Creating an API is not about the API, it's about the organization becoming a platform. Presented by Jacob Ideskog at FINESCE in Malmö, October 2013

1. Transforming organizations into platforms
Jacob Ideskog, VP Twobo Technologies
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2. Agenda
 About Twobo Technologies
 Disruptive tech is forcing organization to open up
 Openness via Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
 Reasons to launch an API
 Examples
 Where do we start?
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3. Solutions must be ”baked”
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4. Solutions must be ”baked”
Web SSO
Account
Management &
Provisioning
Authorization Social Media
Aggregation
API Security
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5. Disruptive trends
Cloud
Computing
Social
Networks
Big
Data
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Mobile

6. Consequences for Businesses
 Driving business & IT for the next decade
 Adopters will become the
new market leaders
 Resulting in massive shift
of power & money
 Presents enormous
opportunities
 Requires organizations
to open up
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7. Opening Up
 Prior technology investments will remain
on the books for years
 Existing data & systems
must be available to mobile
users and cloud services
 IT organizations need to bridge the old
and new technologies
 Do this by becoming an API platform
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8. What is an API?
 An Application Programming Interface (API)
is the description of how software
components connect
 Ya, but really, what is it?
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9. Platformification Effect
 Device explosion necessitates
custom & packaged business apps
 These require access to corporate
data
 Existing info & systems are opened
up as APIs
 10,000 cataloged in
ProgrammableWeb
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10. Why an API?
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“APIs can create and unlock the value of business data”
- Eve Maler, Forrester

11. Example: Pearson
 Launched API to allow innovative
uses of existing content
 Turned sunk costs into new revenue
stream
 Started w/ one API and deployed
others in time
 Built community not just code
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12. So how do we start?
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13. Crucial Security Concerns
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Enterprise
Security
API
Security
Mobile
Security

14. Start with the Identity
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MDM MAM
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Mobile
Security
API
Security
Enterprise
Security
Identity
Venn diagram by Gunnar Peterson

15. SAML / OpenID Connect
SCIM
JSON Identity Suite
OAuth
XACML
Federation
Provisioning
Identity
Delegated Access
Authorization
The Neo-security Stack
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16. The Neo-security Platform
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SAML /
OpenID
Connect
SCIM
JSON
Identity
Suite
OAuth XACML
Identity
Management
System
API
Management
System
Entitlement
Management
System

17. The driving factor
Security should enable your business
Not stand in its way!
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18. Security as an enabler
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19. Questions & Thanks
@2botech
@jacobideskog
www.2botech.com
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