A Perspective on Location Services, Mobile Entrepreneurship & Startup Life

A tremendously useful service provider.

Web services, also known as APIs (Application Programming Interfaces), are components used access to your data and services. Mashery provides a Software as a Service (SaaS) infrastructure for supporting a company’s API through management, monitoring, access control, and monetization. We provide all of the infrastructure you need to help your company control who has programmatic access to you data, and to put a business model in place that supports your revenue goals.

By publishing your API, you give potential and existing partners the ability to create applications that use your data and engage customers in new ways. There is no one way to use an API to gain business advantage.

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For many technology startups I would not consider using Mashery because most APIs are too domain specific, quickly evolving and you want to keep full control on the schema and don’t be forced to map it to their system in any way.

P.S. For a study paper I wrote about domain-specific web service brokers and recognized that they provide good business opportunities these days. Along the lines, there are more and more services sitting on top of the Amazon Web Services platform providing additional management and administration functionalities.