Digital Security effectiveness can be notably improved by applying lessons learned from three priority areas : Strategy, Technology, Governance.

Designing the right experience both online and offline requires a data driven and sophisticated approach that few have mastered. Companies need to draw expertise from those who can analyse the data and provide the most appropriate experiences for consumers at just the right moment on their mobile device.

There are often many roadblocks that stand in the way of easily moving your application through the development cycle and eventually into production. Besides the actual work of developing your application to respond appropriately in each environment, you may also face issues with tracking down dependencies, scaling your application, and updating individual components without affecting the entire application.

Containerization and service-oriented design attempts to solve many of these problems. Applications can be broken up into manageable, functional components, packaged individually with all of their dependencies, and deployed on irregular architecture easily. Scaling and updating components is also simplified.

With the big data phenomenon, companies are now sitting on more data about themselves, their customers and the markets in which they play. To make sense of these datasets requires the right software, but also a keen sense of what to measure and how to measure it. Applications that can quickly visualize data to find outliers, trends or patterns help business managers to identify problems or opportunities and make decisions.

Creating services with very little physical infrastructure of your own. Allowing companies focus their capital on the customer experience, the efficiency and speed of their services and creative marketing tactics which can target a customer with customized messages and offers.

Without API management in place, you can still set up an API, but it can overrun your infrastructure if too many mobile apps access it without preparing for the volume that you realize.

The business world is going digital at an increasingly fast pace. The more you can think holistically about the consumption side of the API and how you’re building applications on top of this, the more you can think about the underlying implementation of the back end and really how to string that together the best way possible.