The buzz: “APIs are the unsung heroes of the connected world.” (businessinsider.com)
Cloud migration continues to accelerate, with AWS’s 1M business customers in 2015 growing to 2.6M+ today, and Google and Microsoft not far behind in market share.
The COVID-19 economic crisis could accelerate this trend, as companies that moved or are moving operations and infrastructure to the cloud are running efficiently even when employees can’t physically access the office or the servers housing their data.
Reality check: Every enterprise should harness cloud infrastructure and APIs to deliver new and innovative experiences, from streamlining employee onboarding to delivering a digital app for partners to jointly access key data. Serving their ecosystems in new ways internally and externally will provide a solid chance to endure.
We’ll ask Mark Geene at Cloud Elements, and Chris Aron and Dr. Harsh Jegadeesan at SAP for their take on Full-Enterprise Integration Lynchpin: Open Connectors.
