Enterprise API Adoption Patterns

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Enterprise API
Adoption
Patterns
Laura Heritage
@heritagelaura

APIs – Extend the Reach of your Business

4 Adoptions Patterns
Accelerate
Drive Monetize
Analyze
APIs
• 4 External Innovation
• 3 Partner
• 2 Mobile
• 1 Internal

Internal API Adoption
API
API
API
Consume 3rd Party APIs
APIBanking
Investments
Credit Card
Lending
API
API
API
APIs Across LoBs
API API API
APIs Within LoB
Simplify Acquisitions
APIs

Internal - APIs Within LoB
API API API
• Private APIs and Services
• Known Consumer – Manual Consumption
• Can be highly sensitive data
• How do you build the right level of API / Service
• How do you manage your atomic services and the
APIs that you produce and consume within your
LoB?
• How do you plan for growth and innovation?
• How do you protect your data?
• Creates flexibility in the architecture
• Improves teams ability to respond to changes

Internal - APIs Across LOB
APIBanking
Investments
Credit Card
Lending
API
API
API
• Private APIs
• Known Consumer - Self- Service Consumption
• Business Relationship
• Can be highly sensitive data
• How do you manage the APIs you consume from
other LoBs?
• How do you enforce quality and standards required
by the different LoBs?
• How do you manage the consumption of your APIs
by other LoBs?
• How do you protect your data? PCI?
• Increase adoption rate of shared resources
• Consistent customer experience across LoBs
• Improves ability to change and grow business

Internal - Consume 3rd Party APIs
API
API
API
• Public APIs
• Business Relationship – Self Service
• Do you know which external 3rd Party APIs are being
used within your organization or company?
• How do your procure them? Credit card? Corporate
Procurement?
• How do you manage the relationship of the APIs
which you consume? Are they PCI compliant?
• Fulfills capabilities you do not provide internally
• Faster time to market

Internal - Simplify Acquisitions
• Private APIs
• Business Relationship – Manual
• How long does a system stay in acquisition mode?
• Does a system ever get retired?
• Streamline acquisition integrations

API For Mobile
Internal /
Employee
Mobile Apps
External
Mobile
API Platform
3rd Party
Mobile App Developer
Internal
Mobile App
Developer
APIAPI API
• Private and Public APIs
• Business Relationship – Manual and
Automatic
• Increases flexibility in your mobile strategy
• Lower cost of your mobile strategy
• Lower development effort
• Consistent experience across mobile, web
and applications
• How are you going to secure the API and
App?
• How are you going to onboard the
developers
• How will you manage the versions?
Every mobile strategy should have APIs at its base

Partner APIs Adoption
Keeping Pace with CompetitorsFaster Connections
Partners Demanding ItReduce Screen Scraping

API Partner Connections
API Platform
APIAPI API
• Private APIs
• Known Consumer - Self- Service Consumption
• How do you quickly on board the partners?
• How do you manage the terms and conditions with
each partner
• Do you need to Scope the API per Partner?
• Do you need to Certify the App when it’s built?
• Do you need to provide a sandbox environment?
• Faster connection to partners
• Growth of partner ecosystem
• Improved partner / customer experiences

API External Innovation
API Platform
APIAPI API
Developers
• Public APIs
• Unknown Consumer - Self- Service Consumption
• Which and how much of your resources do you
expose?
• How are you going to monetize?
• How are you going to drive adoption?
• How are you going to onboard?
• How are you going to secure and protect your
backend enterprise?
• How are you going to scale?
• Drives innovation
• Establishes your company as a platform
• Increases partner ecosystem
• Provides / Increases revenue

Business Impact Of API Adoption Patterns
BUSINESS
RELATIONSHIP
FULLFILLMENT
POTENTIAL
BUSINESS IMPACT
REALISTIC
BUSINESS IMPACT
PRIVATE
(CUSTOM
Within LoB)
Manual
(internal)
Manual None None
PRIVATE
(SELF-SERVE
Across LoB /
Mobile)
Automatic
(internal)
Automatic
High
(for big companies)
Medium
PARTNER Manual Automatic High High
PUBLIC Automatic Automatic Very High Medium
@andreaskrohn

Internet of Things – Emerging API Adoption Pattern
Can’t spell internet of things
without APIs
• IoT and Wearables connect
to one or more APIs
Real-Time Interactions
Challenges Can be Abstracted
by APIs
• Authentication
• Authorization / Delegated
Access
• Bandwidth & Display
Restrictions
• Monitoring Analytics
• Data slimming &
aggregation
• Data sharing
User Data Sharing

The API Lifecycle
Plan
Build
RunShare
Analyze

Reference Architecture
Plan Build Run Share Analyze

API Platform Capabilities
Platform
Licensing
Quota Mgmt.
Partner Mgmt.
PCI Compliance
Provisioning
Policy Mgmt.
Monitoring
OAuth
Federation
Analytics
Lifecycle
API/Services
Application
User
Compliance
Integrations
Gateway
Security
Authentication
Protection
IAM Integration
Encryption
Mediation
Quality of Service
Paging/Caching
Orchestration
Scripting
API Portal
Search
Documentation
Groups
Social

Our Capabilities Streamlined for Efficiency
Plan Build Run Share Analyze

Flexible Deployment Model

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