The slides provide a quick overview of the API Economy trend. The slides provide summary information, a list of trends to watch and links to additional resources
Role of API in Fintech Industry - Bahaa Abdul Hussein.pdfBahaa Abdul Hussein
Bahaa Abdul Hussein is a Fintech expert and shares his experiences with his audience through his blogs. This time he discusses the role of API in Fintech space.
With its extensive expertise in the payments domain and ISO20022, Techwave is committed to revolutionizing digital transformation by improving customer experience, embracing industry standards, and streamlining payment processing and compliance requirements. Our range of services comprises Payments Data Management, UI/UX Development, Adaptors for Payment Rails, Application Modernization, and API Ecosystem Management.
The banking industry is undergoing a transformation with the use of APIs, empowering banks to comply with regulations, streamline internal operations, and foster innovation. However, managing these tools effectively is critical for banks to reap their benefits while minimizing their risks. To tackle these challenges, our team of technology experts offers a variety of services. With in-depth knowledge and experience in cloud-native systems and solutions, coupled with proficiency in managing API ecosystems, we are well-positioned to assist you with your needs.
After understanding this market and the advantages of leveraging custom cloud
API development, businesses effectively integrate disparate IoT systems,
unlocking new data sources and building innovative applications that drive digital
transformation and growth. For more detail visit us: https://www.ficode.co.uk/api-integration
Growth Hacking APIs: What role do APIs play in your growth strategy.
There’s been lots of buzz in the tech startup space about “growth hacking” – what is it? how is it related to development? how is it related to marketing?
At it’s core, growth hacking is about finding a strategy for growth within the parameters of scalability and replicability, driven by product and inspired by data. Growth hacking’s core is based in marketing but driven by product.
Once the definition is clear, the question then becomes: without a UI to lean on, how does one “growth hack” an API?
At last year’s Nordic API conference, Guillaume Balas from 3Scale presented several typologies of an API, namely API is the product, API projects the product, API promotes the product, and API powers the product.
This presentation will elaborate on and reframe those typologies in the context of marketing and growth hacking of an API. We will examine the circumstances where an API is actually a growth hack in of itself, and where it is in need of growth hacking in order to make the business model behind it succeed.
The presentation will use core concepts of strategic marketing – such as positioning, pricing, targeting, promotion, product and distribution – to create a framework for either growth hacking an API or developing an API as a key tactic in a growth strategy.
The Future of API Management: Trends and InnovationsJade Global
API management plays a vital role in enabling digital transformation initiatives for organizations by facilitating the creation, publication, security, and monitoring of APIs. Effective API management solutions are essential for building software applications securely and efficiently. With the ever-evolving technology landscape, exploring emerging trends and future prospects in API management is crucial. In this presentation, we will delve into the exciting possibilities and innovations that lie ahead in API management. Download it now.
apidays Helsinki & North 2023 - How can data-driven DevRel help identify gaps...apidays
apidays Helsinki & North 2023
API Ecosystems - Connecting Physical and Digital
June 5 & 6, 2023
How can data-driven DevRel help identify gaps and enhance APIs?
Hemchander Sundaraveloo, Sr. Developer Advocate at Pipedrive
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Transforming enterprise it with containers, ap is and integration api manage...Judy Breedlove
These slides are from a recent Red Hat event featuring Steve Willmott, senior director and head of API infrastructure at Red Hat.
Overview: Enterprise IT needs are evolving at breakneck speed and are becoming critical to business success. Organizations now face the need to deliver and evolve their software infrastructure more quickly and effectively than ever before. At this event, we'll cover the tools and techniques used by Red Hat's most successful clients. In particular, we'll focus on how application programming interfaces (APIs), combined with containers and integration, create highly effective software systems.
We will also discuss how APIs can be used to transform the internal IT landscape, how they combine with containers for effective microservices strategies, and how they fit with integration technologies. The material will cover architecture, technology, and lessons from the field with customer examples.
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Sumerian named as the rising saas star in capacity management globallySumerian
In February 2016, Independent research house Research in Action named Sumerian as the rising SaaS star in Capacity Management globally. Sumerian were ranked highest for customer satisfaction and price versus value across the industry and a the top vendor for Capacity Management strategy. Sumerian also ranked highest for customer satisfaction and price versus value across the capacity management and IT capacity planning industry.
4. Analysed the financial status of the healthcare organization “Tristel PLC”.
The analysis includes the financial status of an organisation from the year 2014 to 2018, ratio analysis, initiatives for future probabilities, market verdicts and prospects and comparison of Tristel PLC with other healthcare industries in the market
4. Analysed the financial status of the healthcare organization “Tristel PLC”.
The analysis includes the financial status of an organisation from the year 2014 to 2018, ratio analysis, initiatives for future probabilities, market verdicts and prospects and comparison of Tristel PLC with other healthcare industries in the market.
8. Designed a marketing plan for “Apple Credit Card” to launch in the Irish market. Report
includes current analysis, PESTEL and SWOT, analysis of target audience, pricing and positioning strategy and marketing strategy of Apple.
7. Worked on a group project which included the case study of “The Macallans” and future
recommendation to stand out of the box in this competitive market of the alcohol industry. This project improved my presentation as well as teamwork skills.
6. Analysed the core values, mission and vision statement, resources and capabilities,
stakeholder analysis and engagement, organisation culture of Pfizer. This project report explains the current status of Pfizer in Ireland and future business strategy for business growth. By analyzing PESTEL and SWOT, the report provides a recommendation for the future business strategy for Pfizer to reduce weaknesses in the market.
Poster presentation of the thesis conducted on the topic Data Security in Pharmaceutical and Healthcare: Analysis of Necessary Web Application Security Testing Tools.
Data Security in Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare: Analysis of necessary Web Ap...PavanPardeshi1
This research was carried out to determine the importance of application security testing tools being used in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries and to invent a new idea to reduce the risk of data loss. Hence, the results shows that the use of more than one tool is time consuming and integration of SAST, DAST, IAST and RASP by taking cost efficiency and system compatibility into consideration can make a difference in these industries. Moreover, it has been observed that the application security testing tools are not fully reliable. To reduce the risk of data loss, integration of the two or more tools can be developed on the basis of SAST, DAST IAST and RASP based tools. Cost efficiency, lack of resources and, system compatibility should be taken into consideration while developing the tools. Policies improvement and trainings for staff members regarding tools can reduce human errors to avoid data breach.
Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
Palestine last event orientationfvgnh .pptxRaedMohamed3
An EFL lesson about the current events in Palestine. It is intended to be for intermediate students who wish to increase their listening skills through a short lesson in power point.
Honest Reviews of Tim Han LMA Course Program.pptxtimhan337
Personal development courses are widely available today, with each one promising life-changing outcomes. Tim Han’s Life Mastery Achievers (LMA) Course has drawn a lot of interest. In addition to offering my frank assessment of Success Insider’s LMA Course, this piece examines the course’s effects via a variety of Tim Han LMA course reviews and Success Insider comments.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
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API Strategy in Cloud
1. API Strategy in the Cloud
Theory of Cloud ComputingB9IS120
Lecturer: John Rowley
Student Number: 10517074, 10380700, 10512558
Word Count: 3888
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Table of Content:
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ...............................................................................................................3
Management and Key Drivers for API Adoption........................................................................4
API Challenges............................................................................................................................5
Scope, Scale, Standards .........................................................................................................5
Technology, Teams, Governance ...........................................................................................6
Security Risks..........................................................................................................................6
Monetization Challenges .......................................................................................................7
API Management Platforms.......................................................................................................7
Cloud vs On-Premises ............................................................................................................7
Market Comparison ...............................................................................................................9
Role of API Management in delivering successful API programs ........................................10
Examples of Successful API ..................................................................................................11
API2Cart ...........................................................................................................................11
The Facebook Graph ........................................................................................................11
Google Map API ...............................................................................................................11
Twitter API........................................................................................................................11
Building API Strategy................................................................................................................11
API Maturity Models ............................................................................................................11
Business Values through APIs ..............................................................................................13
API Business Models for Monetization - Strengths and Weaknesses .................................15
Building business value with the framework for API success.............................................16
Business Strategy: Alignment and Usefulness.................................................................16
Engagement and Usability...............................................................................................16
Scalability and Evolvability...............................................................................................17
Manageability and Security .............................................................................................17
Conclusion................................................................................................................................18
References................................................................................................................................19
3. 2
Table of Figures:
Figure 1API Management Market Trends (Abnewswire.com, 2018) ........................................4
Figure 2 API adoption across companies (Accenture.com, 2018) .............................................5
Figure 3 Gartner Research on Cloud Computing Security Threats
(Securitycommunity.tcs.com, 2017) ..........................................................................................6
Figure 4 Cloud vs On-premises (microsoft.com, 2015) .............................................................7
Figure 5 Design Time & Runtime (Ca.com, 2016) ......................................................................8
Figure 6 API Platform On-premise vs. Cloud..............................................................................8
Figure 7 Market Comparison of top 5 API management platforms (PAT RESEARCH: B2B
Reviews, Buying Guides & Best Practices, 2019).......................................................................9
Figure 8 API MANAGEMENT MARKET COMPERISION (PAT RESEARCH: B2B Reviews, Buying
Guides & Best Practices, 2019)................................................................................................10
Figure 9 API Maturity Model (Accenture.com, 2013)..............................................................12
Figure 10 API Architecture Maturity Model (Rocha, 2019) .....................................................13
Figure 11 API Business models for Monetization ....................................................................15
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
PROJECTTOPIC API Strategy in the Cloud Computing
NAMEOF
STUDENTS
Bhushan Chaudhari
Pavan Pardeshi
Eleonora Sadykova
API ADOPTION
ACROSS ORGANIZATIONS
INTRODUCTION
This report identifies the key drivers behind the growth of APIs in the cloud and the main challenges existing in API management.
Additionally, market comparison of the leading API management platforms is provided and their role in overcoming existing
challenges is stated.In the final section of the report the different business models of API monetization areconsidered and the API
strategy framework is recommended to provide better API services.
BACKGROUND
APIs play an importantrolein cloud computing.APIs help to make the platforms more extensible,speed up the access and improve
security management. The effective APIs strategy leads to the significant growth of organizations through innovations, cost
reducing and increased performance. Implementation of successful API depends on the elaborating the right strategy for an
organization: developing APIs for internal use, only for partners, for the general public or the combination of them.
RESEARCH QUESTIONS
1. What challenges do organizations face within API adoption?
2. What strategy should organizations implement for effective API management?
FINDINGS
1. APIs can help to reach business growth, efficiency and innovations. APIs supportdesign modularity and compatibility.
They are the main mechanismto connect technologies and organizations.
2. API management is accompanied by different challenges such as security,scalability,standards,lack of expertise,
governance, monetization and many others.
3. In recent years variety amount of API management platforms havebeen emerging from the broad range of vendors, the
purpose of which is to help to mitigate the risks of API development and implementation: APIGEE, MuleSoft, 3Scale,
Swagger Hub.
4. API Strategy of an organization should includeAPI maturity level assessment,business model selection and API
management framework.
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Management and Key Drivers for API Adoption
APIs existfor a long time, however, in the digitalworld, where the customers want to connect
with the companies via various devices and channels the role of solutions which help to
manage APIs and API –driven businesses significantly increased. API Management is the set
of processes which control and improve the visibility of APIs that link applications and data
across the enterprise and clouds. The main elements of API management solutions are a
developer portal, an API gateway, API lifecycle management, analytics capabilities and
support for API monetization (Apigee, 2019).
APIs today are the main mechanism for connection technologies and organizations. The
companies who know how to implement them can reach significant growth, innovations, cut
costs and increase efficiency. McKinsey forecasts increasing of public API soon (Iyengar et al.,
2017). However, only a small amount of the organizations has a matured API program.
The increasing number of mobile subscribers, expanding social media and e-commerce
stimulate the demand for API management. Other two main factors which flavouring global
API management market are the Big Data and Internet of Things. API Management Market is
expected to reach approximately 3 billion dollars by the end of 2022 with a compound annual
growth rate 35% in the period between 2016 and 2022 (see Figure 1).
Figure 1API Management Market Trends (Abnewswire.com, 2018)
According to the Accenture’s survey, 71 % of the companies believe that API is a critical piece
of their technology strategy. Companies were divided into three categories: leaders, strivers,
and laggards (see figure 2). The companies mostly focus on microservices architecture, an
essential part of which are APIs.
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Figure 2 API adoption across companies (Accenture.com, 2018)
In the digital world, APIs are one of the key building blocks which support design modularity
and compatibility. APIs support the idea that technology assets should be built for reuse. API
help to achieve business agility, unlock new value in existing legacy systems and have
operational and strategic benefits (Deloitte Insights, 2017).
API Challenges
Importance of API Management has been increased in recent years. However, many
challenges exist, among them: scope, scale, standards, technology, teams and governance,
security issues, APIs monetization issues.
Scope, Scale, Standards
One of the main challenges in API management is the proper level of central control. The
number of teams who developing APIs consistently grows in a company. Each team has its
own style, the point of view and experience. Without the guidelines which all teams share it
is difficult to maintain consistency. Another issue is effectively dealing with changes over
time. Keeping tracking hundreds or thousands of API entry points across different time zones
and countries is not easy. Mature API program also should focus on standardizing interaction
between APIs (Medjaoui et al., 2018, p.7-9).
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Technology, Teams, Governance
It is important to have a consistent set of tools and technologies on which you can rely on
building an API management program. Initially, it can be a small set of tools, however, the
right moment should be chosen to increase the variety of technologies when the number of
APIs is scaling up. Another aspect of API management are teams. Expanding of API landscape
also requires the number of people with the diverse set of skills. Updating and evolving
governance documents is another important element of API management (Medjaoui et al.,
2018, p.10-14).
Security Risks
There are three main ways in which API security can be breached: parameter attacks, identity
attacks and man in the middle (MITM) attacks. Parameter attacks use sending data to exploit
weaknesses in applications and databases, such as SQL injection attack. Also, individual
applications identify themselves to an API by using an API key, which in practice can be
uncovered. Many APIs do not use properly SSL and TSL. This is one of the reasons for
appearing of the risk when an attacker sites between an API and an application, catching the
traffic between them (Rubens, 2019).
Currently, it is being seen an increasing number of attacks on businesses. APIs are used as a
gateway to get access to the confidential information (see Figure 3).
Figure 3 Gartner Research on Cloud Computing Security Threats (Securitycommunity.tcs.com, 2017)
For example, the social media tool Buffer identified that the hackers tried to access their
systems via public API without authorization key. Businesses are not interested in having
additional potential risks from open APIs (Boyd, 2015).
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Monetization Challenges
Another challenge is return on investment for public APIs. It is important to know how the
benefits will be reached. To demonstrate a quick return on investment in case of public APIs
is problematic. There are two growth curves for a public API. First growth period is
establishing a strong community of developers is important you know how benefits will reach
who integrate the API into their applications and web services. The second one is establishing
own end-user customer base by these third – party applications (Boyd, 2015). The assets
should be easily consumed through APIs and clearly correspond to its value proposition.
Without this, APIs may struggle to gain adoption even if they were offered for free
(Pages.apigee.com, 2019).
API Management Platforms
Cloud vs On-Premises
There are two options to deploy API management platforms (Figure 4).
Figure 4 Cloud vs On-premises (microsoft.com, 2015)
The choice where to deploy is not always easy. API Management Platform can be considered
from a usage model perspective which can be broken into phases: Design Time (API Portal)
and Runtime (API Gateway). Design Time is a relation between API owners and users i.e.
consumers regarding the service and business strategy. Runtime is the technical exchange of
data where API backend is deployed on organizations infrastructure (Ca.com, 2016).
Comparison of Design Time and Runtime is presented in Figure 5.
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Figure 5 Design Time & Runtime (Ca.com, 2016)
Considering both phases of usage model and advantages of each deployment option the
decision to deploy in the cloud or on – premises can be made (see Figure 6).
Figure 6 API Platform On-premise vs. Cloud
Making a decision regarding design time infrastructure deployment in the cloud or on –
premises, the following should be considered: customization needs, security or costs. If a
company needs an extensively customized developer portal, then on – premises might be a
better choice. In a runtime environment many activities are mission – critical, the concerns
about control and uptime exist. However, the company can choose the deployment in the
cloud for its runtime infrastructure because of cost efficiency or no upgrade and other
maintenance worries. For example, CA API Management solution offers both options of
deployments as well as a hybrid one for an API Developer Portal and API Gateway
components.
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Market Comparison
Among leaders on the market of API Management Solutions are APIGEE, MuleSoft, 3Scaleand
Swagger Hub (see Figure 7 and Figure 8).
Figure 7 Market Comparison of top 5 API management platforms (PAT RESEARCH: B2B Reviews, Buying Guides & Best
Practices, 2019)
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2
4
6
8
10
APIGEE Mulesoft 3Scale Google
Cloud
Swagger
Hub
User Rating 8.3 6.5 8.1 8.6 9.5
Editors rating 7.6 7.6 7.6 7.6 7.6
8.3
6.5
8.1 8.6
9.5
7.6 7.6 7.6 7.6 7.6
USERANDEDITORSRATING
API MANAGEMENT PLATFORMS
Market Comparison of TOP 5 API
Management Platforms
User Rating Editors rating
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Apigee
The Cross-Cloud API Management
Platform.
Cost: Startingat $300 per month
License: Proprietary Software
Market: SMB/Enterprise
Delivery: Proxy/Agent/Hybrid
User Rating: 8.3
Editor Rating: 7.6
Category: PredictiveAnalytics API
Features:
o Deploy within few clicks
o Protect API & Engage User
o Automate API operation
o Expand platform
MuleSoft
Connect anything. Change everything.
Cost: Startingat $1200 per month
License: Proprietary Software
Market: Enterprise
Delivery: Proxy/Agent/Hybrid
User Rating: 7.9
Editor Rating: 7.6
Category: Cloud
Features:
o Connect app, data & devices anywhere
o Web-based dashboard for control
o Design, run & analyseservices and APIs
o Mainstreamjava development tool
3scale API Management
Future-proof API management.
Cost: Startingat $50 per month
License: Proprietary
Market: Start-up/SMB/Enterprise
Delivery: Proxy/Agent/Hybrid
User Rating: 8.1
Editor Rating: 7.6
Category: Backup Software
Features:
o API traffic control
o Access control
o Developers portal
o Monetization tools
o Authentication patterns & credentials
Swagger Hub
The Platform for API Design and
Documentation with OpenAPI.
Cost: Free/ team $75 per month
License: Proprietary
Market: Start-up/SMB/Enterprise
Delivery: Proxy/Agent/Hybrid
User Rating: 9.5
Editor Rating: 7.6
Category: API Management Platform
Features:
o Automatic generation from the workflow
o Real-time comments to communicate with
collaborators and track open issue
o Editor with smartsyntax auto completion
and smart error feedback
MuleSoft mostly specializes in the solutions for enterprises, while other 3 platforms offer
management platforms for SMB and enterprises. SwaggerHub is asuitableoption for startups
as the system has good recommendations and has free offerings.
Role of API Management in delivering successful API programs
As we know, the integration of multiple API is far more difficult than the integration of a
single API. Therefore, most of the API management platforms provide solutions for few
systems only, hence they miss out with the business opportunities. However, other platforms
provide the solution for the group or multiple API management solutions and focus more
towards business growth. Here’s a solution for this integrational difficulty without disturbing
the quality and quantity of the API. There are several ways for the issue of API where vendors
enable API to perform integration much faster, easier, cheaper as well as safer. API
management platforms such as APIGEE, 3SCALE, IBM API MANAGEMENT , etc provide tools
Figure 8 API MANAGEMENT MARKET COMPERISION (PAT RESEARCH: B2B Reviews, Buying Guides & Best Practices, 2019)
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to build new cloud-based applications. It also provides better
security(Softwaretestinghelp.com, 2019).
Examples of Successful API
Among successful API examples are API2Cart, the Facebook Graph, Google Map API and
Twitter API.
API2Cart
If we take the example of API2Cart, it allows over 30 shopping carts to connect with
customers and solves all integration problems to enhance the market value of carts. It
provides 24/7 support, which is ready to help in every situation and protect customers data
as well as store information from vulnerable activities due to which the customers get better
security for their data. (Kholod, 2016) .
The Facebook Graph
’The Graph API’ which is JSON-enabled. This allows to fetch and put the data from Facebook
platform. This is the HTTP based API by which the apps can programmatically query data,
users can post new stories and upload photos, manage ads and perform a wide range of tasks.
(Facebook, 2019).
Google Map API
Google maps are also one of the best API which has many different features and secured
services.This is used to create maps, geolocate tweets, it is widely used for searching schools,
hotels and so many different locations or to measure the distance (Jarmul, 2011).
Twitter API
This API is mainly used by many journalists in order to get insights from Twitter. This is also a
great platform for analysts who use it for a sentimental analysis of a data. The developers can
use this API on any platforms as it provides an open source tool with better integrity (Jarmul,
2011).
Building API Strategy
API Maturity Models
To have just APIs in the company is not enough. There is a large difference between
unstructured APIs and well-managed API program in the organization. The first step in
building a successful API strategy is API maturity assessment. The level of maturity can be
evaluated from different angles. According to Accenture’s maturity model, the company can
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be assessed against the following dimensions: strategy and governance, architecture,
development process, developer community and optimization (see Figure 9).
Figure 9 API Maturity Model (Accenture.com, 2013)
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The API architecture maturity model consists of 7 levels (see Figure 10).
Figure 10 API Architecture Maturity Model (Rocha, 2019)
The organizations can be classified as not based on APIs at all, partially based on APIs, fully
based on APIs. The companies with no APIs can have fully isolated systems or some level of
integrations such as database replications, file sharing or component – based architectures.
The main problem of this stage is the lack of compatibility between different technologies.
Partially based on APIs companies have service - oriented architectures and private APIs
based on Microservices. The main issue on this level that APIs are not fully managed. Also,
the architecture is based only on single APIs gateway, that creates extensibility issue for an
entire company. On the last two stages (6 and 7) APIs are part of the company’s business.
APIs create new value streams and innovation services. On the top, 7 level, the business of
the company fully depends on APIs, the good governance and compliance policies are
implemented , the full capabilities of API platforms are used.
Business Values through APIs
APIs are now valuable assets for business. There are five different ways which can convey an
incentive to organizations (API Academy, 2015a):
APIs help to generate revenue.
It increases customer retention and market reach.
It innovates business.
API helps organizations to enable API integration.
API helps organizations to support Internet of things (IoT).
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In some cases,API’s cangenerate more revenue in the business.For example, the applications
which provide mobile access to the e-commerce systemas well as some online services, can
help improve revenue sharing model with external developers to manufacture applications
against the API. Here, the API must be worth or valuable to pay for or else clients can get the
information from somewhere else and they do not need to pay for that. In such cases , Tiered
Model is appropriate in which the developers get more users who pay for the required
bandwidth which Tiered model provides.
Customer retention and market reach is also one of the factors which has to consider. This is
mainly because the new online channels better understand the preferences of the targeted
audience, in which API helps to reach up to them. Therefore, more personalized an experience
or customer satisfaction leads to the improvement in customer retention. For example,
nowadays most of the people useGoogle, Facebook, Twitter apps to seek information instead
of browsing then for convenience. Hence, APIs can help to reach those customers.
API developers know the services which they provide through API. However, they do not
know how the services are being used as well as how that can be used. Here comes the Open
APIs which allows external developers to look at what is the best part of the particular API in
combination with what they do best to make an innovative new idea. Therefore, by looking
at the data and services through APIs, developers can analyse the interests, ideas as well as
the interests of external developers as well as customers which can help to grow business
more efficiently.
Organizations can integrate with each other that provides the services which are completely
different and innovative through APIs. This allows them to focus on creating the new ideas
from the combinations of services which they can provide through their newly generated API
to the customers.
Internet of things provides a wide range of data such as smart applications, connected
vehicles, RFID sensors and many more. Thus, APIs can integrate this huge set of data into a
single and consolidated view. Furthermore, APIs can collect the data and provide a
combination of the set of data from multiple locations which is related to the base
information. Hence, in order to maximise the value of this dataset, APIs provide a platform to
access the data through an analytical system.
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API Business Models for Monetization - Strengths and Weaknesses
There are sevencommon models for API monetization (Sandoval, 2018). The specifics ofeach
of the model are presented in Figure 11.
Figure 11 API Business models for Monetization
API Business Model Description Strengths Weaknesses
API as a Business
Function
Instead of direct
monetization APIs
providebenefits through
enhancingcore business
functions (for example,
reports with predictive
insights)
Easier to monetize API -
through improving
business functions. To
monetize API offering
directly is hard
sometimes due to
competition.
Benefits are not
transparent.
API as a Product Direct monetization of
APIs. The main condition
of this model is the
ownership of proprietary
or valuabledata.
One of the simplest
models.
The cost is difficultto
justify.Also, the model
creates barriers for new
users and limits the
clientbaseto premium
users.
Layered APIs Extension of the model
‘API as a Product’. The
basic functionality is
offered for free.
However, for more data
or more functionality,
there is a fee.
If API providers have a
clear linebetween free
and paid services,then
the effect of this model
can be positive.
The main issueis
transparency.Often,
costs can become
unpredictable.
API Interaction
Measurement
Another extension for
‘API as a Product’.
Chargingis implemented
based on the amount of
interaction with APIs.
The companies can pay
based on the amount of
usage. It can be suitable
for small companies.
All issues associated
with freemium charging
should be also
considered here,
including transparency.
API as a Marketing Tool API is not a monetarized
serviceitself. APIs
offerings in this model
are free and have a
purpose to promote
underlyingsystems and
technologies (secondary
monetarization)
This model can attract a
solid clientbase, the way
to advertisethe rest of
ecosystem of the
company.
Can be a significant
increasein operating
expenses. Security and
performance concerns
exist. Also internally,it
can be hard to show
progress.
Strategic API
Partnerships
Businesses collaborate
with each other and
create common add –
ons , apps and
integrations with APIs.
This model can be useful
in creatingnew
channels,expandinginto
an adjacentbusiness.
The partner APIs should
have the same level of
security as for robust
public APIs. Itrequires
clear objectives,
proactivemanagement
of the partners.
Value through Business
Improvements
Monetization through
optimizingprices and
reducingthe operational
overhead for processes.
Savings pay for APIs
itself.Monetizing APIs in
this way can be
essential.
Effective API
management is required
to receive a return on
investments.
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As we can see,there are many challenges in‘monetizing’ APIs. The different approaches exist.
To choose the right one for the company is necessary to have an API strategy with clear
objectives and outcomes. Often, a combination of the models is required.
Building business value with the framework for API success
There are four main points focused on API methodology depending upon the components of
API management, structure and design (API Academy, 2015b).
1. Business strategy: Alignment and Usefulness
2. Business Tactics: Engagement and Usability
3. Architecture: Scalability and Evolvability
4. Operations: Manageability and Security
Business Strategy: Alignment and Usefulness
For delivering business values in a company, business strategy is very important and essential.
Two key fundamentals required for implementing an API business strategy are discussed
below:
1. Alignment of internal APIs must be done with the business goals of the organization.
2. Developer audience must be targeted with external APIs.
Once you have done with your strategy for aligning your API program together with your long
- term business goals, it is time to start searching the kind of developer might be needed as a
requirement of this strategy.
Engagement and Usability
Two main guidelines always need to keep in consideration while deciding tactics for API
developers:
1. Focus on engaging your target developers.
2. Make easy for these developers to use your APIs.
In order to keep engagement of the developers, it is necessary to provide them APIs which
are in demand and easy – to – use. The tools which make development easy and reduce
time cycles are also essential. To help your organization’s architects always make sure that
the APIs they develop are developer friendly. You should collaborate with them to ensure
how beneficial the APIs are and if they are capable to improve usability in the future.
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Scalability and Evolvability
In order to increase the chances of improvement of your organization, you must work closely
with your developers, architects and your technical resources to keep ensuring they are
designing, implementing and managing the decided strategies and tactics efficiently. The
main reason behind this is your API must be scalable and evolvable i.e. it may be able to grow
the business and adopting changes with requirements.
Manageability and Security
The two essential principles to follow regarding manageability and security are:
1. An API’s activity should be easily seen and be controlled.
2. The data given by API must be right and for the right consumers.
Thesecomponents can be conveyed most efficientlyby an enterprise-grade API management
platform, a complete structure that can fit into your organization while providing full
functionality and ability to manage itself with high terms of security as well.
Albeit there are no unified API standards for any industry, some steps in this direction are
applied (Developer.ibm.com, 2016). The European Commission has issued the requirements
for Financial industry – Payment Services Directive 2. The USA has some regulations in the
Healthcare industry to promote using APIs for access topatient-related information. Also, the
government of the UK published API technical and data standards to help your organization
to provide high – quality services to users (GOV.UK, 2018).
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Conclusion
APIs are connecting technologies and organizations. The role of APIs in providing growth and
innovations to companies has been increasing. However, business value can be guaranteed
only in case of effective API Management. Organizations should understand that the key to
successful using of APIs is clear objectives and outcomes, and, also the right tools. The main
questions needed to address before developing APIs are:
1) What API maturity level has a company?
2) What are the business objectives? And what business model is going to use a company for
‘monetizing’ APIs?
3) How to overcome different APIs challenges? To choose the right API Management
Platform, either a combination of tools.
4) What are assessment activities for evaluation of the effectiveness of the API program in a
company?
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Acknowledgement:
Kindly Note – All 3 team members have actively participated and
contributed equally to this assignment.
Students:
1. BhushanChaudhari – 10517074
2. EleonoraSadykova – 10512558
3. Pavan Pardeshi – 10380700