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Why You Should Build a Developer Portal to Accelerate Adoption of Your APIs

This is where a developer portal comes in, as it helps lay a common ground between the technical team and stakeholders of the API. James Higginbotham, founder of LaunchAny, a consulting firm that specializes in digital transformation and API design, stresses the importance of a developer portal in giving API consumers a way to easily understand and test APIs.

Creating new services and technologies using APIs is made easier because of the evangelistic capabilities that a portal offers. One of the clients that I had, went from a few APIs and a developer portal that was behind a login screen inside their API management layer that only about five people had access to – to a portal where VPs that had never written a line of code before were running around, showing the portal, and being able to demonstrate not just the reference documentation, but what capabilities the APIs are delivering to the organization and to the marketplace,” Higginbotham describes.