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APIs can help ease the move to the cloud by giving developers the ability to gradually decommission legacy applications.
responsible for IT connections to a mindset of collaboration so that they can share APIs across the enterprise and across agencies.
We advise clients to start incrementally, taking one project or a group of projects and redesigning them using an API strategy. Once agencies experience successes, they can add more applications to the mix.
As an application network starts to
emerge, it will reveal interdependencies and give agencies a more holistic view of their enterprises.
Finally, API-led connectivity embeds security by design, allowing agencies
to see the policies they need to apply
across the organization or within specific departments. As APIs become the standard for communication across enterprises, agencies will be able to securely plug new
technologies into their application networks because they’ve already done the maximum amount to reduce risk.
This exciting new approach is about ensuring that agency systems are robust and flexible enough to support customer demands now and into the future.
Shad Imam is head of federal pre-sales at MuleSoft.
Connect Anything.
Change Everything.
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