Using a data service API removes some of that management component, as developers can use that API to interact with data as they want. However, there is more to this in reality.

Barnes & Noble's new Nook Color e-reader, on which our opinions at CrunchGear are divided, represents the first major application of Dictionary.com's new API tools. They launched them late last ...

Those API outcomes are a measure of an organisation’s API performance in the market and its impact on your company’s way of doing business.

APIs are not really so simple, though. Another analogy is a restaurant. The customer is the software application, the chef is the data or service, and the waiter is the API.