Ann Marie Bond

Ann Marie Bond

Director, Product Marketing at Software AG

Recent posts

  • Integration & APIs

    You need to set business KPIs for your APIs. Here’s why.

    APIs are top-notch profit generators. They can accelerate innovation, improve business efficiency, and open the doors to new lines of revenue. But often, companies fail to harness the profit potential of their APIs by not aligning their API development and management with business objectives. Rogue APIs that respond to a passing need rather than driving towards strategic goals can proliferate.…

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  • Integration & APIs

    Don’t let API risk keep you from API opportunity

    Were you one of the hundreds of thousands of people who moved your workouts to the basement with a Peloton in the last 2 years?  Guess what – you probably shared your personal information with the world. Or maybe you had to start using a mobile health app to communicate with your doctor.  Your sensitive data could have been accessed…

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  • Integration & APIs

    Hybrid integration: The new blueprint for digital transformation

    Digital transformation can fundamentally change the way you operate and deliver value to customers and partners, and it has become increasingly urgent over the past two years. Yet, the digital transformation process itself can be daunting. It is complex, disruptive, and time-consuming, and if done wrong could cost not only money but also opportunity in the market. Companies that want…

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  • Integration & APIs

    When integrations become insights

    As the value of data visibility as a differentiator becomes more evident, there remains the challenge of connecting to vastly different apps and data sources, wherever they are. Almost all types of work involve some form of exchanging data. And when those exchanges are automated, they’re often handled as hybrid integrations between applications, data sources, and systems. These integrations are designed to…

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  • Integration & APIs

    Smart Speakers are dumb without Integration and APIs

    Even as human interaction grows more and more digital (Zoom, Teams, etc.), there is another conversationalist entering the picture in a big way: Voice-activated technology through smart speakers. As of this year, a total of 53 million users will have a voice assistant or smart speaker. That’s double the number in US homes since 2018, just for residential use. But even as…

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  • News

    Get connected, stay connected

    Today, the world is at your fingertips. From your laptop, from virtually anywhere in the world, you can connect to people and things that are thousands of miles away. You can connect to data to build analytics, you can place orders, get helpful feedback from customers, and execute automated business processes that span countries. The information available to you is…

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  • Integration & APIs

    The spotlight stays on APIs and microservices in 2021

    APIs will continue to grab the spotlight on center stage this year, with microservices waiting in the wings to perform as co-star. Adoption of APIs is set to rise further in 2021, with 58% of executives making the API economy a top priority for their organization. Around 20 years ago APIs gave birth to a more connected world; one where you could connect, communicate, share and innovate -…

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  • Integration & APIs

    With microservices and APIs, you get what you ordered

    The other day I was ordering a new jacket from a popular website. The process was efficient and friendly; I was able to find, configure and pay for exactly the jacket I wanted in less than 10 minutes. That’s when things went wrong. Apparently, this was an in-demand jacket and, even though it appeared to be available, the warehouse was…

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  • Integration & APIs

    Why microservices need pessimists

    As agility becomes the new transformation buzzword, microservices are having their moment in the sun. With success stories like Netflix and Google, businesses of every size are looking at microservices initiatives. Business leaders are buzzing with excitement for microservices. Indeed, they bring them up in meetings and put them into presentations as the panacea for all business problems. But the real problem is that…

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  • Integration & APIs

    2021 integration & API management predictions

    The year 2020 showed that organizations which had invested in digital transformation were the ones that were resilient enough to pivot and survive. Integration and APIs are two sides of the same coin, and digital transformation cannot happen without them. Without them, all you have is a collection of systems and silos of data. This is why integration and APIs have…

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