Case Study: The PlanMill ERP API Saga
APIs can expedite old business architecture — but for some organizations it may be a difficult process. Masking a 10+ year old ERP system with a clean interface is no easy task. Tuning into design...
View ArticleSCIM: Building the Identity Layer for the Internet
In 2014, a working group reached consensus for v2.0 of SCIM — a simple yet powerful standard that more and more large digital organizations are beginning to adopt for cross-domain identity management....
View ArticleHow Do You Connect Every Company in the World?
The ancient Sumerians were the first known civilization to record their culture on cuneiform tablets. Much of the written artifacts that exist today from that time are not eloquent prose, tales of old...
View ArticleEvolving a Company’s IS in the Lego Computing Age: How to Choose a Brick Product
Unlike diamonds, information systems (IS) are not forever. As a company evolves, its IS evolves too. This evolution is induced by a company’s business and organizational transformations, regulation...
View ArticleBlockchain: Beyond Cryptocurrency
In many ways, the internet is still a “wild west” technological landscape. New, innovative technologies emerge yearly, promising to expand functionality and redefine interactivity, changing our day to...
View ArticleUsing IoT Data to Hack the World
When we think about the Internet of Things, we tend to consider it as a loose collection of nifty tools and neat toys. We think about the smart fridge from Samsung that can mark food for future...
View ArticleThe Brilliance of Spotify Internal APIs to Mitigate Payments
Adding new layers of complexity within a digital service without sacrificing user experience is a difficult endeavor. Especially for platforms that accept online payments and subscription formats,...
View ArticleAssembling The API Management Jigsaw In Big (And Small) Companies
Have you ever tried to implement a new process in a big company? Believe us when we tell you that it’s not an easy (or fun) task. From obtaining initial approval all the way through to disseminating...
View Article6 Steps To Evolve an API into a Lucrative Platform
There’s a certain breed of developer that has been talking about the benefits APIs can offer for many years now. In fact, if you’re reading this article, it’s likely that you’re one of them! But it’s...
View Article4 Important Takeaways from the Changing API Ecosystem
If you’ve been paying attention to the API space over the last year, you won’t be surprised to hear that there has been a lot of movement amongst companies that provide API-related solutions. The most...
View ArticleAPI Mediation: Why You Need an API Experience Layer
The API economy has ushered in a new era of application integration, causing a sea change across enterprise IT and application providers alike. APIs are providing access to data securely across...
View ArticleAPI Integrators Court Enterprise Business Players
Making mobile apps is not the developer driver it used to be. When it comes to monetizing the API space, the trend is towards enterprise hybrid cloud apps and platform agnostic products. Instead of...
View ArticleHow To Make A Self-Descriptive Enterprise API
One of the hardest things to do as an API provider is to work within the enterprise environment. This is due, in large part, to the very nature of enterprise structures – often slow to adopt new...
View ArticleFrom API Doing to API Thinking in a Major Bank
In any sizable organization, it’s hard to feel like you can make a difference with just your tech skills. There’s no surprise that software engineer Flavia Sequeira felt exactly that when she joined...
View ArticleScalable APIs are Built From Consistency
Scalability is a hard sought after quality in making architectural decisions for software products these days. Yet, the most robust way to increase the likelihood that your product continues to scale...
View ArticleArchitecting The People Platform
How does Conway’s Law impact the way we build effective internal communication within API-first companies? When we write about web APIs, we inevitably focus on one of two things: The technicalities of...
View ArticleWhat is the Richardson Maturity Model?
While most developers are aware of Roy Fielding and REST, fewer may be aware of the Richardson Maturity Model. Though the Richardson Maturity Model is often considered more esoteric in comparison to...
View Article20+ API Management Solutions
API management solutions are almost dime a dozen in the current space – this is a good thing, as never before have their been more choices for the average API host to integrate into the API. These...
View Article7 Cases of Extremely Successful API Adoption
Building a business that relies heavily on APIs is a model that has brought success to many companies. Sometimes success comes in the form of diversified revenue streams, other times it means...
View ArticleAPI Security: A Gateway To Heaven
Because they power applications used by hundreds, thousands, and even millions of people, security is hugely important when creating APIs. Despite this, perhaps due to their now outdated reputation as...
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