The No-Excuses Guide to Innovation with APIs
Nothing is preventing your organisation from innovating today in order to keep pace with user expectations, because properly using APIs helps you escape from the bonds of your legacy estate.
Graham Odds
API Design & Development
Unlock genuine digital transformation with the humble API, and free yourself to focus on the unique value your organisation delivers.
Organisations typically only use a fraction of the potential of APIs to support their business goals. Embracing and understanding APIs across a whole organisation, rather than just within technical teams, is an important part of realising the full value of digital transformation.
It’s important to move on from short-sighted API projects driven by technical necessity to strategically aligned efforts that unlock broader business benefits and opportunities. Organisations unable to make this shift are being dragged down by their legacy estate and left behind by the digital native world.
Achieve your goals with us
At Scott Logic, we have deep expertise in APIs and many years of experience helping organisations like yours drive value from them. We have successfully integrated all manner of APIs – from undocumented endpoints to public feeds – so know what good looks and feels like. So much so that we have developed open-source tooling to support the automated creation and documentation of high-quality APIs.
Through our role as technology partner to a leading UK retail bank in its implementation of Open Banking, we saw first-hand the power of APIs to transform entire sectors and unlock whole new value streams to the benefit of businesses and customers alike. That same transformative potential is open to every other sector of the economy, once the power of the oft-overlooked API is understood.
Principles of our successful approach
APIs should be ‘first-class citizens’
Your organisation will probably already be tactically using APIs. We help you to promote them to be a 'first-class citizen', so you can address a wide range of business challenges, including connecting multiple internal services and replacing inefficient processes/workflows.
APIs foster ecosystems of value
Your organisation no longer needs to be all things to all people. We can help you to leverage APIs to participate in a wider ecosystem of value. This will enable third-party providers to meet user needs you would otherwise struggle to address, freeing you to focus on where you provide unique value.
APIs are innovation accelerators
We equip you with the tools and knowledge to continue to build modular software for reuse, even after our engagement, meaning you can create more API services at an accelerated pace. The more API services you create, the more each new product or feature you develop gets a head start, with some of its technical challenges already solved.
APIs unshackle you from legacy
APIs allow you to modernise your technology estate incrementally. With APIs, you can isolate part or all of a legacy system, abstracting away from it and introducing control as you develop new features, products and services. Rather than using an API to expose value from the legacy system, the API itself becomes the value driver.
Client stories
Find out how we have helped clients like you with tailored support to tackle technology challenges and achieve business goals.
Scottish Government
In partnership with the Scottish Government, we developed a platform to digitise the payments process between public sector organisations and payees. Our team built APIs that follow Open Banking Standards to facilitate the secure and rapid exchange of payments between systems and help prevent fraud.
Activ Financial
ACTIV is a leading global provider of real-time, multi-asset market data solutions, with clients increasingly interested in accessing market data from JavaScript applications. We designed and developed a WebAssembly API, wrapped up in a layer embracing the latest JavaScript features and development practices.
Our tried-and-tested solutions
While our approach is always tailored to your needs, we have a range of tried-and-tested solutions that speed up delivery and drive a successful outcome.
API Strategy and Design Architecture
We design and build the structure specific to your organisation, ensuring that the layers of your architecture interact seamlessly so that you can reuse and build software modularly.
API Development and Integration
Our expertise in developing and integrating custom, scalable APIs creates seamless interactions internally and with third parties, unlocking new software functionalities.
API Security and Authentication
We develop robust APIs with established security protocols to validate users and permit levels of access based on user credentials.
API Lifecycle Management
We manage and document the stages of the API lifecycle from creation to retirement, ensuring proper governance, security, and reusability.
Open your eyes to APIs
In this non-technical exploration of the untapped potential of APIs, our Chief Strategy Officer Graham Odds explains how you can you move on from short-sighted API projects driven by technical necessity to strategically aligned efforts that unlock broader business benefits and opportunities.
From our blog
Developing an API strategy
An API strategy is vital for focusing resources, aligning stakeholders and ensuring that APIs deliver a good return on investment. In this talk, James provides his perspective on the major elements of an API strategy and discusses some of the areas to consider when designing one.
James Heward
How Open Banking is reshaping the sector
We’re now over five years into the Open Banking era in the UK. Andrew Carr discusses how it is reshaping the banking sector, and what’s coming next.
Andrew Carr
The oft-untapped business benefits of APIs
In this session, Graham Odds provides a non-technical introduction to APIs and their typical current state in large, longstanding organisations. He illustrates what good looks so that you are better able to cut through much of the technical obfuscation. Finally, he explores the variety of potential benefits that APIs done ‘properly’ can bring to your organisation, bringing this to life with real-world success stories.
Want to talk to us about APIs?
If you'd like to discuss how our specialists can support you to tap into the potential of APIs done properly, we're always happy to chat.