問31
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様々な企業のシステム間を連携させる公開されたインタフェースを通じて, データやソフトウェアを相互利用し, それらの企業との協業を促進しながら新しいサービスを創出することなどで, ビジネスを拡大していく仕組みを表す用語として, 最も適切なものはどれか。
令和5年度 ITパスポート試験 問31
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解説
問 31
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正解 The correct answer is ア, “API economy”. The “publicly available interface” the question describes is a public API (a connection specification exposed externally so that other companies can use it). The term for the whole economic sphere in which multiple companies mutually use one another's data and software functions through this public API, promoting collaboration while creating new services and expanding their business, is “API economy”, which matches the question exactly.
Incorrectイ
Outsourcing means entrusting your own company's operations or system management to an external specialist provider. Its aim is cost reduction and concentrating management resources; it is not a term for a mechanism of mutual data and software use between companies via public APIs or the creation of new services.
Incorrectウ
Sharing economy is a mechanism in which individuals or companies share or lend out their idle assets, skills, space, and so on to others over the internet. Its focus is asset sharing, not an economic sphere that links company systems through public APIs.
Incorrectエ
Process innovation refers to reform that overhauls the manufacturing process or business processes themselves to dramatically raise productivity, quality, and efficiency. It centers on internal process reform, not a mechanism for expanding business through inter-company collaboration via public APIs.
ここがポイント
- Grasp the concept: API economy = an economic sphere that forms and expands as companies mutually use each other's data and software through public APIs (externally exposed interfaces), via collaboration and the creation of new services.
- Distinguish from confusable terms: outsourcing (external entrustment), sharing economy (sharing idle assets), and process innovation (reforming business processes) are all concepts distinct from an economic sphere based on API linkage.
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