Let’s say that your business has been successfully transacting business online for a number of years; you deliver great information about your product, people like your product, and customers use your Web site to purchase your product. You’re taking advantage of innovative online marketing strategies and you’re seeing a nice rise traffic, clicks and consumption.… Continue reading →

One of the biggest impediments to true productivity in an enterprise is the inability of applications to share data across domains. So much of a typical worker’s effectiveness relies on applications that are both internal and external, but because security is a critical issue, it often enforces roadblocks to the flow of the needed data.… Continue reading →

There have been quite a few serious security incidents in cloud computing in recent years (see http://www.cloutage.org/ if you really want get in the weeds).  Still, so far we have not experienced a “game changer,” a Hindenberg-like moment where nothing will ever be the same.   That said, we need to stay starkly aware that the… 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 →

If you read any blog, publication, or marketing collateral on API management you can’t get more than a few sentences before the author throws out everyone’s favorite examples of API nirvana: Facebook, Twitter or the ever popular Netflix. It’s true that these companies pioneered the early days of API centric strategies, and the result changed… Continue reading →