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69 Percent of IT Leaders Keep the Lights On Instead of Innovating. Enter APIs.
While a recent MuleSoft survey indicates that businesses see digital transformation as being critical to their success, a majority of IT leaders still picture themselves as keeping the lights on versus innovating. ProgrammableWeb's David Berlind discusses the findings with MuleSoft's Ani Pandit.
03-19-2020
Salesforce Commerce Cloud Exposes APIs To Public With New Try-Before-You-Buy Developer Portal
In this presentation of ProgrammableWeb's Developers Rock Podcast, David Berlind, editor in chief of ProgrammableWeb interviews Andrew Lawrence, director of product management at Commerce Cloud at Salesforce. Salesforce Commerce Cloud has launched a newly redesigned API developer portal.
03-18-2020
Post Corona, Code for America Looks to Join Devs, Civic Techies and Gov Officials To Transform GovOps
While private sector companies such as Amazon, Facebook, Google, etc. draw closer to perfected digital states, the public sector (government agencies and orgs) are woefully behind. In bringing together developers, civic techies, and government officials, Code for America is hoping to change that.
03-16-2020
Contentful Offers “API Accelerators" To Speed App Dev On Its Headless CMS (includes video)
In this edition of ProgrammableWeb's Developers Rock Podcast, ProgrammableWeb editor-in-chief David Berlind chats with Contentful VP Benjamin Keyser about the idea of an API-first "headless" content management system and what his company is doing to accelerate the developer path to "Hello API."
03-12-2020
Apollo GraphQL Co-Founder Geoff Schmidt Discusses Federation of The Graph (video)
In this episode of ProgrammableWeb's Developers Rock podcast, ProgrammableWeb's David Berlind and Bob Reselman talk GraphQL with Geoff Schmidt, co-founder of Apollo GraphQL; the leading solution provider for standing-up GraphQL-based APIs. Federation of "the graphs" was one of the many topics.
02-25-2020
Twilio Study Reveals Erosion Of Consumer Trust in Telephone Infrastucture Due to Robocalls
Twilio has released its annual State of Customer Engagement Report and to find out more about the report and the trends that it spotlights, ProgrammableWeb's editor-in-chief David Berlind captured a video interview with Al Cook, the company's Vice President and General Manager of AI
02-20-2020
Research: Old School Integration Habits Are Stubborn Obstacles To Digital Transformation
Recent research indicates that, across organizations surveyed, old point-to-point integration habits are dying hard. In fact, they could be getting worse, resulting in an increasingly intractable situation as enterprises struggle to digitally transform themselves and avoid fatal disruption.
05-10-2019
Interview with Ping Intelligence GM Jason Bonds
Roughly a year after Elastic Beam launched a machine-learning driven API security solution, Ping Identity stepped-in, acquired the startup, and folded it into its portfolio as the Ping Intelligence Business Unit. With dust from that marriage having settled, Ping's Jason Bonds gives us an update.
02-20-2019
Why Enterprise APIs Are Key to Fully Leveraging Artificial Intelligence
MuleSoft founder Ross Mason has a bit of a reality check for anyone willing to listen. It has to do with how the majority of today's artificial intelligence can only do about half of what it should be doing. According to Mason, it needs to be more of a two-way street and for that, you need APIs.
06-26-2018
US Digital Service Launches v2 of Blue Button API to Ease Flow of Medicare Data
Over 57 million Americans get their health insurance through Medicare. However, one barrier to significantly improved care has been the free flow of Medicare claims data between dissimilar systems. According to the US Digital Service however, version 2.0 of the Blue Button API should fix that.
05-01-2018
Salesforce Has Cracked The Code On Demystifying Machine Learning For Mortals (includes audio)
To laypeople, the high potential disciplines of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and data science are enigmas. Most people don't even know what these terms mean, let alone what to do about them. But, in its Einstein portfolio of AI offerings, Salesforce has cracked the code.
12-01-2017
Salesforce Launches Graphical Console to Program, Flow and Monitor IoT Devices (includes video)
Looking to help businesses unlock the potential of the IoT, Salesforce has launched IoT Explorer; a console that gives organizations a comprehensive view of the sensors, devices and other things that they have assembled into their Internet of Things. ProgrammableWeb's David Berlind gets a demo.
10-10-2017
TRX Systems' 3D "Indoor GPS" Solutions Guide First Responders In Lethal Situations (includes podcast)
Largely in response to learnings from terrorism-related events, there's a new protocol for first responders that involves their entry into buildings before they're fully cleared of any danger. Commanding a situation like that requires GPS-like 3D indoor mapping technology where no GPS exists.
10-05-2017
Meet the New Breed of Developer (Found at the Nearly 70 Year-Old ASICS)
Whether you're leading your decades-old organization through a digital transformation or you're a developer plotting out your career path, you'd better get to know and understand the new breed of developer. She or he is not just a software engineer, s/he's a businessperson too (includes a podcast)
09-29-2017
readme.io's Build Looks To Greatly Simplify API Provisioning and Consumption (video)
Readme.io, a service that greatly simplifies the process of documenting technologies like APIs, is taking its popularity with API providers to the next level in a new offering called Build. Working off that tradition of simplicity, Build simplifies the design, provisioning and consumption of APIs.
09-29-2017
Open Source Pioneer Bruce Perens: Facebook's New GraphQL License Too Restrictive
After enduring controversy over its original license (referred to as "BSD+Patents") for the React framework and then capitulating by switching to the open source MIT license, Facebook has announced a license for GraphQL that open source pioneer Bruce Perens says is too restrictive (includes video).
09-27-2017
Google Fit Developer Challenge Promotes Healthy Competition
Google has announced a developer challenge in hopes of promoting the creation of Google Fit applications. Submissions are being accepted until February 15, 2015.
11-19-2014
Ziftr Provides Cryptocurrency API Implementation Advice
Chris Dunleavy, strategist for Ziftr, talks about the growing number of companies that are building cryptocurrency-enabled products and APIs to support retail applications.
10-23-2014
Slice Aims to Deliver a Uniquely Powerful Shopping Data Set
Slice, a company focused on shopping data, has just released an API that delivers its unique data set to partners.
09-12-2014
Versal's Developer Platform Could Launch a Stealth Education Revolution
Online learning company Versal has launched an open developer program that aims to help developers build "learning gadgets" that enable teachers to build online courses.
09-04-2014