The latest API industry use case paper is focused on examples in
Life Insurance and Financial Services.
One of the most common discussions I have with any business is about API use cases related to industry specific scenarios – their scenarios. We are making the information shared in these discussions more accessible to everyone by publishing a series of industry specific white papers covering these and related topics. Each white paper has a consistent format that includes:
- Identifying the common business drivers for API initiatives
- Describing an API identification methodology
- Supplying industry-specific examples using the methodology
- Discussing the current state of regulatory requirements and industry standards for APIs
- Providing recommendations for starting an API initiative
The Life Insurance and Financial Services industries are becoming very active in the API economy.
These industries are data-intensive and accessing data quickly across the enterprise, using data in new ways and interfacing with partners rapidly can provide competitive differentiation. In this paper, we cover use cases across a wide variety of scenarios – internal, partnering, social, analytics, and more.
I am excited to have worked with industry subject matter experts to author each paper in this series. In each case my co-authors bring years of real world industry experience working with companies in the industry. My co-authors for this paper are Carolyn Martin. Global Financial Services Marketing Program Director - IBM Cloud, and Michael Whalen, Financial services and Healthcare sectors Offering Manager - IBM Cloud.
You can
click here to download the paper.
To understand more about IBM’s thoughts on the API Economy visit the IBM
API Economy website. IBM API Connect is IBM’s complete foundation to Create, Run, Manage, and Secure APIs. You can find more information about IBM API Connect at the
API Connect website. And you can also experience a
trial version of API Connect.
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