Brian Silverman
Senior Solution Consultant
As the USA Today article,
“Smartphones
may loosen their grip over family life as voice devices rise” , highlights, there are new technologies that are hot
on the heels of smart phones.
It will be 9 years ago on June 29th that the
first iPhone was released. The smart
phone, with its apps and ability to center itself in your hand provided useful
information and interaction beyond the basics of phone calls and text messages,
and thus changed the world. Now, there
is an app for everything. An app for
tracking your heartbeat, your lost pet, or predicting the weather down to the
minute. There are apps to find the
closest restaurant or the nearest dog-friendly hotel.
Just as the PDA’s (Personal digital assistants) were the
invention of their time - remember Palm Pilots? – so have smart phones provided the
connections that consumers swear by and are unable to live without. But, do we
really have the crystal ball prediction ability to determine what will follow? Will the next “interface” of choice be speaking
to your car, Google Home, or Amazon’s Alexa?
Or will it be a completely new device? All require a well thought out
approach to digital innovation in the future.
The good news is that it doesn’t take a psychic for IT professionals
and companies to prepare for the next innovation.
At iSOA Group, we know there are going to be some consistent
requirements for the future devices and interfaces to work, including:
1) A consistent approach to communication
and the ability to share key information. Whether this data populates to
a web page, is a pop up on a smart phone, or is spoken to you through a speaker
in your car, having a consistent interface for consumers to connect and
communicate with their devices will be a necessity.
2) Integration with your systems
of record, , as IBM calls your “business systems”. Turn information
into business with your customer. These new
devices and interfaces all need access to common consistent information and
consistent methods of interface to execute a business transaction, such as a
hotel reservation.
3) A single place for developers,
inside and outside your company, to access application information. The
how, what and where will need to be leveraged for application information and
documentation in order for developers and providers of services to assure success
and innovation.
Along with IBM, iSOA knows that API’s (Application Program
Interfaces) and a strong consistent framework will support innovation,; to be
prepared for any or all opportunities that will provide growth into these new
digital opportunities.
Want to know more?
The IBM Solution, and iSOA Group, Inc. are leading companies in development of
API Frameworks and approaches for digital innovation.
Join me, Brian Silverman, iSOA Group, Inc. Senior Solution
Consultant, along with Bill Barrus from IBM, for a webinar on June 16th
at 11AM PDT / 2PM EDT.
“Digital Innovation with API’s and
IBM’s API Connect” and see a demonstration of the IBM software.
Register here today https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3619316676014057731
