Skyline Advisor Pro introduces the Insights API that you can use to automate some common workflows. And if you don’t know exactly what an API is, that’s Ok. We’ll define what an API is, outline its benefits, demonstrate how to access the Insights API in Skyline Advisor Pro, and conclude with some common use cases of how you can use the tool.
What is an API?
You probably know that API stands for Application Programming Interface. Briefly, an API is both a piece of software that runs on a networked server and a piece of programming code. APIs provide a secure and standardized way for applications to work with each other and they automate the retrieval, and even the updating of information, without having to go to the Graphical User Interface (GUI).
For example, your company may have a monitoring tool or process that reports potential environmental vulnerabilities and even monitors their recommended fixes. And you can work to manually find and prioritize these potential issues and then send this data to a ticketing system like Jira, ServiceNow, or even PagerDuty, so your entire team knows what’s going on. -remediate.
While something like this may not be an issue in a small environment that may have a dozen or more tickets that can be manually entered, think about the productivity sink you will get if you have several hundred it’s in a full production environment that works to scale.
Using an API, you can eliminate manual intervention on your part and send information, such as Skyline Searches Data, directly to these systems.
Advantages of API and Automation
As you can imagine, APIs can help increase your productivity. The scenario I just described can be built as an application, but, if that data is already exposed as an API, you don’t have to build a new tool from the ground up, which saves you valuable time. development and allow your company to realize it faster business goals.
And when it comes to the productivity benefits that the API provides, by way of helping automate common tasks, there’s a portion of the money tied to it as well. APIs can save your business money.
Because APIs significantly reduce development effort, using them to create an application is effective in reducing costs.
With APIs, developers can retrieve most of the data they need to integrate into other applications — without having to start over. Instead of spending their valuable resources and time on re-inventing the wheel, they can use cost-effective APIs from third-party providers, such as VMware.
Because the primary functionality of APIs is connectivity — they enable a variety of systems, applications, and platforms connect and share data to each other and perform a wide variety of functions. Without APIs, all of these tools and the benefits they provide can be trapped, reducing its impact on your business’s bottom line.
Conclusion
In summary, Skyline Advisor Pro and its Insights API feature can help you:
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Increase Productivity
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To save money
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Connect Teams
And all these benefits allow you Drive Innovation for Your Business.
If you would like to see an in-depth dive of the Insights API feature in action, along with its step-by-step configuration and script examples, please refer to this video and this documentation on VMware {code}.
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