Programming Interfaces) • APIs are the integration between businesses and between businesses and their customers • Why APIs, business critical • Communication and being informed are treated as the most valuable attributes in todays business • What is the real requirement • Business unit ‘A’ needed to know what business unit ‘B’ is doing with business partner ‘X’
• Global financial meltdown, scraped IT expenses • Governance in terms of service provisioning is over looked • Small businesses are crushed without proper standards for API management and monetization • Opportunities to generate revenue via IT are being neglected
A literature review on the subject area • A series of qualitative and quantitative analyses • to gather context details about the problem domain, about service consumer, developer & integrator • A Gap analysis • of what’s being implemented and used versus what’s required by the business. • Solution as a POC • Solution evaluation
on APIs and Apps • Gartner, 2012 • REST APIs gain added importance in application integration design • Gartner, 2012 • Towards Open Telco -‐ Business Models of API Management Providers • 11 Proceedings of the 2011 44th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2011 • “Instapaper” and the Concept of Monetizing Your API • ProgrammableWeb, 2012 • Monetization Strategize for Mobile Operators • CISCO, 2010
possible solution • Fact gathering from the large organizations and smaller organizations on their services strategy • Analyze current implementations • Analyze current governance practices • Propose a technical solution to standardize the API provisioning and governance
industry implementations • Compare with current literature • Get feedback from industry experts • Get feedback from API providers, subscribers and app developers