Digital Transformation | API Strategy

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Success is a journey that starts with APIs

Accelerate workshops are guided journeys led by Axway’s Catalysts – an elite team of digital transformation and API experts from around the world.

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Strategy

Design & Lifecycle

API Program Healthcheck

Digital Transformation

Choose the first stop on your journey

Digital Transformation

Continuous Delivery & DevOps

Design & Lifecycle

Strategy

Digital Transformation

To thrive, not just survive, in the digital economy, your business and IT need to change. We’ll clarify the difference between IT modernization and digital transformation, and guide you on your way as you continue your journey.

Change how you operate and deliver value to clients

Business Value +

Agenda +

Business Value -

• Expand your partner ecosystem to grow the bottom line

• Quickly monetize products and services in new digital ways

• Master the art and science of exceptional CX

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Agenda -

• Keeping up with digital business expectations and trends +

• Transforming operations and building a customer / partner hub +

• Composing a team for optimal collaboration +

• Planning for continuous feedback, success, and growth +

• Innovating fast and often in challenging environments +

Transform how your enterprise operates and interconnects as a hub with customers and partners to exceed expectations and address the latest trends.

Learn how to address gaps in your capabilities, define your ideal ecosystem, and on-board customers and partners faster.

Learn what good governance and API teams look like and how to get them working seamlessly together to speed time-to-market for new digital products, services, and experiences.

Learn how to define success, enable self-service, and improve digital experiences.

Learn how to start innovating, what to measure, and how to keep advancing on your digital transformation path.

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• Chief Digital Officer

• Chief Architects

• Head of Product & Innovation

• VP of Digital, Web, Mobile

• Chief Marketing Officer

• Head of Development / Engineering

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Previous: Continuous Delivery & DevOps

API Program Healthcheck

Move at the speed your organization demands with the control your consumers expect

A solid strategy backed by well-designed APIs still needs to be managed and scalable. We’ll help understand how to quickly and safely transition to cloud-native applications with automated, container-based workloads and reduced failure rate, ensuring you can meet internal demands and external expectations.

Developer Portal & Automation Framework

Code Governance Analysis

Business Value +

Agenda +

Business Value -

• Create a culture or creativity and experimentation

• Avoid last-minute issues that derail releases

• Automate to save time and money

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Agenda -

• Defining DevOps future state +

• Moving to continuous API management +

• Supporting SecOps and APIs +

• Putting it all together +

Capture today’s tooling and processes and revise/update them to define the future state of your DevOps pipeline, and how the API Lifecycle fits in.

Discover how to align a DevOps pipeline and tooling with API design, management, and automation.

Learn about current security models and frameworks to adapt to API delivery in support of DevOps CI/CD operation.

Gain best practices for automated deployment to gain benefits of containerization with limited handoffs and service disruption.

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• Product Managers

• Information & Identity Security Managers

• Architecture – Strategy & Design

• DevOps Managers

• Application Architects

• Application Developers

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Next: Digital Transformation

Previous: Design & Lifecycle

Design & Lifecycle

Most programs start to suffer the moment they make a platform decision. “Now we have a platform but what to do from now?”

The Catalysts will teach you all aspects of a living API Program. From designing APIs to designing products as well as feeding them into your DevOps build pipelines and running them effectively in your runtime platforms. The setup of successful API Teams is an integral part of this day. Your teams will have all they need to be “Running on APIs”!

You also get..

Business Value +

Agenda +

Who Should Be In The Room? +

Business Value -

• Prioritize the consumer

• Secure your data and protect your business

• Measure what matters

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Agenda -

• API Product Management Demystified +

• The Evolutionary API Lifecycle +

• Accelerating Your Lifecycle +

• Designing Great APis +

• It’s Dangerous Out There - Securing APIs +

Look into the mind of an API Product Manager – your chance to debunk some of the myths surrounding this profession.

Hear about every aspect of the life of an API, from inception to retirement.

The wheels are turning faster and faster in a digital environment. How do you manage constant change?

Learn about Best Practices around API Design and the Need for Continuous Feedback Loops & Iterations..

APIs eliminate the ‘security by obscurity’ paradigm of legacy systems. Yet – it’s the power of open standards & interoperability that brings security to the next level.

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• CIO | CDO | CTO

• VP of Product

• Head of Engineering

• API Program Manager

• Developer Relations

• Enterprise Business Architect

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Next: API Program Healthcheck

Previous: Strategy

Strategy

The Catalysts will guide you to create an API Strategy based on years of experience with successful API Programs. And there are so many potholes on the path towards digital success. We’ll help you to avoid common expensive and time consuming mistakes. Your API Strategy … unleashed!

What is your strategy to deliver new digital experiences with APIs?

You also get..

Business Value +

Agenda +

Who Should Be In The Room? +

Business Value -

• Align investments with predictable, measurable outcomes

• Maximize team buy-in and innovation

• Plan disruption vs. experience it

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Agenda -

• Not Just Another Software Project! +

• Avoiding Mediocrity – Common API Strategy Anti-Patterns +

• Anatomy of API Strategy +

• Getting Out of Your Organizational Comfort Zone +

Treating an API as a Software Project is waste of money and waste of time. Leveraging APIs affects every part of your organization and your organizational culture.

The call for Digital is a call for excellence! We can’t hide behind mediocre products anymore. To be relevant in today’s market we need to have outstanding products with an outstanding user experience.

Get under the skin of a well-structured, healthy API Strategy based on the patterns used by successful API Programs.

New technology and structures alone won’t cut it. Discover models for change that really work and change mindsets, behaviors, technology and structures as well as culture in order for APIs to thrive.

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• CIO | CDO | CTO

• Program / Product Manager

• Architecture - Strategy & Design

• Business Owner

• Business Unit Head

• Marketing Manager

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Next: Design & Lifecycle Journey

Catalyze your organization for change

Speed your way to digital success

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Spend 30 minutes with a Catalyst

Take the Digital Maturity Assessment

• CIO

• CTO

Explore the workshop options below, then let’s talk about which one is right for where your organization is right now in the race to digital.

Business Value +

• Avoid last-minute issues that derail releases

• Create a culture or creativity and experimentation

• Information & Identity Security Managers

Adopting API strategy -

Learn how to adopt the essential components of an effective API strategy: Vision, Culture, Adoption, Execution, and Growth.

Knowing and aligning stakeholders -

Create strategic engagement models that navigate organizational boundaries.

Delivering strategy effectively -

Strategically map out your next 6 months and the people and tools needed to support the API lifecycle and your digital ecosystem. Included here is a broader view of your hybrid integration landscape and your readiness to combine legacy IT and integration patterns with new API-first initiatives and experiences.

Communicating strategy -

Learn how to persuasively articulate success so you can get further buy-in from internal stakeholders and partners.

API Product Management Demystified -

Look into the mind of an API Product Manager – your chance to debunk some of the myths surrounding this profession.

The Evolutionary API Lifecycle -

Hear about every aspect of the life of an API, from inception to retirement.

Accelerating Your Lifecycle -

The wheels are turning faster and faster in a digital environment. How do you manage constant change?

Designing Great APis -

Learn about Best Practices around API Design and the Need for Continuous Feedback Loops & Iterations..

It’s Dangerous Out There - Securing APIs -

APIs eliminate the ‘security by obscurity’ paradigm of legacy systems. Yet – it’s the power of open standards & interoperability that brings security to the next level.

Defining DevOps future state -

Capture today’s tooling and processes and revise/update them to define the future state of your DevOps pipeline, and how the API Lifecycle fits in.

Moving to continuous API management -

Discover how to align a DevOps pipeline and tooling with API design, management, and automation.

Supporting SecOps and APIs -

Learn about current security models and frameworks to adapt to API delivery in support of DevOps CI/CD operation.

Putting it all together -

Gain best practices for automated deployment to gain benefits of containerization with limited handoffs and service disruption.

Keeping up with digital business expectations and trends -

Transform how your enterprise operates and interconnects as a hub with customers and partners to exceed expectations and address the latest trends.

Transforming operations and building a customer/partner hub -

Learn how to address gaps in your capabilities, define your ideal ecosystem, and on-board customers and partners faster.

Composing a team for optimal collaboration -

Learn what good governance and API teams look like and how to get them working seamlessly together to speed time-to-market for new digital products, services, and experiences.

Planning for continuous feedback, success, and growth -

Learn how to define success, enable self-service, and improve digital experiences.

Innovating fast and often in challenging environments -

Learn how to start innovating, what to measure, and how to keep advancing on your digital transformation path.

Strategy

Design & Lifecycle

Next: Design & Lifecycle Journey

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API Program Healthcheck

Digital Transfomation

• No Vision, No Strategy, No Nothing +

• Building Your Strategy +

Most programs actually haven’t got a chance to become successful - because they don’t have a vision. Let’s change that!

Our Catalysts will guide you through the process of creating your individual strategy and show you how to bring it to life from the next day!

Who Should Be In The Room? -

• Measure What Matters +

All about the unsung heroes - KPIs & Analytics - and how to become truly successful and know how to measure what matters for growth..

• Head of Marketing

• DevOps Lead

• Business Development

• Product Manager

• Head of Innovation

• Head of Security/ SecOps

• Head of Marketing

• DevOps Lead

• Business Development

• Product Manager

• Head of Innovation

• Head of Security/ SecOps

• Measure What Matters +

Measure What Matters -

All about the unsung heroes - KPIs & Analytics - and how to become truly successful and know how to measure what matters for growth..

You also get..

Strategic Alignment Kit API Vision to Strategy Guide Stakeholder Mapping Guide

API-First Business Value Kit

API Product Manager Kit

API Product Guide API KPI Guide

API Design-First Kit

API Design Best Practice Guide

MVP API Pilot Kit

MVP API Plan Outline API Audit Guide APIs & DevOps Guide API Documentation Guide API Deployment Guide

API Design Best Practice Guide

API Design-First Kit

API Product Guide API KPI Guide

API Product Manager Kit

Who Should Be In The Room? +

API Program Healthcheck

Who Should Be In The Room? +

Who Should Be In The Room? -

Who Should Be In The Room? +

Who Should Be In The Room? -

Who Should Be In The Room? +

Who Should Be In The Room? -

Customer Journey Mapping Guide API Business Model Guide API Value Proposition & Priority Map

API-First Business Value Kit

Customer Journey Mapping Guide API Business Model Guide API Value Proposition & Priority Map

MVP API Plan Outline API Audit Guide APIs & DevOps Guide API Documentation Guide API Deployment Guide

MVP API Pilot Kit