The issue of opening API and unifying criteria for businesses to share data has caused experts to argue fiercely.
Mr. Cao Trung Hieu – CEO of Dan Tri Soft, Mr. Ngo Thanh Tung – Deputy General Director of SoftTech Da Nang, consultant on digital transformation strategy Dao Trung Thanh (Photo: Hoa Binh) Just a distant ideal? Regarding the proposal of Mr. Ngo Thanh Tung – Deputy General Director of SoftTech Da Nang, mentioning that there should be a set of criteria for opening an API to share data between businesses, Mr. Cao Trung Hieu – CEO of Dan Tri Soft (TP. Ho Chi Minh City) said: “The regulation of the API Open Criteria is just an idealized desire, but it is difficult to implement in reality”. Explaining more carefully, Mr. Cao Trung Hieu said: “The method of application development via API is a communication method between software, it belongs to IT expertise, and for users only need to know the software. is it useful or not? Big businesses around the world all have their own APIs that can be free or paid, but there will often be some discrepancies between one business and the other. With the same problem solving direction, IT businesses will surely have different ways, using different functions to create solutions to satisfy the problem posed by customers ”. Mr. Cao Trung Hieu gave a specific example: “For example, to make accounting software & comply with the requirements of the Ministry (if any), Dan Tri Soft when developing products have API standards for internal or to To share it outside, other businesses will use other functions as well to solve the same problem. The API integration will be done together by software enterprises to solve a certain customer request, so it is an administrative task to provide an API open criterion to share data. or ineffective for the software business. The essence here is the problem of market demand, assuming customers are using discrete software, these software companies will discuss together to offer an API connection system without a regulation. any key ”. 
Mr. Cao Trung Hieu – CEO of Dan Tri Soft (HCMC) – Photo: Hoa Binh Mr. Cao Trung Hieu analyzed: “It is easy to say API, but not all programmers and software development companies are capable of making API from the beginning, because it is much more complicated and expensive, but not necessarily. satisfy customer needs more than usual. When they were children, they worked quickly to make a living. When a little bit older, to get 100 customers, they must have the API as prescribed (if there is an administrative regulation as suggested). At that point, rewriting the program with the API would be difficult for them, especially maintaining compatibility with legacy clients (or at least maintaining the software development documentation). How many companies (including big ones) do Vietnam have? Recently, as the press published, Google decided not to use Oracle in the internal system but switched to SAP. The reason is that Oracle does not grant certification for Google’s cloud service to be compatible with the Oracle system. They said that Oracle cloud is competing with Google cloud, so they will not certify competitors … Thus, it can be seen that, if there was no architecture, design from the beginning, it would have to “beat up. “But repairing is even more expensive than making new ones”. There is no set of API criteria Agreeing with Mr. Cao Trung Hieu, consultant of digital transformation strategy Dao Trung Thanh also rejected Mr. Ngo Thanh Tung’s proposal: “What to do with the so-called API criteria set? APIs of Microsoft, Google, IBM, Amazon, SAP, Oracle … all have their own API sets! The problem is that they can publish to other software to use their API functions and thus can integrate system. The purchase of individual software from companies and then integrating is always a headache for the developers ”. 
Mr. Dao Trung Thanh Mr. Dao Trung Thanh affirmed: “Such a proposal is very impractical! For example, say that the software developed by Viettel and VNPT or FPT is already having API functions and they are certainly different. Then what kind of criteria is agreed? Beating the API over and over? It’s not that simple when the system has millions of lines of code and has to be reworked ”. Mr. Dao Trung Thanh further analyzed: “There are 2 issues, about openness depending on company policies, policies for publishing APIs. Some companies forcefully defend their APIs. For example, Sony typically only makes PlayStation 2’s official API available to registered PlayStation developers. This is because Sony wants to limit who can write games on PlayStation 2, and wants to profit from these people as much as possible. This is often the policy for companies that do not benefit from selling their API implementations. However, PlayStation 3 is fully announced APIs. Some companies offer free APIs. For example, Microsoft publishes almost complete information about APIs, so that software can be written to run on Windows platforms. The sale of third-party software coincides with the purchase of the Microsoft Windows operating system. These are usually the companies that profit from the sale of API implementations ”. Mr. Cao Trung Hieu assessed that, in terms of drug management alone, the data sharing has a positive effect: “All information on circulation and sale of pharmacies and pharmacies is linked to The health department adopts an API method between the software of the health department and the pharmacy management software, helping the management agency get more timely and more honest data ”. “However, it should be understood that this is data sharing according to national standards, not the health ministry opening data API to the outside. As for data connection from pharmacy management software and pharmacy to the medical department software, free software companies choose their own API connection method, as long as the data is in accordance with the regulations of the Ministry of Health. to include in the data system of regulatory agencies. The story of opening API data only concerns IT companies, but for users, they only need the result of convenience thanks to connectivity, stability and software development capabilities ”- Mr. Cao Trung Hieu confirmed.
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