April 28th, 2013

Facebook And The Sudden Wake Up About The API Economy

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What a two weeks it’s been. Something happened that has been simmering for a while. The API market exploded. Intel bought Mashery for more than $180 million and CA acquired Layer 7. 3Scale received a new $4.2 million round of funding from Javelin Ventures. Mulesoft acquired Programmable Web. And then Facebook jumped in and bought Parse. The acquisitions and funding point to a maturing market… → Read More

April 22nd, 2013

CA Acquires Layer 7 Technologies To Connect Cloud, Mobile And Internet Of Things As API Market Starts To Consolidate

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CA Technologies announced this morning that it has acquired API management company Layer 7. It is the second major acquisition of an API management company in the past week, signaling a consolidation of a market that larger companies see as vital for closing the gap between on-premise and online infrastructure and apps. Last week, Intel acquired Mashery for $180 million. The acquisition price… → Read More

February 13th, 2013

A New Data Analytics Platform From Apigee Leverages APIs, Google Analytics And Other Data For Insight And Context

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Apigee  launched a new big data analytics platform today that extends the company’s mission beyond API management and into a new space that uses apps and data from APIs and other sources to gain context and insight.

Here’s the problem as Apigee sees it. Let’s say you have an app and an API. → Read More

November 11th, 2012

5 Rules For API Management

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APIs are the glue that connect apps. It’s as true for consumer apps as it is for the enterprise. API management platforms have come into vogue as apps proliferate across the enterprise.

As APIs rise in importance, so has the need for better practices in their creation, development and management. All the major API management services have built strategies that they use as guiding principles… → Read More

November 8th, 2012

SOA Software’s API Management Platform And How It Compares To Its Sexy Counterparts

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SOA Software has a new management platform that company executives say better addresses the enterprise API market more so than the open API providers whose services have come into vogue in the past few years. → Read More