As more and more companies disperse their software applications across different computing environments, they’re seeking the right tools to make it all gel. Application program interfaces are often touted as a key tool to get apps talking to each other, because API management can build productive bridges between hybrid-cloud and multicloud APIs and apps.

Google Cloud Platform just released a version of Apigee, its API-management acquisition, specialized for hybrid cloud. One of the best things about the platform is that it can bring existing technologies and applications up to date, according to Amit Zavery (pictured), head of platform for Google Cloud. “It’s a kind of center-spaced offering which allows customers to do the life-cycle and digital transformation of the technology they have in the back end,” he said. 

When companies leverage the power of their APIs to the fullest, they can experience a host of benefits. They can provide a connective tissue across complex multicloud environments. They can monetize APIs that expose application data to other companies and partners to use in their own apps. And they can enable non-developers to easily unlock application data for various uses.

Zavery spoke with John Furrier and Dave Vellante, co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during the Google Cloud Next conference in San Francisco. They discussed the power of APIs to democratize data and development and to mesh complex environments (see the full interview with transcript here). 

APIs give non-developers superpowers

Apigee is just one product signaling Google’s readiness to meet enterprise customers where they are and help them modernize existing IT and apps, according to Zavery.

“To be able to understand how you operate in those kind of constraints as well as context is very important when you build new generational applications,” he said. “Having the connectivity and the tissue of kind of making it all work together, while you kind of modernize and digitally transform your offering, I think is a critical way of thinking.” 

Google is looking to integrate Apigee with the rest of Google properties. The company also wants to add capabilities that enable line-of-business or information technology people to work with APIs and access application data for integrations without writing code.

“If you can provide a powerful tool where any person who’s not a professional developer can do that kind of task and get more power out of the application or the business systems they’re running, the value is immense,” Zavery said. 

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s extensive coverage of the Google Cloud Next event.

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