APIs have evolved significantly over the past two decades, shifting from SOAP/XML/WSDL to REST/JSON/Swagger. Now, we're starting to see the emergence of Open APIs (“open” in the sense of being public), especially in financial services. According to ProgrammableWeb, financial APIs are among the top API growth categories.
The Open Source Software (OSS) movement is one of the more important and successful examples of collective problem solving that we’ve seen in our lifetimes. Through flexible collaboration, a broad group of individuals have worked together to create software which changes the lives of billions by delivering software to every branch of life, including financial services.
As one of Symphony Foundation's newest members, Ipreo has recently started a journey to embrace open source software development.
Ipreo is a financial technology company. Our vision is to power the networks that connect capital to ideas. We do this by enabling capital markets participants – buy-side, sell-side, and corporations – to collaborate efficiently and transparently with software.
The extension API examples repository is a growing collection of examples of the Symphony extension api services. We created these services for developers to design and deploy their own applications with full Symphony integration and capabilities. With these services, you can create custom modules, share content, creatively and dynamically render messages with structured objects, and more.
I have been involved with the foundation since it’s early days when I attended the first London meetup. When I started the hubot-symphony project, I had an account on the public Symphony POD and that was it. Like many open source projects, I started with a selfish purpose, to facilitate moving existing chat bot tools used in my day job onto the Symphony platform as part of evaluating Symphony. Building software to interface with an API without access to the system itself was certainly a challenge for a modern software engineer and I am glad to say the route I took is consigned to history thanks to the Open Developer Platform (ODP) provided by the Foundation. I want to discuss my initial development approach and how that has evolved as the Foundation has matured.
At the Symphony Software Foundation we care a lot about IP Compliance of the software we host, which is why we:
A small team from ChartIQ recently attended the Symphony Software Foundation (SSF) Annual Members Meeting. With us, there were around fifty technology savvy innovators belonging to everything ranging from small fintech startups to large global investment banks.
Last month, The Foundation held its 2017 Annual Members Meeting. With over 50 people in the room, this was our most successful meeting to date. More importantly, we saw the community actively come together to interact, build bridges and unleash the true value of open collaboration.
