GEC NEWS WIREDesigned to bolster an ecosystem of innovation for developers, customers and partners
Akamai Technologies, the leading provider of cloud services for delivering, optimizing and securing online content and business applications, introduced the Akamai Open Platform Initiative during the company’s sixth annual Edge customer conference. Designed to give customers and partners the ability to more easily architect for Akamai services, the set of programs and components that comprise the Open Platform Initiative is intended to create more opportunities for community collaboration and innovation, and provide deeper visibility into and greater control of how enterprises interact with Akamai technology.
With this increased access comes the need for deeper visibility and more streamlined, centralized data control. One core element of the Open Platform Initiative, Akamai {OPEN}, leverages Application Programming Interface (API) expert Apiary to expose the Akamai Intelligent Platform’s APIs to developers, customers and partners. Akamai {OPEN} grants simplified access to Akamai’s platform for better and easier integration with home-grown as well as third party technologies and applications.
“Developer experience is the single most important success factor when it comes to APIs,” said Jakub Nešetril, Founder and CEO, Apiary. “We built the company to make designing great APIs easy. Partnering with Akamai on Akamai {OPEN} will significantly extend our reach with this community, and more broadly facilitate a larger ecosystem for innovation.”
“Offering our customers and partners the right technology and the freedom to use it in compelling ways are at the foundation of the Akamai Open Platform Initiative,” explained Rick McConnell, president, Products and Development at Akamai. “The ability to use the power of the Akamai Intelligent Platform enables developers to take advantage of emerging Internet opportunities and create innovative web experiences optimized for their customers.”
