Keep your applications API-enabled to automate business processes
So what does automation have to do with API-enabled applications?
Well, in order to improve workforce efficiency, business processes must be streamlined and manual processes must be fully automated.
This means that every application in a business process flow must be able to talk to other applications automatically, and until now the only way applications could talk to each other was through APIs.
So if you had no APIs, you could forget about automation. If you have been using any of the standard BPM products on the market, you know what I’m talking about. Basically this barrier is the biggest flaw with all of the existing BPM products — they depend on APIs that often don’t exist.
And it gets worse:
New web-based business apps are being cranked out at higher and higher volume. These applications are everywhere: inside your business, residing in the cloud (SaaS apps), and at your business partners’ or customers’ (B2B apps) locations. These are the applications that power some of the most important processes in your business:
- Pricing Comparison
- HR Processes
- B2B Processes
- Financial Account Aggregation
- Supply Chain Optimization
- Data Collection
- Regulatory Compliance
- Competitive Price Monitoring
- Social Media Monitoring
- Marketing Intelligence
- Financial/Equity Research
- Legal Evidence Collection
- Management Reporting
These applications, more often than not, do not have documented APIs, making integration and, therefore, business process automation, almost impossible until now.
But there is a new approach to quickly API-enable any application in order to automate your business processes.
An enterprise-class application integration platform like Kapow Katalyst features a built-in Automation Browser that lets you wrap any web application as if it already had a documented API — essentially API-enabling the application and making it ready for those important automation projects.
This not only eliminates the need to rewrite internal applications, but also eliminates the challenge of working with external applications you cannot rewrite such as B2B and SaaS apps. Back to the Myth:
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