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When it comes to API, people outside the industry seem to know very little about it.

However, if you pay attention to this field, it is not difficult to find that some so-called large domestic manufacturers have already made a lot of moves in API, whether it is the declared API ecology, or the relatively low-key API market, or the API platform, all revolve around API technology and many service providers linked based on its open attributes.

So, what is API? What is the API economy?

API (Application Programming Interface, Application programming Interface) are predefined functions designed to provide applications and developers with the ability to access a set of routines based on some software or hardware without having to access the source code or understand the details remembered by the internal work. (explanation of Baidu Encyclopedia)

API has been developing rapidly in recent years, because of its standard interface, fast online delivery, low price and other reasons, it has been used in many industries and business scenarios. However, there are still many people who do not understand the open model of API technologies and services and the value they can bring to their business, which may be revenue, cost, efficiency, or technical.

Generally speaking, "API economy" refers to the sum of all economic activities around the use, consumption and generation of API.

First of all, under the API mode, enterprises or individuals who own a certain technology and service can extract their business, agile delivery, and make it possible to monetize assets.

Secondly, under the API mode, it is also the release of the development resources of the industry as a whole, and many functional enterprises do not have to do it by themselves. API can call a single line of code to maintain the code and adapt to mobile, web, Mini Program and other multi-end applications at the same time. More importantly, through the integration and integration of multi-dimensional API, it will produce a lot of 1-1 > 2 chemical effects, subverting future development scenarios and application scenarios.

Third, API is a "way" yes, but it often carries the power of data, social data, vertical data. The growth capacity released after encapsulation is self-evident.

In fact, the API economy has developed abroad for several years, and its start is earlier than that at home. Such as Amzon, facebook, Uber and other IT industries, and even traditional enterprises like Wal-Mart, have established their API open centers. Domestic BAT is not absent from the layout of open capacity. For example, Tencent Open platform is gradually opening up its capabilities, channels and content to share the open ecological benefits to the partners of the industry chain.

Focus on the field and market of toB (enterprise service). When enterprise service providers focus on the integration of public cloud and private cloud, apply API thinking to product design, quickly introduce functional API and industry API, and quickly provide customers with more cutting-edge, agile and integrated solutions, which is a big way to increase the competitiveness of products.

Enterprise service providers, such as established enterprise service providers such as Yuyou, while opening up the core competencies of NC/U8 and other leading products and providing interfaces to the outside world, are also introducing high-quality third-party service providers to cooperate with upstream and downstream partners in product innovation, application scenario extension and other dimensions. Enterprise industry and commerce big data, real name authentication, short message service, risk control system, smart marketing, e-commerce, life service, image recognition and other applications API have been provided to enterprise customers by means of separate calls or product integration.

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