BBVA API Market
One of the great recent revolutions in technology is data management in the cloud. Not only for large volumes of information, what we know as Big Data, but also in relation to platforms or services for end users, such as a customer or a company’s employee. The result of this effort is embodied in hundreds of tools and features for managing information in the cloud: from office automation like Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive to storage of personal images and videos through applications.
The greatest challenge for companies and developers is integrating their own system infrastructure with these cloud-based platforms or services, often with third-party providers, and improving the entire experience deriving from that strategic move. APIs are the real key in all this process. We have already mentioned two giants in the sector: Google and Microsoft. But there are many others, such as Amazon or Salesforce.
Taking a customer through the entire buying process until it is formalized is an arduous journey and one that faces the constant possibility of the customer leaving. However, there are ways to make the buying decision happen if you are given facilities such as agile, secure financing.
In a connected world, APIs are the glue that keeps all the parts that form our day-to-day lives in place. The same way the power of glue depends on the material it is used on and the knowledge of its properties, APIs are only as useful as their documentation allows for.
There are different solutions to monitor the performance of an API, in terms of traffic, quality and speed of the answers it provides. Detecting faults in the code or quantifying the generated revenues are also some of the options offered by these useful tools.
