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• About Openlogix & Our Capabilities• What are Business APIs• How do you Monetize them?• What does an Enterprise Need to build successful Business APIs?• IBM Integration Offerings- Overall?• API Connect 101
• Cyber Security as a Service• SIEMs (Eg: Qradar)• Vulnerability Assessments• Prevent, Detect and Respond to Threats
CORE PRACTICE AREAS
API, BUSINESS INTEGRATION & BPM
• Enterprise Integration• Rules Management• API Management• MuleSoft, Apigee, IBM Cloud
Integration Platform
CLOUD
• Cloud & Hybrid Cloud solutions• IBM Cloud• Amazon EC2• Google Cloud• Microsoft Azure
BIG DATA
• IBM Watson• Data Analytics• Internet of Things (IoT)• Beacon, Sensors• Eg: Connected Car
E-COMMERCE
• eCommerce Development using• WebSphere Commerce, Magento, Hybris• BOPIS implementation• Mobile Commerce• Online to Store integrations• Commerce Enterprise Integrations
• Digital Experiences (multi channel)• Full stack development• Chatbots• Angular, React, Node, SAPUI5 etc.
Digital Transformationis a $20 trillion market opportunity over the next 5 years
Source: IDC MaturityScape Benchmark: Digital Transformation Worldwide, 2017
DX is a board-level initiative. IDC has identified $20 trillion of market opportunity, or 25% of global GDP, to be realized over the next five years. CEOs see the path to capturing this opportunity as becoming technology centric to deliver new customer experiences.
Shawn Fitzgerald, Worldwide Digital Transformation Strategies at IDC
“Digital transformation is the process of shifting your organization from a legacy approach to new ways of working and thinking using digital, social, mobile and emerging technologies. It involves a change in leadership, different thinking, the encouragement of innovation and new business models, incorporating digitization of assets and an increased use of technology to improve the experience of your organization's employees, customers, suppliers, partners and stakeholders.”
Source: The Agile Elephant - http://www.theagileelephant.com/what-is-digital-transformation/
• What is a Business API?§A Business API is a public persona for an enterprise; exposing defined
assets, data or services for public consumption§A Business API is simple for app developers to use, access and understand§A Business API can be easily invoked
• What Value Does a Business API Provide?§Extends an enterprise and opens new markets by allowing external app
developers to easily leverage, publicize and/or aggregate a company’s assets for broad-based consumption
• What “assets, data or services” are exposed via a Business API?:§Product catalogs§Store listings§Order status§Inventory§Social interaction
Forrester TEI Study Benefit Categories for IBM API Connect
Improved Time To Market
Internal Mobile Projects 20%
Internal Social Media Projects 30%
Internal Data & Analytics Projects 30%
Internal Other Projects 20%
External Partner Projects 25%
Public Projects 35%
Source: Forrester TEI study based on surveys of 32 US-based API Connect Customers, The Total Economic Impact(TM) Of An API Management Solution, a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of IBM, February 2017
Forrester Total Economic Impact Study - Three-year model summary results
ROI674%
Total Costs$1.6 million
NPV$11.1 million
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Total Benefits$12.7 million
Source: Forrester TEI study based on surveys of 32 US-based API Connect Customers, The Total Economic Impact(TM) Of An API Management Solution, a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of IBM, February 2017
Read the full study: The Total Economic Impact™ of an API Management Solution http://ibm.biz/APICTEIstudy
Internal Mobile•What data/transactions would your own mobile apps need? •Is there data that is generic (e.g. business locations, rates, etc.)?•Is there data that is specific to individual customers that should be on your app?•What features of the mobile device (e.g. GPS, camera) might be useful in conjunction with your APIs?
Internal Social•Can you react to positive or negative comments about your business?•Can you spot trends or opportunities in social media and raise alerts or take action? •Can you gain insight on your brand and your competition via social media?•Can you do real time analytics combining current customer status/behavior and history?
Internal Data•What data do you collect on your clients? •Would additional audiences inside your company benefit from accessing this data?•Can your data identify market segments that would be of interest to a non-related industry? (e.g. expensive cars are purchased in this neighborhood, lots of child related purchases occurring in this neighborhood).
Internal Other•What data do you need to share across Lines of Business?•Do you need to meet Regulatory Requirements, Industry Standards, Auditing?•Do you need to provide data access to Marketing, Sales, or other parts of the company?
IBM has largest share at almost 2X nearest competitor
Red Hat market share is 5th place – acquisition expected to complete in Q3 2019.
Source: Worldwide Integration and API Management Software Market Shares, 2018: Portable Cloud Integration Is a Fastest-Growing Segment, by IDC, published 6/2019
IBM’s API Management Undisputed #1 in Market Share – Again
[1] Comprehensive API solution• End-to-end integrated experience across API lifecycle - create, manage, secure, socialize, analyze, test, and monitor APIs through single offering • Built-in, integrated support for API & Microservice creation using rapid model-driven approach • Agile development provides frequent new functionality. Recognized by analysts as moving faster than competition.• Analyst recognition as a market leader
[2] Flexible Licensing and Deployment Options – On Premise, IBM Cloud and Other Clouds• Runs anywhere with offerings for On-premise and as a IBM managed Cloud Service and on non-IBM Clouds• Subscription or capacity based licensing• Multi-tenant & single-tenant options available• Single vendor for both the Cloud infrastructure and API offering enables quick problem resolution• Same code base everywhere allows you to manage your APIs across the different platforms
[3] Industry leading, purpose-built, secure API Gateway• Built on IBM DataPower that is the industry leading highly performant security & integration gateway • Physical, virtual, or container form factors• Self-contained gateway appliances reduce the attack vector, providing a more secure platform, without requiring any OS, Java, or database components
[4] Single Point of Management across Multiple Clouds• One API Manager instance can manage APIs deployed anywhere – on premise, IBM Cloud, and/or other clouds• Manage multiple API Gateways and Portals deployed on any/all clouds• Move APIs near the Systems of Record as your assets move from on premise to the cloud• Single pane of glass to manage APIs, Products, Policies, Users & Clusters to provide a unified operational view• Manage multiple Lines of Business in a single implementation• Integrate into your DevOps through product APIs and CLI interfaces – all functions available
[5] Discovery of Existing Assets• Only offering that works seamlessly with System z and your SORs via Integrated Service Discovery• Ability to easily consume your IBM Application Connect Enterprise (previously called IIB) Swagger docs and manage your APIs and flows
[6] An ecosystem we have built that you can depend on• Expand your API reach to millions of developers instantly through the IBM Cloud• Integrate with Watson and Weather APIs to enhance your solutions