Refresh your API Management strategy for improved monetization, multi-cloud support, developer delight, and security

We've all heard the buzzwords, the excitement around API's, the growing adoption over the last decade. Indeed, no conversation about Digital Transformation is complete without API's.

• "Every business must be a digital business."
• "Unlock the value of data."
• "API's for bimodal IT."
• "API's are about business survival."
• "Integrate everything."
• "API's to accelerate IoT and mobile development."
• "API's to secure the Open Enterprise."
• "Scale to meet needs for new forms of interactions - wearables, AR/VR."

But when I'm talking to you (you know who you are) - that's like preaching to the choir. I'm talking about digital natives, pioneers, visionaries who saw the advantages of an API strategy and have had one in place for anything from a couple of years to over a decade. What we are hearing from you today is really how to refresh that strategy to get the next round of benefits from your investments in your API strategy.

Like any digital enablement technology, the field of API Management has been moving at an accelerated pace over the last decade. Some of the areas that have become important are:

1. Native architecture to support multi-cloud and hybrid environments
2. Looking beyond RESTful API's - did someone say "GraphQL?"
3. Security as built in feature, not an after-thought
4. Self-service deployment and management
5. Improved governance as scale grows exponentially

If you are interested interested in sharing notes with our practice and exchanging battle stories and best practices, please reach out to me directly. We may be able to help you accelerate your roadmap.