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As with any product on the market, driving adoption is critical to success. Your API investment is no different, and driving API consumption within your ecosystem requires a well-planned strategy and adoption campaign that’s complemented by appropriate customer education and marketing. In this article we’ll discuss some ideas that will generate increased use of your APIs and help you understand how your organization integrates all of it’s systems, data and applications.

Companies that have an API strategy are more likely to complete projects on schedule, innovate more quickly, reduce operational costs, and create new revenue streams. However, to participate in the ever-growing API economy, organizations must first develop a strategic and methodological approach to APIs. A key element of this approach is ensuring alignment within the organization.

Over the past ten years, Clubhouse and other innovative startups built software quickly. They started from scratch and blew past their incumbents. But the fact of the matter is that speed is no longer a differentiator. Everyone can move quickly. We’ve seen it as Facebook and Twitter quickly duplicated Clubhouse’s “innovative” functionality. Today, it’s all about agility—taking the momentum that you’ve already built up.

G2 is one of the leading review and comparison sites for business software, so as an API management platform, we’re especially proud to be recognized as high performers by G2 and its users in Summer 2021. DreamFactory received three of the coveted badges in the Summer review of top software and service providers including.

APIs have long been the programmers tool of choice for inter-application communication. Built by programmers, for programmers. Giving each other an interface and a means by which to call each other’s code. As for documentation and ease of use, well….

Think back to when your development team made the switch to Dockerized containers. What was once an application requiring multiple services on virtual machines transitioned to an application consisting of multiple, tidy Docker containers. While the result was a streamlined system, the transition likely was daunting. Now, it’s time for another transformational leap: moving from a single set of containers to a highly available, orchestrated deployment of replica sets using Kubernetes.

DreamFactory specialises in REST API generation for any number of database types however an underrepresented benefit is the ability to mount and manage any third party API via a HTTP service connector. This gives you the ability to generate documentation and secure an existing API as if it were created natively within DreamFactory.