IDG Contributor Network: APIs provide innovation and inspiration for IT leaders

Apps are getting smarter at a ferocious pace.They have gone from being able to do things like responding to requests for directions to proactively knowing “where we need to be next” and letting us know when we ought to leave based on current traffic conditions — not to mention offering to hail an Uber or place a Starbucks order along the way.So I was surprised to see that 81 percent of respondents to KPMG’s U.S. CEO Outlook 2016 are “apprehensive about the integrati