Data APIs Don’t

Discriminate

API World 2017

Sumit Sarkar, Chief Data Evangelist

@ProgressSW

@SAsInSumit

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The advanced analytics market will be

worth close to 30 billion by 2019Source: Markets and Markets

Infographic by DataCamp

Increasing demand for data access for advanced analytics

Stir in a pinch of exploding data

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IoT Data (ZettaBytes)

…and an expanding API Economy

The surface areas of APIs are shrinkingDatabases are being locked behind firewallsData engineers, scientists and analysts are unable to get data

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Just give them the data…

How?

Provision Data APIs as part of your API strategy to provide open data access to detailed data through rich query capabilities.

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What can Data APIs do Self-Service

Analytics for

Partners

Modernize

Analytics and Data

Management

Infrastructure

Provision APIs for

Data Engineers,

Data Scientists

and Business

Analysts

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We’re Almost Never Solving for One Problem with Analytics

Reporting Analytics

Summarized

Data

Segmented

Data

Detail

Data

We can’t just aggregate / We can’t not aggregate

Dashboarding

Campaign

Optimization

Customer

Drill-down Attribution, CLTV,

Experience,

Personalization

Targeting

Forecasting

Our passion for Data API standards

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Progress’ Rich Heritage with interoperable Data APIs

ODBC

1.0 in 1992

3.8 in 2009

Co-founders of ODBC

JDBC

1.0 in 1997

4.2 in 2014

Key member of JDBC Expert Group

ADO.NET

1.0 in 2002

4.6 in 2015

OData

ISO/IEC standard in February 2017

First to join OData technical committee

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Data APIs at World Hackathon 2017

Just use our REST API

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Many Data Developers still need SQL

SQL Clients?

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REST is great, BUT from an analytics and data management perspective...

It’s a style – not a standard

Limited querying capabilities

Metadata support?

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OData is an open standard Data API

First member to join

OData Technical

Committee

An open protocol to allow the creation and

consumption of queryable and interoperable

RESTful APIs in a simple and standard way.

OASIS Standard REST API (“SQL for the web”)

• Approved for release by ISO/IEC on February, 2017

• Ratified as an OASIS standard February, 2014

• Operations built on REST principles

• Uniform URL conventions

• Surface metadata in standard way

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URL Query Conventions

$SELECT /Products?$select=*,Category/Name

/Suppliers?$filter=Address/City eq 'Redmond’

/Products?$orderby=ReleaseDate asc, Rating desc

/Products?$select=*,Category/Name&$expand=Category

$FILTER

$ORDERBY

$EXPAND

/Products?$top=5&$skip=2$TOP $SKIP

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Broad Adoption for Data APIsGOVERNMENT ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE CLOUD APPS AND SERVICES

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