Category: Business Strategy

Real World Experiences with API Centers of Excellence (CoE)

by Alan_G on June 19, 2018 in API Economy, API Management, Business Strategy, Getting Started

What are companies doing about an API Center of Excellence (CoE)? Well, the best way to answer this question is to ask some businesses...

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Guide to 100 API Economy and API Management Resources

by Alan_G on May 15, 2018 in API Economy, API Management, Business Strategy, First Look, Getting Started, Market Trends, Product Capabilities

This is my 100th! No, I am not that old. I have reached my 100th blog, article, white paper, and video. The first...

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GDPR Considerations for Integration and the API Economy

by Alan_G on May 8, 2018 in API Economy, API Management, Business Strategy, Market Trends

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect on May 25, 2018. This regulation provides individuals (EU citizens) far more privacy, control, and...

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Providing APIs or Managing APIs – There is a Big Difference

by Alan_G on April 23, 2018 in API Economy, API Management, Business Strategy, First Look

I speak to businesses about managing APIs but am often asked about providing APIs. This indicates that there may be confusion between APIs that...

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Digital Transformation – Becoming a Digital Business

by Alan_G on March 29, 2018 in API Economy, API Management, Business Strategy, Market Trends

Digital Transformation is focused on improving customer experience. In a Forrester study (commissioned by IBM), Forrester found large numbers of businesses (over 85%) are:...

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Creating an API Economy Strategy

by Alan_G on March 12, 2018 in API Economy, API Management, Business Strategy, First Look

The most frequent request I’ve been getting lately is “Help me build an API Economy Strategy”. Quite a bit goes in to answering this...

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Mel’s Microservices Journey

by Melanie Dauber on March 8, 2018 in Business Strategy, First Look, Market Trends, Microservices Architecture, Technical Strategy

I joined the world of enterprise technology at an interesting crossroad – where many companies who have been developing in SOA for years are now...

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Beating (or Catching Up with) the Competition through APIs

by Alan_G on February 28, 2018 in API Economy, API Management, Business Strategy

Stories are frequently referenced by speakers about industry disruption – Uber, Airbnb, Apple Pay… the list goes on. While these incursions into an...

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Implementing Governance of an API Initiative

by Alan_G on February 9, 2018 in API Economy, API Management, Business Strategy, Getting Started

Determining the appropriate Governance processes for an API initiative is not easy. There are camps inside the company that tend to pull in conflicting...

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API Versioning – Best Practices (and not so great practices)

by Alan_G on January 29, 2018 in API Economy, API Management, Business Strategy

Believing you are not going to have to version an API is like believing you are not going to have to change a baby’s diaper....

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