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| api as a service business model: API Economy 101 Jarkko Moilanen, Marjukka Niinioja, Marko Seppänen, Mika Honkanen, 2019-02-14 API is technology and digital product used for artificial intelligence, platform economy, and internet. It has the capability to change business models dramatically. APIs (application programming interfaces) are becoming a major competitive factor for companies. This book takes on the fundamental questions of API Economy and approaches the subject pragmatically and clearly without technical jargon. The book clarifies the birth and shape of the API Economy with numerous practical examples. This is the first API Economy book based on scientific references. Originally this popular book was written in Finnish. It is a great start for students and advanced professionals alike. After reading this book, you will understand what it is all about and how to move forward and grow your business with APIs. The authors are leading Finnish API-experts with an abundance of experience from API and platform economy as authors, researchers, and lecturers and consultants. |
| api as a service business model: Enterprise API Management Luis Weir, 2019-07-23 A strategy and implementation guide for building, deploying, and managing APIs Key FeaturesComprehensive, end-to-end guide to business-driven enterprise APIsDistills years of experience with API and microservice strategiesProvides detailed guidance on implementing API-led architectures in any businessBook Description APIs are the cornerstone of modern, agile enterprise systems. They enable access to enterprise services from a wide variety of devices, act as a platform for innovation, and open completely new revenue streams. Enterprise API Management shows how to define the right architecture, implement the right patterns, and define the right organization model for business-driven APIs. Drawing on his experience of developing API and microservice strategies for some of the world's largest companies, Luis Weir explains how APIs deliver value across an enterprise. The book explores the architectural decisions, implementation patterns, and management practices for successful enterprise APIs, as well as providing clear, actionable advice on choosing and executing the right API strategy in your enterprise. With a relentless focus on creating business value, Luis Weir reveals an effective method for planning, building, and running business products and services with APIs. What you will learnCreate API strategies to deliver business valueMonetize APIs, promoting them through public marketplaces and directoriesDevelop API-led architectures, applying best practice architecture patternsChoose between REST, GraphQL, and gRPC-style API architecturesManage APIs and microservices through the complete life cycleDeploy APIs and business products, as well as Target Operating ModelsLead product-based organizations to embrace DevOps and focus on delivering business capabilitiesWho this book is for Architects, developers, and technology executives who want to deliver successful API strategies that bring business value. |
| api as a service business model: APIs: A Strategy Guide Daniel Jacobson, Greg Brail, Dan Woods, 2012 Creating channels with application programming interfaces--Cover. |
| api as a service business model: Continuous API Management Mehdi Medjaoui, Erik Wilde, Ronnie Mitra, Mike Amundsen, 2018-11-14 A lot of work is required to release an API, but the effort doesn’t always pay off. Overplanning before an API matures is a wasted investment, while underplanning can lead to disaster. This practical guide provides maturity models for individual APIs and multi-API landscapes to help you invest the right human and company resources for the right maturity level at the right time. How do you balance the desire for agility and speed with the need for robust and scalable operations? Four experts from the API Academy show software architects, program directors, and product owners how to maximize the value of their APIs by managing them as products through a continuous life cycle. Learn which API decisions you need to govern and how and where to do so Design, deploy, and manage APIs using an API-as-a-product (AaaP) approach Examine ten pillars that form the foundation of API product work Learn how the continuous improvement model governs changes throughout an API’s lifetime Explore the five stages of a complete API product life cycle Delve into team roles needed to design, build, and maintain your APIs Learn how to manage your API landscape—the set of APIs published by your organization |
| api as a service business model: Designing Web APIs Brenda Jin, Saurabh Sahni, Amir Shevat, 2018-08-29 Using a web API to provide services to application developers is one of the more satisfying endeavors that software engineers undertake. But building a popular API with a thriving developer ecosystem is also one of the most challenging. With this practical guide, developers, architects, and tech leads will learn how to navigate complex decisions for designing, scaling, marketing, and evolving interoperable APIs. Authors Brenda Jin, Saurabh Sahni, and Amir Shevat explain API design theory and provide hands-on exercises for building your web API and managing its operation in production. You’ll also learn how to build and maintain a following of app developers. This book includes expert advice, worksheets, checklists, and case studies from companies including Slack, Stripe, Facebook, Microsoft, Cloudinary, Oracle, and GitHub. Get an overview of request-response and event-driven API design paradigms Learn best practices for designing an API that meets the needs of your users Use a template to create an API design process Scale your web API to support a growing number of API calls and use cases Regularly adapt the API to reflect changes to your product or business Provide developer resources that include API documentation, samples, and tools |
| api as a service business model: Web Services Business Strategies and Architectures Mike Clark, Peter Fletcher, Jeffrey J. Hanson, Romin Irani, Mark Waterhouse, Jorgen Thelin, 2013-12-14 Adopting Web Services will affect many processes within any organization. To throw light on the most important issues, we have commissioned Experts in the Industry to share their insights. The resultant papers cover a broad spectrum from architecture to business strategies without diverting into deep technological fashions. Each study in the collection will answer specific business challenges thrown up by Web Service architectures. Before changing, commissioning, or evaluating a Web Service initiative, all IT Managers, System Architects, Lead Developers, and Business Visionaries should study and reference this book. |
| api as a service business model: Business of APIs Kin Lane, 2011-04-28 In recent years, API adoption has exploded among developers, for reasons that this book will examine. But the purpose of this book is not to discuss how to deliver an API but to rather how to scale the business side to meet this rising developer demand. Written by someone with an engineering and a business background, The Business of APIs also aims to bridge the technical and the business aspects of API development.This book serves to help people understand what APIs are, who uses them, and the different types of APIs that are available. As the title suggests, this is a business-oriented book. Nonetheless it does seek to educate users about what types of technologies go into popular Web APIs. The book also surveys the history of modern Web APIs and examines how they've been used successfully.If you are considering launching an API, this book should help you understand the common stumbling blocks that have been faced by many API owners -- then hopefully you can avoid them. The book will also identify common building blocks used by API owners, building blocks that should be fundamental for your API planning and development.The Business of APIs highlights what it takes to be successful in providing quality Web APIs and points to some of the innovative steps new businesses are taking with their APIs -- all in an effort to build vibrant API ecosystems and healthy businesses. |
| api as a service business model: Practical API Architecture and Development with Azure and AWS Thurupathan Vijayakumar, 2018-06-20 Learn the business and technical importance of API design and architecture using the available cloud services from Azure and AWS. This book starts off with an introduction to APIs and the concept of API Economy from a business and organizational perspective. You'll decide on a sustainable API strategy and API architecture based on different case scenarios. You'll then look at actual examples on API development guidelines, providing a practical view and approach towards the API development and aligning teams in API development. This book walks you through the API gateway services available in Azure and AWS and reviews different approaches to API Security. This will prepare you for understanding the trade-off between security and the frictionless API experience. What You'll Learn Implement API Gateways to streamline API Development Examine Security Mapping with API gateways from Azure and AWS Apply API implementation using Serverless architecture Review evolving APIs for monitoring and changing business requirements Use code samples in API security implementations Who This Book Is For Developers and architects with .NET and web development experience who want to learn about API design. |
| api as a service business model: Implementing Oracle API Platform Cloud Service Andrew Bell, Sander Rensen, Luis Weir, Phil Wilkins, 2018-05-31 Work with the newest Oracle API Platform Cloud Service to interface with the increasingly complex array of services your clients want. Key Features Understand the architecture and functionality of the new Oracle API Cloud Service Platform Understand typical use cases for the new platform and how it can work for you Design your own APIs, then deploy and customize your APIs Implement Oauth 2.0 policy and custom policies Migrate from Oracle 12c solutions to the new Oracle API platform Book Description Implementing Oracle API Platform Cloud Service moves from theory to practice using the newest Oracle API management platform. This critical new platform for Oracle developers allows you to interface the complex array of services your clients expect in the modern world. First, you'll learn about Oracle’s new platform and get an overview of it, then you'll see a use case showing the functionality and use of this new platform for Oracle customers. Next, you’ll see the power of Apiary and begin designing your own APIs. From there, you’ll build and run microservices and set up the Oracle API gateways. Moving on, you’ll discover how to customize the developer portal and publish your own APIs. You’ll spend time looking at configuration management on the new platform, and implementing the Oauth 2.0 policy, as well as custom policies. The latest finance modules from Oracle will be examined, with some of the third party alternatives in sight as well. This broad-scoped book completes your journey with a clear examination of how to transition APIs from Oracle API Management 12c to the new Oracle API Platform, so that you can step into the future confidently. What you will learn Get an overview of the Oracle API Cloud Service Platform See typical use cases of the Oracle API Cloud Service Platform Design your own APIs using Apiary Build and run microservices Set up API gateways with the new API platform from Oracle Customize developer portals Configuration management Implement Oauth 2.0 policies Implement custom policies Get a policy SDK overview Transition from Oracle API Management 12c to the new Oracle API platform Who this book is for This book is for all Oracle developers who are working or plan to work with the Oracle API Platform Cloud Service. |
| api as a service business model: The Future of Competitive Strategy Mohan Subramaniam, 2022-08-16 How legacy firms can combine their traditional strengths with the power of data and digital ecosystems to forge a new competitive strategy for the digital era. How can legacy firms remain relevant in the digital era? In The Future of Competitive Strategy, strategic management expert Mohan Subramaniam explains how firms can leverage both their traditional strengths and the modern-day power of data and digital ecosystems to forge a new competitive strategy. Drawing on the experiences of a range of companies, including Caterpillar, Sleep Number, and Whirlpool, he explains how firms can benefit from data’s enlarged role in modern business, develop digital ecosystems tailored to their unique business needs, and use new frameworks to harness the power of data for competitive advantage. Subramaniam presents digital ecosystems as a combination of production and consumption ecosystems, which can be used by legacy firms to unlock the value of data at various levels—from improving operational efficiencies to creating new data-driven services and transforming traditional products into digital platforms. He explores the ways sensors and the Internet of Things provide new kinds of customer data; presents the concept of digital competitors—other firms that have access to similar data; discusses the new digital capabilities that firms need to develop; and addresses privacy and security issues associated with data sharing. Who needs this book? Any firm that wants to revitalize traditional business models, offer a richer customer experience, and expand its competitive arena into new digital ecosystems. |
| api as a service business model: Data Management at Scale Piethein Strengholt, 2020-07-29 As data management and integration continue to evolve rapidly, storing all your data in one place, such as a data warehouse, is no longer scalable. In the very near future, data will need to be distributed and available for several technological solutions. With this practical book, you’ll learnhow to migrate your enterprise from a complex and tightly coupled data landscape to a more flexible architecture ready for the modern world of data consumption. Executives, data architects, analytics teams, and compliance and governance staff will learn how to build a modern scalable data landscape using the Scaled Architecture, which you can introduce incrementally without a large upfront investment. Author Piethein Strengholt provides blueprints, principles, observations, best practices, and patterns to get you up to speed. Examine data management trends, including technological developments, regulatory requirements, and privacy concerns Go deep into the Scaled Architecture and learn how the pieces fit together Explore data governance and data security, master data management, self-service data marketplaces, and the importance of metadata |
| api as a service business model: Understanding the Shift! Selvan Athishtaraj V, 2022-05-13 In the today’s corporate world, business management is very important. Business strategies are chalked out based on the customer’s needs and affinity. This is where business models become significant. Thirty years ago, ordering any commodity or article was a tedious process with a long waiting time for customers. Choices and comparisons were limited. However, with the reinvention of the business model in late 1985, business transactions have been made very easy and attractive. Brands like McDonald’s, Toys ‘R’ Us and Ryanair were instrumental in devising various successful business models. In the last fifteen years or so, companies such as Uber, Ola, Amazon and eBay have made ordering and buying products and services simple using convenient apps. In fact, the very way of doing business has become so simple, thanks to innovative business models and platforms. Search engine optimization, search engine marketing and public relations have reduced the marketing burden of brands, who are now able to reach their target audience anywhere at any time. A lot has changed in the way businesses operate and serve customers! This book captures the essence of various business models and the technological advancements in the world of business, with the aim to trigger new ideas and process innovation. The book is a must-read for new and existing businesses, start-ups and new-age companies. |
| api as a service business model: Principles of Web API Design James Higginbotham, 2021-12-08 The Full-Lifecycle Guide to API Design Principles of Web API Design brings together principles and processes to help you succeed across the entire API design lifecycle. Drawing on extensive in-the-trenches experience, leading consultant James Higginbotham helps you align every stakeholder on specific outcomes, design APIs that deliver value, and scale the design process from small teams to the entire organization. Higginbotham helps you bring an outside-in perspective to API design to reflect the voices of customers and product teams, map requirements to specific and well-organized APIs, and choose the right API style for writing them. He walks through a real-world example from the ground up, offering guidance for anyone designing new APIs or extending existing APIs. Deliver great APIs by getting your design processes right Gain agreement on specific outcomes from design teams, customers, and other stakeholders Craft job stories, conduct EventStorming, and model capabilities Identify the right APIs, and organize operations into coherent API profiles Choose the best styles for each project: REST, gRPC, GraphQL, or event-based async APIs Refine designs based on feedback from documenters, testers, and customers Decompose APIs into microservices Mature your API program, implementing design and management processes that scale This guide is invaluable for anyone involved in planning or building APIs--architects, developers, team leaders, managers in single and multi-team environments, and any technical or business professional delivering API-as-a-product offerings. Register your book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details. |
| api as a service business model: Digital Business Models for Industry 4.0 Carlo Bagnoli, Andrea Albarelli, Stefano Biazzo, Gianluca Biotto, Giuseppe Roberto Marseglia, Maurizio Massaro, Matilde Messina, Antonella Muraro, Luca Troiano, 2022-05-20 Technological advancements are contributing to shape future business models and the industrial scenario. Companies face the challenge of having to adapt to the frequently shifting technology landscape. Therefore, organizations must exploit technological advances to thrive in the digital revolution. This book presents and discusses emerging digital business models in the Industry 4.0. These models are illustrated with real case studies and include data-driven, platform, smart factory and servitization among others. The book introduces a detailed classification to help organizations to redesign their current business models and discusses how to gain unique competitive advantages. The book includes not only theoretical concepts to understand the context of digital transformation but also an assessment framework to enable and support innovation in organizations and create new revenue streams. The book will be of interest to students and professionals alike who want to understand the core of the Industry 4.0. |
| api as a service business model: Platform Strategy Tero Ojanperä, Timo O. Vuori, 2021-10-03 What do Amazon, Google, Visa and AirBnB all have in common? They are all platform businesses. They know they can go beyond their industry segments. They capitalize on wider ecosystems that strengthen their offering and expand commercial opportunities. And now your business can do the same. Welcome to the world of platform businesses. In Platform Strategy one of the world's most creative men in business according to Fast Company and a leading strategy professor at a Financial Times top 40 business school show you the ropes. They lead you through the seven steps you can take to turn your business into a successful platform. Learn to harness emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, cement your business into thriving ecosystems and go beyond industry boundaries. Uncover how business leaders at companies as diverse as John Deere, KONE, and Visa are leading their businesses to the future by reinventing their business model. Authors Tero Ojanperä and Timo Vuori distil the disrupters' methods to an actionable blueprint. In Platform Strategy they put the emphasis on what you can do as leader; harness new technologies, work with partners but also crucially, recognize the fear of change in your people and utilize that energy to drive progress. More than just about technology, this book is at the centre of the leadership agenda for the future. |
| api as a service business model: API Management Brajesh De, 2017-03-17 Maximize the impact of your assets and business services by providing APIs for developers and other users. The journey described in this book starts with identifying business assets. As part of the API team, you then need to identify and define the requirements of traffic management, security, mediation, and orchestration. You also must define metrics for the analytics to measure the success of the overall API program. API documentation and the ease of developer onboarding also determine the success of the APIs. Finally, monetization of these APIs leads to revenue generation for the enterprise. Author De — an expert in building and managing API solutions — provides enterprise architects, designers, and technologists with insight into the world of APIs and the various technical aspects of building and managing an effective API management solution. API Management: Developing and Managing APIs for your Organization: Introduces the basics of APIs and highlights their value Provides an overview of technologies for building an API management solution and defines the requirements, including how to build a RESTful API Offers design principles for building developer-friendly APIs Explains how to secure your APIs Shows how to use API analytics to measure the success of your APIs Demonstrates how to monetize APIs Finally, API Management touches on various technical nuances of creating, distributing, and managing an API. This book will not only help you learn how to design, build, deploy, and manage an API for an enterprise scale, but also generate revenue for your organization. What You'll Learn Discover the API life cycle Design and develop APIs Implement API security Test your APIs Deploy and monitor your APIs Who This Book Is For Enterprise architects, technology enthusiasts, security architects, and operations specialists. |
| api as a service business model: Opening Up Library Systems through Web Services and SOA Marshall Breeding, 2009-01-01 Libraries are increasingly demanding the ability to exploit their library systems (LIS) using application programming interfaces (APIs), Web services, or other technologies. This issue of Library Technology Reports explores how vendors of open source library technology are approaching this desire for customization plus an in-depth exploration... |
| api as a service business model: Getting Started with IBM API Connect: Concepts and Architecture Guide Wisnewski Benjamin, Bhargav Perepa, Ilene Seelemann, Kurtulus Yildirim, Rahul Gupta, Soad Hamdy, Vasfi Gucer, IBM Redbooks, 2016-09-08 Application programming interfaces (API) act as the digital glue that links services, applications, and systems together to create compelling customer experiences. Using APIs you can create interfaces between back-end systems and applications that can help you bring new digital services to market, open revenue channels, and exceed customer expectations. IBM® API Connect is an API management solution from IBM that offers capabilities to create, run, manage, and secure APIs and microservices, thus managing the full lifecycle of APIs for both on-premises and cloud environments. This IBM RedpaperTM publication gives a broad overview of APIs and API Connect and covers key considerations for managing the lifecycle of APIs. This paper is targeted for owners of an API Connect based API, such as, C-level executives, members of the business development teams, product managers, and technical evangelists. For practical scenarios using API Connect, refer to the companion IBM Redbooks® publication, Getting Started with IBM API Connect: Scenarios Guide, REDP-5350. |
| api as a service business model: Connected Services Paul Golding, 2011-08-24 Connected Services is a must-read for telco strategists who need to get up to speed on how the world of software and the web 2. 0 works. —Andreas Constantinou, Research Director, VisionMobile This book is a must read for those charged with leading innovation in a world of connected services where telco and Internet collide. —Jason Goecke, VP of Innovation, Voxeo Labs This book explains the common underlying technological themes that underpin the new era of connected services in a post Web 2.0 epoch In this book, the author explores the underlying technological themes that underpin the new era of connected services. Furthermore, it explains how the technologies work and what makes each of them significant, for example, the potential for finding new meaning in data in the world of BIG DATA platforms, often referred to as No-SQL databases. In addition, it tackles the newest areas of technology such as HTML5, Android, iOS, open source, mash-ups, cloud computing, real-time Web, augmented reality, and more. Finally, the book discusses the opportunities and challenges of a connected world where both machines and people communicate in a pervasive fashion, looking beyond the hype and promise of emerging categories of communication such as the Internet of Things and Real-time Web to show managers how to understand the potential of the enabling technologies and apply them for meaningful applications in their own world. Key Features: Explores the common and emergent underlying technological themes that underpin the new era of connected services Addresses the newest areas of Internet technology such as web and mobile 2.0, open source, mash-ups, cloud computing, web 3.0, augmented reality, and more Shows the reader how to understand the potential of the enabling technologies and apply them for meaningful applications in their own world Discusses new developments in the technological landscape such as Smartphone proliferation, maturation of Web 2.0, increased convergence between mobile networks and the Internet, and so forth Examines modern software paradigms like Software-as-as-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) Explores in detail how Web start-ups really work and what telcos can do to adopt lean and agile methods This book will be an invaluable guide for technical designers and managers, project managers, product managers, CEOs etc. at mobile operators (O2, Vodafone, Orange, T-Mobile, BT), fixed operators, converged operators and their contributory supplier networks (e.g. infrastructure providers). Internet providers (Google, Yahoo, Amazon, eBay, Apple, Facebook), analysts, product managers, developers, architects, consultants, technology investors, analysts, marketing directors, business development directors will also find this book of interest. |
| api as a service business model: RESTful Rails Development Silvia Puglisi, 2015-10-08 The Web is slowly but surely changing from a model in which a human reader browses content on web pages to a model in which services and clients (not necessarily humans) exchange information. And because of this, author Silvia Puglisi explains, it makes more sense to build platforms instead of just products or applications. Platforms are like ecosystems interconnecting different applications, services, users, developers, and partners, and offer many benefits. In this book, you'll learn how to design and develop Representational State Transfer (REST) platforms in Rails. You'll begin with an introduction to Ruby on Rails, and then move quickly through new concepts. At the end of each chapter, you'll have learned something new about building and organically extending a multi-service platform spanning different devices—and will have had some fun in the process. By the end of the book you'll know how to build an architecture composed of different services accessing shared resources through a set of collaborating APIs and applications. Explore the basics of REST and HTTP, including REST architecture and the role of hypermedia Get to know Rails and Ruby on Rails Learn about API development and create an API Take a thorough look at REST, including Asynchronous REST and testing RESTful services Work with data streams as you map them onto an application UI and integrate external APIs in your application Learn about device-independent development Use data analytics to recognize important events, develop key metrics, and track them Explore various tools you can use to build your own data analytic platform Learn how to scale a Rails application successfully Examine privacy and security issues and the implications of handling and collecting user data |
| api as a service business model: Elements of Digital Transformation Shailesh Kumar Shivakumar, 2023-12-06 Elements of Digital Transformation is a practitioner’s guide to the digital transformation process. It is also a guide for managers in today’s organizations that are accelerating digital transformation to modernize core technology capabilities and processes. The book discusses such key components of digital transformation as processes, principles and proven methods. It also covers such novel concepts in digital transformation as the first-time right framework, incident management transformation, digital factory, cloud migration, API-first approach and legacy modernization. Other highlights of the book include: A cloud migration framework along with a cloud migration methodology, rollout strategy and migration principles Principles and approaches for legacy modernization and process modernization Smart ticket management, smart problem management, proactive maintenance and ticket-avoidance architecture The novel digital factory approach to automate the software process Detailed case studies, a sample digital transformation exercise and a consulting exercise for digital transformation provide readers with real-world digital transformation scenarios and best practices. The book also discusses DevOps, automation and agile delivery models that help in digital transformation. |
| api as a service business model: Digitizing Government A. Brown, J. Fishenden, M. Thompson, 2014-11-26 For businesses large and small, investment in digital technologies is now a priority essential for success. Digitizing Government provides practical advice for understanding and implementing digital transformation to increase business value and improve client engagement, and features case studies from the private and public sectors. |
| api as a service business model: Fundamentals of Marketing 2e Paul Baines, Sophie Whitehouse, Paolo Antonetti, Sara Rosengren, 2021-01-12 Based on the bestselling Marketing by Baines, Fill, Rosengren, and Antonetti, Fundamentals of Marketing is the most relevant, concise guide to marketing, combining the most essential theories with a global range of practitioner insights. |
| api as a service business model: Integration Throughout and Beyond the Enterprise Ian Heritage, Claus T. Jensen, Tamjit Kumar, Maria Luisa Lopez de Silanes Ruiz, Sambasivarao Nanduri, Juan Carlos Pineda, Abhinav Priyadarshi, Katherine Sanders, David Shute, Jaime Martin Talavera, Mark Taylor, John M. Zoltek Jr., Margaret Ticknor, IBM Redbooks, 2014-04-18 Throughout the history of the IT industry, integration has been an important part of most projects. Whether it is integration of transactions, data, or processes, each has challenges and associated patterns and antipatterns. In an age of mobile devices, social networks, and cloud services, and big data analytics, integration is more important than ever, but the scope of the challenge for IT projects has changed. Partner APIs, social networks, physical sensors and devices, all of these and more are important sources of capability or insight. It is no longer sufficient to integrate resources under control of the enterprise, because many important resources are in the ecosystem beyond enterprise boundaries. With this as the basic tenet, we address these questions: What are the current integration patterns that help enterprises become and remain competitive? How do you choose when to use which pattern? What is the topology for a composable business? And how do you accelerate the process of implementation through intelligent choice of supporting integration middleware? This IBM® Redbooks® publication guides integration practitioners and architects in choosing integration patterns and technologies. |
| api as a service business model: Universal Access in Human–Computer Interaction. Designing Novel Interactions Margherita Antona, Constantine Stephanidis, 2017-06-28 The three-volume set LNCS 10277-10279 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the11th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, UAHCI 2017, held as part of the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2017, in Vancouver, BC, Canada in July 2017, jointly with 14 other thematically similar conferences. The total of 1228 papers presented at the HCII 2017 conferences were carefully reviewed and selected from 4340 submissions. The papers included in the three UAHCI 2017 volumes address the following major topics: Design for All Methods and Practice; Accessibility and Usability Guidelines and Evaluation; User and Context Modelling and Monitoring and Interaction Adaptation; Design for Children; Sign Language Processing; Universal Access to Virtual and Augmented Reality; Non Visual and Tactile Interaction; Gesture and Gaze-Based Interaction; Universal Access to Health and Rehabilitation; Universal Access to Education and Learning; Universal Access to Mobility; Universal Access to Information and Media; and Design for Quality of Life Technologies. |
| api as a service business model: Continuous API Management Mehdi Medjaoui, Erik Wilde, Ronnie Mitra, Mike Amundsen, 2021-10-18 A lot of work is required to release an API, but the effort doesn't always pay off. Overplanning before an API matures is a wasted investment, while underplanning can lead to disaster. The second edition of this book provides maturity models for individual APIs and multi-API landscapes to help you invest the right human and company resources for the right maturity level at the right time. How do you balance the desire for agility and speed with the need for robust and scalable operations? Four experts show software architects, program directors, and product owners how to maximize the value of their APIs by managing them as products through a continuous lifecycle. Learn which API decisions you need to govern Design, deploy, and manage APIs using an API-as-a-product (AaaP) approach Examine 10 pillars that form the foundation of API product work Learn how the continuous improvement model governs changes throughout an APIâ??s lifetime Explore the five stages of a complete API product lifecycle Delve into team roles needed to design, build, and maintain your APIs Learn how to manage APIs published by your organization |
| api as a service business model: Unbundling the Enterprise Stephen Fishman, Matt McLarty, 2024-09-10 “Unbundling the Enterprise...blew me away. It is a combination of some of my favorite books: Dr. Carliss Baldwin's Design Rules and Eric Evans's Domain Driven Design with the strategic insights akin to Good to Great and Reengineering the Corporation.” —Gene Kim, researcher and bestselling author of The Phoenix Project and Wiring the Winning Organization Unbundling the Enterprise provides a blueprint for organizations to remain relevant and maximize growth in the digital economy by embracing the flexibility and optionality enabled by APIs. Drawing on real-world examples of both innovative “digital pirates” and legacy “digital settlers,” authors Stephen Fishman and Matt McLarty articulate strategies to unbundle business capabilities into reusable digital assets. These building blocks can then be rapidly combined and recombined to capitalize on new opportunities and innovations as they emerge. For business and technology leaders, Unbundling the Enterprise provides an actionable methodology to engineer “happy accidents” and sustainable success in turbulent times. Underpinning their strategy are techniques tailored for digital business, like using APIs to create widespread optionality, designing digital business models focused on value exchange, and optimizing outcomes through tight feedback loops. More than copying the superficial traits of digital pioneers, this book reveals the deeper mindset shift required to continually capitalize on unanticipated opportunities enabled by rapid technology innovation. |
| api as a service business model: Strategic Information Systems and Technologies in Modern Organizations Howard, Caroline, Hargiss, Kathleen, 2017-01-25 The role of technology in business environments has become increasingly pivotal in recent years. These innovations allow for improved process management, productivity, and competitive advantage. Strategic Information Systems and Technologies in Modern Organizations is an authoritative reference source for the latest academic research on the implementation of various technological tools for increased organizational productivity and management. Highlighting relevant case studies, empirical analyses, and critical business strategies, this book is ideally designed for professionals, researchers, academics, upper-level students, and managers interested in recent developments of technology in business settings. |
| api as a service business model: API Success Nelson Petracek, 2020-06-05 Authoritative advice on creating and running a successful API program. The number of articles, books, and documents available on the topic of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) might lead you to believe the topic has been well researched and well documented. But in fact, confusion abounds, especially about the best ways to create and maintain a successful API program. This book addresses that confusion. It encapsulates years of practical experience on how to make the right decisions at the right times when planning, designing, developing, and marketing APIs. It's your go-to resource when you want to: Understand how to develop your API program's business case Discover how to best engage your API consumer audience Learn the best ways to design, build, test, and deploy APIs regardless of technology Improve the chances of success of your API program over the long haul Technology will come and go, but the best practices for building an API program are here to stay. Make your journey through the world of APIs a successful one with this book as your experienced guide. Petracek provides an excellent guide on how corporations should leverage an API based service ecosystem to deliver amazing digital customer experiences. -T.M. Ravi, Managing Director, The Hive Nelson has taken the complex, technical, arcane, but critical topic of application programming interfaces (APIs) and explained them in a manner that allows the reader and Information Technology practitioner to understand. -Salil Kulkarni, EVP & Interim Chief Information Officer, Caesar's Entertainment This book takes you through everything you need to think about and work through to build an API competency. Each chapter sets out concrete actions for making your program state-of-the-art, and I highly recommend it to anyone involved in that effort. - Maureen Fleming, Program Vice President & Analyst, IDC |
| api as a service business model: Designing Microservices Platforms with NATS Chanaka Fernando, 2021-11-19 A complete reference for designing and building scalable microservices platforms with NATS messaging technology for inter-service communication with security and observability Key FeaturesUnderstand the use of a messaging backbone for inter-service communication in microservices architectureDesign and build a real-world microservices platform with NATS as the messaging backbone using the Go programming languageExplore security, observability, and best practices for building a microservices platform with NATSBook Description Building a scalable microservices platform that caters to business demands is critical to the success of that platform. In a microservices architecture, inter-service communication becomes a bottleneck when the platform scales. This book provides a reference architecture along with a practical example of how to implement it for building microservices-based platforms with NATS as the messaging backbone for inter-service communication. In Designing Microservices Platforms with NATS, you'll learn how to build a scalable and manageable microservices platform with NATS. The book starts by introducing concepts relating to microservices architecture, inter-service communication, messaging backbones, and the basics of NATS messaging. You'll be introduced to a reference architecture that uses these concepts to build a scalable microservices platform and guided through its implementation. Later, the book touches on important aspects of platform securing and monitoring with the help of the reference implementation. Finally, the book concludes with a chapter on best practices to follow when integrating with existing platforms and the future direction of microservices architecture and NATS messaging as a whole. By the end of this microservices book, you'll have developed the skills to design and implement microservices platforms with NATS. What you will learnUnderstand the concepts of microservices architectureGet to grips with NATS messaging technologyHandle transactions and message delivery guarantees with microservicesImplement a reference architecture for microservices using NATSDiscover how to improve the platform's security and observabilityExplore how a NATS microservices platform integrates with an enterprise ecosystemWho this book is for This book is for enterprise software architects and developers who want to gain hands-on microservices experience for designing, implementing, and managing complex distributed systems with microservices architecture concepts. Intermediate-level experience in any programming language and software architecture is required to make the most of this book. |
| api as a service business model: Enterprise Application Integration David S. Linthicum, 2000 Dealing with the concepts behind a vendor's products, this a guide for IT managers on how to ensure the IT infrastructure matches the need of the enterprise, and which procedures should be followed to ensure this happens. |
| api as a service business model: Web Services Anne Thomas Manes, 2003 bull; bull;Written by the author who Enterprise Systems Journal noted for her uncanny ability to apply technology to create new solutions. bull;Helps identify scenarios and applications where Web services can provide the best ROI for your company bull;Foreword by Brown and Hagel, bestselling Web services authors of Out of the Box |
| api as a service business model: Design and Build Great Web APIs Mike Amundsen, 2020-10-06 APIs are transforming the business world at an increasing pace. Gain the essential skills needed to quickly design, build, and deploy quality web APIs that are robust, reliable, and resilient. Go from initial design through prototyping and implementation to deployment of mission-critical APIs for your organization. Test, secure, and deploy your API with confidence and avoid the release into production panic. Tackle just about any API challenge with more than a dozen open-source utilities and common programming patterns you can apply right away. Good API design means starting with the API-First principle - understanding who is using the API and what they want to do with it - and applying basic design skills to match customers' needs while solving business-critical problems. Use the Sketch-Design-Build method to create reliable and scalable web APIs quickly and easily without a lot of risk to the day-to-day business operations. Create clear sequence diagrams, accurate specifications, and machine-readable API descriptions all reviewed, tested, and ready to turn into fully-functional NodeJS code. Create reliable test collections with Postman and implement proper identity and access control security with AuthO-without added cost or risk to the company. Deploy all of this to Heroku using a continuous delivery approach that pushes secure, well-tested code to your public servers ready for use by both internal and external developers. From design to code to test to deployment, unlock hidden business value and release stable and scalable web APIs that meet customer needs and solve important business problems in a consistent and reliable manner. |
| api as a service business model: Service Provision Kenneth J. Turner, Evan H. Magill, David J. Marples, 2005-01-28 This book provides the first overview of the service technologies available to telecoms operators working in a post-convergence world. Previous books have focused either on computer networks or on telecoms networks. This is the first to bring the two together and provide a single reference source for information that is currently only to be found in disparate journals, tool specifications and standards documents. In order to provide such broad coverage of the topic in a structured and logical fashion, the book is divided into 3 parts. The first part looks at the underlying network support for services and aims to explain the technology that makes the user-visible services possible. This section covers multimedia networking, both traditional (legacy) and future (softswitch) call processing, intelligent networks, the Internet, and Wireless networks. Part 2 deals with how these services may be analysed and managed. Chapters cover topics such as commercial issues, service management, quality of service, security, standards and APIs. Part 3 concludes the book by looking ahead at evolving technologies and more speculative possibilities, discussing the kinds of services that may be possible in the future and the technologies that will support them. * Focuses is on how the technology supports the services, rather than on technology for its own sake * Contributors drawn from both academia and industry (companies such as Marconi, BT, Telcordia, Cisco, Analysys) to give both theoretical and real-world perspectives * Unique singe-reference source for a wide range of material currently found only in disparate papers, specs and documentation * Covers brand new technologies such as JAIN, JTAPI, Parlay, IP, multimedia networking, active networks, WAP, wireless LANs, agent-based services, etc. |
| api as a service business model: Database Systems for Advanced Applications Hiroyuki Kitagawa, Yoshiharu Ishikawa, Qing Li, Chiemi Watanabe, 2010-03-18 This two volume set LNCS 5981 and LNCS 5982 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2010, held in Tsukuba, Japan, in April 2010. The 39 revised full papers and 16 revised short papers presented together with 3 invited keynote papers, 22 demonstration papers, 6 industrial papers, and 2 keynote talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 285 submissions. The papers of the first volume are organized in topical sections on P2P-based technologies, data mining technologies, XML search and matching, graphs, spatial databases, XML technologies, time series and streams, advanced data mining, query processing, Web, sensor networks and communications, information management, as well as communities and Web graphs. The second volume contains contributions related to trajectories and moving objects, skyline queries, privacy and security, data streams, similarity search and event processing, storage and advanced topics, industrial, demo papers, and tutorials and panels. |
| api as a service business model: Solving Identity Management in Modern Applications Yvonne Wilson, Abhishek Hingnikar, 2019-12-18 Know how to design and use identity management to protect your application and the data it manages. At a time when security breaches result in increasingly onerous penalties, it is paramount that application developers and owners understand identity management and the value it provides when building applications. This book takes you from account provisioning to authentication to authorization, and covers troubleshooting and common problems to avoid. The authors include predictions about why this will be even more important in the future. Application best practices with coding samples are provided. Solving Identity and Access Management in Modern Applications gives you what you need to design identity and access management for your applications and to describe it to stakeholders with confidence. You will be able to explain account creation, session and access management, account termination, and more. What You’ll Learn Understand key identity management concepts Incorporate essential design principles Design authentication and access control for a modern application Know the identity management frameworks and protocols used today (OIDC/ OAuth 2.0, SAML 2.0) Review historical failures and know how to avoid them Who This Book Is For Developers, enterprise or application architects, business application or product owners, and anyone involved in an application's identity management solution |
| api as a service business model: Interoperability and Open-Source Solutions for the Internet of Things Ivana Podnar Žarko, Arne Broering, Sergios Soursos, Martin Serrano, 2017-04-03 This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the second International Workshop on Interoperability and Open-Source Solutions for the Internet of Things, InterOSS-IoT 2016, held in Stuttgart, Germany, November 7, 2016. The 11 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 17 submissions during two rounds of reviewing. They are organized in topical sections on semantic interoperability, interoperabile architectures and platforms, business models and security, platform performance and applications. |
| api as a service business model: Network Convergence Hu Hanrahan, 2007-03-13 The present information age is enabled by telecommunications and information technology and the continued convergence of their services, technologies and business models. Within telecommunications, the historic separations between fixed networks, mobile telephone networks and data communications are diminishing. Similarly, information technology and enterprise communications show convergence with telecommunications. These synergies are captured in the concept of Next Generation Networks that result from evolution to new technologies, enabling new services and applications. Network Convergence creates a framework to aid the understanding of Next Generation Networks, their potential for supporting new and enhanced applications and their relationships with legacy networks. The book identifies and explains the concepts and principles underlying standards for networks, services and applications. Network Convergence: Gives comprehensive coverage of packet multimedia, enterprise networks, third generation mobile communications, OSA/Parlay and developments in fixed networks. Gives an integrated view of diverse information and communications systems and technology through a common NGN Framework. Delves into protocols, APIs and software processes for supporting services and applications in advanced networks. Discusses a variety of applications of telecommunications supporting IT and IT enhanced by communications. Follows developments in operations support systems standards and links these to next generation networks. Includes a wealth of examples, use cases, tables and illustrations that help reinforce the material for students and practitioners. Features an accompanying website with PowerPoint presentations, glossary, web references, tutorial problems, and 'learn more' pages. This essential reference guide will prove invaluable to advanced undergraduate and graduate students, academics and researchers. It will also be of interest to professionals working for telecommunications network operators, equipment vendors, telecoms regulators, and engineers who wish to further their knowledge of next generation networks. |
| api as a service business model: GPT-3 Sandra Kublik, Shubham Saboo, 2022-07-11 GPT-3: NLP with LLMs is a unique, pragmatic take on Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3, the famous AI language model launched by OpenAI in 2020. This model is capable of tackling a wide array of tasks, like conversation, text completion, and even coding with stunningly good performance. Since its launch, the API has powered a staggering number of applications that have now grown into full-fledged startups generating business value. This book will be a deep dive into what GPT-3 is, why it is important, what it can do, what has already been done with it, how to get access to it, and how one can build a GPT-3 powered product from scratch. This book is for anyone who wants to understand the scope and nature of GPT-3. The book will evaluate the GPT-3 API from multiple perspectives and discuss the various components of the new, burgeoning economy enabled by GPT-3. This book will look at the influence of GPT-3 on important AI trends like creator economy, no-code, and Artificial General Intelligence and will equip the readers to structure their imaginative ideas and convert them from mere concepts to reality. |
| api as a service business model: BIAN 2nd Edition – A framework for the financial services industry BIAN eV, 2021-07-09 The Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN) is a global, not-for-profit association of banks, solution providers, consultancy companies, integrators and academic partners, with the shared aim of defining a semantic standard for the banking industry covering all banking activity and almost all of the well-known architectural layers. BIAN’s Reference Architecture for the Financial Industry provides its users with a set of building blocks that, when used in different combinations, can support all of the functionality and information a bank needs for both its internal functioning and its collaboration with partners in an Open Finance and Open API economy. BIAN’s Reference Architecture for the Financial Industry is freely available on the BIAN website. This website also provides a wealth of information on both the theory and practice of the standard. So why this book? Importantly, it summarizes all of the above information and guides the reader through it on a step-by-step basis. It provides the reader with a thorough understanding of BIAN’s architecture and how it can be used to support an organization on its journey to becoming an agile business organization and developing an application platform. BIAN is a semantic standard. It provides business building blocks and defines them in business terms. It provides a business view on both the business and application architectures. This second edition not only includes the more recent deliverables, it also takes a stepped approach through the different topics. It aims to be more appealing to a business audience by addressing the building blocks of BIAN and their possible use in business terms, whilst also including many real-life examples of BIAN’s usage. As such, it should not only appeal to application and business architects, but also to their managers, their business partners and other stakeholders who work closely with them. The first part of the book focuses on the theory: BIAN’s organization, the principles and patterns on which its architecture is based, and its building blocks. The second part of the book explains – in methodology-independent terms – how BIAN can be applied in different architectural layers by different disciplines, in co-operation with architects. This part of the book includes a number of practical examples intended to improve the reader’s understanding of the building blocks of the BIAN architecture and encourage them to apply it for the benefit of their own organization. The final part of the book should inspire the reader even further by clearly illustrating the synergy between the content that BIAN delivers and the architecture methodology provided by TOGAF. |
API - Wikipedia
An application programming interface (API) is a connection between computers or between computer programs. It is a type of software interface, offering a service to other pieces of …
What is an API (Application Programming Interface)
Apr 9, 2025 · Let's break down the concept of an API in simple terms. What is an API? An API is a set of rules that allow different software applications to communicate with each other.
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An API, which stands for application programming interface, is a set of protocols that enable different software components to communicate and transfer data. Developers use APIs to bridge …
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Dec 5, 2022 · API stands for Application Programming Interface. The application can be any software that performs a specific task and the interface is a point where two applications …
What is an API? - Application Programming Interfaces Explained
API stands for Application Programming Interface. In the context of APIs, the word Application refers to any software with a distinct function. Interface can be thought of as a contract of …
API | Definition, Meaning, Examples, & Facts | Britannica
API, sets of standardized requests that allow different computer programs to communicate with each other. APIs establish the proper way for a developer to request services from a program. …
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Jan 15, 2025 · In this guide, you'll find everything you need to understand the fundamentals of APIs, how they enable seamless integration between systems, and why they are essential for modern …
What is an API? | API definition - Cloudflare
What is an application programming interface (API)? An application programming interface (API) is a set of rules that enables a software program to transmit data to another software program.
What Is an API (Application Programming Interface)? Definition …
When running on a server, an API is a set of coded routines that receives requests from and sends responses to other programs. API designers implement that code through standardized …
What Is an API? (+ How Do They Work?) - Coursera
Aug 13, 2024 · API stands for application programming interface. An API is a set of protocols and instructions written in programming languages such as C++ or JavaScript that determine how …
API - Wikipedia
An application programming interface (API) is a connection between computers or between computer programs. It is a type of software interface, offering a service to other pieces of …
What is an API (Application Programming Interface)
Apr 9, 2025 · Let's break down the concept of an API in simple terms. What is an API? An API is a set of rules that allow different software applications to communicate with each other.
What is an API? A Beginner's Guide to APIs - Postman
An API, which stands for application programming interface, is a set of protocols that enable different software components to communicate and transfer data. Developers use APIs to …
What is an API and How Does it Work? APIs for Beginners
Dec 5, 2022 · API stands for Application Programming Interface. The application can be any software that performs a specific task and the interface is a point where two applications …
What is an API? - Application Programming Interfaces Explained
API stands for Application Programming Interface. In the context of APIs, the word Application refers to any software with a distinct function. Interface can be thought of as a contract of …
API | Definition, Meaning, Examples, & Facts | Britannica
API, sets of standardized requests that allow different computer programs to communicate with each other. APIs establish the proper way for a developer to request services from a program. …
What is an API? How APIs work, simply explained | Contentful
Jan 15, 2025 · In this guide, you'll find everything you need to understand the fundamentals of APIs, how they enable seamless integration between systems, and why they are essential for …
What is an API? | API definition - Cloudflare
What is an application programming interface (API)? An application programming interface (API) is a set of rules that enables a software program to transmit data to another software program.
What Is an API (Application Programming Interface)? Definition …
When running on a server, an API is a set of coded routines that receives requests from and sends responses to other programs. API designers implement that code through standardized …
What Is an API? (+ How Do They Work?) - Coursera
Aug 13, 2024 · API stands for application programming interface. An API is a set of protocols and instructions written in programming languages such as C++ or JavaScript that determine how …
