Download eBook - Web API Design: http://bit.ly/1mjlhkT Listen to webcast - http://bit.ly/1pRMYyy Innovation is the name of the game for the growth of today's enterprise. But how do you continue to innovate despite the constraints of reduced IT budgets? How do you identify and overcome the inefficiencies in enterprise architectures that increase costs and constrain growth? Join Brian Pagano and Tom Weeks to discuss a framework on how to cut costs for enterprise IT. Learn to identify areas of operational savings in your business so that you can invest in and accelerate the projects that matter. Join to Discuss: - IT rationalization via cost savings and cost avoidance - Combating the complexity of multiple teams, data repositories, and formats - Hidden areas of operational savings - Normalizing access to back-end systems via a uniform and consumable API

1. March 27, 2014
APIs: A Key to Rationalizing IT Costs

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@apigee
Brian Pagano
@brianpagano

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• Doing more with less
• Cleaning house
What is IT rationalization?
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Cost avoidance
Not paying for something you would have paid for
otherwise
Cost savings
Reducing a current payment
Defining our terms
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(Over)Simplified architecture
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A high level, software layer view of an enterprise architecture

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The secret weapon: exposure/consumption
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A high level view of a typical architecture containing duplication at every layer.

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Four categories of rationalization
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Operational
Process
ComplianceDevelopment

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• Identify bottlenecks
• Capacity planning
• Caching
• Runtime
Operational savings
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• Reduce audit costs
• The hamster wheel of compliance
Regulatory and compliance savings
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• Reduce the headaches of homegrown systems
• Configure, don’t code
• Ramp development teams faster
• Reduce backlog of back-end teams
Development savings
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• Simplify governance
• Make vendor upgrades easier
Process savings
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• 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
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• The use of an exposure and consumption layer can
be 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
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17. Questions?
John Rethans
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Brian Pagano
@brianpagano

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