72% of the respondents in a recent survey identified API lifecycle management as a critical capability of API management solutions.  The survey, that we conducted last week, included over 50 IT architects, developers and consultants. 80% of the survey respondents also said that they have either exposed APIs or are planning to do so in near future. As a refresher [...]

Several weeks ago, I wrote a Primer on API management and I have received tons of great feedback and questions from blog readers and colleagues in the field. It’s great to see people are finding API management especially relevant to their mobile and cloud strategy.  My colleague David Bressler (has written several posts on this topic – see Enterprise API Trifecta) and has experience addressing API [...]

SOA is the secret sauce to building great mobile apps.  Loosely coupled, policy driven SOA services help establish a flexible architecture that address the most critical challenges of implementing enterprise mobile apps. For instance, you can uniformly enforce security policies across all types of mobile apps in a reliable and consistent manner.  Using SOA services helps accelerate time-to-market for new [...]

The majority of innovative applications are focused on leveraging the new computing models – mobile, cloud, social and information or Big Data. We recently polled over 200 architects and developers and 67% of those polled identified mobile as a priority for their organization, 47% identified Big Data, 40% identified cloud, and 16% identified social applications. In fact, according to Gartner, [...]

For the past year, leading analysts have said SOA has become a de-facto standard for all new application architectures. Which makes it hard to believe just 5 years ago, most people didn’t understand the value of SOA or how they can use it. A similar shift is unfolding today in the world of APIs. APIs are already driving significant new [...]

  Driving innovation at enterprises has always been a tremendous challenge.  There’s always hard to extend legacy systems, disparate systems to be integrated and monolithic applications to be changed. Doing so is painstaking and time consuming work, but the business side of the house is nevertheless focused on seeing immediate return on investments. Exacerbating this situation is the fact that [...]

Over the years, Service Orientated Architecture (SOA) has been both revered and maligned. It seems SOA is still in search of its rightful and respected place in some organizations. Is SOA dead? Certainly not. Misunderstood, yes. Let’s get the facts from the innovators who are achieving great things with SOA. Over the next few weeks, I’ll elaborate on the surprising [...]

With SOA success stories being shared at analyst conferences, in customer conference rooms and even at your office water cooler, why are organizations still struggling to realize the full innovative power of SOA? With CIOs focused more and more on the business and less on less on technology, could it be that SOA is still considered just web services? Not [...]