Week 1: Integrate Anything Anywhere

Unit 4: Craft and Execute Your Enterprise API Strategy

Craft and Execute Your Enterprise API Strategy
APIs

APIs support simple digital experiences

by hiding complexity

APIs = building blocks Apps Integration

for digital businesses

APIs

unlock your data empower users connect and innovate

with self-service

© 2019 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 2

Craft and Execute Your Enterprise API Strategy
How can you craft a winning API strategy and execute it successfully?

#1 #2 #3 #4 #5
Align enterprise Set up an API Understand and Create an API Use an API
API strategy to program with engage your makers platform on a
organizational executive ecosystems to community to cloud platform
strategy to gain sponsorship to grow partnerships have high quality to reduce time
business benefits execute APIs to win
successfully on
API strategy

© 2019 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 3

Craft and Execute Your Enterprise API Strategy

#1

Align enterprise API strategy to

organizational strategy to gain business
benefits

© 2019 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 4

Craft and Execute Your Enterprise API Strategy
Scenarios

APIs = omnichannel access and APIs = business collaboration (B2B, B2G)

“single source of truth” and open integrations

APIs = mobility and self-service APIs = new channels and revenue streams

APIs = IoT, device – user interactions

© 2019 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 5

Craft and Execute Your Enterprise API Strategy
Customer use cases

Accelarate Real-Time Enterprise API Products/

Enterprise Data Sharing/ Microservices Monetization
Digital Apps API Integrations

Secure and managed Share enterprise data Build and manage Use API products
APIs for enterprise from data lakes or API-first to monetize data
digital apps for business system with microservices. and capabilities in
employees (Field suppliers, partners, and Enable DevOps of a pay-per-use
Sales/ Services/ customers microservices model
Support), customers,
Expose enterprise
partners
transactions and
processes as APIs for
suppliers and customers

© 2019 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 6

Craft and Execute Your Enterprise API Strategy

Golden Rule

First questions to ask:

- Why APIs? Which API platform?
- Which APIs?
NOT What features do we need?
- For whom?

© 2019 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 7

Craft and Execute Your Enterprise API Strategy

Golden Rule

Enterprise API initiatives need executive sponsorship, need

clear business reasons and a business case

© 2019 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 8

Craft and Execute Your Enterprise API Strategy

#2

Set up an API program with executive

sponsorship to execute successfully on
API strategy

© 2019 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 9

Craft and Execute Your Enterprise API Strategy
APIFication of SAP – Grow platform business and business networks with cloud APIs

Global API SAP Pre-Packaged

API Program Makers Community API Business Hub Accelarators
API program reporting Community to share best Public catalog of APIs and Pre-packaged best
to board office, establishing practices with API design, accelerators from SAP and practices, policy templates,
lightweight governance architecture, and partners and integration packages
development

Predictive Localization SAP Banking Business Machine Internet

Services APIs API Services Learning of Things

S/4HANA C/4HANA

© 2019 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 10

Craft and Execute Your Enterprise API Strategy
SAP API Business Hub – Build apps and integrations easily with APIs

Catalog API sandbox Pre-packaged Easy

Central place for APIs from One click-test experience for accelerators consumption
SAP and partners developers via API sandbox
Integration packages to Integration with developer IDE
integrate APIs and code generation

Search, discover, experience, and consume the right APIs from SAP and
select partners for your digital transformation projects

© 2019 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 11

Craft and Execute Your Enterprise API Strategy

Golden Rule

API program is not central IT governance committee,

API program coaches the teams to be API-first and align
the efforts company-wide

© 2019 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 12

Craft and Execute Your Enterprise API Strategy

#3

If you build, they won´t come!

Understand and engage your ecosystems
to grow partnerships

© 2019 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 13

Craft and Execute Your Enterprise API Strategy
Understand your ecosystems

Public/Customers
Data-as-a-Service for customers
Data sharing for transparency
Marketplace/supply chain integration

Partners
Integrations with partners
Collaboration across organizations
Marketplace/supply chain integration

Internal
Developers from other departments
Collaboration across departments
Governance for data access
Innovation initiatives
Citizen developers/integrators
© 2019 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 14
Craft and Execute Your Enterprise API Strategy
Understand trends in application development and integration

Application Composers Open

Composition Integrations
application developers are
development is composers, open integrations
composing APIs working in agile vs.
together environments and point-to-point/
composing apps mediated
using APIs integrations

© 2019 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 15

Craft and Execute Your Enterprise API Strategy

#4

Create an API Makers Community

and engage API teams with best practices
to have high quality APIs

© 2019 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 16

Craft and Execute Your Enterprise API Strategy
API Makers Community – A community of practice to build API-first mindset at SAP

API Best Practices

See here

© 2019 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 17

Craft and Execute Your Enterprise API Strategy

#5

Use a versatile API platform on a cloud

platform to reduce time-to-win

© 2019 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 18

Craft and Execute Your Enterprise API Strategy

Golden Rule

API Platform > API Management

API management is a small part of the API program,

choose a versatile API platform

© 2019 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 19

Craft and Execute Your Enterprise API Strategy
SAP Cloud Platform

App
Digital Apps Business Networks Partners/Customers
Developers

Secure, managed, and open APIs HTTP REST ODATA

API Product Manager API Developer
Management
API

Traffic Developer
Design Security Mediation Caching Notification Analytics Monetize
Management Engagement
Development

SAP Cloud Platform

API

API Design API Implementation DevOps

SAP Apps, SAP HANA, Middleware Business Services Heterogenous Back Ends

Zoho, QuickBooks, Marketo, Magento,

Salesforce, HubSpot, Freshdesk

© 2019 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 20

Craft and Execute Your Enterprise API Strategy
Full-lifecycle API Management with SAP

Apps and digital interactions powered by APIs

Digital Apps Business Networks Partners/Customers

APIs as digital building blocks Marketplace for enterprise APIs API Business Hub Web IDE
Search, discover, test, and subscribe to the right APIs Mobile
Developer Portal Services App
Meter and Developers
Design Develop Manage Monetize Engage

API Designer App Runtimes API Portal (Security | Traffic Management | Mediation)

Design easy-to-use APIs Integration Service API Gateway (Cloud | Hybrid) API

API Team
Persistence Services Developer
Secure, govern, document, and publish APIs
Messaging Service Analyze and gain insights
On-Premise Middleware Implement highly scalable APIs and
microservices using platform services API Product
Cloud Connector
Manager

SAP Apps, SAP HANA, Middleware Business Services Heterogenous Back Ends

Zoho, QuickBooks, Marketo, Magento,

Salesforce, HubSpot, Freshdesk

© 2019 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 21

Craft and Execute Your Enterprise API Strategy
API charter

▪ Understand your audience

(internal, partners, public)
Business ▪ Why do I need APIs?
and Unlock | integration | monetize | channels
Ecosystem ▪ Understand regulations and
standards

▪ Develop an API mindset

▪ Define API best practices API Program
▪ Drive partnerships and ecosystem
engagement

API Platform ▪ How can I develop APIs, offer them to my

ecosystem, and achieve my strategy?
▪ How can I manage the full lifecycle of
my APIs?

© 2019 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 22

 Craft and Execute Your Enterprise API Strategy
SAP help? – Customer advisory programs
| API Evangelists & Coaches

EUREKA CRAFT AND EXECUTE YOUR SIMPLIFY INTEGRATION WITH SAP´S

ENTERPRISE API STRATEGY IPAAS AND HYBRID INTEGRATION
PLATFORM

Experience and Learn the power

Design and develop your A2A,
our iPaaS and API Management Craft and execute your digital
B2B and IOT Integration
strategy with APIs
Learn from our team of experts, the scenarios
toolset and methodologies available Join us in a design thinking session to
from SAP to a) integrate anything, Learn about SAP´s iPaaS and Hybrid
evolve you digital transformation
anywhere with our iPaaS b) design Integration portfolio and ISA
strategy with APIs. Learn how to run
and develop APIs for your API methodology and apply it for your
a successful API program as well as
program. Get a hand-on experience integration scenarios
use SAP API Management to win in
on our tools. the API Economy

© 2019 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 23

Thank you.
Contact information:

open@sap.com
Follow all of SAP

www.sap.com/contactsap

© 2019 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved.

No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or for any purpose without the express permission of
SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company.
The information contained herein may be changed without prior notice. Some software products marketed by SAP SE and its
distributors contain proprietary software components of other software vendors. National product specifications may vary.
These materials are provided by SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company for informational purposes only, without representation or
warranty of any kind, and SAP or its affiliated companies shall not be liable for errors or omissions with respect to the materials.
The only warranties for SAP or SAP affiliate company products and services are those that are set forth in the express warranty
statements accompanying such products and services, if any. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional
warranty.
In particular, SAP SE or its affiliated companies have no obligation to pursue any course of business outlined in this document or
any related presentation, or to develop or release any functionality mentioned therein. This document, or any related presentation,
and SAP SE’s or its affiliated companies’ strategy and possible future developments, products, and/or platforms, directions, and
functionality are all subject to change and may be changed by SAP SE or its affiliated companies at any time for any reason
without notice. The information in this document is not a commitment, promise, or legal obligation to deliver any material, code, or
functionality. All forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ
materially from expectations. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, and they
should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions.
SAP and other SAP products and services mentioned herein as well as their respective logos are trademarks or registered
trademarks of SAP SE (or an SAP affiliate company) in Germany and other countries. All other product and service names
mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies.
See www.sap.com/corporate-en/legal/copyright/index.epx for additional trademark information and notices.