Steve Wood on how APIs will power business apps in the cloud

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Steve Wood on how APIs will power business apps in the cloud

API Economist: There are a lot of different cloud offerings out there. Why do we need yet another abstraction layer for automating business processes?

Steve Wood: That's an interesting question. With ManyWho, we're doing more than just automating business processes. We're thinking about business processes as applications. For example, Salesforce CRM represents a series of business processes in sales and in service and Exact Target in marketing. Both represent business processes embedded within those applications. Ultimately, much of the reason people use applications or build software is to automate or improve a process inside their business.

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Jared Wray on the accelerated adoption of enterprise cloud computing

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Jared Wray on the accelerated adoption of enterprise cloud computing

 API Economist: Cloud adoption is clearly accelerating in the enterprise. What are some of the biggest challenges that you're seeing with the typical enterprise wanting to move to the cloud?

Jared Wray: We see really two major problems that come up in the enterprise. One problem is, how are they are going to be able to move their resources and actually take advantage of the elasticity of cloud or even the services that come along with cloud? The second problem is, how do they architect legacy applications or even mold them into a better, fully distributed type of system? Those two problems are common in enterprise, and really there haven’t been great solutions to this day.

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