The industry is full of the hype surrounding Big Data and it seems that everywhere you go there is another infographic on Big Data. Big Data has some very impressive numbers with data growing at an amazing rate. At last count we are almost at 4 Zettabytes growing to a projected 35 Zettabytes by 2020 I am sure this projection will [...]

I’m probably not connecting all the dots here, bear with me. If you have a mobile strategy, you’re going to be using API’s. It’s the “only way*” to support the breadth of devices to natively access corporate digital assets. If you are already delivering API’s, and delivering them across different teams/businesses to enable a mobile strategy, why not just expose [...]

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 [...]

How many IT projects have you seen where the business requirements weren’t  implemented or only partly implemented? In my experience, the business blames IT for not following their requirements and IT blames the business for not giving clear enough requirements. But it doesn’t matter where the blame lies the better question is, what can be done to avoid such an [...]

For those of you who don’t know me personally, or know me well enough, I seem to have a talent for metaphor. In fact, I think one of the things that I do best is explain complex ideas in ways others can understand, and so that they realize how the idea is relevant to them. While technically not a metaphor, [...]

Two centuries back, the industrial revolution reshaped manufacturing. Today, another transformation is underway. It’s powered by big data, and it touches every aspect of the manufacturing process, from materials sourcing and assembly lines to sales support and maintenance. The potential payoff from harnessing big data insights is enormous, but so are the new challenges that manufacturers are facing around data volume, [...]

My favorite part of my job is working with customers. I admire their vision, strategy and approach to solving complex problems. Each customer challenge is unique and different. I work with some of the largest European companies and government agencies, who’s application landscape contain intricate business processes designed to solve various challenges. With the release of ARIS 9.0 only weeks [...]

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 [...]