Ann Marie Bond

Ann Marie Bond

Director, Product Marketing at Software AG

Recent posts

  • App & Data Integration

    This is how an iPaaS should work—develop anywhere, deploy anywhere 

    It’s been over a decade since Gartner introduced the Pace-Layered Application Strategy. This model, a way of organizing and managing applications to align them with business goals, is even more relevant today. The idea is that within an organization, there are multiple competing goals; maintaining core systems of record at one extreme and diving into innovative fast-fail initiatives at the other.…

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  • App & Data Integration

    How to Avoid API Data Leaks

    With the shift from monolithic applications to microservices and cloud computing, APIs are now commonplace. They help facilitate communication between multiple applications, services, and end users and have revolutionized how web applications are built.   However, while APIs have helped accelerate innovations in the digital landscape, they can expose the critical application business logic and sensitive data that malicious actors often…

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  • App & Data Integration

    The Architecture of a Modern API Ecosystem

    Since its conception, the modern API ecosystem has become much more complex and sophisticated to meet the increasing demands of today's digital world. In their early days, APIs were relatively simple, often consisting of straightforward endpoints that clients could use to retrieve data, interact with each other, or perform specific actions. However, as the use of APIs has grown, so…

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  • App & Data Integration

    Best Practices for API Security in 2023

    Application programming interface (API) security means protecting APIs — the ones you own and those you consume — from interception, exploitation, or misuse. Their shared use is critical to software development. However, APIs pose a security risk because they enable third parties to access sensitive data or application functionality. Therefore, it’s vital to ensure that shared resources are adequately secure. …

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  • App & Data Integration

    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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  • App & Data Integration

    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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  • App & Data Integration

    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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  • App & Data Integration

    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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  • App & Data Integration

    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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