Look around and digital transformation is occurring everywhere. In the past 4 years, the financial services industry has seen an unprecedented pace of innovation:
Enter the chatbots! And a tantalizing new generation of cognitive digital experiences is possible. Need a ride? Search for Uber in Facebook Messenger, simply tap the car icon, and you’re on your way. Want a pizza? Just send a tweet or Facebook message to your favorite pizzeria. Tell the chatbot you want pepperoni on it. Or bacon. Or anything you like. Simplifies life for consumers, doesn’t it?
Read MoreMicroservices have stirred a wave of change in enterprise efforts to achieve better service-software architectures, and digital leaders are rushing to capitalize on them for building great digital experiences.
Using microservice architecture, omnichannel APIs remove the complexities of underlying systems to help in building truly seamless and scalable front-end experiences. APIs play a critical role in digital business transformation by helping companies go to market quickly. And by creating custom APIs, some firms have established new ecosystems, scaled up, and disrupted an entire market.
But how did software architecture evolve from traditional, monolithic applications to flexible, decoupled modules?
Read MoreBy Srinivas Balasubramanian, Co-founder and CEO, Photon
Convergence of megatrends like cloud platforms, mobile apps, and the IoT devices has made interconnectedness a precondition for digital business success. By allowing one-to-many and many-to-one loose coupling between systems, APIs enable the interconnectedness and business agility demanded by the always-on, always-connected customers and are quickly proving their value as a game-changing strategic business tool.
Photon’s foundational team had realized the business value of APIs in 1998 when we had founded Infravio, one of the world's leading SOA Infrastructure companies that wrote several standards in the SOA Governance and API Management space and was acquired by webMethods in 2006. Leveraging the deep understanding of enterprise middleware we gained from those roots, Photon today builds award-winning omnichannel presences for some of the biggest brands, including 34 of the Fortune 100 companies.
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Posted by Saharsh Borar on 04:27
Labels: Microservices, API, ad hoc solutions, photon, service oriented architechture, enterprise application integration