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The Missing API Challenge

The Missing API Challenge

Kapow Katalyst™ is the only Application Integration Platform on the market that eliminates the dependency on missing APIs. Missing APIs might not sound like a big problem, but it translates into billions in missed business opportunities,wasted resources, inefficiencies, and delayed payment receivables.

We live in a "connected" world where business transactions and processes are based on applications that may reside on the web, inside the firewall, at business partners or as SaaS apps in the cloud. Consequently, your business needs to connect applications that have grown to Herculean dimensions while traditional EAI/SOA methods are outdated and ineffective.

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To effectively deal with today’s exploding integration requests, you need an LOB-centric, agile solution to integrate applications.

This translates to a method without dependencies on 3rd parties, rewriting existing applcations, or on missing APIs.

Traditionally, IT has needed programmatic access to published APIs to translate a business process into an automated IT solution.. Where there's no API, IT has had to rewrite legacy applications (or hire an army of consultants to do that for them),manually cut-and-paste data from apps using an Internet browser, or even worse,start begging the 3rd party owner for APIs. What is an API?\

An application programming interface (API) is a way for software programs to interact — to "talk" to each another in a standard way so they can share data and processes. Many applications, however, do not have APIs, such as:

  • Business partner web sites for order processing and status information
  • Legacy enterprise applications
  • Cloud or SaaS ERP and CRM systems
  • Mobile-enabled web apps
  • 3rd party or competitor web sites
  • Blogs, consumer sites, and social networks

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With the advent of the web and the widespread adoption of web-based apps, APIs are increasingly rare. Of the more than 227 million active websites, only 2,198 have published APIs — fewer than one in 10,000. Just about every application and data source you need to extract data from is moving to the web. Your HR tools, CRM apps, sales data, partner price lists, supplier inventory, etc. — they're all accessible through a web browser. That's where browser-enabled application integration from Kapow Software comes in.