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Konneqt’s QAP – API Platform that introduces a new Canvas solution for all API Product Design
BUSINESS FIRST WITH API CANVAS
With API Canvases, architects, solution owners, product managers, and business analysts can explore critical questions: Which APIs are yet to be developed? Which offer the highest potential value? Who are the end-users, and how do benefits weigh against costs?
API Data Requirements
While box diagrams or sequence charts may not resonate with everyone, they often fall short in capturing data and functional needs. Designing APIs directly from code is not only costly to modify but also limiting. A more effective approach involves leveraging data requirements and API design canvases. APIs should be crafted with external consumers in mind, prioritizing key aspects like data, data formats, documentation, and security.
API Value Proposition: a Customer-Centric Approach
Good APIs are built around well-defined features, which emerge by mapping customer activities (“touchpoints”) to their journeys. The API value proposition canvas is a powerful tool for this process, shifting your perspective to focus on what developers need to support the customer journey. It helps identify the “product-market fit” of your API, revealing features that deliver value to consumers and highlighting existing APIs or gaps requiring new development.
API Business Model
An API business model covers all aspects of running a business or a product line, from customer segments to channels to operational activities, resources, and costs. APIs provide a way to improve, change, or add to your current business models. APIs are essential if your goal is to create an internal and/or external platform. APIs can also help cut costs by re-using and sharing resources or by creating a network effect in your business model.
API Business Impact
Traditionally, you do a risk analysis for a project or a system. Since we live in a distributed and connected world, every API counts. Big solutions use many APIs to serve customers. What is the impact on the business if a payment processing API used by a webshop is not working for a day? What are the workarounds to process them? Should we add support staff or shut down the webshop? How much would either of those options cost? What if 100 webshops rely on our API and we lose them to the competitor? These questions are hard to answer without business knowledge. That is why business and technical experts should collaborate in using the Assess business impact canvas. Now you are ready to do a quick risk analysis on your API. The purpose is to understand the impact on the business of the risks. You can use the results to find more detailed information on costs and activities. Update the API business model canvas with this information.
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Increased Reach and Availability
By deploying APIs in multiple API gateways, organizations can extend the reach of their services to a broader audience. This approach allows them to cater to diverse client requirements, whether geographical, regulatory, or preference-based. It ensures that APIs are readily available and accessible to users across various gateways, increasing overall service availability.
Improved Performance and Scalability
Distributing APIs across multiple gateways helps distribute the load and reduce bottlenecks. It allows organizations to handle high traffic volumes and ensures optimal performance, even during peak usage. The ability to scale horizontally by adding additional gateways as needed provides enhanced flexibility and ensures a seamless user experience.
Enhanced Security and Compliance
Deploying APIs in different gateways allows organizations to enforce specific security policies and compliance regulations based on the gateway’s requirements or the targeted region. It enables fine-grained control over access, authentication, and authorization mechanisms, ensuring that sensitive data and resources are adequately protected. This approach simplifies compliance management by tailoring security measures to specific gateways or jurisdictions.
Vendor Diversity and Avoidance of Vendor Lock-in
Using an API solution capable of deploying APIs across multiple gateways offers the advantage of avoiding vendor lock-in. Organizations can choose different gateway vendors based on their specific needs, leveraging each vendor’s unique features and capabilities. This freedom allows organizations to select the most suitable gateway for each use case, preventing reliance on a single vendor and fostering healthy competition.
Simplified API Lifecycle Management
Organizations can streamline their API lifecycle management processes with an API solution to deploy APIs in multiple gateways. This includes API versioning, deployment, monitoring, and analytics tasks. Organizations can reduce complexity, improve efficiency, and achieve better governance over their API ecosystem by centralizing these operations through a single solution.
Improved Developer Experience
Supporting multiple API gateways with a unified API solution provides a consistent developer experience across different platforms and gateways. Developers can leverage the same tools, frameworks, and documentation regardless of the underlying gateway infrastructure. This approach enhances developer productivity, encourages collaboration, and reduces the learning curve of working on various gateways.
In summary, deploying APIs in multiple API gateways using a comprehensive API solution offers organizations increased reach, improved performance, enhanced security and compliance, vendor diversity, simplified lifecycle management, and a better developer experience. By leveraging these benefits, organizations can unlock new business opportunities, cater to diverse user needs, and drive innovation in the API economy.
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