OpenAPI Initiative continues fast pace of membership growth;
Bloomberg joins 38 current members that include Atlassian, eBay, Google,
Microsoft, Red Hat, SmartBear, and many more
SAN FRANCISCO – April 14,
2020 – The
OpenAPI Initiative, the consortium of forward-looking industry experts focused
on creating, evolving and promoting the OpenAPI Specification (OAS), a
vendor-neutral, open description format for RESTful APIs, is announcing today
that Bloomberg has joined as a new member.
As a global leader in business and financial information,
data, news and analytics, Bloomberg believes that standardizing Web APIs
throughout the financial industry will provide consistency and value across the
global capital markets ecosystem. Bloomberg sees the advantages of implementing
the OpenAPI Specification to improve time to market, shorten development
lifecycles, and reduce implementation costs.
“Bloomberg is excited to join the OpenAPI Initiative, where
we’ll have the opportunity to help shape the OpenAPI Specification and its role
in the global financial industry,” said Richard Norton, Head, Data License
Engineering Group at Bloomberg. “As our enterprise customers are increasingly
looking to access our data feeds to power their in-house analytics and trading
applications, we are confident that the OpenAPI Specification will enable them
to seamlessly manage their Bloomberg data. Plus, the entire industry will
benefit from our involvement in the standard’s governance process as we’ll be
able to take their learnings and contribute back to future iterations of the de
facto standard for describing Web APIs.”
“We are excited to welcome Bloomberg to the OpenAPI
Initiative. Major corporations are taking advantage of the OpenAPI Spec for a
simple reason: developer productivity. Instead of producing SDKs, organizations
can produce OpenAPI specs, and then generate their SDKs in any language they’d
like to use, immediately benefitting their customers,” said Marsh Gardiner,
Product Manager, Google, and Technical Steering Committee, OpenAPI Initiative.
“We see firsthand business and technical productivity wins when organizations
use the OpenAPI Spec. Bloomberg has embraced open source, and the benefits for
their enterprise customers managing Bloomberg data is immense.”
Hundreds of software engineers across Bloomberg’s global
engineering workforce have provided code, documentation, tests, or other
improvements to open source projects. In areas relevant to Bloomberg’s
infrastructure needs, Bloomberg engineers have become project leaders and
committers. To find out more about Bloomberg’s open source activities: https://www.TechAtBloomberg.com
OpenAPI Resources
To learn more about participate in the evolution of the OpenAPI Specification: https://www.openapis.org/participate/how-to-contribute
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About the OpenAPI Initiative
The OpenAPI Initiative (OAI) was created by a consortium of
forward-looking industry experts who recognize the immense value of
standardizing on how APIs are described. As an open governance structure under
the Linux Foundation, the OAI is focused on creating, evolving and promoting a
vendor neutral description format. The OpenAPI Specification was originally
based on the Swagger Specification, donated by SmartBear Software. To get
involved with the OpenAPI Initiative, please visit https://www.openapis.org
About Linux Foundation
Founded in 2000, the Linux Foundation is supported by more
than 1,000 members and is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open
source software, open standards, open data, and open hardware. Linux Foundation
projects like Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js and more are considered critical to
the development of the world’s most important infrastructure. Its development
methodology leverages established best practices and addresses the needs of
contributors, users and solution providers to create sustainable models for
open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at
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