APIs and Hybrid Cloud Integration

APIs and Hybrid Cloud Integration

The one constant in information technology is change. With labor shortages and the volume of APIs growing exponentially, enterprises moving to the hybrid cloud and the system integrators that are helping them need to change again and avail themselves of the best API...
Mashed Potatoes or Mashups

Mashed Potatoes or Mashups

Thanksgiving is here, development teams are winding down and freezing their code, and thoughts are moving towards the holidays (turkey and mashed potatoes), not mashups. Interestingly enough, the two have more in common than you might think. The original Thanksgiving...
Maximize Your RPA Investment

Maximize Your RPA Investment

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) emerged from a need to perform repetitive business functions that many times required interaction with a mainframe. Rudimentary programs were paired with screen scraping technology to perform repetitive business functions that were not...
What to Consider Before API-Enabling the Mainframe

What to Consider Before API-Enabling the Mainframe

The idea of integrating the mainframe more widely is not new; it has gone through numerous iterations including messaging middleware, ESBs, and SOA before arriving at APIs. The lessons learned can drastically shortcut the effort to API-enable the mainframe while...