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Users have access to rapidly improving analytics based on huge datasets; flexibility on how questions are asked; and — most importantly — how answers are received and interpreted. In the past 10 years or so, business systems have moved from desktop-based programs to much more dynamic applications that are simultaneously more specialized and more universal. Business solutions now leverage more data to deliver answers that are very specific to an industry, to an organization, and to specific users. There are several technological cornerstones that make today’s systems so powerful, and one of them is the Application Programming Interface, or API. How do APIs play such a big role in today’s software? Well, they're like LEGO blocks. 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