USING API to Accelerate Innovation Around Business-to-Business Applications and Processes

Understanding the importance of leveraging API’s to enable standardization of key foundation IT services (e.g. security, messaging, and integration) and incorporating these services into a successful API management strategy will accelerate new business functionality by enabling ease of developer access to these standardized key services.

IBM’s API Connect is being utilized for the creation, management and runtime environment, including a tailored developer portal for the client’s environment. The portal enables their business developers to access the API’s, including documentation and sample code, meaning new business functionality and applications will be delivered quicker.(QED)

In addition, by leveraging the integrated DataPower Gateway appliance the client was able to incorporate customised policy extenders that eased developer access to custom company standards, assuring the security, trust, and compliance of their API management solution.

Finally, a successful API management strategy enables developers to incorporate standardized services, such as security, into new applications. This accelerates their ability to support innovative business processes, while assuring the new applications are compliant with company, and industry, standards.This is the way to go....more revenue can be generated with the API's you currently have.

…the most common model in the API economy today is indirect – a company provides free access to the APIs they publish in return for the leaner/quicker/more efficient execution of a business process (such as ordering goods in a supply chain), or for increased sales of a traditional product (for instance, travel companies get more bookings if they publish APIs into their reservation systems to enable developer access).

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