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APIs are reshaping business: concrete ROI case studies

34 points by mehdim 14y ago

melkisch 14y ago
This is clearly a good prez to look at. Wo do you think is adressing these points in the space? Apigee? Webshell?
- mehdim 14y ago
  We made it for helping people in big organizations and in startups to better understand ROI of APIficiation of a business. New distribution models, scalability and architecture, open innovation The "building bricks company" or the "API driven company" My IT infrastructure is Amazon My CRM is Salesforce My Storage is Box.net etc... Lots of players in API economy You have API managements solution : Layer7, SOAsoftware, APIgee, Mashery, 3scale and plenty of new ones. Then you have API distribution channels with market place and automation platforms : Mashape, Zapier, Apiary Temboo, elastic, IFTTT, Webshell To my mind, this is all API economy which is addressing this point.
- josteink 14y ago
  Downvoted for bad spelling.
sigsergv 14y ago
API is not a feature, it's a blood and air of the business. Why it's even considered situation when a large public business doesn't provide some API? Imagine a presentation that explains: breathing is extremly important for living, everyone who's not breath are dead now! And those who breathes are very alive! Bs.
- mehdim 14y ago
  What you are talking is a part of the Steve Klabnik presentation yesterday at APIdays event "Why Open?" in Paris. He talked about exactly what you're saying, look a this photo of its slide about "organisation of organs" with APIs http://twitter.com/Anton_in/status/275614644557717504/photo/1 http://twitter.com/Anton_in/status/275614644557717504/photo/... We will release soon his slides...
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arocks 14y ago
To a certain extent, isn't SOA trying to be a more business savy model of enterprise APIs?
steve120818 14y ago
Business Development is API driven now. The Virality is created and Included in the product/platform and use it to distribute across the web.
- hessenwolf 14y ago
  Yep yep yep. I must remember when I see the 1 millionth domain name suggestion website to plug our api: https://www.mashape.com/nametoolkit/name-toolkit#Get-domain-suggestions https://www.mashape.com/nametoolkit/name-toolkit#Get-domain-...
kevinyun 14y ago
great slideshare! A lot of interesting and informative numbers -- really reminds you of the continous intertwining between business and technology
ansgri 14y ago
Having somewhat biological background, I've wondered if it is about bees. The page and slide title are correct though (APIs).
instakill 14y ago
I know this isn't reddit and I don't mean to be childish, but in case the creator of that slideshow will see this thread: slide 4 looks like somebody thinking about APIs while giving another person fellatio. You may want to rethink that slide.

34 points by mehdim 14y ago

melkisch 14y ago

This is clearly a good prez to look at. Wo do you think is adressing these points in the space? Apigee? Webshell?

mehdim 14y ago
We made it for helping people in big organizations and in startups to better understand ROI of APIficiation of a business. New distribution models, scalability and architecture, open innovation The "building bricks company" or the "API driven company" My IT infrastructure is Amazon My CRM is Salesforce My Storage is Box.net etc... Lots of players in API economy You have API managements solution : Layer7, SOAsoftware, APIgee, Mashery, 3scale and plenty of new ones. Then you have API distribution channels with market place and automation platforms : Mashape, Zapier, Apiary Temboo, elastic, IFTTT, Webshell To my mind, this is all API economy which is addressing this point.
josteink 14y ago
Downvoted for bad spelling.

sigsergv 14y ago

API is not a feature, it's a blood and air of the business. Why it's even considered situation when a large public business doesn't provide some API? Imagine a presentation that explains: breathing is extremly important for living, everyone who's not breath are dead now! And those who breathes are very alive! Bs.

mehdim 14y ago
What you are talking is a part of the Steve Klabnik presentation yesterday at APIdays event "Why Open?" in Paris. He talked about exactly what you're saying, look a this photo of its slide about "organisation of organs" with APIs http://twitter.com/Anton_in/status/275614644557717504/photo/1 http://twitter.com/Anton_in/status/275614644557717504/photo/... We will release soon his slides...

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arocks 14y ago

To a certain extent, isn't SOA trying to be a more business savy model of enterprise APIs?

steve120818 14y ago

Business Development is API driven now. The Virality is created and Included in the product/platform and use it to distribute across the web.

hessenwolf 14y ago
Yep yep yep. I must remember when I see the 1 millionth domain name suggestion website to plug our api: https://www.mashape.com/nametoolkit/name-toolkit#Get-domain-suggestions https://www.mashape.com/nametoolkit/name-toolkit#Get-domain-...

kevinyun 14y ago

great slideshare! A lot of interesting and informative numbers -- really reminds you of the continous intertwining between business and technology

ansgri 14y ago

Having somewhat biological background, I've wondered if it is about bees. The page and slide title are correct though (APIs).

instakill 14y ago

I know this isn't reddit and I don't mean to be childish, but in case the creator of that slideshow will see this thread: slide 4 looks like somebody thinking about APIs while giving another person fellatio. You may want to rethink that slide.