Everyone wants to develop mobile apps and get to market faster. In this video, Tyson Whitten explains how APIs and API Management can help speed your app creation by empowering developers. Hi, I’m Tyson Whitten of CA Technologies. When developers build apps for mobile, for devices like a home security system or a diabetes monitor, they rely heavily on APIs for connectivity. Why? Because APIs let them communicate seamlessly with the enterprise. This frees up developers to focus on innovation, so they can provide more engaging digital experiences to the end user. In fact, APIs accelerate mobile development and enable tremendous agility for organizations that are going through their own digital transformation. That’s because mobile app development requires a faster, more iterative approach to keep users happy. It’s all about having the right features—not the most features. So that’s the business challenge: how do you offer app developers a better, faster, more secure way to unlock the value of your data with APIs—and keep users coming back? That’s where API Management comes in. It makes it very easy for developers to consume APIs, and then create the mobile apps that connect to those APIs. Here’s how it works. First, the right API management solution should provide developers a way to create live APIs that seamlessly access data and business logic—in the form of a live API. This means translating from XML to JSON, or converting SOAP calls to REST. It also means connecting to existing services to speed up the development process. Second, you need a great developer experience. Let’s start with a portal that helps developers discover APIs, understand APIs through interactive documentation, and also automate repetitive day-to-day tasks—like generating reusable code for testing. Third, collaboration is a must. So put in a layer that allow developers to work better as a team. And make developers’ lives easier with forums that allow them to share ideas and ask questions. Finally: There are core functions that developers need to build into every app. Things like identity and security, user and group management, message queuing, local data storage, and user engagement to interact with sensors and beacons. These are consistent in every mobile app, regardless of what industry you’re in or what customer experience you’re trying to deliver. These tasks are often difficult or repetitive, and may lead to security issues. And when developers have to solve those issues on an ad-hoc basis with custom code, it’s a time sink and a risk. So when an API Management solution can offer tools that make this easier, it gives developers the freedom to focus on innovation and a great customer experience. And only CA combines API Management and mobile development capabilities that work in unison to securely accelerate development and mobile apps that need to connect to enterprise assets. Features like our developer portal, collaboration and testing tools, and a robust set of mobile SDKs make it easier for any mobile developer to consume APIs and develop mobile apps. It’s everything the developer needs to simplify, standardize, and accelerate development —especially if they’re working on mobile apps or applications for the Internet of Things. As the digital economy grows, there’s going to be more mobilization. The Internet of Things will result in more and very different apps relying on API connectivity. And as you can see, powerful and effective API Management is essential, and offers developers a complete solution to help them accelerate and standardize the creation of mobile and IoT apps. We hope this overview has been helpful. We look forward to working with you soon.

• published: 16 Mar 2016
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