In today’s digitally connected world, API functionalities and file transfers are crucial components of modern digital systems, enabling the creation of connected and data-driven digital ecosystems. However, the combination of those two elements can pose technical challenges. Find out how you can address this challenge by using a façade.

Over the past couple of years, we have witnessed the uprising of API Management. Many reference authorities were stating that API Management would become very important in an enterprise IT landscape and well… they were right!

On September 23rd, our API expert Edwin Hurst (Archers) and Integration Lead Jolien Jans (Fednot), were guest speakers at the 14th lunch session of the API community. Since we’re very proud of our team member and partner, a short recap of the session is written below!

Do you think integrating a SaaS application is easier than integrating a packaged (on-premise) application? Whatever your answer might be, it is probably not a simple yes or no answer and every integration has its own challenges. In this blog, we take a bite out of the challenges of integrating SaaS applications. We’ll be looking at specific integration capabilities that these applications offer and how we can best manage these integrations.

On March 18th, our very own API Security Expert Pieter Van de Broeck and Security Architect at Colruyt Tom Pieters were guest speakers at the 12th Lunch Session of the API Community. A brief summary!

In one of our previous blogs we talked about the importance of the Authentication & Authorisation pillars of our API Security Framework. Although authentication & authorisation play an important role in API security, there is more to consider when it comes to API security.

As APIs establish an important channel to your enterprise’s systems, data, and services. It's important to keep focus on API security to prevent business/reputation loss, competitor’s gains and so much more. There are numerous aspects that you must consider in securing your APIs.

We often get the question how to increase an organization's API maturity. Not an easy job as you need to change the daily behavior of people. It is not just a matter of training: you need to make people aware and convince them of the new way of working and thinking. So, you need some change management techniques to increase your maturity. In this blog we will explain how your maturity can grow step-by-step. This approach is formalized in our API maturity model.

APIs establish an important channel to your enterprise’s systems, data, and services. It's important to keep focus on API security to prevent business/reputation loss, competitor’s gains and so much more. There are numerous aspects that you must consider in securing your APIs. Have you been thinking about a security approach for your APIs?

In this blog, we will cover each pillar and demonstrate their relevance to the success of the API program.