turning spreadsheets into apis
DESCRIPTION
Chris Haddad, Vice President - Platform Evangelism at WSO2 presented the following at the API Strategy & Practice Conference in Chicago; outlining the challenges of API-fying legacy data sources and aggregating open data. The slides also describe how mainstream business users can tap into powerful open data models while illustrating how the flat files and spreadsheets of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics were turned into connected APIs, and how they enabled mainstream economic model collaboration.TRANSCRIPT
Spreadsheet to API
Chris Haddad@cobiacomm
http://www.slideshare.net/cobiacommhttp://blog.cobia.net/cobiacomm/
Accelerate interactions inside and
outside the organization
Reduce interaction
friction and cost
Increase engagement and
enhance productivity
Sense business activity
and automatically
adapt
API == A More Connected Business
http://wso2.com/landing/enabling-the-connected-business
Situational Context: Traffic Data
{incidents: [ {impacting: false, eventCode: 0, iconURL: "http://...", lat: 38.743999, shortDesc: "Exit ramp closed on I 95...", type: 1, severity: 0, fullDesc: "In NEWINGTON exit ramp closed on I-95 ...", startTime: "2010-02-21T00:14:07", lng: -77.188004, id: "368598263", endTime: "2010-02-27T05:04:19" },
Image source: http://www.directoryofnewyorkcity.com/blog/2009/05/how-to-find-parking-in-new-york-city/Real-time traffic map: http://www.mapquestapi.com/traffic/
Velocity, Acceleration
Rapid Dev Pace
Rapid Data Delivery
Where is your Data?
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Is your Data a Rock Temple?
Monoliths remain
Data at Rest ONLY
Accessibility Challenged
Are you Facing aData Apocalypse
Data to API – Easy Way
Data Connectors
Data Mapping [Schema]
API Publication
Data Query
Data to API – Hard WayData Update and Versioning [w/RESTful
protocol bridges]
Data Synchronization
Linked Data
Data Archiving
APIs Everywhere• Comprehensive and Integrated
platform to• Collect high volume data in
structured and unstructured format• Perform data analysis through real
time and batch processing modes.• Present relevant dashboards to
enable timely operational management and business planning.
• Execute fact-based action (process improvement, hedge transactions, fault remediation)
Combined Power of Scalable Batch and Real-time Event Detection(Lambda Architecture)
Combine power of both delayed batch and real time analysisIdentify trends and incidents
Find complex event sequences with fast, real time performanceDetect anomalous and usual patterns based on action sequence
Trigger adaptive, real-time responsesReplay event combinations and fine-tune prediction rules
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The API to Data Puzzle
Global Customer Success
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