About

The API Developer Portal is designed to provide the most useful, most accessible and most reliable APIs to help drive the digital transformation at Banner Health.

Audience

As the name implies, the portal was built specifically for Banner developers and interested partners. While non-developers can use the portal, the user experience, content and documentation is all designed around standards and best practices for API-driven application development.

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Key Benefits

The portal helps Banner and its partners efficiently leverage enterprise data across multiple applications and services.

  • Speed up development - the amount of time and money spent finding data, getting usage permissions, building access layers, storing and modifying data, securing data and maintaining the entire stack is daunting. Slow-moving organizations will miss key opportunities, so rapid development is critical to maximize speed to market.

  • Eliminate duplicate effort - multiple applications and services often require access to the same data sets (i.e. providers, facilities, etc.). Re-creating the same data access layers in each application is an incredible waste of time and resources.

  • Improve data consistency - by building APIs that pull from the most trusted 'source of truth', customer-facing applications and services can present the most accurate data in a consistent format. Trust and confidence in the Banner brand is enhanced.

  • Reduce one-off data requests - being asked by other project teams for access to your data can be a slow drain on your resources, and is definitely not scalable. APIs make this process simple and easy for everyone.

A Comprehensive Platform

More than just a collection of API endpoints, the portal provides all the critical elements of an API management platform, from data acquisition, data curation, API design, API implementation, documentation, security, monitoring and support.

Built entirely on Microsoft Azure, the fully cloud-native implementation provides Banner all the inherent benefits of cloud services - reliability, scalability, security, low-cost and high performance.

Strategy

In addition to reducing development time and effort for new solutions, the developer portal helps further the objective of becoming a more nimble and responsive organization. Technology solutions can be fueled by small, yet powerful and reusable microservices.

This approach helps abstract away complexities and barriers to accessing the vast amounts of underlying data existing within the organization. Internal and external applications can be simplified and decoupled from infrastructure providing data and services.

As the foundational data layer for the entire organization, the portal helps promote an "API first" culture to drive rapid innovation and contribute to a growing ecosystem of valuable microservices.

A simple, scalable and secure microservices data architecture can also open up new revenue streams and growth opportunities for the organization.