API - News, Features, and Slideshows

• Seeing the signs (and locating them) with Google Street View and deep learning

  ​Street signs are everywhere, but where they are precisely is not always known by the local government authorities that manage them.

• Why Lufthansa Group is opening up its APIs

  Lufthansa Group is increasingly turning to APIs as a way to expand its digital reach, cut out aggregators and diversify its direct sales channels.

• MuleSoft eyes multibillion dollar API opportunity

  When Salesforce announced in March its plan to acquire API platform developer MuleSoft for US$6.5 billion it said there was potential to turn MuleSoft (estimated FY18 sales $415 million) into a $10 billion business.

• Xero to launch open banking API

  ​Small business cloud accounting platform Xero has announced the imminent release of an open banking API.

• Kaggle comp finds seizure prediction possible in more patients

  A competition run on data science crowd-sourcing platform Kaggle has found the prediction of epileptic seizures is possible in far more people living with the condition than previously thought.

Whitepapers about API

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  Forrester: The API Management Solutions Market Heats Up

  APIs have strategic value for business, and API management solutions are a crucial part of any organisation’s API approach. The market is moving quickly; six important new vendors have entered the space in the last year: Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Software AG, Torry Harris Business Solutions, and WaveMaker. Established vendors are advancing their solutions, although at very different rates. To help application development and delivery (AD&D) pros set their future direction for API management, this report describes this landscape, each vendor’s main strengths and weaknesses, and their future plans.

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  API Management is the SOA Renaissance

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  Four ways APIs are changing your business

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  API strategy and architecture: A coordinated approach