We are steadily moving toward the digital era. Everyday objects are being empowered with digitization and edge technologies in order to become digital. That is, everything in our everyday environments becomes computational, communicative, sensitive, responsive, and active. Every digital artifact is being fitted with an appropriate API to be publicly found, network-accessible, and easily usable. For simplifying API integration, the most competent solution is API integration platforms. There are several use cases being mentioned by integration experts and architects as to why enterprises should adopt API-integration platforms.

With the emergence of cloud environments as the one-stop IT solution for all kinds of business offerings and operations, it's projected that in the years ahead, most enterprise, personal, mobile, and web applications will reside in clouds (public, private, hybrid, and edge). The popular enterprise-grade applications are enterprise resource planning (ERP), supply chain management (SCM), knowledge and content management, HR, finance and facility management, and asset management. Besides, all kinds of operational, transactional, and analytical applications are also being modernized and migrated to cloud environments in order to reap the benefits (user, technical, and business) of the cloud.

Thus, it's becoming mandatory for IoT devices, desktop, wearable, and smartphone applications to connect with cloud applications and databases. Cloud applications, platforms, and infrastructures are predominantly API-enabled. That is, D2D, D2C, and C2C integration requirements grow sharply in the extremely connected world. To gain best-in-class applications, the role of API integration platforms is simply awe-inspiring.