SOA and APIs

What is the difference between SOA and APIs? Is it just REST and SOAP? How do you take your SOA to the next level? Is SOA Governance completely different from API Management? This deck covers all the questions related to SOA and APIs and will help you understand the API Economy.

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1. © 2013 IBM Corporation SOA and APIs Laura (Olson) Heritage, Product Manager, API Management, IBM Claus T Jensen, STSM & Chief Architect, SOA Foundation Architecture, IBM Session Number Here
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4. 4 4 © 2013 IBM Corporation Agenda • Enter API Management • Myth and Hype between SOA and API • Architectural Approaches to Defining APIs
5. 5 5 © 2013 IBM Corporation Agenda • Enter API Management • Myth and Hype between SOA and API • Architectural Approaches to Defining APIs
6. 6 6 © 2013 IBM Corporation Businesses are evolving Website Smart Phone Tablet Partners Connected Appliances Connected Cars Game Consoles Internet TVs Trillions 2013 → Website Millions ~1999 - 2000 stores (800) ###s web sites Not having an API today is like not having a website in the 1990s… Consumers expect to access data any time across multiple devices Companies can re-invent interactions with customers, suppliers & partners Explosion of potential clients increases opportunity, risk and innovation
7. 7 7 © 2013 IBM Corporation The Business of APIs Grow revenues… … While reducing overhead “$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)
8. 8 8 © 2013 IBM Corporation Apps, APIs and API Mgmt… Business Owner IT Developer Consumers New business opportunities • New markets • Increase customers • Enhance branding • Competitive advantage Extend development team •Increase innovation •Increase scale Partner/supplier alignment Benefits Challenges Business strategy Infrastructure • Security • Creation • Scalability Operational control • Publish • Analyze • Monitor
9. 9 9 © 2013 IBM Corporation APIs are Emerging Across All Industries Energy and Utilities Government Healthcare Transportation Retail Banking Insurance Teleco Chemical/Petroleum Electronics
10. 10 10 © 2013 IBM Corporation Companies Need to Become an Engaging Enterprise Apps Customer Business User IT Enterprise App Developer • Business Users want to engage Customers in new markets • They need to Externalize the Enterprise • They need to get Apps in front of these Customers • Apps need APIs that Externalize the Enterprise • App Developers use APIs • App Developers are now External to the Enterprise • IT Guys need to secure, scale and support the externalized Enterprise • Business Users and IT Guys needs Insights so they can respond to business needs The Platform Enterprises wants to tap into innovation from a large community of developers, not just developers they employ
11. 11 11 © 2013 IBM Corporation Agenda • Enter API Management • Myth and Hype between SOA and API • Architectural Approaches to Defining APIs
12. 12 12 © 2013 IBM Corporation The Myth and the Hype Myth: API management is completely different from SOA and SOA will bog you down API Management SOA • At the Approach Level: Both need a direct link to business outcomes ‒ API Management traditionally outward facing in opening new mobile channels more directly bringing revenue in ‒ SOA historically tending to be more focused on organizational transformation and architectural approach for creating an agile business, often with a more indirect effect on the business bottom line • At the Consumer Level: Both foster reuse and agility ‒ API Management consumers tend to be greater in number and not well known ‒ SOA consumers tend to be more well defined and smaller in number • At the Technical Level: ‒ API Management offers easy more open use with REST/JSON approach ‒ API Management offers easier consumption and governance models ‒ SOA initiatives relied mostly on SOAP based services which are more structured and well defined ‒ SOA had a more well defined approach to governance with service management
13. 13 13 © 2013 IBM Corporation The Myth and the Hype Myth: API management is completely different from SOA and SOA will bog you down • All APIs are Services • Not all APIs are good Services • Not all Services make good APIs API Management is a Natural Extension of SOA API Management and Service Management are converging for a more agile approach both inside and outside the enterprise
14. 14 14 © 2013 IBM Corporation The Myth and the Hype Myth 2: SOAP is Dead • Does Anything in Technology Ever Die? ‒ Look at COBOL • Quote from Customer: “Nothing ever dies in the banks” • Does it still have its purposes? Yes, Perhaps, Maybe, Depends.. SOAP is not just legacy
15. 15 15 © 2013 IBM Corporation The Myth and The Hype Myth 3: “APIs are always REST” • Didn’t your mom teach you to never use always and never? • However, if you are going external and trying to drive adoption REST is the love of most developers today because it’s easy • Better suited for mobile development • For inside the enterprise it’s beginning to be the flavor of choice as well
16. 16 16 © 2013 IBM Corporation What is an Web API?  An web API is a public persona for an enterprise; exposing defined assets, data or services for public consumption  An web API is simple for app developers to use, access and understand  An web API can be easily invoked via a browser, mobile device, etc. What Value Does an Web API Provide?  Extends an enterprise and opens new markets and channels by allowing external app developers to easily leverage, publicize and/or aggregate a company’s assets for broad-based consumption What “assets, data or services” are exposed via an Web API?:  Product catalogs  Phone listings  Insurance cases  Order status  Bank loan rates Lets Further Define the World of APIs External App Developer
17. 17 17 © 2013 IBM Corporation Great…but what is SOA? A repeatable business task – e.g., check customer credit; open new account A Service A way of thinking about your business through linked services and the outcomes that they bring Service Orientation Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) An business-centric architectural approach based on service oriented principles
18. 18 18 © 2013 IBM Corporation API Management Tendencies are Adopted Across the Board From Inside to Outside the Enterprise Creating a New Era Platform • Today Customers Rapidly Adopting REST Internally • Want the Same Self-Service Control Model and Control as external API Management • Want the fast innovation across all areas of business • Developers like REST better then SOAP • Taking their SOA to the Next Level Enterprise APIs Partner API External API
19. 19 19 © 2013 IBM Corporation … and SOA Principles are at the Core of New Era Platform Initiatives 1960- 1990- 2010- Time Reach Transaction Systems Mainframe, IMS and CICS WebSphere, Information Management New Era Platforms Web, e-business and SOA Mobile, Cloud, Big Data
20. 20 20 © 2013 IBM Corporation Partners Suppliers Developers Customers APIs Apps Patterns Cloud Services … and needs to integrate more and more things  2005: Connecting and mediating in an IT transactional context  2010: Connecting and mediating e2e processes  2015: Connecting and mediating people, devices, Cloud, ….
21. 21 21 © 2013 IBM Corporation The Myths and The Hype Myth 4: “API management is SOA governance rebranded” • API Management - APIs Are a Product Therefore Need to Be Managed Like One ‒ Need Business Model for Each API (Free, Developer Pays, Developer Gets Paid, etc) ‒ Need a Marketing Plan ‒ Need Legal Reviews ‒ Need Analytic Reports Reporting back to the Business ‒ Need to define developer management strategy ‒ Need to be very rapid in response to market • SOA Governance – Presides over entire enterprise ‒ Establishing Organizational Transformation ‒ Enterprise Business Vision and IT alignment ‒ Service Development Lifecycle ‒ Service Portfolio Management ‒ Change management ‒ Procurement of resources ‒ Longer process • API management is a natural extension of SOA governance
22. 22 22 © 2013 IBM Corporation The Myths and The Hype Myth 5: “No governance is needed with API management, this allows companies to innovate faster” • Good Luck with That! • Remember External APIs are a product and your company’s external persona • Some form of governance is necessary Wild Wild West
23. 23 23 © 2013 IBM Corporation The Myths and The Hype Myth 6: “APIs are not versioned” • That’s like saying you don’t need to change a baby’s diaper • They are versioned and you need to manage the change and protect your consumers ‒ Don’t expose minor version changes to the consumers. You don’t want it to appear that you are changing your APIs on them all the time. They won’t build a business on your APIs if you do. • Remember APIs are a product and your company’s external persona. Version wisely!
24. 24 24 © 2013 IBM Corporation Systems of interaction provide lifecycle management across
25. 25 25 © 2013 IBM Corporation The Myths and The Hype • Myth: “You only need one ‘bus’ ” ‒ We have a different opinion, gateways and integration buses fulfill importantly different topological roles. With that said, some use cases require only a gateway, other use cases only an integration bus and yet others require both • Myth: “You don’t need to integrate your API management solution with any other middleware” ‒ If not, then how are you going to share metadata about available data, services, endpoints etc.? And how are you going to manage and enforce policies all the way from the point of engagement to the point of record?
26. 26 26 © 2013 IBM Corporation Agenda • Enter API Management • Myth and Hype between SOA and API • Architectural Approaches to Defining APIs
27. 27 27 © 2013 IBM Corporation Architectural approaches to defining APIs • APIs are an extension of existing service integration and creation ‒ APIs can be aggregated from multiple existing services • APIs are being created out of non-SOA assets ‒ The API itself is nicely defined, but its realization is “ad hoc” • APIs are a technical veneer on existing resources ‒ There is no particular architecture or design behind the APIs, they are created ad hoc for point use, essentially pushing EAI approaches into the API space • New Engaging Enterprise APIs are created from scratch ‒ Particularly relevant where the APIs represent an expansion of previous business scope (Amazon’s merchant API is one such example, it was built for API purposes from the start); APIs are created as a business approach to reach new markets
28. 28 28 © 2013 IBM Corporation Business approaches to defining API’s • Internal use for driving agility ‒ Focus: Agile end-to-end processes • External business partner use ‒ Focus: Integration existing ecosystem • External use for capturing new markets and driving adoption ‒ Focus: Extending ecosystem outreach • Both internal and external use ‒ Focus: Holistic API management strategy enterprise wide
29. 29 29 © 2013 IBM Corporation Architectural approaches to defining API’s • APIs are an extension of existing service integration and creation ‒ Targeted for internal and/or external use ‒ Designed for reuse by many apps ‒ Realized via connecting to an (Enterprise Service) Integration Bus ‒ May aggregate across internal and public cloud services, but in most cases composition is handled in the (Enterprise Service0 Integration Bus ‒ Typically enterprise class QoS
30. 30 30 © 2013 IBM Corporation Architectural approaches to defining API’s • APIs are being created our of non-SOA assets ‒ Targeted for internal and/or external use ‒ Designed for reuse ‒ Realized directly from packaged apps, cloud services, existing backend systems etc., using adapters available within the API environment ‒ Aggregation, when needed, happens within the API managed environment ‒ QoS typically inherited from the backend realization
31. 31 31 © 2013 IBM Corporation Architectural approaches to defining API’s • APIs are a technical veneer on existing resources ‒ Targeted for internally developed mobile apps (typically driven by getting a mobile app released) ‒ Not designed for reuse ‒ Realized as a thin veneer on top of existing systems ‒ Aggregation, when needed, happens within the API managed environment ‒ QoS inherited from the backend realization
32. 32 32 © 2013 IBM Corporation Architectural approaches to defining API’s • New Engaging Enterprise APIs are created from scratch ‒ Targeted for external use, aiming solely at an ecosystem beyond the enterprise ‒ Maybe designed for reuse ‒ Implemented created from scratch (often using big data, analytics, social technologies) ‒ No full-fledged composition, but leveraging various connectors to data sources and transformations as needed ‒ QoS can vary widely, often the requirements are much lower than for classical enterprise systems (“good enough” approach)
33. 33 33 © 2013 IBM Corporation Summary • The concepts of SOA and APIs are highly synergistic • APIs provide SOA with a way to reach beyond the controlled environment of the enterprise • SOA provides APIs with acceleration and proven design principles • Defining a strategy for how to merge SOA and API management will be important (long term) to most enterprises… • … and this does include a middleware strategy for how to source and integrate gateway capabilities and integration bus capabilities
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