By Nicholas Greene
SAP has partnered with digital acceleration platform provider Apigee to deliver a comprehensive application programming interface (API) management application built on the Apigee Edge platform. The result will be available on SAP’s cloud platform and also offered as an on-premise solution for businesses.
The partnership comes on the heels of a report from Apigee’s research team that some 45{db8ca4bbfe57dc8f9b6df9233a3a6c04f4968125edf9bb330d4f787c3a87cd09} of large enterprises are struggling to create successful mobile apps – a growing segment of customer interaction – that work.
“A world leader in enterprise software, SAP provides critical technology that helps enable enterprises to modernize, embrace mobility and use data to help create high-value customer interactions. This agreement will facilitate the adoption of APIs and help accelerate the digital transformation of businesses worldwide,” said Apigee CEO Chet Kapoor.
The new offering, the SAP API Management application, will be available as a cloud solution on SAP HANA Cloud Platform and also as an on-premise solution.
It will leverage the capabilities of Apigee Edge in securely transform back-end services into easily consumable APIs, drive developer success and use analytics to gain end-to-end visibility across the digital value chain.
Bjorn Goerke, SAP executive vice president and corporate officer, SAP product and innovation technology, said, “Businesses area increasingly recognising APIs as a key ingredient to participate in the digital economy. Today’s announcement is a great example of how the SAP HANA platform and our ecosystem of partner can help provide a more powerful combination for customers preparing for the digital future by leveraging their digital assets and making them consumable by their customers and the larger ecosystem.”
Research by the Apigee Institute showed that amongst IT decision makers in large enterprises that attempted to deploy apps, more than one in four failed to meet their timeline, nearly one in five failed to meet budget and a similar proportion had to produce fewer apps than planned.
“Traditional IT is no longer viable for the new world of apps. IT as we know it has been heavily conditioned by the legacy of a control-oriented approach used to build and manage the systems of record of the past,” said Bryan Kirschner, director of Apigee Institute. “But this approach is incompatible with the new business imperative to deliver systems of engagement at the pace the market demands.”
