API coming! New channels for future industries

The most attention and ridicule of the recent period of time is not "internet thinking" and "mobile interconnection" mo. Some people say that the fan economy is the basis of Internet thinking. But in the heart of traditional IT management, the foundation of all innovative thinking is ultimately technology. It is the technological advances that have spawned the Internet economy, which has transformed people's minds into more innovative ideas. CA Technologies China technical Director Guoqiang published his opinion: the future of all enterprises to face the problem, is how to apply as the center, software-centric. Whether it is manufacturing, aviation, finance or services, it will eventually evolve into an IT industry, because software is the medium for delivering services and products, such as banking, manufacturing and physical stores. And in manufacturing such as the automotive industry, 4S stores need to provide a variety of better personal services to retain customers, and even the function of the car at least 40% to the software for customer service. Therefore, how to provide customers and partners with better, more convenient services, is the core of enterprise development.

api came, did you notice?  API is the product of the rise of the Internet and cloud computing. Including cloud provider Amazon, internet giant Google, social media Twitter, its services are provided through the API.  api fever 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 essence of  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 do you use it?  CA Technologies API Management platform has many customers, including a number of airlines dedicated to the API gateway. 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 you buy services are a whole package for purchase, now split very clear, because the back end has a lot of systems, will be charged separately, is based on 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 a portal toManagement reasons.   Previous API access is very small, is called between system and system, or forced to call. 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.  api has different kinds, its standard is also very many, has the old, the Legacy API pattern, but also has the 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 it?   More and more companies 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 the management of APIs 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 API Rights management can also track API performance, and generate review tracking results 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.   Embracing the API economy and winning 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 employees. 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.