API Trends: What to expect in 2012

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API Trends – What to expect in 201201.17.12 @ 11:05 PSTVOIP or Dial-in (see chat)

Sam Ramji @sramjiAnant Jhingran @jhingranBrian Pagano @brianpagano

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API Trends – What to expect in 2012

Enterprise APIs go mainstream

Explosion in popularity of public APIs… like Facebook, Twitter, etc.

The real revolution is in enterprise!

Enterprises of all sizes are API-enabling their back-end systems

Opening the aperture of the use of back-end systems to enterprises partners independent developers

Large enterprises embracing APIstelecom enterprises, like AT&Tretail enterprises, like SEARS

Expanded reach to developers sparks innovation …cool apps drive business

2011 - 10% enterprises doing APIs; 10% considering it

2012 - 30% enterprises doing APIs; 60% considering it

Enterprise APIs go mainstream (WAG!!)

API-centric architecture

Websites (portals) for people integration

SOA architecture for app-to-app integration

but…

API-Centric architecture

New API world focus on integration with apps and developers…not with people (via portals) or processes (via SOA)

Think outside-in - not - inside-out…easy consumption (REST) "chatty" APIs

Get comfortable handling(unpredictable) demand(rapidly changing) usage patterns

APIs - the de facto and default access point for back-end systems

Websites and some internal processes become clients of the "new" API layer no longer use back-end systems directly

API layer delivered through the Cloud …handle rapid and evolving provisioning

Data-centric APIs

Huge market for data – Siri, WolframAlpha…

Data-centric APIs

Today’s models- highly paid - custom feeds (Dun & Bradstreet) - free-for-all - sea of xls/csv files on a website

(Data.gov)

Data-centric APIs

Tomorrow’s model - in the middle- data brokered by APIs- free and freemium models co-exist

Today’s models- highly paid - custom feeds (Dun & Bradstreet) - free-for-all - sea of xls/csv files on a website

(Data.gov)

Data-centric APIs

Growing enterprises data becomes the primary business …data through apps is the new business model

Data-centric APIs

Enterprises will API-enable their data…RESTify

Data-centric APIs

Is it about easy consumption of silos? Or is it for clean linking across silos?

While data sources might be motivated to publish clean, linkable data, a more likely scenario is new data platforms that cleanse and standardize and aggregate

Data-centric APIs

Enterprise APIs for Analytics

Business automation for bottom-line improvements

Business optimization for top-line improvements

API-adoption juggernaut focused on business automation

However, the future of APIs is business optimization

APIsBusiness of APIs

Business

Analysis

APIs optimized for the mobile developer

Mobile apps drive API development and adoption

Multiple devices – multiple requirements

Today - mobile apps for iPhone (iOS) and Android

Trend- HTML5/JavaScript for apps that can run on any device

Mobile devices need to receive less data in API responses

Shouldn’t need to make repeated API calls to perform simple tasks

Inefficient APIs make things worse for app developer API provider

Problems are multiplied by mobile demand patterns many small API requests

Concurrency the sheer number of devices hitting the API at once

Let developers filter the size and content of the API response before it's returned to the app

Give developers the right format for their app environment plist for iOS JSONP for HTML5/JavaScript

OAuth 2.0 – the default security model

In 2012 OAuth will become the default choice for securing APIs that enable end-users to interact through apps with their valued services

Apps are the new intermediaries in the digital world

Apps put buyers and sellers togetherbuyer = end userseller = API provider

Great apps package the provider's API in …a great user experience

Adoption

users can explore and try an app without compromising their private data and privileges services like Salesforce.com, Twitter, Facebook, eBay, . . .

User can terminate the app's access to their account if they don't like or don't trust an app

API Trends

API-centric architecture

Data-centric APIs

OAuth 2.0 - the default security model

So don’t forget that when you implement your API!

THANK YOUQuestions and ideas to:

@sramji@jhingran@brianpagano

API Trends: What to expect in 2012

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