Best Practices: The Role of API Management
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The document discusses best practices for API management, emphasizing the importance of APIs in extending brand presence and reaching a larger market with fewer resources. It outlines strategies for building effective APIs, including understanding customer needs, creating a supportive developer environment, and ensuring API security and lifecycle management. Ultimately, it advocates for developing robust API platforms to enhance business ecosystems and improve client engagement.
![Create stickiness
• Customers are fickle
• Exposing your business in greater ecosystems
[via APIs] builds dependence on your product
or service
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Best Practices: The Role of API Management
- 1. Best Practices The Role of API Management Copyright © 2001-2012 SOA Software, Inc. All Rights Reserved. All content subject to confidentiality agreement between SOA Software and Customer. www.soa.com
- 2. The API Economy --Based on directory of 6,000 web APIs listed at ProgrammableWeb, May 2012 www.soa.com
- 3. APIs are an Effect, not a Cause • Extend/embed your brand • Enable new channels/devices to reach: – Partners – App Developers – Employees (BYOD) • Create stickiness for your products or services www.soa.com
- 5. Accelerate New Channels • In the beginning companies reached their customers using: – – – – The phone Snail mail Advertising Yellow Pages www.soa.com
- 6. Accelerate New Channels • Then they invested in web sites • Initially just marketing themselves • Then eCommerce • Those that didn’t….aren’t www.soa.com
- 7. Accelerate New Channels • With the cellphone and mobile internet came more pressures • Companies extended their web presence with mobile (WAP) versions of their existing site • Limited success www.soa.com
- 8. Accelerate New Channels • The iPhone effect • Mobile web browsers are not adequate… • ..so companies build their own Apps to provide a rich experience to their consumers www.soa.com
- 9. Accelerate New Channels • If building your own App helps reach your own consumers…. www.soa.com
- 10. Accelerate New Channels • If building your own App helps reach your own consumers…. • A Developer Community building tens, hundreds, or even thousands of Apps… www.soa.com
- 11. Accelerate New Channels • If building your own App helps reach your own consumers…. • A Developer Community building tens, hundreds, or even thousands of Apps… • Can reach consumers in ways you can’t even dream of www.soa.com
- 12. Accelerate New Channels • Building the enterprise Website reached 20% of your market… • For 80% of your total development investment www.soa.com
- 13. Accelerate New Channels • Building APIs reaches the remaining 80% of your market. • For only 20% of your total development investment www.soa.com
- 14. Accelerate new channels • APIs = – more apps, – more developers, – more partners • Through Federation www.soa.com
- 15. Create stickiness • Customers are fickle • Exposing your business in greater ecosystems [via APIs] builds dependence on your product or service www.soa.com
- 16. Review • Extend/embed your brand – Use well defined APIs to control the rendering of your syndicated/shared content • Enable new channels/devices – Significantly reduce technical hurdles to business integration of partners or new sales channels – Use federation to rapidly expand the eco-system of your business • Create stickiness to your products or services – Make your products or services relevant in related activities to build dependence on your offering www.soa.com
- 18. Best Practices • Build the right API - Your API must be a product • Build it the right way – Build from the outside in • Run it successfully – Protect, secure, Manage, Measure • Share it aggressively – Publish, support, syndicate • -> Build an API Platform www.soa.com
- 19. The Enterprise API Platform • Think about your customers’ needs, the apps that will meet those needs, and the APIs that will be needed to support them • There will likely be a technology and capability gap between the APIs and your backend systems www.soa.com
- 20. 1 - Rehashing mashups? • There are hundreds of technologies out there to build APIs • Two key factors: – The number, type and abilities of development resources at your disposal. – The presence of, and complexity of, the backend services and data sources • Having backend services (SOA) greatly increases your time to market www.soa.com
- 21. 2 - Sandbox • The Sandbox should provide a simple test platform for developers. • For sensitive data/transactions it may provide a dummy application front-end • Could also support App verification www.soa.com
- 22. 3 - developer.yourcompany.com • The Developer Portal is the focal point for your API initiative • Describes the value of the API • Hosts technical and legal documentation • Support the developers • Lifecycle and workflow of Apps and Apis www.soa.com
- 23. 4 – API Security and Management • Support all non-functional requirements – – – – – API Security, incl. OAuth Traffic Monitoring QoS Management Caching App Management & Provisioning – Policy and Plan Management www.soa.com
- 24. 5 – Lifecycle Management • Your API initiatives will have to integrate with your existing SDLC • The dependencies on backend services and systems will drive the need for an integrated approach to lifecycle and operations management www.soa.com
- 25. On-premise or in the Cloud • The API Platform, or components of it are now available as a PaaS offering • This allows you to accelerate time-tomarket and lower your initial setup costs www.soa.com
- 26. Product Overview Copyright © 2001-2012 SOA Software, Inc. All Rights Reserved. All content subject to confidentiality agreement between SOA Software and Customer. www.soa.com
- 27. SOA Governance & API Management www.soa.com
- 28. Thanks… • • • • • Alistair Farquharson, CTO, SOA Software alistair.farquharson@soa.com https://twitter.com/afarqu @atmosphere_api @SOASoftwareInc www.soa.com
Editor's Notes
- #10: Innovate outside the enterpriseDevelopers are the gateway to your consumers