The advent of digital transformation has driven customers to demand access to information and services across devices anytime, anywhere. With businesses continuously integrating with new-age platforms and services, adding digital capabilities to serve customer needs without a comprehensive digital strategy may be less effective due to legacy infrastructure limitations. This is where adopting an API-driven transformation strategy comes into the picture; by enabling businesses to share information among different endpoints, APIs act as facilitators of the digital transformation process that organizations undertake.

As organizations recover from the pandemic, an interconnected approach involving businesses and API ecosystems can speed up the enterprise modernization process. Some key API-based trends defined by Gartner (Hype Cycle of API and Business Ecosystems, 2020) that shape up the next wave of digital

With the quality of digital experience being of utmost importance across multiple touchpoints, digital commerce innovation requires more progressive, experience-driven, and modular architectures. Digital commerce solutions are generally built around a platform as one monolithic application. This makes it challenging to integrate functionalities by third party providers. API-First approach is allowing organizations to combine and showcase their capabilities to support more comprehensive digital business strategies.

As API advocacy expands, its utilization keeps on spreading across all areas of the business. Yet, APIs alone are not sufficient enough to address the rising integration-related difficulties that organizations face. Organizations should give their API programs more importance with a full lifecycle API management system. Empowering business developers with an API management solution across the entire lifecycle of that API furnishes them with the adaptability and flexibility essential to integrate applications, frameworks, and information in a steadily developing dynamic landscape.

With more and more organizations incorporating APIs and their capabilities in driving their digital business models, leveraging APIs to create new revenue generation pathways has become the new normal. The rise of fintech firms and the rapid scaling of new technological innovations leading to banking transformation are the main drivers for adopting open banking APIs in the BFSI space. To drive seamless coordination between design and customer satisfaction levels, organizations need to start leveraging APIs power

As interconnectivity expands, organizations looking to achieve the speed, agility, and enhanced digital capabilities need to integrate APIs in their digital transformation journey. To create differentiating customer experiences, combine to use data and services from the external ecosystem, and manage multiple connectivity channels efficiently, partnering with APIs is a must to sustain in today’s digital landscape.

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