Why are APIs not just a technical issue, but a business issue as well? In episode 20, Oscar chats to API guru Marjukka Niinioja about the opportunites APIs can create, how COVID-19 has highlighted the need for digitalisation, the role of identity in API security and the importance of standards like OpenID Connect.

"You don't need to have an army of coders, you just need to buy the capabilities as APIs"

Marjukka Niinioja is co-author of API Economy 101 book and founding partner and leading consultant at Osaango, a company specialising in API and Platform economy. Osaango has worked with several companies in Finland and abroad as well as public organisations to help them not only learn about the possibilities of API and Platform business models but also define their API and platform strategies and guide them in the implementations.

For links and more information visit www.osaango.com

Marjukka is also the "mother" of the lean, business-oriented and open APIOps Cycles method, creator of the open course about API Economy with Tampere University and the local organiser of APIdays Finland conferences.

Visit APIOps Cycles at www.apiopscycles.com and check out the API Economy open course at Tampere University at www.osaango.academy/courses/intro-to-api-economy.

For a roundup of APIdays Finland 2019, read Oscar's blog - www.ubisecure.com/api/apidays-finland-2019/

Find Marjukka on Twitter @MNiinioja and on LinkedIn.

We’ll be continuing this conversation on LinkedIn and Twitter using #LTADI – join us @ubisecure!