Friday, May 26, 2017

IDG Contributor Network: How APIs can break up your company’s ball of mud

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I spoke on the Collision Conference stage with Steve Rosenbush, editor of The Wall Street Journal’s CIO Journal, earlier this month around the importance of the API economy and my different take on it: gazing inward.

For those unfamiliar with the API economy, it is simply the exchange of value between providers and consumers through APIs. For example, Google provides Google Maps, which a company like Airbnb can plug into its applications without having to build its own mapping system. This exchange of value is what makes the economy. What organizations are trying to figure out now is how to plug themselves into that economy to add more of their own value.

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May 26, 2017 at 12:00AM

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from Ross Mason

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