These are not trivial questions and they are pretty serious issues that need to be addressed by companies such as IBM who want to grab a slice of what IBM believes will be a market worth $2.2 trillion by 2018.
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We never stop hearing about how APIs are facilitating the development of all kinds of weird and wonderful apps, and now the Linux Foundation is jumping on the bandwagon with the launch of the Open API Initiative (OAI) to promote a common, open API standard.
“To succeed in the API Economy enterprises need an open ecosystem and IBM is helping guide clients every step of the way”, said Marie Wieck, General Manager for IBM Middleware. It then makes useful time saving recommendations on which APIs to use, API relationships and anything that might be missing.
IBM will offer related workshops to help companies quickly develop and adopt an API strategy.
As any developer will tell you, APIs are critical to the creation and consumption of modern applications, but making them work is not an easy task.
IBM has unveiled new services and technology to create, manage, and build application programming interfaces (APIs).
API Harmony is available through IBM Cloud on the company’s cloud platform Bluemix.
There are three pillars of harmoniousness in the API economy, according to IBM.
IBM’s API Economy Journey Map enables clients identify important areas and gauge their readiness in the API Economy.
The new services and solutions complement IBM’s portfolio of API solutions such as its DataPower® API gateway products for securely deploying and scaling APIs and its newly acquired StrongLoop capabilities for developing new APIs using Node.js.
More information can be had from the initiative’s new website.
To boost the development of industry standards around open API development, Big Blue is also announcing its participation in two key standards organizations to allow clients to quickly and easily integrate APIs into their digital services. Swagger is an open-source description system created to make APIs “autodiscoverable and self-documenting”, allowing the creation of “a vendor neutral, portable, and open specification for providing metadata for RESTful APIs”, the Linux Foundation said in a statement.
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It’s also working with the HL7 standards organization on the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) API standard for exchanging healthcare information electronically, aiming to simplify implementation without sacrificing information integrity. It is a driving force behind much of the digital transformation across industries today, enabling businesses to build new ecosystems and monetize core assets, services and products.
