The document discusses how businesses can build an API platform for digital transformation. It outlines how exposing services as APIs can expand a business by allowing external developers to integrate with those services, and how integrating a business with external APIs allows for partnerships. It uses the example of a sandwich factory exposing its ordering system as an API to enable mobile and web apps to place orders. Analyzing API statistics can provide insights into customer behavior and business trends to improve operations and plan growth. The document also notes APIs need to support different standards and the importance of collaborating with other companies.

1. Building an API Platform for Digital
Transformation
Sanjeewa Malalgoda
Associate Technical Lead
Dhanuka Ranasingha
Associate Technical Lead

2. Outline
● APIs.
● Building your business with APIs.
○ Expand your business by exposing your
services/solutions as APIs.
○ Integrate your business with different external
services using APIs.

3. Outline
● Integrate with different standards, protocols.
● Improve Business Intelligence by stats analyzing with
API stats.

4. APIs
o These three letters will change your life…...

5. APIs
o Have you ever used a Google or Facebook ?
o Do you use ebay and amazon to buy some
stuff?
o Using credit cards to do online payments?
o If answer is “yes” for any of above then you are
using APIs.

6. APIs - Why
o To integrate different platforms and clients.
Android, iOS, Windows Phone, or even Smart
TVs need to consume data.
o APIs offer the key to providing the agility and
accelerate innovations.
o Content distribution and enabling transactions
from a wide variety of sources.

7. APIs - Why
o Accelerate client, partner onboarding.
o Stats and analytics will help you to analyze
trends and patterns.

8. Building your business with APIs.
o Growing number of consumers and businesses
incorporate web and mobile apps into their daily
routines, businesses.
o APIs are the tools that allow businesses to put
that data to use.
o APIs inspiring innovative developers to create
new business opportunities and improve
existing products, systems, and operations.

9. Building your business with APIs.
o Lets think we have old fashioned sandwich
factory.
o Customers visit store or call and place orders.
o Then order will placed and update kitchen staff.
o Once sandwitch ready clients can pay and take it.
o Or it will deliver to clients doorstep and collect
money there.

10. Expand your business by exposing your
services/solutions as APIs.
o Lets think how we can expand our business
with APIs
o We can expose place orders service as API.
o Then users and mobile,web applications developers
can use that service to order sandwich from our
sandwich factory.
o Customize your sandwich.

11. Expand your business by exposing your
services/solutions as APIs.
o We can get users feedback, responses via
same APIs to improve quality.
o Edit update orders.
o

12. Expand your business by exposing your
services/solutions as APIs.
o APIs statistics can use to analyze patterns.
o Weekdays morning time more breakfast sandwiches
will be ordered.
o During weekends will get more orders for family
packages.
o Chicken sandwich is the best selling item.
o Time to process order is 15 minutes.

13. Expand your business by exposing your
services/solutions as APIs.
o Plan business growth.
o With stats collected we can get idea about where
business heading.
o Also we can plan when we need to expand
business.
o Also stats analyze help to identify areas we need to
improve

14. Integrate your business with different
external services using APIs.
o Users can place orders and pay through
external payment gateway.
o Customer place order.
o Then they will direct to payment gateway.
o Once payment done order will process.
o Users can select any option.

15. Integrate your business with different
external services using APIs.
o Discounts and loyalty program engagement with
other product and service providers.
o Once they buy sandwich from sandwich factory they
can order drink from other shop at 20% discount
rate.
o Once client bought 10 sandwiches they allowed one
free sandwich.

16. Integrate your business with different
external services using APIs.
o Share user experience in social media.
o Add payment details to expense management
systems.
o Track orders(delivery options provided by
external parties).

17. Integrate with different standards, protocols.
● Third party APIs support different message
standards like XML, JSON and etc ..
● Some services expect SOAP requests while
others have Restful services.
● Collaborate with other merchants seamlessly.

18. Improve Business Intelligence by stats
analyzing with API stats.
● Have a better insight about your business.
● Improve supply based on the demand.
● Create organizational structure based on the
requirements.

19. Demo
o Publish an API which support Rest Service and
call Backend API which expect SOAP.
o Analyze API stats

20. Q & A

21. THANK YOU