One does not have to spend much time searching to find the terms “API economy”, “API first”, and other similar phrases. In the spirit of those phrases one would think all you need to do is throw those topics into a conversation and you have a golden ticket for success. Unfortunately, we are all aware that the real world doesn’t operate in that binary fashion. In this discussion, Damon will explain how his team focused on three key tenants to build a successful API program at Cerner. There were some obstacles on the journey and some lessons learned will be shared in an effort to prevent others from repeating the same patterns.

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Enabling for API Success @ Cerner
Damon Renzulli
Director – Shared Application Services
September 24, 2019

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Agenda
• Background info on myself and Cerner
• Why focus on API’s?
• Program History
• Enablement
• Evaluate
• Lessons Learned

3. Background

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about Damon
• 14 years at Cerner
• 23 years in IT
• first IT job was a computer operator on a Unisys
mainframe running MAPPER
• currently own enterprise shared application services,
i.e. Data Analytics, Identity
Management, Integrations, System Management
• driving corporate cloud adoption

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about Cerner

6. Why an API First focus?

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Historical "System" Challenges
deep
architectur
al coupling
secure
networks
slow dev
process
incidents

8. We had to try something

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Program History
universe created
man lands on moon
Cerner attempted to implement a
corporate API catalog
2014
API
approval for an API focus
2017

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Program History
Enterprise Data Platform
and
API Management

11. Enablement

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Define an API
Marketing
An API is a product that is
consumed by developers

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Invest in the engagement
Marketing
An API is a product that is
consumed by developers

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Define the Developer Experience
Marketing
An API is a product that is
consumed by developers
dev
experienc
e
ease of
use
quality
architectur
e

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Define Program Values
cost
agility
reliability
security
experience

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Define the engagement
Marketing
relationships meetings
small wins metrics
experiment

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Marketing

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Marketing

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Define the engagement
Perfection

20. Evaluate

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Evaluate the engagement
cost
agility
reliability
security
experience

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Evaluate the engagement
Review data (metrics)

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Evaluate the engagement
Review data (metrics)
Adjust

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Evaluate the engagement
Rinse
Repeat
Marketing
relationships meetings
small wins metrics
experiment

25. Lessons Learned

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Lessons Learned
Establish your core
values
Evaluate often
Look for small wins
It is ok to experiment

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Questions?