When we started talking about the “API Economy”, we weren’t simply driving a marketing message. We helped create what truly has become an economy, one with all the real factors of what’s involved in a real economic system. The term is catchy, but it’s also what we live and breathe. When organizations use their 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 →

With the massive migration to the mobile platform, increasingly widening net of social media, and the blooming use of the cloud by most businesses, it can be tempting to think that enterprise API development and management will herald a whole new set of rules for the companies of today and tomorrow. The potentially dynamic universes… 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 →

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 →

According to The Caine Mutiny, a Navy ship is a system “designed by geniuses to be run by idiots.”  You might be tempted to think a similar thought about today’s mobile applications.  Watching teenagers play with a mobile front end to what you and I know is a vastly complex enterprise back end, it’s seductive… Continue reading →

Discussions about APIs have changed significantly during the past 10 years. I can remember talking with developers many years ago about very esoteric aspects of routines and data structures and it was all very, well, geeky. But at the same time, there was so much enthusiasm as Web APIs became more common, because to those… Continue reading →