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Application Programming Interface (API) — definition
The neutral definition, worth having to hand.
Connecting the systems you already have
Pulling data out of CAD and RMS through their APIs, and automating the reporting nobody wants to do by hand.
The short version
Most departments already own the data they need; it is sitting inside CAD and RMS behind an interface nobody has asked about. Before commissioning anything new, it is worth finding out what your existing systems will already give you and what your contract entitles you to extract.
Start here
If you read one thing on this subject, read this.
The full guide is still being written
What is above is the Hub’s framing and the best outside reading we could verify — useful on its own, and honest about being a starting point rather than the finished piece. If something here is wrong, or you know a better source, that is worth telling us before the long version is written.
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