This contributed piece on the importance of APIs is from Brian Koles, Head of Business Development at ChallengePost.If I told you that I had a computer with the fastest processor and best display ever, but that it would never connect to the internet, you would likely consider it obsolete. That same label will soon be applied to companies without APIs that connect them with the rest of the digital world.As software continues its march to transform all industries, lack of connectivity increasingly equates to being broken. Application Programming Interfaces are the conduits through which data, platforms and goals come together, so the best apps