When a government body identifies an opportunity that can be addressed through advancements in technology, and devises a functional plan that could lead to improvements in how organizations and society work, it’s something to be celebrated. The Revised Directive on Payment Services (PSD2) is an example of a regulation that pairs technology innovation with market… Continue reading →
Tom has a refrigerator. (Are you excited yet?) But wait. It’s not like just any old fridge. Tom’s refrigerator comes equipped with an internal camera that enables him to order and pay for any items he needs right from a built-in LCD screen in its door. If Tom is at the store and can’t remember… Continue reading →
Last Friday a colleague of mine from many moons ago messaged me on LinkedIn and asked me where I foresee API’s in the next 5 to 10 years. The question really got me pondering. Back in 2011 when the API movement first started I put together a business case to get my IBM executives to… Continue reading →
APIs are enabling a new and better era of banking and financial services I recently participated in the office March Madness1 pool and like every year, I made my picks, paid the “commissioner” a few bucks, and hoped for the best. This year, however, something really stood out. Very little cash was exchanged. The under-30… Continue reading →
I am really excited to tell you about the new features in the latest version of the Akana Platform that we rolled out into the cloud this weekend. There are a few really big features that truly set set us apart: API Designer – the platform now includes an all new API Designer that provides a really… Continue reading →
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Posted on behalf of Craig Hartwell, Regional Director Channel Sales at Akana. First posted on LinkedIn APIs in Open Banking This week, the Open Banking Working Group (OBWG) has released a report that starts to underline the dramatic adoption of API’s in the banking sector in the coming years. The report, that can be… Continue reading →
Have you or a loved one ever received a terrifying medical diagnosis? In my case, it was “multiple sclerosis”. For other people in my life, the news has been “Cancer”, “Parkinson’s,” and other chronic, debilitating diseases and syndromes. The moment is etched in my brain for life. The seconds seem to stand still as your… Continue reading →
There seems to be a tendency amongst architects to think of microservices as a way to build entire applications, taking monoliths and completely re-implementing them as a set of microservices. This belief makes a lot of architects, especially in large enterprise, question whether microservices is right for their organization. I think there is a different… Continue reading →
Organization culture is often a great barrier to a digital transformation. Getting everyone to think in terms of digital business – rather than business as usual – can be extremely challenging. And, I do mean everyone, from the business to the technical employees. It’s not that people don’t have the potential to change. Chances are,… Continue reading →
Early in 2015 I predicted that API management and security solutions, microservices development, and application integration across platforms and devices would converge in a major way. I have been predicting this convergence for quite some time (2015, 2014, 2013); first when we established the concept of the API Economy in 2012, and more recently when we… Continue reading →
Akana Provides a Roundup of API Security Overview Resources and Thought Leadership As more enterprises engage in their digital transformation, they are connecting their application through APIs. APIs have long been the connective tissue between, and among, software applications. Because they enable business-critical transactions, it is critical that they be both highly accessible and usable,… Continue reading →
Just like Marty McFly in Back to the Future II, we have crash-landed in October of 2015 and oh, boy – what a future we’ve found. We’re only two years away from Gartner’s widely-quoted prediction that 20% of all market leaders will be displaced by companies formed after 2000 due to a lack of digital… Continue reading →
Recently Forrester’s Randy Heffner published a very good report on The API Management Solutions Market Heats Up. In the report, Akana is mentioned as a leader with “Consistently rich and deep functionality across all core functions. Particularly well suited for broad-based enterprise-level API initiatives.” Before this report, Forrester published the famous Forrester Wave reports. Akana was… Continue reading →
First lets start off by clarifying not all APIs requires you to charge for their usage to bring value to your company. There are many different business models for APIs beyond the developer pays. In fact, the developer pays makes up a very small percentage of the APIs in the market today. For the remainder… Continue reading →
A customer in Boston opens a ticket on your API for poor performance. Another customer in New York opens a ticket on that same API, saying it is completely down. However, your platform monitors tell you everything is fine with your API. You spend hours on the phone trying to convince the customers it is… Continue reading →
APIs are a pillar of emerging digital transformation initiatives within enterprises. They provide the digital connectivity between the growing number of constituents in the digital economy, enabling enterprises to open up their business models to new and often disruptive initiatives. These include mobile, Internet of Things (IoT) access and embedded-in-partner applications. As with any new… Continue reading →
One of the more important functions of an API Gateway is to create APIs that return well-structured content from existing services and resources that may not be the prettiest things you’ve ever seen. A really common example is create a clean JSON document from data that is sourced from multiple backend SOAP services. This is where templating provides an… Continue reading →
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a blog on how FHIR® (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource)APIs will accelerate healthcare’s digital transformation. I touched briefly on the HL7® FHIR® specification and the Resources that form its foundation. The FHIR® spec is built on a set of Resources that can be used by themselves or combined to satisfy a majority… Continue reading →
