From the monthly archives:

March 2011

Building Developer Communities: Perspectives From The Platform

March 30, 2011

If the Messages From The Edge series is about translating, and communicating, the requirements of the software development community…then, perhaps, you will allow me a bit of leeway in interpretation in this post. What does it truly “mean” when someone states they have developed an “API strategy”? What do you actually desire from exploring Open [...]

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Commerce Logic In The Cloud: Messages From The Edge

March 23, 2011

You can tell that a descriptive term, used in technical architectural implementation and design, has reached mainstream when it is featured in television commercials. “The Cloud” In researching the term, you will find references to several primary terms:

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Fifth Third Processing Solutions Launches Open Payments Platform

March 15, 2011

Today, Fifth Third Processing Solutions announced the availability of e-Similate, an open payments platform and workflow engine facilitating the delivery of Fifth Third Processing Solutions’ payment services to the development community. According to Bill Weingart, Chief Product Officer: “It is important to remain flexible in our technology offering so that we can deliver secure processing [...]

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More Than Just Payments: Perspectives From The Platform

March 8, 2011

Series Introduction Here at PaymentsAPI, we have been writing Messages From The Edge to communicate the unique perspectives maintained by the single most important constituent in modern payments innovation…the Software Company. As Sr. Vice President, Business Development & Marketing for IP Commerce, Peter Osberg said in his most recent post, An API or a Platform?: [...]

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