This article is published by AllBusiness.com, a partner of TIME. What are "APIs?" An API (Application Programming Interface) is a set of protocol routines, and tools for building software. APIs allow ...

Application programming interfaces or APIs are fast becoming like air and water. Businesses need them to survive. That basic point was driven home recently for Brian Pagano, senior director of ...

APIs are application programming interfaces. They are pieces of software that act as a bridge between one application and another application, piece of hardware or database of information, for example ...

The evolution of Web-related technologies has changed the way applications in an organization communicate with customer and partner applications. Like every popular technology, Web services came like ...

It could be argued that the contemporary world of the web is built on application programming interfaces (APIs) – or, more specifically, web APIs that allow a web application to access services and ...

The Department of the Air Force is taking the necessary steps to standardize application programming interfaces (APIs) across the service. Calibrating this software intermediary that specifies how ...

An Application Programming Interface (API) is the bridge that allows different software applications to communicate effectively. Born in 1968 with an emphasis on hardware independence, APIs have ...

Many companies have achieved considerable success in using business-intelligence (BI) tools. Wal-Mart, General Electric and Cisco, for example, have all expended huge sums on BI solutions and give ...

A software tool used in software programming that abstracts all the programming steps into a user interface for the developer. An application programming interface (API) is a software tool used in ...

Google’s Container Engine, the system through which developers can easily create and manage clusters of software containers, is now generally available. Software containers are isolated environments ...