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March 27, 2014

APIs: A Key to Rationalizing IT Costs

John Rethans@apigee

Brian Pagano@brianpagano

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• Doing more with less

• Cleaning house

What is IT rationalization?


Cost avoidanceNot paying for something you would have paid for otherwise

Cost savingsReducing a current payment

Defining our terms


(Over)Simplified architecture

A high level, software layer view of an enterprise architecture


The secret weapon: exposure/consumption

A high level view of a typical architecture containing duplication at every layer.


Four categories of rationalization

Operational

Process

ComplianceDevelopment


• Identify bottlenecks

• Capacity planning

• Caching

• Runtime

Operational savings


• Reduce audit costs• The hamster wheel of compliance

Regulatory and compliance savings


• Reduce the headaches of homegrown systems

• Configure, don’t code

• Ramp development teams faster

• Reduce backlog of back-end teams

Development savings


• Simplify governance

• Make vendor upgrades easier

Process savings


• Are you considering SOA tools like a service registry?

• Will you need to write functionality (location, device type, or push notifications, for example) that is common to all modern apps?

• How much effort will it take to safe and scalably expose your back-end systems?

• Will you need to acquire or build a system to on-board and manage developers?

• What is the process for on-boarding a new internal development team?

• What is the process for on-boarding a new partner?

• How long does it take to get a new app to market?

• How much of your traffic could be cached?

• How easy is it to project server capacity requirements for the coming year?

• Could your governance process be simplified?

• How much time and effort is spent on minor change requests?

Questions to help with rationalization


• The use of an exposure and consumption layer canbe a powerful tool in reducing IT costs.

• Abstracting each line of business up to a clean API façade can make your life better.

• APIs will also make you better-looking and give you the ability to fly.*

*These claims have not been validated, but they sure would be cool.

Summary

Questions?

John Rethans@apigee

Brian Pagano@brianpagano

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