Comments on: Business process API-ification: The LEGO promise fulfilled

By: Christophe Primault

Christophe Primault — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 14:30:03 +0000

This is a very comprehensive article and a great list of important business APIs (that will surely influence our development roadmap) . Most of the SaaS enterprise vendors already expose their APIs publicly and many of their clients and integrators are using them to build custom business processes.
There are integration platforms as a services platforms (iPaaS) that help companies build simple standard processes on top of APIs in just a few clicks and very little cost (e.g CloudWork http://www.cloudwork.com). This will contribute to the “legofication” of enterprise software (or lack of!). Maybe a topic for the next article?

By: Dave Duggal

Dave Duggal — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 19:21:45 +0000

Great post. I’m glad people are picking up on this logical uncoupling of business processes for greater personalization and adaptability.

We have this today – http://www.ideate.com. The world’s first enterprise-class application platform built on a Web-style (REST) architecture. Better still – we can wrap APIs and Services in RESTful ‘adaptors’ to govern them. Ideate supports local and federated processing of diverse and distributed Resources on-demand. Event-driven business process for the real-time enterprise!

Multi-tenant, lightweight, small footprint, stateless, scalable – The future is here.

Best,
Dave

By: Dave Duggal

Dave Duggal — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 12:21:10 +0000

Great post. I’m glad people are picking up on this logical uncoupling of business processes for greater personalization and adaptability.

Multi-tenant, lightweight, small footprint, stateless, scalable.

Bootstrapped and already profitable company with enterprise customers and partners on four continents.

The future is here.

Best,
Dave

By: Happy Mashaper

Happy Mashaper — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 07:51:16 +0000

Nice article. This is exactly what we’re trying to build at mashape.com (http://gigaom.com/cloud/api-market-mashape-raises-1-5m-seed-from-mega-investors/)

A unified ecosystem of cloud APIs and developers.

By: Dom James

Dom James — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 03:48:26 +0000

Reblogged this on The Change Effect and commented: The Lego generation building businesses. Get inspired, put the pieces together and away you go!!

By: David Mytton

David Mytton — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 08:51:46 +0000

There’s also a concern about storage of your company data. If there’s a big discussion around geography in relation to cloud computing where you have much more control over the systems your data is stored on, just getting API endpoint access with no internal visibility for deeper business applications is likely to be even more of a concern!

By: rmedrano1

rmedrano1 — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 23:38:43 +0000

Robin – great piece. We agree that business process APIs is a huge factor in the ability of applications to becoming relevant, and ultimately profitable. Hope you’ll check out our overview of your piece – we’re getting it out to our user and partner community since it nicely describes your thoughts and how it applies to their API strategy and development (“The Action is Heating Up for Business Process APIs – http://blog.soa.com/the-action-is-heating-up-for-business-process-apis/ ). The API lifecycle has to be managed just like any other lifecycle and requires comprehensive API management solutions for large enterprises providing APIs and for developers consuming API.

By: Gustavo Lopez

Gustavo Lopez — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 13:50:06 +0000

Darn! What a shame that every methodology used before was so deficient, and we have finally found the light. This will definitely be here to stay. 20 years from now we will never say that APIfication was just a fad.

By: Latif N

Latif N — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 22:52:36 +0000

Robin, fabulous article. I am surprised that Analytics didn’t make it into your top API buckets though. What % is that of ‘other’. Thanks!

By: Aaron Rudger

Aaron Rudger — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 16:42:11 +0000

The benefits to leveraging external services to accomplish business processes like the ones you mentioned are clear. However, with each interface comes a dependency, over which you have little control. Change management is an issue, as is availability and performance–especially as the service gets pushed up to end users higher in the enterprise. Monitoring these interfaces individually will also become an important consideration. Our take here: owl.li/ej7tb