Apigee Compass

Vision

Alignment

Execution

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Platform

What is your digital business vision?

We are not planning to become a digital business.

Our digital initiatives focus on modernizing IT while business proceeds as usual.

Some business units are building digital businesses.

We are becoming a digital platform business.

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APIs

How are APIs viewed today in your organization?

We think of APIs as products for software developers.

We think of APIs primarily as a way to do systems integration.

We use APIs primarily to expose assets internally or to partners.

We manage APIs as strategic assets for creating business value.

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Outside-In

Does your organization take an “outside-in” perspective when creating products and experiences for customers?

Our business and IT are converged into teams that work together to make products and experiences.

We build products and experiences based on the services that IT tells us are already available.

Our business teams just define the products and experiences; IT designs and delivers them.

We relentlessly use data to improve our products and customer experiences.

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Ecosystem

How does your organization engage with its ecosystem of partners?

We are actively building ecosystems for strategic business advantage.

We are not actively expanding our ecosystem.

We are forming new partnerships and extending into adjacent markets.

We are growing existing partnerships by adding a few new digital capabilities.

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Leadership

Who is leading your organization’s API-first charge?

Many business leaders are driving their products and services with an API-first approach.

Our CIO/CTO has mandated an API-first digital transformation.

We have a few API evangelists, but no explicit executive support.

Some IT teams have formally committed to APIs.

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Funding

What is the state of funding for your organization’s API program?

We have no funding for production API projects.

We have funding mechanisms to build APIs only within specific projects.

We have a funded, company-wide initiative to build an API platform.

We have no explicit API funding and must convince individual projects to fund APIs.

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Metrics

How is the effectiveness of your API program measured?

We use traditional IT-centric numbers, such as APIs produced or cost of producing them.

We use metrics focused on consumption of APIs, such as number of developers and number of apps.

We measure the impact that our APIs have on the business in terms of revenue, NPS, and speed to market.

We do not measure the impact of APIs.

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SDLC

Is your organization using DevOps, Agile, CI/CD, and other modern software development best practices in executing its API strategy?

More than half but not all of our software development teams follow modern best practices.

All of our software development teams follow modern best practices.

We don’t follow modern API best practices.

Less than half of our software development teams follow modern best practices.

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Talent

Where does API-first talent rank and stand in your organization?

More than half of our software teams design and deliver APIs and API-first solutions.

All of our job descriptions require digital skills. API skills are required for all software development roles.

Fewer than half of our teams design and deliver APIs, typically only for special projects.

Our teams do not design and deliver APIs.

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Self-Service

What level of self-service is available for developers to use modern APIs across your organization?

App developers can get “Time to First Hello World” with many of our APIs in less than five minutes.

We have no self-service.

We have a basic online self-service process, and a few of our APIs are ready to use within a day.

Our self-service processes are manual, with access provided in a week or more.