Executive Summary
Businesses are working nonstop to keep up with the digital transformation of day-to-day tasks. Whether it’s the automation of business processes, increased mobile app functionality, or offline activities moving to digital, APIs provide an underlying foundation of application connectivity and business agility for addressing the need for constant change.
Effective API development and integration practices are critical for accelerating the delivery speed of new applications and digital transformation projects. Development teams often lose time by recreating business logic for applications or integrations that had already been created for previous projects. Similarly, trying to implement APIs without an API management solution, that’s providing full visibility and access to an organization’s existing APIs, can result in lost time. To gain cross- project leverage from API development, organizations will benefit from upgrading their infrastructure and processes with full API lifecycle management that promotes effective reuse in a marketplace for APIs.