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IATA Open Air: How API Standardization Enables Innovation in the Airline Industry
The document outlines IATA's OpenAir program, which aims to standardize APIs in the airline industry to enhance innovation and efficiency. It highlights the challenges of API standardization, the collaborative efforts among airlines to develop common specifications, and the use of frameworks like SwaggerHub to improve API quality and governance. The OpenAir certification program is introduced, validating APIs against established best practices to facilitate partnerships and market opportunities.
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- 1. IATA OpenAir How APIStandardization Enables Innovation in the Airline Industry
- 2. 2 Peter Sun API Architect,Open Air, IATA Joseph Joyce Solutions Engineer, SmartBear Matt McKinley Sr. Manager, Technology Standards, IATA
- 3. 3 2009 15M+ users 12 24,000+ 3 650+ customers employees founded globaloffices open source initiatives
- 4. What is IATA? 290 Airlines 433.3B Processedby IATA Financial Systems 53 Countries presence The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is the trade association for the world’s airlines. • Core roles: • Advocacy • Standards setting activities • Aviation products and services
- 5. 5 Standards reduce costsand support common behaviour 269 Resolutions and Recommended Practices 405 Data exchange messages 161 Active standard setting groups 2043 Airline Industry Data Model data elements
- 6. 6 APIs make yourtravel experience safe and efficient 70%* of airlines and airports plan to provide Open APIs *Source: IATA Survey, Summer 2017
- 7. Standardization continues torank as the top challenge (58%) for organizations as they attempt to scale API development 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 Data format Data definitions Industry directory Connection methods Imp. Guidance Airlines Airports Source: IATA Survey, Summer 2017 Over abundance of APIs in the market brings challenges API Growth and Standards Source: State of API 2020 Report - SmartBear • interoperability • discoverability • common semantics Standardization Versioning Security Authentication Other Discoverability Scalability Integration between tools Composability/reuse 2016 2019 2020
- 8. API Standardization –Two Approaches Industry Standard API Provider Proprietary API “As industry API provider, I want to design my own API specifications following industry agreed best practices, and collaborate with IATA team to certify my API.” “Under industry governance, I want to collaborate with other airlines and partners to design a common industry standard API specification.”
- 9. IATA’s Open AirProgram addresses those challenges by building an Open API ecosystem through industry standards and services under industry governance
- 10. Open Air APIStandards 1.Consistent message processing across airlines 2.Consistent data definitions across messages Airline IT systems Other Airline / Business Partner IT systems Standard Schema1 Standard Schema2 Standard Schema1 Standard Schema2 JSON (of schema1) JSON (of schema1) JSON (of schema2) JSON (of schema2) A P I A P I IATA API standards leverage the Airline Industry Data Model to automatically generate XML schemas and API specifications Standard Schema1 Standard Schema2 Data Model 30+ Airlines and strategic partners 1 Standard based on OAS 3.0 5 Standard APIs built in the last year
- 11. API Standardization –unified process Open Air Design Governance tool ** API Dev Team Designer Developer PO Collaborate Common Model Repo Compliance Rule Set Check Open Air Team AIDM Core Model Load Provider API platform API Design Tool Exchange Spec Common Model Repo Lifecycle Mgmt…… Feed Load Use Dev/SCM Generate Use **: Open standard and API provider platform agnostic : Specification is verified as Open Air Certified API
- 12. 1212 Improve Developer Experience Enable Intelligent Standards Seamless Integrations Whatis SwaggerHub? Enables and enforces both internal and industry standards with design- first principles to improve API quality Optimizes CI/CD processes with integrations for SCM, build tools, API gateways and DevOps environments Provides workspaces for collaboration and feedback within a secure, scalable OpenAPI compliant platform
- 13. Why SwaggerHub? { }… Swaggeris the OpenAPI Specification A Single Source of Truth for API Development Single source of truth for • Design • Development • Testing • Operations • Documentation Provide structure at scale • Team / Organization arrangement • Manage permissions and sharing across teams • Integrate w/SSO services • Robust version support Create design-driven workflows + processes • Built-in commenting and feedback loop • Bring distributed OpenAPI use together • Hand off designs through SDLC stages • Share common assets across teams and projects
- 14. Enforce design rulesfrom the top down • Define design rules to be used across an organization • Resolve quality issues before reaching development • Give real-time feedback as definitions are written Create a library of reusable assets • Store pre-approved definitions • Teams create references • Updates are pushed down to other services Built on the industry standard for API definitions • OpenAPI Initiative is a collaboration of leaders in the industry • Industry wide support for OAS • Evolving standard is growing and adapting to the needs of API providers and consumers Asset Library API_1 API_3API_2 Design Guidelines ! ✔ ✔ SwaggerHub and API Standardisation
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- 16. Open Air adoptionso far 12 Airlines and 1 start up have already certified and published Open Air compliant APIs: IATA’s API certification program validates the compliance of APIs against Best Practices described in the Open Air API Certification Compliance Checklist. Exposure of APIs to potential consumers and possibility to gain new business partners Certification is free of charge More info: iata.org/open-air IATA Open Air Registry
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- 18. IATA and SmartBearResources • SwaggerHub Custom Rules Repository • SwaggerHub Custom Rules Documentation • Check out SmartBear Blog • IATA Open Air • Open Air Standard • API Directory • Airline Industry Data Model • Start a SwaggerHub Free Trial
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