Guy Kawasaki, a true evangelist if there ever was one (in fact, when it comes to preaching the gospel of software development, he WAS the first evangelist), liked to talk about the concept of “letting a thousand flowers bloom”. He borrowed the concept from Chairman Mao, and all political ideology aside, the gist is this:… Continue reading →

When focusing or comparing SOA versus API approaches, it’s easy to take shortcuts and thus not considering the whole scope. This inevitably brings the reflexion to a partial, if not wrong result. Across its blog and a SOA versus API trilogy, SOA software provides you with a realistic view of this exciting topic. Feel free… Continue reading →

The need to effectively utilize APIs is increasingly becoming a critical need for organizations that rely on software to run their business. New revenue channels can easily be created, and integration with partner and customer services is much easier with enterprise APIs, and forward-thinking organizations understand that it’s crucial for them to become smart about… Continue reading →

This year isn’t over yet, but having had a few intense, whirlwind weeks in our recent schedule, we’re taking inventory of some of our accomplishments of 2012 and we’re beyond pleased. The last couple of weeks especially have been notable for us as we announced a new Enterprise API Platform, launched our Open Developer Community,… Continue reading →

We just wrapped up a very successful experience at the 11th Cloud Expo, which was held last week at the Santa Clara Convention Center.  It was an exciting, packed event for SOA Software.  We debuted our two new products: The Enterprise API Platform and our SOA Software Open™ platform, a free offering that brings App… Continue reading →

When all the talk of security, scalability, manageability and all the other aspects of software is done, we can get the heart of the matter – developers. There may be a group of MBAs who spend months with PowerPoint and Excel to plan something really big, but it’s the software developers who execute and create.… Continue reading →

Our focus is enterprise API management, and we’ve been very successful at helping major companies extend their influence and business activities to millions of users. While enterprise is where we make our living, the development and usage of APIs – any APIs – is something we find wildly exciting (and that’s not said facetiously –… Continue reading →

GigaOm published an enlightening piece [ http://gigaom.com/2012/10/06/business-process-api-ification-the-lego-promise-fulfilled/ ]  by Mayfield Fund partner Robin Vasan, Business Process API-ification: The LEGO promise Fulfilled. As a successful venture capitalist, Vasan brings an interesting perspective to the current thinking about the API economy. It’s primarily because he thinks the API-ification of applications will only truly be successful, and that… Continue reading →

The recent surge in the popularity of APIs among the consumer public has sent companies scrambling to the programmer’s drawing board to devise their own. Much of this has to do with the continuing trends of portability in electronic devices (e.g, Smartphones and Tablets) which – as it turns out – are a natural medium… Continue reading →

In the early days of API promotion, there was mostly a simple release-and-sit-back approach taken by most enterprise-level businesses seeking to put their product into the hands of the waiting public. As niches saturate, the public is still waiting but now there are so many competitive products rushing to fill their hands that active promotion… Continue reading →

When you consider what is happening in retail sales and information exchange in the tech world, this will probably be known as the Age of Interconnectedness. Given the preeminence of the application programming interface (API) in allowing the disparate languages that direct these programs to understand each other and relate the results to the end-user.… Continue reading →

It’s no secret that shortly after search engine optimization took the world of online advertising by storm, the elements that would someday catapult social media up to share the same sphere of popularity took root, as web developers and web surfers alike began to organize forums and newsgroups online to promulgate shared interests. Today, this… Continue reading →

More often than not, with simplicity comes greater risk. Making platforms more user-friendly tends to make them more easily compromised by system breaches, by virtue of the fact that there are more elements instituted – precisely to make an interface more readily embraced by a wider network – through which attacks can occur or software/hardware… Continue reading →

Things are always obvious in retrospect. This mantra applies just as much to the emergence of the enterprise of application program interface (API) from the exclusive use of specialists in the B2B arena to their widespread public consumption. Granted, the results of APIs have always been accessible to the public-at-large.  However, the current dynamic utility… Continue reading →

It used to be that companies employing the website visibility tactic of search engine optimization (SEO) could allow this to form the entirety of their online marketing strategy. Targeted visitors would come pouring into their site just based on the keywords. Even in the early days of the most popular application programming interfaces (APIs) –… Continue reading →

APIs are precisely the long-missing bridge in facilitating B2B interaction, addressing businesses that generally haven’t thought about their respective capacities for interfacing when they’re in production. This makes any future, mutually beneficial liaisons that much more difficult to execute. APIs lowers these technical barriers, allowing businesses to collaborate effectively in the interests of their now… Continue reading →

The proliferation of APIs is a sign of the tech times, with many companies just starting to understand their power in the wake of both the social media explosion and the inroads that mobile marketing are making into the consumer sphere. For the business person who’s just coming onto this burgeoning scene, it’s certainly not… Continue reading →

Like any product, creating a solid piece of software requires a lot of people focusing on doing what they’re really good at. Product managers focus on what the market wants and builds a list of requirements to deliver on that; developers create the product, refine it, add requirements and ensure it’s stable; a marketing team… Continue reading →

The X.Commerce Conference was a couple of weeks ago in San Francisco, where Paypal showcased their next generation of multi-channel commerce tools ranging from Paypal Access for quick consumer login, to expanded mobile, tablet and device based purchasing on Microsoft’s Xbox 360 game consoles. Behind all the hype at X.Commerce, at the heart of every move EBay / Paypal… Continue reading →