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API Strategy 2012: For the Cloud, by the Cloud, as Platforms Emerge

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:45:00 EST

What do salesforce.com and Mashery have in common? They are multi-tenant software as a service leaders - both built with billions of APIs - for the Cloud, by the Cloud. The implications this year: API Strategy in 2012 cuts across mobile, social, and cloud. Winning with API's translates to understanding the economics and agility of clouds for scale, speed, and security. In 2010 Delyn Simons, formerly the head of eBay's highly successful developer program stated, "Behind every good app is an API." In 2012, the projection is that "behind every successful app there will be a number of APIs that power it." Apps are becoming big business, with more than 250 million app downloads on Christmas day alone and a record number of Android, iPad, and iPhone sales during the holidays. The world has been mobile for a decade, but now the mobile world is so omnipresent and dynamic that it is altering business and culture at impressive rates.

The New ROI: A Return on Innovation, and Using Data to Do It

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 07:00:00 EST

What does American Express, Foursquare, Etsy, and NYC OPEN Government all have in common? They all need to innovate through data...and they need to go outside to do it big. At first glance one cannot help take note of the almost impossible task of merging the words "American Express" and "hackathon" under one event umbrella, but Scott Roen of Amex OPEN Forum did just that. He suspected before the hackathon that innovation could in fact come from the outside, even if the "outsiders" (aka developers) break a company's long-held views of what innovation even looks like. CIOs and CMOs should both take notice. Innovation is possible once again, though admittedly it takes thick skin to run a hackathon at a Fortune 500. You might not like what developers and data partners say about your brand and relevance in the digital space.

The Web of APIs = the Web of the Future

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 11:00:00 EDT

Less than 5% of the world's data and web service APIs have made their way onto the market, yet recently there has been a 400% growth in public API's in just the last 18 months. Why did the first 1,000 public APIs take 8 years and the next 3,000 take just 18 months? This article explains the technological accelerants of managed APIs and the commercial forces that are driving data as a service, not just for Foursquare, Google, and Facebook, but for virtually every company wishing to stay relevant on the digital marketplace.

Risk Evaporation: Cyber Risk Visibility for Cloud Computing Futures

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 07:45:00 EST

Every aggregation industry in the world involves risk transfer and substantial (in the billions) insurance markets for catastrophic financial or legal events - except for cloud computing. Traditional industries that leverage insurance markets range from banking to property to energy to transportation- yes, even rental cars. However the cloud computing industry is an emerging aggregator industry with enormous promise and equally large unseen risks. Prediction: a massive risk transfer market for cloud-computing will soon take hold through the powerful force of sheer economics.

API Strategy 2012: For the Cloud, by the Cloud, as Platforms Emerge.

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST

What do salesforce.com and Mashery have in common? They are massive networks and application stacks - both built with billions of APIs - for the Cloud, by the Cloud.

API Strategy 2012: For the Cloud, by the Cloud, as Platforms Emerge.

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST

What do salesforce.com and Mashery have in common? They are massive networks and application stacks - both built with billions of APIs - for the Cloud, by the Cloud.

API Strategy 2012: For the Cloud, by the Cloud, as Platforms Emerge.

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST

What do salesforce.com and Mashery have in common? They are massive networks and application stacks - both built with billions of APIs - for the Cloud, by the Cloud.

API Strategy 2012: For the Cloud, by the Cloud, as Platforms Emerge.

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST

What do salesforce.com and Mashery have in common? They are massive networks and application stacks - both built with billions of APIs - for the Cloud, by the Cloud.