20 Most Promising API Solution Providers - 2015

With today’s mobile-first, cloud first world, APIs are paving the path for innovative business scenarios across industry verticals. Be it customer relationship management or retail, APIs are turning out to be the means to connect the unconnected. It makes the process of information exchange easy, which allows applications to communicate and move information between programs.

 Organizations are using APIs to enhance work value, monetize, reuse and share their core assets to extend the reach of existing services. . It speeds up the platform access and directs a more efficient management of platform security and help organizations co-opt with other service providers. APIs ensure compliance and help successful integration and interoperability. However, the main challenge for the API industry today is to stay effective for software and services development. Therefore enterprises are using different style of APIs to be able to apply definitions and implementations without compromising the interface.

 Organizations are also harnessing relatively new style of APIs as a strategic and systematic way to support the fulfillment of their digital ambitions. In the last few months a distinguished panel comprising of CEOs, CIOs, VCs, and analysts including CIO Review editorial board reviewed the top companies in the API domain, and shortlisted the ones that are at the forefront of tackling industry challenges.

The selection panel looked at the vendor’s capability to fulfill needs of buyers with effective solutions that curb the challenges. We present to you 20 Most Promising API Solution Providers.