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.” Digital platforms such as mobility and IoT require businesses to establish an API platform strategy that supports new computing models such as hybrid […]
Posts Tagged ‘API Economy’
How API Connect Components Interact at Design Time and Run-Time
IBM API Connect – Product Architecture IBM API Connect is an integrated offering, which provides customers an end to end API life-cycle (Create, Run, Secure and Manager) experience. It provides capabilities to build model-driven API’s , micro-services using Node.js loopback framework , run them either on-premise or on-cloud, secure and manage the same using […]
IBM API Connect: A complete API lifecycle offering
IBM recently announced a completely new, re-designed and a unique offering known as API Connect, which integrates IBM API Management and IBM Strong Loop into a single package with built-in gateway, allows you to create, secure, run and manage APIs and Microservices. This offering will certainly help organizations to understand the complete API life cycle in detail and design the […]
The Business of Architecting APIs
APIs are certainly in the purview of many organizations today. However, often the promises of unlocking new value streams for the business may be expressed in terms of the IT API Management capability. While the choice of an API management technology is an important aspect of the new API economy, organizations should take precautions to ensure […]
Why we need web APIs
A few commonly asked questions by people around Web APIs are: Why do we need it? How is it different from SOA? What value will it add to my company? Here, I discuss how companies can benefit from implementing web APIs. I’ll cover the myths between SOA and APIs in a future article. Today, we […]
Richer, More Personalized Customer Experiences for an API Economy
At the IBM Digital Experience 2015 Conference, Ajay Kadakia with IBM talked about legacy IT companies versus the newer cloud-based companies. The challenge is how to provide more agile, market reactive content off the legacy systems when competing against seemingly more agile, cloud based systems. Ajay talked about the digital disruption that is already underway: […]