Posts Tagged ‘API Management’

In a recent report, Forrester analyzed the crowded API management marketplace and the dynamics in the current vendor field. Considering all 20 emerging and established vendors in the API management space, Forrester had high praise for IBM’s recent enhancements to their analytics and portal features, and of the established vendors, stated that “IBM made the most […]

  The I Love APIs conference, put on by Apigee, is the largest API event in the world. With 2,500 attendees expected and over 80 sessions to choose from, this year’s conference will be a massive information dump. How do you get the most out of those two short days – especially as a first-time […]

I recently read an article that I think really puts the right focus on digital initiatives which is a great response to the question “You’ve started your digital transformation journey, so now what?” The article hits several notes that are well-known to folks that have read my articles before. Customer experience is a primary focus. Your business must […]

Craft and Connect hAPI hour: Welcome Reception at the I Love APIs Conference Sponsored by Perficient

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Application Programming Interface (API) Management relate to each other in both complementary and contrasting ways. The fact that API is a much older term than SOA, but SOA came before API Management can make this relationship even more confusing, especially if focus is on the “API” part of API Management, […]

I love jazz. As a young boy moving from rural South Carolina to New Orleans in the early 80s, I had not really appreciated the genre, but in New Orleans it’s easy to fall in love with it since it has made itself part of our DNA (as an early style of the genre was […]

While TIBCO API Exchange is a relative new comer to TIBCO’s offerings, TIBCO has made great strides in embedding it into their Fast Data architecture (and message). This approach seems reasonable, since, according to Gartner, API Management and SOA Governance are converging into a consolidated space called “Application Services Governance.” It is even more reasonable […]

APIs are Application Program Interfaces. They are channels to new customers and markets. Used externally, APIs unlock the power of partners to use business assets to extend the reach of your products or services to customers and markets you may not otherwise easily reach. I think of these as windows… doorways… a passageway to something. […]

Business is increasingly data-driven (raise your hand if you have heard the term “Big Data”) and when you talk to a company about enterprise mobile applications, the issue revolves around providing key data to a mobile workforce when and where they need it.  The important point is “providing key data” and the challenge is connecting […]