Read This Before 2019 Planning: How Software Executives Can Crush These Top 3 Priorities

#ICYMI: As 2018 is coming to end, most executive teams across software and enterprise companies are on the hook to begin planning sessions for 2019. Nearly every year CxOs are asked to do more with less budget and are always under pressure to find creative ways to reduce costs while simultaneously increasing revenue. According to a recent study by Gartner, even the role of the CIO is changing to be focused on company growth — 58% of CIOs report that “Growth” is their top strategic priority.

From conversations with existing customers and partners, priorities that repeatedly arise are: https://goo.gl/DRzoQt

Future-Proof Your API Lifecycle Strategy

#ICYDK: Every software professional knows what an application programming interface (API) is, right? It’s a decades-old technology designed to allow data flow between different applications. Today, modern APIs do much more than just enable inter-application data exchange. They are the foundation of new business processes, the lifeblood of customer-centric innovation. APIs speed new business processes into production, to quickly exploit opportunities and drive revenues.

In this new, process-driven environment, ad hoc, hand-built point-to-point integration has given way to a strategic approach — which itself demands a more strategic and structured way to manage the lifecycle of the APIs your organization relies on. https://goo.gl/ezCWN9