Build An API Eco-system You Can Be Proud OfJaideep Subedar

Product Management

Applications Platforms Group, Cisco

January 27, 2015

• Everyone has some

• Every group wants to make new ones

• Most organizations are not managing API’s (yet)

Effectively managing your API’s can result in significant benefits for your organization

API’s – What Is The Big Deal?!

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With the rise of social, mobile,

analytics and cloud driving

innovation, businesses can

gain a competitive advantage

with APIs.

$2BExpedia Annual

Revenue based on

data made available

through their API

50%Salesforce

% Revenue

generated through

APIs

Companies are Challenged with Exposing and Managing APIs Effectively

Grow in new markets Ignite innovation

Enable Mobility Initiatives Develop IoT / IoE Applications and Insights

Some reasons companies want to use APIs

“Creating APIs in front of back-end systems can be an extremely difficult task. A notable portion of overall mobile app project cost – as much as 70% in some cases – can be attributed to integrating the mobile app with established enterprise applications, service and data sources.”

Gartner Group

What IT leaders need to know about the mobile app integration puzzle

July 2, 2014

Retire

Define Develop

Publish

Support

GOVERNANCE

API Lifecycle Management Approach

Define: Identify API that delivers value and benefit to enterprises

Develop: Design, Code, Test, document, Standardize templates

Publish: Run securely with policies and security surrounding it

Support: Offer community forums, documentation to interact and collaboration

Retire: EOL, un-publish and delete from market place

Governance: Applies to various stages –business issues @ Define; technology issues @ Develop

API Lifecycle Management

Business

Technical

Operational

Define

Early customer feedback

Customer-centric design

Standardization across products

and groups

Develop

Rapid prototyping and

feedback

Consistent development methodology, mock services

Ease of managing

infrastructure

Publish

Classification, Security and monetization

Policy enforcement and analytics

User adoption metrics &

ecosystem expansion

Support

Security and monetization

Community feedback and

evolution

Monitoring, metering and

distributed support model

Retire

Notification of changes

Ease of migration

Full LCM and governance

What’s available now!Cisco Integration Platform (CIP) Capabilities

Define

• RAML definition

• Portal creation

Develop

• Mocking Service

• Notebook Service

Publish

• Unified platform

• Portal capabilities per API

Support

• Forums and feedback

Retire

• Full LCM on Cisco Integration Platform

Benefits of API Management

API

Consistency

ExposureIncreased exposure of APIs for

use in application

development

Standardization and

Documentation

Role based Capabilities

Through API Lifecycle

Management and

Governance

API Guidelines, Templates

Testing, Documentation

Consumption ready APIs.

Simple, Smart & Secure

This week:

Ask us for a demo of how we’re doing it

As soon as you get back:

Check out Cisco.com/go/applicationplatforms

This year:

Think through and develop your API ecosystem and expand your business!

Action PlanMake it easy for your API’s to be consumed – gain that competitive advantage!

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