Embrace API Rob Internet economic Opportunity

In the present, nothing can be like "internet thinking" and "mobile interconnection" on the side of the attention of the ridicule. Some people suggest that the fan economy and so on is the cornerstone of Internet thinking, but in a traditional IT management manufacturer's eyes, any new thinking behind, really can be called the cornerstone, or technology. Technological advances have spawned the internet economy, and this change is reflected in people's minds and becomes new thinking.

CA Technologies China Technical Director Guoqiang that all future businesses face apply-centric, software-centric . Whether it is manufacturing, aviation, finance or services, it will eventually evolve into an IT enterprise, as all services and products must be delivered through software, such as banking, manufacturing and physical stores. In manufacturing industries such as the automotive industry, 4S stores in the automotive industry are offering a wide range of personal services to attract customers. the car feature in 40% is serviced by software, so the core of the enterprise development is how to deliver better and more convenient services to end customers and partners.  

The API is coming, have you noticed?

The rise of the Internet and cloud computing has spawned APIs. including Internet enterprise Google, cloud provider Amazon, social media Twitter, their services are provided through the API.

API Heat appeared earlier in the West. As early as 2012, the API brought significant economic benefits to international Internet giants: The Salesforce of more than half of the $2.3 billion trillion in annual revenue was generated through APIs, and Google processed 5 billion transactions per day via APIs. Compared to foreign countries, the API economy has begun to take shape in China, but it has not caused much concern. Domestic like micro-letter, QQ, everyone, there is a development platform, the development platform on the API management. If the API is used for commercial purposes it will be charged, depending on the number of functions, the number of calls, priority, etc. can be divided into different cost patterns. Therefore, API billing is not only the patent of Internet enterprises, all banks, enterprises and even the government can use, just like UnionPay in the transfer between different banks, are the API. Most of the previous businesses were called between internal systems, now the system can provide services are open to the form of APIs, the formation of API management portal, divided into enterprise open and personal developers, to be certified, paid after the use of, pay higher fees, you can call more services.

The nature of the API is a service, ubiquitous service. And mobile is the carrier, is the expression form; The variety of apps on the phone is actually a service portal and access, providing services is the backend with the API, safe to use the API. API management is the need to manage the identities of developers and users, and the 1th is identity issues.

API, how to use it?

The API management platform for CA Technologies has many customers, including several airlines that specialize in API gateways. But the domestic enterprise to the API economy value degree is still relatively low. Airlines need to manage APIs because users on their phones have to buy tickets online or online, and they need to enter credit cards and all kinds of information and deal with the government to verify the identity of the passengers.

Before we buy services are a whole package for the purchase, now split very clear, because the back end has a lot of systems, will be charged separately, according to the API to charge. The API has two kinds of charging standards, according to the amount of billing and by function. Choose different functions of the package, the larger the scope of the charge higher. The API is no longer simple to open a function, but involves the question of who is open to, how to charge. This is why the API requires portals (portal) to manage.

The previous API access was small, called between systems and systems, or forced calls. When the API suddenly becomes the service concept, the number of calls is massive, which means that the management of the API is imperative. The identity of the API to be unified management, the API of the single point of Access, API capabilities, API billing all to a single point of management, which gave birth to the concept of API economy.

There are different kinds of APIs, the standard is very many, there are old, legacy API model, there are new, the Internet industry comparison standard API. CA Technologies can implement the conversion and encapsulation of the API, regardless of the mode of the enterprise use API, can be converted to the industry's most standard, the most popular, best use, the most Easy-to-use API.

API, how to manage?

More and more businesses are opening their data and applications to partners, developers, mobile applications, and cloud services. The standardized approach provided by the API can be used to open information assets in the Web, mobile devices, service-oriented architectures (SOA), and the cloud. In order to face the serious challenges of security, performance management and data adjustment, enterprises need to realize secure and reliable API information sharing in a low cost way. A complete set of API management methodologies should include advanced features such as back-end integration, mobile optimization, cloud coordination, and developer management to meet the various API management challenges facing the enterprise.

Guoqiang that API management involves at least three parts: 1.API gateways, as a bridge between service consumers and service providers, but identity management and transformation, API access control and traffic management, and the rights management of APIs can track API performance and generate review trails for all service interactions. 2.API service management, which can be transformed into a new API format within the enterprise, while managing the entire API lifecycle from development, testing to production. 3.API Developer Portal Management, in the portal to the API developers can provide the following management functions: • Developer Registration: Classification of individual users, corporate users, free users or pay users. • Developer Resources: includes discussion and support community, integrated messaging, API documentation, API Explorer, API status, application reports, etc. API report and analysis: API reports for tracking and measuring API usage, successes and errors, delays, etc., for application reports that show delays, usage, successes, and errors. Content management for the API portal simplifies change management by defining the appearance, style, branding, and content of the portal interface and supporting the planning and production environment as well as content approval, publishing, and fallback processes.

CA Technologies provides a complete set of API management platforms to ensure the efficiency and security of Enterprise API management, which is also the industry's leading API management platform and API application management product, according to Forrester's analysis.

Embrace the API economy and win the Internet economy

Whether it's an API or an application interface, these two cold, robotic nouns are no longer just a concern for developers and it practitioners. In the future, all enterprises will become software companies, software to a large extent, the definition of a business vision and the future. Because of this, the API jumps out of the boring code and shows its value alive in the world. Push the trend or be pushed forward by the trend, the choice is in their own hands.