Finishing up the API Economy Business Drivers and Use Case Categories series our final use case category is IoT – Internet of Things. I will focus on the methodology I use to identify API use cases so you can apply this to your specific business. As a reminder, you can find industry examples...
The next paper in the industry use case series is now available and focuses on the Automotive industry. 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...
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What is the most common question I am asked about APIs? The answer is, “can you give me an example in my industry?” About 15 months ago I started writing a series of blogs giving API examples for every industry. First I introduced a way to structure the discussion in a blog called, “...
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Tis the season for Media and Entertainment. The Superbowl was last week, the Grammy awards are this weekend and Oscars not too far behind. I just returned from a vacation to the Sundance Film Festival (not an IBM funded trip). While everyone else was enjoying the movies (and I did too), I was...
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Millions of lines of code moving at 60 MPH! The fastest growing aspects in the automotive industry are all about putting intelligence in the car. Accessing that intelligence is all about APIs. The Connected Car topic probably deserves a post by itself and I might do that down the road (pun...
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A few weeks ago I discussed how to identify good candidates for APIs . This week we will apply the techniques to Insurance. This is still generic and not specific to any single Insurance company. Hopefully some of these examples can provoke thought and help you identify APIs specific to you...
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What APIs should your business provide? How do you identify good API candidates? Previously we discussed API Economy Drivers and some of the high level use cases that are driving the adoption of APIs. In this post we will drill down on these use cases to help identify questions to ask that can...
Gartner predicts that by the end of 2014 75% of the Fortune 1000 will offer public Web APIs and that by 2016 50% of B2B collaboration will take place through Web APIs. Whether or not these predictions come to pass to make such predictions shows the incredible growth rate of Web APIs (also called...