#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
