But to really make an API work, either internally or externally, you need to really create an API economy in which the owner of the asset being exposed, the publisher of the API, developers, and users of the apps all get substantial benefit.

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But a growing number of my clients are either moving towards cloud based applications or having their client-server applications hosted externally and connecting remotely.

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