The Role of API Management & Governance in Digital Business Strategy - ERP Spain.com - España y América Latina

Hyper-competition and digital-first initiatives are forcing organizations to reconsider how they do business. ‘Digital transformation’ has emerged to engage customers, improve efficiencies, and fend off threats from rivals. It’s driving the need to rethink application design that delivers information in context and automates tasks across diverse digital devices and touchpoints. APIs have emerged as integration enablers, and their value and proliferation require they be managed as strategic assets. This calls for a lifecycle management approach to API development in combination with intelligent run-time capabilities of an enterprise-class API architecture. Lifecycle management must include strong governance over use that can track and audit changes, policies, and dependencies critical to enterprise security, governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) practices where monitoring is a critical run-time function for secure and successful API platform implementations. In this webinar Carl Lehmann, principal analyst at 451 Research joins Nevatech to discuss the business and technical considerations for API management and governance within a broader context of digital business strategy by: •Describing the factors of planning digital transformation strategy and using the run-time environment to create competitive advantage •Identifying the critical technology enablers needed for execution including API platforms •Defining the lifecycle management and governance practices required of APIs as accelerants to digital business initiatives. C-Level executives, enterprise architects, developers, integration and API professionals alike will learn how to reconsider their integration strategies and toolchains to become core enabling assets for their emerging digital business’.