Introduction
APIs are often characterized as products for developers who build the connected experiences that power the digital economy. All businesses have valuable digital assets—functionality, data, etc.—but many of the systems that contain this value were never meant to easily connect.
APIs abstract this complexity into an interface that enables developers to leverage systems in which they have no expertise, and to combine digital assets in new ways.
In this way, APIs are not only expressions of a business’s capabilities and points of differentiation but also the mechanisms that make those capabilities and differentiation leverageable for strategic purposes.
