Every company today is a software company and, as a result, business and technology strategies ought to be very intertwined. But often, those strategies aren’t in alignment, leading to challenges in information technology. And in today’s hyper-competitive business environment, that can be disastrous. Companies have to ask themselves: How can we tackle challenges of information technology? Are we doing IT wrong?

Today’s CIOs are the key players who enable organizations to respond to the disruptive forces and information technology challenges impacting all industries — mobile, IoT, and SaaS among others. In order to increase speed and agility there must be a strong partnership between IT and the rest of the business.

Read this e-book to learn:

• Why we have been doing IT wrong, and how putting culture first and technology second, valuing reuse, and leveraging KPIs can push CIOs to the right direction.
• How IT teams can address their delivery gap and increase project delivery speed by adopting a new IT operating model: API-led connectivity.
• How APIs can close the IT delivery gap and become the de facto way of packaging up and exposing applications, devices, and data.

Everywhere you turn there’s another thought leader or business strategist talking about the importance of digital transformation. In an IT survey conducted by MuleSoft, more than two-thirds of IT decision makers (ITDMs) said they were undertaking digital transformation initiatives.

One of the key factors to achieving digital transformation is organizational agility. In this whitepaper we will discuss the measurable and quantifiable benchmarks to achieving greater agility and show how, by implementing an application network, companies in numerous industries were able to meet and, in many cases, exceed those benchmarks.

The enterprise world is changing faster than ever. To compete, it is now necessary to do business at an almost unprecedented size and scale. In order to achieve this scale, winning companies are establishing digital platforms that extend their organizational boundaries. But what is the right way to build these platforms?

Read this whitepaper to discover:

• Why establishing a digital platform is important for today's hyper-competitive business environment
• How to build a digital platform by creating and integrating APIs
• Case studies of how organizations built digital platforms and the successful outcomes they experienced

For the last several years, microservices has been an important trend in IT architecture, and many architects and IT executives experience pressure to jump on microservices as the new hot thing. But there is a feeling that microservices must only be implemented in a certain way, or it is being done incorrectly.

This simply isn't so. This whitepaper discusses how microservices presents itself as a series of patterns, and outlines how organizations should select the microservices pattern that makes sense for their own business, goals, and culture.

Read this whitepaper to discover:

• The top six microservices patterns and the advantages and disadvantages of each
• Foundational best practices to make sure your microservices implementation is successful
• How Anypoint Platform can help you implement a microservices architecture in a workable way

The business of IT has changed dramatically. The emergence of an always-on, always-connected world means that old business models are being disrupted, consumers are demanding more, and the world is smaller and more connected than ever before. The traditional IT operating model is fracturing under the digital demands of their customers, partners and employees. Companies can try to become digital by trying to do things the old way, but they will fall behind, and will face increasing competition.

In this ebook you'll learn:

• How digital transformation is affecting your business
• How to harness the digital revolution to your company's advantage
• Real-world case studies of CIOs and senior IT execs who created a roadmap to increased agility, speed, and innovation

Every enterprise recognizes the need to change the way they work to deal with today’s hypercompetitive business environment. That’s why DevOps has become so important to enterprise IT; a DevOps model increases reliability and minimizes disruption, with the added side benefit of increasing speed.

But that isn’t enough. DevOps must be balanced with a focus on asset consumption and reuse to make sure the organization is extracting maximum value out of all the newly built assets. And that’s where an API strategy comes in.

Download this whitepaper to discover:

• The right way to create a DevOps model in your organization
• How to use an API strategy called API-led connectivity to complement and enhance a DevOps model
• How Anypoint Platform can help your organization get the most out of adopting DevOps

IT decision makers told us in the 2017 Connectivity Benchmark Report that they were finding it harder than ever to achieve their digital transformation goals. There is a delivery gap between what the business is asking IT teams to deliver and what can actually be accomplished. How can this IT delivery gap be closed?

Read this whitepaper to find out:

• Why the IT delivery gap will only get worse
• What to do to close the IT delivery gap
• Case studies of organizations that made their IT teams more productive and scale faster

Using an API strategy as a foundation for BPM

Business Process Management is an important part of continuous improvement and business transformation, but many organizations struggle with implementing it effectively. Learn how a holistic API strategy, API-led connectivity, can help your organization implement BPM with ease.

This whitepaper will cover:

• An overview of Business Process Management
• A new way of thinking about implementing BPM with APIs
• A walkthrough of a use case on how an organization uses API-led connectivity to successfully implement BPM
• Best practices to adopt BPM with Anypoint Platform