API Integration & Data Scraping

API management is the process of creating and publishing web Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), enforcing their usage policies, controlling access, nurturing the subscriber community, collecting and analyzing usage statistics, and reporting on performance. API Management components provide mechanisms and tools to support developer and subscriber community. APIs are used to expose data across the various systems in a business such as CRM’s, ERPs etc to allow communication between applications, to develop custom functionality and reports required by the business etc.

According to Forrester Research, in the US alone, annual spend on API management was $140 million in 2014, expected to grow to $660 million by 2020 with total global sales are predicted to exceed a billion dollars by that year.

The internet can be a treasure trove of data for your business. It’s teeming with customer insights, competitive information, and government regulations that could affect your position in the market. Even better, you can collect this data in a systematic way and analyze it to reveal business threats and opportunities. Collecting this data in a clean and timely and organized manner is one of the core competencies of the developers at Cogniata using our state of the art web crawlers.