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Program The World

Program The World

by Claus Torp Jensen @ APIStrat 2014 in Chicago

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  1. “Program the World” APIs and the Internet of Things Claus

    T Jensen, PhD Senior Technical Staff Member Chief Architect Twitter: @ClausTorpJensen Blog: developer.ibm.com/api/author/ctjensen Sept 25th, 2014
  2. Not all APIs are made the same - IoT APIs

    are “naked” ootb “$7bn worth of items on eBay through APIs” Mark Carges (Ebay CTO) The API which has easily 10 times more traffic then the website, has been really very important to us.” Biz Stone (Co-founder, Twitter) “The adoption of Amazon’s Web services is currently driving more network activity then everything Amazon does through their traditional web sites.” Jeff Bar (Amazon evangelist) / Dion Hinchcliffe (Journalist) stores (800) ###s web sites Not having an API today is like not having a website in the 1990s…
  3. 3 3 © 2014 IBM Corporation • Each F1 car

    is considered a prototype solution – is never finished • Design objective is to enable rapid and continuous evolution Built-in Analytics Well-designed component interfaces Continuous testing Upgradable components Rapidly replaceable components Clearly documented Controls Rapid innovation is enabled by “good design”
  4. 4 4 © 2014 IBM Corporation Organizations must restlessly re-invent

    and customer experience must be personal and immediate Hybrid Cloud Hybrid Cloud Managed APIs Managed APIs Mobile & Social Mobile & Social Big Data and Internet of Things Big Data and Internet of Things • Consumer driven mobile evolution is more than phones • Logistics will drive intelligent corporate IoT • “Program the World” is more about API consumption • Quote: “In five years Science Fiction will be real”
  5. An Engaging Experience Omni-channel is much more difficult than multi-channel

    opportunities to engage customers (and employees) Millions of devices interaction context with historical data and trends “in-the-now” dynamic interaction context from location, time, social media and other events on the insight gained through enrichment and perception to enable positive business outcomes Near-real-time Perceive Act Enrich Detect
  6. 6 6 © 2014 IBM Corporation Easy orchestration without coding

    Rapidly wire devices together and create logic • Visual tool for wiring the Internet of Things • Deploy with just one click • Simple API to create nodes with lines of JavaScript or HTML • Share flows in JSON format • Based on Node.js for event- driven, non-blocking I/O • Download from http://github.com/node-red node-red