APIs: Driving the New Information Economy

Avoiding Costly and Time-intensive Data Migrations

For years now, organizations have increasingly tried to expand the use and value of their data. Successful enterprises are responding to the new information economy by replacing costly and rigid ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) systems with flexible cloud-based API integrations. So how do applications know what data to fetch, and how to only provide access to authorized resources? That’s the job of an application programming interface (API).

Connecting Any Data, to Any Device, at Anytime

The API interfaces programs or applications with one or more of the underlying data resources, whether that is hardware on a smart phone or a huge enterprise database server connected through the Internet. Using APIs, we can provide more options regarding what information is available for consumption and where it is accessed. Essentially, we provide the virtual connections that make data accessible to any application, on any device, from any resource, at any time.

Measurable Economic Benefits

Our API-based approach to acquiring, processing and presenting information provides clear benefits by making data accessible between operational silos, extracting data from legacy systems, and creating connections between inherently incompatible technology platforms. We can flexibly configure APIs to accommodate virtually any validation, processing, enrichment, or transformation necessary to support the unique information requirements of users. More importantly, our suite of API information management development tools saves you money by streamlining the infrastructure and development effort required; and it improving the speed at which information can be processed and distributed.

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For additional insight into APIs and emerging information management systems, contact Ron Garnett and request a Best Practice Briefing. In addition, we can help you to develop a detailed Project Blueprint that will guide the organization through the process of defining technology project requirements, planning infrastructure modernization strategies, deploying new systems, and the all-important budget justification.