Systems | Development | Analytics | API | Testing

May 2021

What are the Characteristics of an Effective API?

If you’re planning to upgrade your business technology, this almost certainly means working with an API. Either you’re building your own to integrate your on-premises technology, importing a third-party API for added functionalities, or monetizing your current capabilities. Regardless, you may find yourself working with a lot of APIs in the near future. But you may not know what to look for in searching for a high-quality API.

Typeform APIs & DreamFactory

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 such as a Typeform REST API. This gives you the ability to generate documentation and secure an existing API as if it were created natively within DreamFactory.

Why Consolidating API Activities into an API Management Platform Could Benefit Your Organization

Whether you’ve made your first steps toward digital transformation or looking for ways to expand on the your current tech stack, you probably have at least one API in use. You know by now that APIs are more than pieces of code: they are products that can expand your business opportunities. They can facilitate your business’ growth with new capabilities and new revenue streams. But building and deploying APIs is only the beginning of the API lifecycle.

Achieving a Cloud-First Strategy with APIs

As many organizations push forward in adopting cloud-first strategies, issues often arise with addressing how their suite of applications and systems can remain integrated securely and efficiently. Whilst the movement to the cloud was a huge step in technological advancement, advancements in API technology now make “hybrid cloud” models possible, and businesses exist both in the cloud and on premises.

APIs & Organizational Agility: Are You Getting the Benefits of API Adoption

Customer expectations are always changing. Businesses must learn to adapt or be left behind. The idea of business agility can be intimidating, but the right API can help you keep pace and adjust to changing business models. But to use one effectively, it may be beneficial to first understand what is meant by organizational agility and how APIs can enable your business to be more responsive to changing market conditions and embrace more streamlined ways of working.

How Organizations Add Value with APIs

It’s no secret that APIs are a valuable part of the modern tech stack. More than bits of middleware, APIs can tie your disjointed apps into one streamlined interface. You can add security and connectivity to legacy systems, and you can get creative with new features and services. APIs are essential to any digital transformation process. Sign up for our free 14 day hosted trial to learn how.

APIs: The Key to IT Decentralization

Recent global events have forced many businesses to embrace digital technology. This and advancements in software technology caused explosive innovation, resulting in the development of new platforms within many organization’s technology suite. Functionalities such as automation, artificial intelligence, and even some internet of things (IoT) applications are now commonplace across large enterprises, small businesses and start-ups alike.

APIs and IoT: Generating Increased Connectivity for Your Organization

Anything that can be connected will be connected. This is the ultimate goal of technology. Connections with new objects and devices open the door for big data and new insights. It’s a branch of technology long in the making, with just a few hiccups. But advances in API technology aim to address these concerns and advance the IoT into a new era. As these advancements continue, organizations are learning that APIs can play a crucial role in increasing connectivity across the suite of IoT applications.

The New Getting Started with Dreamfactory Guide Has Launched!

Dreamfactory has released an updated Getting Started With Dreamfactory Guide which provides a ranges of structural improvements over the previous guide. These improvements include offering global navigation, chapter-specific and the availability of links encouraging user contribution, issue logging and, and enhanced chapter printing functionality.

Why Your Organization Needs to Embrace APIs

Like most organizations today, you’re probably looking to optimize your business model through increased technology adoption. The more successful digital transformation projects look at changing business trends and seek to incorporate those trends within their own specific environment. Similarly, as API technology grows, promising new functionalities and integrations, enterprises should aim to embrace the utility of APIs within their wider technology strategy.

What is the API Economy?

APIs are everywhere you look. As the building blocks of most digital transformation strategies, they’ve helped to lay the groundwork for integrating apps and services and can be key in modernizing legacy systems prevalent throughout most organizations. But APIs are more than just middleware. By leveraging them effectively as software components, you can open your business to new functionalities, opportunities, and revenue streams.

Improving Customer Experience with APIs

Between smartphones, social media, and a growing work from home lifestyle, people are constantly connected to the internet. The new customer experience strategy is to create an immersive digital experience. Reaching new customers and nurturing existing ones by immersing them in your content is the goal, but it takes serious planning and implementation. Not only do you need to know where to reach your customers first, but you need to anticipate and follow their moves.

Calling SQL Server Stored Procedures from a REST API

Using the DreamFactory API management platform it's easy to expose your database stored procedures via API endpoints. This short video demonstrates how to use DreamFactory's auto-generated API endpoints to list available stored procedures, learn more about a specific stored procedure, and call a stored procedure with several input parameters.