Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and the technologies and platforms that enable them, can bridge this gap. APIs can act as doors to previously locked information assets and key business functionality. APIs are already enabling millions of user experiences through a wide variety of devices such as smartphones, tablets, smart watches, bots to name just a few.
However, APIs are not new. APIs have been around for almost as long as there has been software development. In the early days of IT, APIs weren't anything like what we typically think of them today, but they have always embodied the same basic goals, namely a contract (explicit or implicit) that describes the data to be exchanged and an action. Today when we talk ...
