Roberto Medrano

The Brexit unrest aside, Europe is taking initiatives to make a sounder, more user-friendly economic landscape. By using technology solutions and digital innovation, the European Union (EU) is encouraging greater transparency, usability and higher standards of security for all manner of web-based banking and financial transactions.

Treat your API like a product. This is the established wisdom in the enterprise. Rather than relegating the API to a techy niche, treat your API as a product for others to use. Then you can better tap into its potential to transform your business. At the same time, it is critical to understand the role of API management and security in the API productization process. If the API is not well managed or secure, it won’t live up to its business potential as a product.

This segment goes on to list some questions every director should ask to maintain their fiduciary responsibility in regards to cybersecurity. When a CIO or a CISO is tasked with presenting cybersecurity issues to the board, there are some useful strategies for explaining difficult concepts to directors who have a different background or expertise. It is important to explain with the risks in mind, explain the potential vulnerabilities, explain the current process, products, and training you… Show more

This segment goes on to list some questions every director should ask to maintain their fiduciary responsibility in regards to cybersecurity. When a CIO or a CISO is tasked with presenting cybersecurity issues to the board, there are some useful strategies for explaining difficult concepts to directors who have a different background or expertise. It is important to explain with the risks in mind, explain the potential vulnerabilities, explain the current process, products, and training you have implemented at the highest level to prepare. This segment also addresses how a director should approach teaching the BOD members about staying up-to-date on technology, and how to stay positive and encouraging when communicating this new and sometimes confusing information to those who have not yet embraced technology. In closing this segment lists some red flags that directors should be aware of when analyzing a company’s cybersecurity initiatives and standards.
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Today, CIOs find it a herculean task to manage the complexities of legacy infrastructure, while delivering agility to accelerate digital transformation. Often, APIs and SOA are critical tools to achieve this balance. APIs provides advantages to organizations in developing applications, securely and consistently sharing information and improving overall operational efficiency. Ensuring a truly effective and lucrative digital presence through facilitating the adoption of APIs

Microsoft’s Azure cloud technology undoubtedly offers greater IT agility and reduced costs while providing new digital marketing channels and end user experiences. However, most organizations often fail to improve their existing IT infrastructure, and bridge them to a cloud and mobile-first world.

APIs are brokering data across all kinds of domains, applications and platforms, but too many developers think in terms of traditional on-premise, sit-down-in-front-of-your-laptop-and-consume-this type of environment. Especially in the enterprise world, there's a desire to access data that sits in huge application repositories and integrate it with data from other apps, and make it usable. An API is what enables this and presents users with a highly usable and interactive application, which… Show more

APIs are brokering data across all kinds of domains, applications and platforms, but too many developers think in terms of traditional on-premise, sit-down-in-front-of-your-laptop-and-consume-this type of environment. Especially in the enterprise world, there's a desire to access data that sits in huge application repositories and integrate it with data from other apps, and make it usable. An API is what enables this and presents users with a highly usable and interactive application, which gives the the ability to do more, and the provider gets a much more engaged user. Show less

APIs used to be an uber-technical implementation detail reserved for the wonkiest of developers and architects. But today, they’re becoming a key lever for business growth with boardroom relevance. Executives who couldn’t spell A-P-I are being thrust into a new world of programmatic access as the foundation for driving transactions and brand engagement through third-party applications. Today, APIs have created vast new channels for doing business via the application ecosphere and through the… Show more

APIs used to be an uber-technical implementation detail reserved for the wonkiest of developers and architects. But today, they’re becoming a key lever for business growth with boardroom relevance. Executives who couldn’t spell A-P-I are being thrust into a new world of programmatic access as the foundation for driving transactions and brand engagement through third-party applications. Today, APIs have created vast new channels for doing business via the application ecosphere and through the social web. High profile companies like Netflix, eBay, Salesforce.com and Amazon.com have all turned their APIs into primary sources of revenue, demonstrating the model for how many organizations will grow their business on the web over the next decade.
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Use a services-oriented architecture (SOA) as the fabric upon which to build your cloud-based applications. In this article, we'll outline the reasons why an SOA is so important for the cloud, some principles to consider when creating your cloud platform on an SOA.

This book works because it gives the reader a sense of SOA governance across the full IT lifecycle and spans the organizations that are charged with managing the SOA. Thomas offers valuable insights and pragmatic tips on how to implement governance that is sensible yet effective, touching on managerial and business issues as much as technology. He probes into the nature of rules and organizations, even human nature, as he lays out the groundwork for good governance. Thomas understands that all… Show more

This book works because it gives the reader a sense of SOA governance across the full IT lifecycle and spans the organizations that are charged with managing the SOA. Thomas offers valuable insights and pragmatic tips on how to implement governance that is sensible yet effective, touching on managerial and business issues as much as technology. He probes into the nature of rules and organizations, even human nature, as he lays out the groundwork for good governance. Thomas understands that all of these aspects of governance are relevant to the success of a program. Enjoy this book. If you are involved in IT management, you will find it an indispensible companion in your quest for success with SOA.
Forewords by Roberto Medrano EVP SOA Software, Massimo Pezzini VP Gartner.
Authored by Stephen Bennett, Thomas Erl, Clive Gee, Robert Laird, Anne Thomas Manes, Robert Schneider, Leo Shuster, Andre Tost, Chris Venable Show less

We have spent the better part of the last decade working on SOA governance programs
at some of the world’s largest and most complex IT organizations. We are very pleased,
therefore, to see this important topic addressed in detail by Thomas Erl, one of this generation’s
truly great software architecture authors. Thomas’ book is beyond timely, in
our view, as it captures a serious truth that has crept up on even some of the most savvy
CIOs. That is, SOA has gone from “nice to… Show more

We have spent the better part of the last decade working on SOA governance programs
at some of the world’s largest and most complex IT organizations. We are very pleased,
therefore, to see this important topic addressed in detail by Thomas Erl, one of this generation’s
truly great software architecture authors. Thomas’ book is beyond timely, in
our view, as it captures a serious truth that has crept up on even some of the most savvy
CIOs. That is, SOA has gone from “nice to have,” to “have to have,” to today’s reality that
SOA is just here. Period. You have it. You don’t have any choice but to have it. And now
that you have, you have to govern it. Show less