{"id":512836,"date":"2021-08-05T15:03:27","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T13:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devoteam.com\/expert-view\/project-delivery-with-api-led\/"},"modified":"2021-08-05T15:03:27","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T13:03:27","slug":"project-delivery-with-api-led","status":"publish","type":"expert-view","link":"https:\/\/devoteam.info\/en-se\/expert-view\/project-delivery-with-api-led\/","title":{"rendered":"Accelerate project delivery with API-led"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It is already well known that integration has become a key determinant on who leads and who lags in today\u2019s global economy. Businesses with cutting-edge integration strategies have raised the bar with faster project delivery, lower operational costs, and new revenue systems. As a result, they are quickly leaving more traditional players in the dust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite its growing importance, organizations still struggle to achieve a truly \u2018integrated state\u2019<\/strong>. The average business transaction now crosses 35 different back-end systems. This is generating more data than ever before and the traditional (point-to-point) approach to enterprise application integration is no longer sufficient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The right integration strategy allows organizations to cut complexity and drive tangible business value by quickly connecting new information and operationalizing it across the entire enterprise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With that said, IT project demands will increase by 32% this year, but despite this growth, most of the IT teams will see a budget increase of less than 10%, which prevents IT from focusing on innovation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What\u2019s more, this comes at a time when customer demands are changing. To remain competitive in the Fourth Industrial Revolution<\/strong>, companies now must implement a multitude of technologies such as SaaS applications, blockchain, AI, cloud and much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The more digital transformation initiatives that need to be implemented, the wider the delivery gap<\/strong> gets and it\u2019s a balance most organizations still struggle to find.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To combat these challenges, many businesses are beginning to rally their organizations behind an API-led integration strategy.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But what is API-led?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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API-led connectivity<\/strong> is a methodical way to connect data to applications through reusable and purposeful APIs. These APIs are developed to play a specific role in unlocking data from Systems, composing data into Processes, or delivering an Experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These services, created for reuse, dramatically improve developer\u2019s productivity and project quality. With that impact, IT’s focus shifts from \u2018keeping the lights on\u2019 to innovating and this creates opportunities to improve project speed, security, and cost reduction<\/strong>. It also unlocks business value, extra revenue, and provides faster time to market<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When the entire organization adopts what is known as API-led, everyone in the business is empowered to access their best capabilities in delivering applications and projects through discovery, self-service, and reuse.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With this approach, the Central IT team is devoted to producing reusable assets, and in the process, they \u2018unlock\u2019 key systems, including legacy applications, data sources, and SaaS apps. <\/p>\n\n\n\n


Other teams can then reuse these API assets and compose process-level information. Then app developers can discover and self-serve on all these reusable assets, creating the experience layer of APIs and ultimately the end-application. This new approach brings agility and productivity to the next level.
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The APIs used in the API-led approach to connectivity fall into 3 categories:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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