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APIs Can Offer a Frictionless Customer Experience Amid Crisis
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The COVID pandemic has pressured businesses more than ever to communicate with and serve customers without needing physical interaction. This article looks at how with the right approach, APIs can transform the way companies interact with customers by creating one seamless chain of communication.
Analysis
Omar Javaid
API Strategy
08-11-2020

How eBay’s Buy APIs Hit $1B in Gross Merchandise Bought
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APIs are a core component of digital transformation initiatives that enable companies to conduct business at scale. Recently Gail Frederick of eBay provided another proof point of this by sharing the story of how the eBay Buy APIs surpassed the $1 billion mark in cumulative GMB.
Case Study
Wendell Santos
API Strategy, eCommerce
01-01-2020

What Traits Should Your Startup Look for in a Software Engineer?
API University

You are a non-technical founder with a great product idea. You've done the research, pitched your product and secured funding. Now you need an engineer who can help bring your vision into a functioning product. What traits are you going to look for in your first software engineering hires?
Analysis
Arpan Sheth
API Strategy, Developers, Human Resources
04-30-2019

4 Ways Shutterstock Creates Lasting API Partnerships
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Customer and partner retention is a mission-critical metric for your API programs success. After first launching its API in 2012, learn how Shutterstock has expanded it today and how it focuses on partner engagement to discover how best to offer exactly what their API partners need.
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ProgrammableWeb Staff
Images
02-25-2019

Merging Companies? 4 IT Questions to Answer
API University

Mergers inevitably increase the IT complexity an organization faces. APIs are universal connectors, so the ways in which businesses monitor and manage their APIs can turn those connections into points of leverage and opportunities for the increased insight and control needed in an M&A.
Analysis
David Feuer
Business, API Management
12-20-2018

How DataSift Survived Twitter's Merciless Business Behavior in the API Economy
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In this last installment of our series "The End of the API Economy As We Know It" we look at how DataSift had their licensing agreement with Twitter unexpectedly terminated. This story details how DataSift coped with the setback and provides lessons for any company that relies on third-party APIs.
Case Study
Bob Reselman
API Strategy, Social
12-11-2018

How the USDS is Modernizing Medicare’s 50 Year Old Payment System
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently faced with the reality that their legacy system, one that processes 4% of the US GDP, needed to be modernized for a number of reasons. This is the story of what USDS is doing to address the situation and keep a mission critical system online.
Case Study
Wendell Santos
Healthcare, API Strategy, Government
11-13-2018

Stitch Avoids the End of API Economy as We Know It
API University

Taking advantage of APIs is a quick and inexpensive technique for a business so long as those APIs are available and remain constant. Changes happen to APIs all the time and this is the story of Stitch, a company that found a way to succeed, despite the uncertainties inherent to the API economy.
Analysis
Bob Reselman
API Strategy, Business
10-26-2018

How PeopleLinx Thrived, Even After LinkedIn Cut-Off Access To Its APIs
API University LinkedIn

As part of our series on the end of the API economy as we know it, we offer a story about a company that survived being shut out of the API that was the lifeblood of its business. This is the story of PeopleLinx, a company that made money using the LinkedIn API, until the API access was removed.
Case Study
Bob Reselman
API Strategy
10-16-2018

Riding the Wave of Digital Disruption: 5 Tips to Help Legacy Businesses Operate Like Startups
API University

Many startups are digital natives, meaning they don't have to deal with issues arising from legacy systems as enterprises often have to. Here are five key enablers to help established companies overcome disadvantages they may face compared to digital natives and stay competitive in the long run.
Analysis
David Feuer
Enterprise, Business
09-05-2018
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