APIs add value to a business. They facilitate exposing the value in one organisations data to be re-used in another organisations applications to benefit the Value Chain. An API is a powerful connection between a wide variety of business assets; systems, partners, suppliers, and customers. By creating re-usable APIs, organisations take advantage of the API economy. To benefit from this economy, you must implement a platform that can develop, organise,…
Read MoreChaos or Calm in the Value Chain?
Having determined that APIs play a major role in your organisations Value Chain it is important that a structure is put in place that can fully manage this strategy. APIs need to be managed; versioned and secured. If you want to meet the demands of your organisation. You will want to make sure that duplication of effort is avoided by being able to search available APIs. You will probably want…
Read MoreBuilding Bridges to Digital Islands
Collaborative working relationships are the reality for any industry. By building closer partnerships up and down the supply chain with suppliers, distributors and customers, organisations improve performance, reduce time-to-market and costs, thus improving profit, providing room to innovative. Your suppliers, partners and customers are all critical to your business success and profitability. They require immediate and secure access to relevant data to help them make important decisions on your behalf, to maintain…
Read MoreOpen-Source Testing Tools for API development – Part 2
Author: John Ormerod, W3Partnership Limited Date: January 2017 Introduction In part 1 of this series, I covered my experience with: API Definition Unit Testing. In this (part 2), I cover: Calling APIs: Test Clients This will be followed by two more: Part 3 Function and Load Tests SoapUI JMeter Part 4 Mocking back-end services Some of the tools were recommended by colleagues on projects, some I discovered and the rest…
Read MoreOpen-Source Testing Tools for API development – Part 1
Author: John Ormerod, W3Partnership Limited Date: December 2016 Copyright Copyright subsists in all W3Partnership publications. Except as permitted by Copyright Law, no extract may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means – electronic, photocopying, recording or otherwise – without the prior permission in writing from W3Partnership. © W3Partnership Limited (2016) Contact Address: W3Partnership Limited 18a Kendale Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire, HP3 8NN…
Read MoreHow black was your Friday?
From being a purely American phenomenon, the idea of Black Friday sales has rapidly caught on elsewhere in the last few years. 2016 saw Black Friday sales in the UK reach their highest level for two years (AUTHORITY URL: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4007712/Black-Friday-sales-reached-highest-level-two-years.html) with more than £1.2 billion being spent online alone) Black Friday represents a pre-Christmas boost for retailers and a useful extension to the holiday shopping period. But the success of their…
Read MoreUnlock the Potential of your Applications & Data
When dealing with customers, partners and suppliers, organisations want a complete picture of their interactions. Many organisations take a CRM system as their 1st point of Interaction. To get the ideal single view, the CRM system may need to interact with many backend databases and systems of record. The problem that is encountered is that to make a change in one of the databases or systems of record, requires a change in…
Read MoreData, data, everywhere, Nor any insight to see
IoT is everywhere, but what do you do with the data? The Internet of Things (IoT) has opened up a whole new world of information for many businesses. Data collected by smart devices and sensors is telling us more about customers and how products are being used than ever before. From fitness trackers and domestic appliances to connected cars and industrial machinery, IoT devices are appearing in many areas of…
Read MoreAPIS, multi-tiered application architecture and Microservices- An Investigation
Author: John Ormerod Date: August 2016 Contents Introduction 3 What is the Problem? 3 Case Study 4 What is a Multi-tier Architecture? 5 Why is a multi-tier architecture so effective? 6 What is a Microservice? 8 Why Use Microservices? 8 Monolithic applications 8 Characteristics of a Microservice 9 How do Microservices and a Multi-tiered Architecture Fit Together? 9 Re-use and Change when using an API-led Tiered Architecture…
Read MoreTO SERVE OR NOT TO SERVE
TO SERVE OR NOT TO SERVE – That is the Question. API’s HOLD THE KEY Graham Clark – W3Partnership August, 2016 Introduction Thee sayeth, using API’s, one can collecteth information from thine customers buying habits and then provideth thy folk such seamless shopping experience? Queen Gertrude wouldst beest in her elements, as one to embrace new technology; thee bid me yond that can be done in 2 weeks. “Claudius is…
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