Analyze this—expanding the power of your API data with new Apigee analytics features

APIs securely expose key enterprise data and services to internal stakeholders and external developers. They can also generate a goldmine of data. As you grow your API programs to reinvent operations, build modern applications, and create ecosystems, you can also use key API data to answer some important questions: Which customers are using my APIs? How do I categorize my customers? Should I monetize my APIs? How should I build my API revenue model and rate plan?To help you harness your API programs’ data, Google Cloud’s Apigee team added new data export and asynchronous reporting features to the Apigee API management platform’s analytics capabilities. Now available in beta, these features let you segment, aggregate, and export critical API data to gain strategic insights into usage patterns and power decisions on market segmentation, business models and pricing patterns, etc.Specifically, asynchronous reporting helps you segment and aggregate complex sets of historical API data. You can now run custom reports asynchronously either from Apigee Edge UI or by using the Edge API.With the new data export functionality, you can extract large sets of API data into your own data repository. You can export either in CSV or JSON formats. The feature currently supports Google Cloud Storage and BigQuery repositories.Online business review platform Trustpilot uses Apigee to manage their API programs, and these new analytics capabilities are helping them innovate new business models:”As our API products gain traction, we want to be able to monetize our business assets, and have better visibility into the usage. Apigee’s data export and asynchronous reporting features help us slice and dice, aggregate, and extract critical API insights that can be combined with our proprietary data to analyze usage patterns, categorize customers, create revenue models, and build rate plans.”- Martin Andersen, VP of Engineering, TrustpilotGetting startedIf you’re already an Apigee Edge cloud customer, check out our latest documentation to get started. There you’ll find a complete feature overview, guided tutorials, FAQs, and more.If you’re not already an Apigee Edge customer, try it for free.Join us at Google Cloud Next ’19Hear from companies like HP Inc., Accuweather, DHL, Kaiser, Urban Science, Woolworths, and Telstra as they share transformation stories leveraging APIs. Join us at Google Cloud NEXT ’19, April 9-11 in San Francisco. Register now!
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What makes an intelligent business process management suite (iBPMS) stand above the rest?

Digital transformation is about completing work differently, and not simply for the sake of change.
It should address the dynamic business needs of the customer while optimizing the operational processes that impact the cost of service. As organizations pursue transformation, they often quickly realize that better customer and employee experiences need better and smarter automation solutions that provide workflow capabilities that address needs today and dynamically realign workflow solutions based on the demands for tomorrow.
Current digital transformation programs struggle because they address the process problems for today but do not provide flexibility for change.
Intelligent business process management suites (iBPMS) combine business process management (BPM) software with additional capabilities such as artificial intelligence (AI) to help companies dynamically automate more types of start-to-finish experiences. These suites are often cloud-enabled and provide low-code tools that help citizen developers create workflow solutions very quickly.
An iBPMS is an integrated set of technologies that coordinates people, machines and things (as in Internet of Things) and support traditional business process management requirements. These technologies also offer:

Intelligence and support for industry and organizational specific processes
A greater level of collaboration throughout the process, which encourages a wider adoption across organizational departments and can lead to a higher level of change and improvement within current processes
Support for integration to various middleware and back-end technologies, providing organizations with the capability to go to market quickly with new offerings

Choosing the right iBPMS platform provider
Picking the right technology provider can be daunting, even when you have a clear goal and strategy, because there are so many providers saying many of the same things. The iBPMs space is no different.
The “right” iBPMS platform provider depends a lot on the current state of your business process maturity, the activities that support your processes, availability of skilled resources (systems, humans, robots) and access to data. Offering capabilities such as AI can play a major role as well.
When it comes to iBPMS selection, the evaluation criteria have changed over the years as new technology providers enter the field and others move to the sidelines. Gartner recently released its Magic Quadrant for Intelligent Business Process Management Suites  in which it evaluated vendors across four use cases, including digital business optimization, digital business transformation, self-service intelligent business process automation and adaptive case management.
Gartner evaluated 21 iBPMS vendors on their ability to execute and completeness of vision, while outlining key vendor strengths and cautions. Vendors in the Leader quadrant have strong product roadmaps that support intelligent operations for client business. Leaders also provide a business-oriented methodology and the ability to grow with changing needs.

IBM named a Leader
According to the Gartner report, “In this latest reinvention of its suite, IBM has taken different products that had been loosely integrated and reimagined the collection as a unified platform — operating from a common data model with a consistent, web-based design and end-user experience. The end result enables multiple roles to collaborate on building intelligent applications.”
The IBM comprehensive Automation Platform for Digital Business, a powerful combination of process, task and decision automation paired with content services, is the driving force behind Gartner naming IBM a Leader in the Magic Quadrant for Intelligent Business Process Management for the sixth time in a row.
Get the full Gartner report comparing iBPMS vendors.
The IBM Automation Platform for Digital Business enables clients to automate workflows and decisions while deriving insight from the content within those business processes with speed and at scale. IBM clients have created and are running more than 50,000 applications on this platform.
Learn more about IBM workflow automation.
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