The No-Excuses Guide to Innovation with APIs
Nothing is preventing your organisation from innovating today in order to keep pace with user expectations, because properly using APIs helps you escape from the bonds of your legacy estate.
Graham Odds
Find out how the humble API can deliver genuine digital transformation for your organisation
Read 'Open your eyes to APIs' to understand how the humble API can be the key to unlock genuine digital transformation.
Get your copyOrganisations typically only use a fraction of the potential of APIs to support their business goals. Used properly, they can unlock genuine digital transformation and free you up to focus on the unique value your organisation delivers. Scott Logic can help you harness this potential.
The new white paper by our Innovation Director Graham Odds will provide you with a non-technical exploration of the oft-untapped business potential of the humble API.
In order to unlock this potential, it is vital for the whole organisation, not just IT, to understand how APIs “done properly” can be a significant strategic enabler – helping you to innovate, accelerate time to market, get value from legacy, and refocus on the unique value you offer.
APIs are essential to a product and services strategy in modern banking and financial services, facilitating open architecture and transforming customer experience.
With the current landscape of open banking demanding the capability for safe integration with third-party apps, APIs will continue to breed innovation in the industry.
Scott Logic can help empower your approach to APIs for internal and open consumption to facilitate new commercial opportunities.
Read about just two of the many ways we have supported our clients to achieve their business goals by tapping the full capacity of APIs as a strategic enabler.
Setting a vision for cloud adoption, our client aimed to build on its robust legacy platform by developing an API layer that would enable rapid product innovation, including its first mobile app, to keep pace with the customer needs of its clients – and looked for a high-calibre local partner to provide UX design and mobile app delivery, and support its cloud ambitions.
We supported HM Land Registry in the digital transformation of the Land Register, delivering an overhauled customer interface, an API-powered Business Gateway, automated data processing, and productivity improvements for caseworkers.
Your organisation will probably already be using APIs in a tactical way, but by promoting them to be a 'first-class citizen', they can help you address a wide range of business challenges, including helping you to connect multiple internal services and to replace inefficient processes/workflows.
APIs allow you to shape a more agile strategy in planning your migration away from legacy, forming a key element of a new modular approach to your IT infrastructure. With this strategy, you continue to derive value from your legacy systems even as you incrementally replace them.
APIs allow you to build software in a better way, creating modular software for reuse. The more API services you create, the more each new product or feature you develop gets a head start, with some of its technical challenges already solved – accelerating your time to market.
Your organisation no longer needs to be all things to all people. With APIs, you can ultimately participate in a wider ecosystem of value, enabling third-party providers to meet user needs you would struggle to address, freeing you up to focus on where you provide unique value.
Nothing is preventing your organisation from innovating today in order to keep pace with user expectations, because properly using APIs helps you escape from the bonds of your legacy estate.
Graham Odds
LangChain has become a tremendously popular toolkit for building a wide range of LLM-powered applications, including chat, Q&A and document search. In this blogpost I re-implement some of the novel LangChain functionality as a learning exercise, looking at the low-level prompts it uses to create these higher level capabilities.
Colin Eberhardt
I talk in this session about the real use cases for Open APIs, and how organisations are starting to move from a compliance mindset to seeing the opportunities that opening up data can deliver – from compliance-driven APIs within the banking sector, to future opportunities that OpenFinance may offer to consumers, to the adoption of Open APIs in other industry sectors.
Nick Betts
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