Buy vs. Build

Now that you understand the value of on-demand API Infrastructure from Mashery, are you worried that it might be difficult to sell internally to your organization?

Are there people in your organization who think that building the API itself is the hard part? And since that's "all done" maybe they are thinking you might as well try the "Build-It-Yourself" (B-I-Y) approach to API management.

Before anyone assembles a project team and starts getting all-agile, we'd like you to
consider a few key points.

• API management only looks simple. Mashery is the pioneer in on-demand API infrastructure management. We really do live and breathe this stuff. Our engineers are solely focused on making our platform and product features more useful. Your organization can leverage our experience to grow your business instead of burdening your existing engineering team with building API management tools.
• Managing your API requires more than you think. That means ongoing API management, maintenance and support issues, and development activities that add incremental costs to your operating budget. Many organizations have found that they cannot justify the economics of building a tool-set – as fully featured as the Mashery solution – when they consider all long-term operating costs.
• Mashery's average annual subscription fee for Enterprise level service is considerably less than the fully loaded salary or contract rate for a single developer who makes $100K per year. And Mashery's subscription-based licensing structure means that you can predict your monthly operating expenses for a fully operational solution that is quick to deploy. So, in 30 days where would you rather be? Hiring a new developer to kick-off the project, finding an internal IT resource to redeploy and maybe train, or enjoying the fully implemented experience of API Infrastructure Management?
• On-demand delivery is the heart of web-based product and services. Why build out an administrative infrastructure for an activity that is not core to your business, when Mashery has everything you need ready to deploy today? And what's the time-to-market impact of waiting six-months (or more) for a Build-It-Yourself project which provides only basic functionality vs. implementing a world-class solution that leverages the lessons learned from over 40 (and growing) successful client implementations?

With all this in mind, here's a more specific overview of the costs you should consider during your own "Buy vs. Build-It-Yourself" analysis.