API Management Maturity of Low-Code Development Platforms

Michiel Overeem; Slinger Jansen; Max Mathijssen

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-79186-5_25

API Management Maturity of Low-Code Development Platforms

Michiel Overeem^*, Slinger Jansen, Max Mathijssen

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Abstract

Low-code development platforms are environments that enable citizen developers without software engineering knowledge to create software products. These software products range from small business applications to large business platforms, around which software ecosystems increasingly form. In these software ecosystems, different organizations want to extend the created software products with services and software, with the goal of creating active enterprise networks that create value collaboratively. Well designed and maintained application programming interfaces are crucial for these organizations. In this paper we evaluate the application programming interface management maturity of four low-code development platforms. We show that these platform providers are not yet concerned with helping their customers build software ecosystems around the software platforms that citizen developers create. Furthermore, we identify the software engineering research challenges that these platform providers face. For instance, low-code development platforms should create abstractions that let citizen developers design, develop, and manage application programming interfaces. If low-code development platform providers follow our advice and act on it, they will become able to provide customers with complete ecosystem-enabled platforms instead of providing only simple throwaway business applications.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling - 22nd International Conference, BPMDS 2021, and 26th International Conference, EMMSAD 2021, Held at CAiSE 2021, Proceedings
Editors	Adriano Augusto, Asif Gill, Selmin Nurcan, Iris Reinhartz-Berger, Rainer Schmidt, Jelena Zdravkovic
Publisher	Springer
Pages	380-394
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Print)	9783030791858
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79186-5_25
Publication status	Published - 2021
Event	22nd International Conference on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support, BPMDS 2021 and 26th International Conference on Exploring Modeling Methods for Systems Analysis and Development, EMMSAD 2021 Held at CAiSE 2021 - Virtual, Online Duration: 28 Jun 2021 → 29 Jun 2021

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
Volume	421
ISSN (Print)	1865-1348
ISSN (Electronic)	1865-1356

Conference

Conference	22nd International Conference on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support, BPMDS 2021 and 26th International Conference on Exploring Modeling Methods for Systems Analysis and Development, EMMSAD 2021 Held at CAiSE 2021
City	Virtual, Online
Period	28/06/21 → 29/06/21

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This research was supported by the NWO AMUSE project (628.006.001): a collaboration between Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Utrecht University, and AFAS Software in the Netherlands. See amuse-project.org for more information.

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© 2021, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Funding

This research was supported by the NWO AMUSE project (628.006.001): a collaboration between Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Utrecht University, and AFAS Software in the Netherlands. See amuse-project.org for more information.

Keywords

API management
Citizen software development
Low-code
Model-driven development

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Overeem, M., Jansen, S., & Mathijssen, M. (2021). API Management Maturity of Low-Code Development Platforms. In A. Augusto, A. Gill, S. Nurcan, I. Reinhartz-Berger, R. Schmidt, & J. Zdravkovic (Eds.), Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling - 22nd International Conference, BPMDS 2021, and 26th International Conference, EMMSAD 2021, Held at CAiSE 2021, Proceedings (pp. 380-394). (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; Vol. 421). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79186-5_25

Overeem, Michiel ; Jansen, Slinger ; Mathijssen, Max. / API Management Maturity of Low-Code Development Platforms. Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling - 22nd International Conference, BPMDS 2021, and 26th International Conference, EMMSAD 2021, Held at CAiSE 2021, Proceedings. editor / Adriano Augusto ; Asif Gill ; Selmin Nurcan ; Iris Reinhartz-Berger ; Rainer Schmidt ; Jelena Zdravkovic. Springer, 2021. pp. 380-394 (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing).

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Overeem, M, Jansen, S & Mathijssen, M 2021, API Management Maturity of Low-Code Development Platforms. in A Augusto, A Gill, S Nurcan, I Reinhartz-Berger, R Schmidt & J Zdravkovic (eds), Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling - 22nd International Conference, BPMDS 2021, and 26th International Conference, EMMSAD 2021, Held at CAiSE 2021, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol. 421, Springer, pp. 380-394, 22nd International Conference on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support, BPMDS 2021 and 26th International Conference on Exploring Modeling Methods for Systems Analysis and Development, EMMSAD 2021 Held at CAiSE 2021, Virtual, Online, 28/06/21. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79186-5_25

API Management Maturity of Low-Code Development Platforms. / Overeem, Michiel; Jansen, Slinger; Mathijssen, Max.
Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling - 22nd International Conference, BPMDS 2021, and 26th International Conference, EMMSAD 2021, Held at CAiSE 2021, Proceedings. ed. / Adriano Augusto; Asif Gill; Selmin Nurcan; Iris Reinhartz-Berger; Rainer Schmidt; Jelena Zdravkovic. Springer, 2021. p. 380-394 (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; Vol. 421).

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Overeem M, Jansen S, Mathijssen M. API Management Maturity of Low-Code Development Platforms. In Augusto A, Gill A, Nurcan S, Reinhartz-Berger I, Schmidt R, Zdravkovic J, editors, Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling - 22nd International Conference, BPMDS 2021, and 26th International Conference, EMMSAD 2021, Held at CAiSE 2021, Proceedings. Springer. 2021. p. 380-394. (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing). doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-79186-5_25

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