In our last API blog, we highlighted Apigee’s survey in their 2017 State of APIs Report. After collecting the experiences of several hundred customers, the API management firm outlined the characteristics of a successful API program, highlighting the need for scalability, digital ecosystems, and the right industry. While each organization attacks the market differently and […]
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Getting Started with API Management
APIs are a foundational technology that enables companies to participate in the digital economy. According to Gartner, “It is impossible to provide the platform for any digital strategy, and run an effective API program to benefit from the API economy, without full life cycle API management.” Yet API management is still often a gap in […]
3 Ways AI is Transforming BPM
Traditional technology platforms are experiencing massive upheaval with the arrival of new platforms around cloud, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. With monolithic infrastructure falling out of favor, traditional vendors have been forced to pivot and adjust, or face the prospect of going obsolete. One of the areas facing great change is business process management (BPM). […]
7 Reasons Why Organizations Struggle with Microservices Adoption
Granularity – The word micro in microservices is not completely related to the number of operations, apis or endpoints that will be exposed from your service. Some people tend to think that they can have a single operation per microservice which will leads to a number of services. Managing those would be a nightmare. It’s […]
Recap: How Watson and BPM are Transforming Insurance
Business process management has led a transformation in the insurance industry for decades. With the emergence of cognitive technologies like IBM Watson, insurance agencies can further optimize complex, data-driven processes to gain a competitive advantage. Last week, we explored the transformation of insurance through the emergence of IBM Watson and business process management solutions (BPM). […]
The SOA, the API and “REST” of the API
When I jumped on the API bandwagon a couple years ago, I thought I just caught the last train of the API phenomenon. Today API is still hot and getting hotter each day with no signs of abating. With things where they are now, I thought that it would be a good time to look […]
Perficient Buys Clarity Consulting
This morning, Perficient announced that it acquired Clarity Consulting, a $27 million Microsoft Gold partner and the developer of Clarity Connect. The company offers premier products and services that leverage Skype for Business as a communication platform, which allow companies to significantly reduce costs and complexities within their IT environments. Clarity has deep expertise in […]
3 Ways Open Source Innovates IT
A theme commonly supported and increasing in characteristic for many of our partners is that of open source. A movement started in the late 1990s, open source software originally began with the intent of software developers learning from each other and ultimately the release of the Netscape Browser (and eventually others including Mozilla Firefox). Today, […]
A Digital Business Platform for Financial Services
This guest blog post was authored by Alfresco’s Raphael Allegre Complying with regulations and acquiring new customers were identified as the top 2 challenges facing the retail banking industry in a recent global survey conducted by PwC. Regulatory Compliance Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Basel II, Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOx), OMB A-123, Data Privacy, Consumer Privacy, Check 21, SAS […]
Secure your APIs
Cyber attacks are increasing at an alarming rate and like any other piece of software, APIs can also be compromised by these hack attacks. Since we use APIs to integrate our applications with third-parties, and APIs expose valuable back end services and applications, the applications can also come under security threats. If your gateway is […]
5 Factors of System Integration: What to Keep in Mind
In the age of smartphones, self-driving cars, SQL-less databases and marketing driven by artificial intelligence, it’s easy to forget how old some of the tried-and-true software we interact with every day really is. You may be able to pay your credit card bill from your phone, but somewhere along the line, there’s a good chance […]
Gartner Names AWS a Leader in IaaS
Fresh of its $13.7 billion dollar acquisition of grocery chain Whole Foods, Amazon received some more good news over the weekend: Amazon Web Services (AWS) was once again named a visionary in research firm Gartner’s Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Magic Quadrant. A leader and a pioneer in the cloud space, Amazon’s recognition is its 10th consecutive, fresh […]