API management is the practice of publishing web APIs, enforcing usage policies, controlling access, and publishing analytics on usage. There are many established players in the space from CA, Apigee, IBM, TIBCO or 3scale. Analytics in the context of API management is usually related to the consumption of provisioned web APIs. However, API management to support analytics, or data API management, is a newer capability being driven by industry trends, such as open analytics and an advanced analytics market growing to 30 billion by 2019 per Markets and Markets.
The first element of API management design, cited in a TechCrunch article on "5 Rules for API Management," is to make the APIs accessible to different classes of developers and partners. Part of my role is to advocate for developers supporting that growing advanced analytics market across data engineers, data scientists and business analysts. API management platforms primarily provision APIs for application and process integration that leave many of those people behind, without native API design for data integration through standard interoperable interfaces such as OData (REST) or ODBC/JDBC (SQL). This is in part what is driving the trend around open analytics strategies to expose data APIs; and there is a divide between application and data integration in the industry.
The table below contrasts similar high level capabilities between data API management versus general API management:
We discussed this topic of data API management in a general session titled, “Welcome to the Era of Open Analytics," at Cloud Expo in New York City and got a great reception from developers and architects building the next generation of cloud-native applications. Learn more about Open Analytics, which extends our API Management capabilities to support data integration and external analytics for the growing developer roles in data engineers and data scientists.
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Technology researcher, thought leader and speaker working to enable enterprises to rapidly adopt new technologies that are adaptive, connected and cognitive. Sumit has been working in the data access infrastructure field for over 10 years servicing web/mobile developers, data engineers and data scientists. His primary areas of focus include cross platform app development, serverless architectures, and hybrid enterprise data management that supports open standards such as ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, GraphQL, OData/REST. He has presented dozens of technology sessions at conferences such as Dreamforce, Oracle OpenWorld, Strata Hadoop World, API World, Microstrategy World, MongoDB World, etc.
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