The modern enterprise is made up of hundreds or thousands of individual digital resources that are stored in databases and file systems, and put to work across a dizzying array of desktop, web, mobile, and other types of applications or integrations. You see the vast inventory of enterprise digital resources present in the browser URLs, and digital experiences we encounter in our personal and professional lives. Shaping our offline and online experiences each day as we engage at work, at home, and throughout the day on our mobile devices.
The modern enterprise is made up of hundreds or thousands of individual digital resources stored in databases and file systems, and put to work across a dizzying array of desktop, web, mobile, and other types of applications or integrations. You see the vast inventory of enterprise digital resources in browser URLs and in the digital experiences we encounter in our personal and professional lives. These resources shape our offline and online experiences each day as we engage at work and at home on our mobile devices.
- Users - Defining the users, customers, developers, and other human entities that are using a platform or system, defining the essential building block of an application.
- Messages - Providing the envelope for human messages via chat, email, or other messaging solutions, providing communication between one or more human beings.
- Images - Defining the images, photos, diagrams, and other visual elements that makeup business operations, provides us with the visual layer of how we are doing business.
- Videos - Defining the different types of videos we use to define our businesses and shape how we interact in a self-service way using online video as a means of communication.
- Payments - Individual payments are made or received as part of the platform operations, driving business and revenue, providing one of the top metrics of any business.
- Documents - The PDF, Word, and other documents that are used to do business each day, provide a single object to represent what matters to employees, partners, and customers. These are just a handful of the most common digital resources we all encounter each day. There are millions more. Your API catalog should represent all of the raw digital resources your enterprise depends upon, and your API networks should help you make these raw resources available to the consumers who need them the most. 58 Part 1 | Strategy Chapter 5 | Platforms and Digital Resources 59 Just as you do in the physical world, you need to have full control over your vital digital resources, and you must be able to effectively create and apply them as needed across operations. null