Industry Surveying And Assessment

We are paying attention to the API landscape in the industries you operate in, are about to operate in, or are looking to understand and invest in. Public API operations provide a unique glimpse into how individual enterprise operate, but also how the wider business sector operates. Mapping the public API landscape within any industry or relevant business bounded context is essential to understanding the current and future state of an industry. API Evangelist offers industry surveying and assessment services, defining the APIs, schema, and operations of companies within a specific business sector, helping better understand what API resources and capabilities are being offered within an industry by competitors and other actors. The objective of this work is to better understand the current state of an industry and where the opportunities exist for new and improved API resrouces with the following approach. - **API Surveying** - Mapping APIs using the OpenAPI specification to document the technical details of any businesss sector. - **Operational Surveying** - Documenting the business side of how companies are operating using the APIs.son specification. - **Aggregation** - Combing all of the APIs.json and OpenAPI for a specific industry to understand the details in aggregate. - **Benchmarking** - Establishing automaton rules that help identify the patterns and anti-patterns for any single industry. - **Taxonomy** - Distill down all of the digital resources and capabilities in motion using a rich domain-based taxonomy. Once any industry is surveyed and assessed, there are numerous other places one can go depending on what is needed. API Evangelist is actively surveying and assessing a wide range of industries to power the API search index for the APIs.io search engine, but can easily shift the focus to a specific industry, going deeper than we would need to simply power search. API Evangelist industry and business sector API surveying and assessment can go as broad or as deep as required. All API Evangelist research is bundled as information, media, and machine-readable artifacts that provide an executable and actionable base of knowledge that can be used for a variety of use cases, depending on what your goals are with understanding any broad or narrow business sector.