This report helps to address the proliferaton of APIs by providing trends, insights on ease of integraton, data on where the industry is strong, and where it is going next.
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THE STATE OF
API INTEGRATION
REPORT
2017
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Happy Integrating.
Mark Geene
CEO - Cloud Elements
@mgeene
THERE HAS BEEN AN
EXPONENTIAL PROLIFERATION OF APIs
THROUGHOUT THE YEARS.
Our vision at Cloud Elements is to make it faster and easier for developers to connect and work with any API. Each new service or
application is an island of data, causing developers to be overrun with new APIs, resources and information. And with each new API,
developers are challenged with determining how it works and what value writing to the API brings.
This report helps to address the proliferation of APIs by providing trends, insights on ease of integration, data on where the industry is
strong, and where it is going next.
DATA COLLECTION METHODOLOGY
The data presented here had been collected and analyzed between September 2016 to March 2017, and comes from Cloud
Elements API Integration platform. Over 107 public endpoints, 58 beta endpoints, 28,000 individual instances and 1.6 Billion+ API
Calls were surveyed to extract the following results. In addition to the Cloud Elements platform, complementary research provided by
ProgrammableWeb API Directory 'Growth in Web APIs Since 2005', the Datanyze Market Share Report of 2016, and SmartBear State
of API Report 2016. Industry expert contributors include Ross Garrett, Sr. Director Product Marketing at Cloud Elements and Kin
Lane, The API Evangelist. It will help all developers navigate the recent explosion of APIs and the implications of API integrations to
work more efficiently in 2017 and beyond.
We'll cover:
1. The Growth of API Integration 2. API Integrations | Compare and Contrast 3. Current Scorecard of API Integration
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MEET THE
CONTRIBUTORS
Meet The Contributor
KIN LANE
API Evangelist
I am the API Evangelist. Not in
the sense that I'm evangelizing
a single API to you--In the
sense that APIs are important
for everyone to be aware