Enterprise API is an internal Release Consulting Ltd research and development project which aims to create a product or service which helps businesses of all sizes better understand and exploit API technology.

The major new initiatives in the connected world: cloud, social & app technology use APIs to exchange and share information. Tech start-ups and most large businesses use APIs to strengthen business partnerships, grow their revenues or drive down their IT project costs. The number of public facing APIs is growing at an exponential rate.

However, for most businesses today APIs are a little known or understood technology.

The majority of the world's information data remains locked behind firewalls or dormant in Spreadsheets and files. This represents a missed opportunity for businesses.

We will analyse the missed opportunity by researching the question "how could a business exploit API technology for a financial gain?".

We will discover what issues business owners feel prevent them from exposing their data to the world or their business partners - is it the complexity and cost of the enabling technology, an unclear ROI, or the fear of lost-control or mis-use?

With knowledge of the size of the opportunity and a clear picture of the barriers we will design solutions which directly address those barriers and help unlock the potential revenue.

Grant Awarded

Release Consulting Ltd was awarded a Technology Strategy Board Grant to support our research and development in the field of APIs, with a specific remit to develop a "proof of concept" software product in this field which would help increase the economic growth and quality of life of the nation states of the UK and the wider European Economic Area.

Our grant-supported project starts in January 2012 and runs for 12 months.

We intend to give a free Galaxy Tab to 5 companies who partner with us on this project.

To find out more about how to partner with us, please complete our short market research survey. Click here to take survey. At the end of the survey there an opportunity to volunteer to become a partner company. Each company who is selected for partnership will be given a Samsung Galaxy Tab as thanks.