Develop APIs That Work Properly for the Organization
Leverage APIs to connect your systems in today’s web-based world.
- CIOs have trouble integrating new technologies (e.g. mobile, cloud solutions) with legacy applications, and lack standards for using APIs across the organization.
- Organizations produce APIs that are error-prone, not consistently configured, and not maintained effectively.
- Organizations are looking for ways to increase application quality and code reusability to improve development throughput using web APIs.
- Organizations are looking for opportunities to create an application ecosystem which can expose internal services across the organization and/or to external third parties and business partners.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- Organizations are looking to go beyond current development practices to provide scalable and reusable web services.
- Web API development is a tactical competency that is important to enabling speed of development, quality of applications, reusability, innovation, and business alignment.
- Design your web API as a product that promotes speed of development and service reuse.
- Optimize the design, development, testing, and monitoring of your APIs incrementally and iteratively to cover all use cases in the long term.
Impact and Result
- Create a repeatable process to improve the quality, reusability, and governance of your web APIs.
- Define the purpose of your API and the common uses cases that it will service.
- Understand what development techniques are required to develop an effective web API based on Info-Tech’s web API framework.
- Continuously reiterate your web API to demonstrate to business stakeholders the value your web API provides.
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What Is a Blueprint?
A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your IT problems.
Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.
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Get the help you need in this 4-phase advisory process. You'll receive 5 touchpoints with our researchers, all included in your membership.
Guided Implementation 1: Examine the opportunities web APIs can enable
- Call 1: Determine what value your web APIs offer.
Guided Implementation 2: Design and develop a web API
- Call 1: Develop a process for designing your web APIs to determine your endpoints.
- Call 2: Determine how to develop your web APIs with considerations made for how it will be consumed.
Guided Implementation 3: Test the web API
- Call 1: Develop a process for testing your web APIs.
Guided Implementation 4: Monitor and continuously optimize the web API
- Call 1: Develop a process for monitoring your web APIs for continuous optimization.
Contributors
- Ken Toole, Adobe
- Alan Page, Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft
- Ed Anuff, VP, Product Strategy, Apigee
- John Musser, Founder and CEO, API Science
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