enterprise api adoption patterns

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Enterprise API Adoption Patterns

Laura Heritage@heritagelaura


APIs – Extend the Reach of your Business


4 Adoptions Patterns

AccelerateDrive Monetize

Analyze

APIs• 4 External Innovation• 3 Partner• 2 Mobile• 1 Internal


Internal API Adoption

API

API

API

Consume 3rd Party APIs

APIBanking

Investments

Credit Card

Lending

API

API

API

APIs Across LoBs

API API API

APIs Within LoB

Simplify Acquisitions

APIs


Internal - APIs Within LoB

API API API

• Private APIs and Services• Known Consumer – Manual Consumption• Can be highly sensitive data

• How do you build the right level of API / Service• How do you manage your atomic services and the

APIs that you produce and consume within your LoB?

• How do you plan for growth and innovation?• How do you protect your data?

• Creates flexibility in the architecture• Improves teams ability to respond to changes


Internal - APIs Across LOB

APIBanking

Investments

Credit Card

Lending

API

API

API

• Private APIs• Known Consumer - Self- Service Consumption• Business Relationship• Can be highly sensitive data

• How do you manage the APIs you consume from other LoBs?

• How do you enforce quality and standards required by the different LoBs?

• How do you manage the consumption of your APIs by other LoBs?

• How do you protect your data? PCI?

• Increase adoption rate of shared resources• Consistent customer experience across LoBs• Improves ability to change and grow business


Internal - Consume 3rd Party APIs

API

API

API

• Public APIs• Business Relationship – Self Service

• Do you know which external 3rd Party APIs are being used within your organization or company?

• How do your procure them? Credit card? Corporate Procurement?

• How do you manage the relationship of the APIs which you consume? Are they PCI compliant?

• Fulfills capabilities you do not provide internally• Faster time to market


Internal - Simplify Acquisitions

• Private APIs• Business Relationship – Manual

• How long does a system stay in acquisition mode? • Does a system ever get retired?

• Streamline acquisition integrations


API For Mobile

Internal / Employee Mobile Apps

ExternalMobile

API Platform

3rd Party Mobile App Developer

InternalMobile App Developer

APIAPI API

• Private and Public APIs• Business Relationship – Manual and

Automatic

• Increases flexibility in your mobile strategy• Lower cost of your mobile strategy• Lower development effort• Consistent experience across mobile, web

and applications

• How are you going to secure the API and App?

• How are you going to onboard the developers

• How will you manage the versions?

Every mobile strategy should have APIs at its base


Partner APIs Adoption

Keeping Pace with CompetitorsFaster Connections

Partners Demanding It

REST

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API Partner Connections

API Platform

APIAPI API

• Private APIs• Known Consumer - Self- Service Consumption• Business Relationship

• How do you quickly on board the partners?• How do you manage the terms and conditions with

each partner• Do you need to Scope the API per Partner?• Do you need to Certify the App when it’s built?• Do you need to provide a sandbox environment?

• Faster connection to partners• Growth of partner ecosystem• Improved partner / customer experiences


API External Innovation

API Platform

APIAPI API

Developers

• Public APIs• Unknown Consumer - Self- Service Consumption• Business Relationship

• Which and how much of your resources do you expose?

• How are you going to monetize?• How are you going to drive adoption?• How are you going to onboard?• How are you going to secure and protect your

backend enterprise?• How are you going to scale?

• Drives innovation• Establishes your company as a platform• Increases partner ecosystem• Provides / Increases revenue


Business Impact Of API Adoption Patterns

BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP FULLFILLMENT POTENTIAL

BUSINESS IMPACTREALISTIC BUSINESS

IMPACT

PRIVATE(CUSTOM

Within LoB)Manual

(internal) Manual None None

PRIVATE(SELF-SERVEAcross LoB /

Mobile)

Automatic(internal) Automatic High

(for big companies) Medium

PARTNER Manual Automatic High High

PUBLIC Automatic Automatic Very High Medium

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Internet of Things – Emerging API Adoption Pattern

Can’t spell internet of things without APIs• IoT and Wearables connect

to one or more APIs

Real-Time Interactions Challenges Can be Abstracted by APIs• Authentication• Authorization / Delegated

Access• Bandwidth & Display

Restrictions• Monitoring Analytics• Data slimming &

aggregation• Data sharing

User Data Sharing


The API Lifecycle

Plan

Build

RunShare

Analyze


Reference Architecture

Plan Build Run Share Analyze


API Platform Capabilities

Platform

Licensing

Quota Mgmt.

Partner Mgmt.

PCI Compliance

Provisioning

Policy Mgmt.

Monitoring

OAuth

Federation

Analytics

Lifecycle

API/Services

Application

User

Compliance

Integrations

Gateway

Security

Authentication

Protection

IAM Integration

Encryption

Mediation

Quality of

Service

Paging/Caching

Orchestration

Scripting

API Portal

Search

Documentation

Groups

Social


Our Capabilities Streamlined for Efficiency

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