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Change is constant in business today. New companies are disrupting the market. And you customers' expectations are not only increasing but evolving. This means you need to react faster than ever before, but traditional approaches are no longer working. In…

In the last blog post, I showed that in the API economy, the success of APIs will be judged and determined by the customers of your API. One of the keys to success is focusing on the customer in the…

APIs are channels to open up an organization's data and capabilities. They create synergies between organizations or business units to grow the overall pie or to greatly increase the speed of delivery. To take advantage of these benefits, organizations are…

API management is now a crucial aspect of digital transformation that companies need to invest in so that they can use their APIs properly. The way you control how APIs are used at your company – either how the APIs…

APIs are the standard way of sharing data and capabilities in organizations as well as across organizations. They provide an interface and a contract to take advantage of other teams' resources. As a result, they create synergies and make it…

In part one of this miniseries on sustainable finance, the focus was on processes. Equally important is ESG data. The World Economic Forum reports that data is the number one ESG challenge for organizations. ESG data challenges arise from multiple…

What can we learn about API Security from the great detective Sherlock Holmes? If you carefully follow the clues left behind, you can find three principles and best practices that can be valuable to secure your APIs today. Software AG's…

APIs have well-established themselves as the standard way of creating value out of data and "API Economy" has become the buzzword for generating cash out of APIs. In order to take advantage of this trend and generate the most value…

API design is multi-dimensional, requiring you to consider both the business and the technology dimensions. Product management principles and techniques can help you juggle how an API is designed in both dimensions, so you don’t get lost in the weeds…

Most API providers spend a lot of time on the technical side of API design and implementation. They create a taxonomy for their domain, pick an architectural style, design the resources, create an OpenAPI specification, devise an API style guide…