The document discusses how organizations can begin their API journey by unlocking value from existing enterprise IT assets through an API strategy. It recommends using API management to securely expose assets as APIs for self-service consumption by developers to build innovative applications. Specifically, the document promotes IBM API Connect as a comprehensive API foundation that provides automated and visual tools for creating, managing, and securing APIs and microservices across their lifecycle to power modern digital applications.

1. Start Your API Journey Today
Jeff Tennenbaum, Office of the IBM Federal CTO
Mobile IT Architect
tennenjl@us.ibm.com
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Coffee company goes
digital, builds $1.6B
payments business, drives
21% of transactions
Enterprise Health Mgmt.,
access to patient data
sandbox via VistA APIs.
New Apps for Vets.
Digital disruption fueled by API’s
What do the Following Have in Common?
NASA spurs innovation
by offering hackathons,
IBM supports via
Bluemix APIs
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Organizations are seeking an API Strategy
to securely unlock enterprise value from
legacy IT assets
Existing Enterprise IT
Investments
Exposed as APIs
Self Service
Consumed by
Developers
To Develop
Innovative Apps
Delivering
Measurable
Customer Value
Hybrid Integration
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Speed & Agility
Integration & Scale
Core
Enterprise
Digital
Ecosystem
Fast
Speed
But organizations are grappling with
Multi-Speed IT
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What’s wrong with this picture?
• These Microservices are
exposed to the open web!
• What if getOrderById() sees a huge spike
in traffic? It could bring down the SoR’s,
preventing order taking, shipping, etc!
Product
data
Microservice:
getOrderById
Runtime
(Node.js, WAS, etc.)
Orders
data
Integration
Tier
Firewall
Microservice:
getProductDetailByID
Runtime
(Node.js, WAS, etc.) Systems of
Record
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Firewall
A Better Way: APIs
API
API
API Management & Gateway
(rate limiting, security, monitoring,
permissions, version management, etc)
• You need:
• Rate limiting
• Security
• Monitoring
• …API Management!
Product
data
Microservice:
getOrderById
Runtime
(Node.js, WAS, etc.)
Orders
data
Integration
Tier
Microservice:
getProductDetailByID
Systems of
Record
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IBM API Connect — Simplified & Comprehensive
API foundation
What is API Connect?
• An integrated creation, runtime, management, and security foundation for
enterprise grade API’s and Microservices to power modern digital applications
What does API Connect provide?
• Automated, visual and coding options for creating APIs
• Lifecycle and governance for APIs, Products and Plans
• Node.js and Java support for creating Microservices
• Integrated enterprise grade clustering, management and security for Node.js and Java
• Access control over API’s, API Plans and API Products
• Advanced API usage analytics
• Customizable, self service developer portal for publishing APIs
• Policy enforcement, security and control
Create Run
ManageSecure
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Modern Infrastructure is API driven:
Your environment is just a REST Call away!
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Spectrum Virtualize
Spectrum Accelerate
Spectrum Scale
CleverSafe
DS8886
Spectrum Protect
PowerVC CMA
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Learn More
• LEVERAGE Complimentary Offer - Digital Transformation Workshop —
Mastering the API Economy: http://ibm.co/1Lk2VMb
• COMPLIMENTARY APIs for Dummies: http://ibm.co/1OlWNHz
• VISIT API Connect Youtube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/IBMAPIManagement
• CONTINUE THE DISCUSSION — JOIN ME at the DESIGN roundtable:
“APIs”
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