The application automation API
The application automation API is designed to enable the automatic service to retrieve information from applications. One example could be an insurance portal, where customers (users) subscribe to a specific insurance policy by using the insurance website, developed as a SPA, and following the flow described in the previous chapter. At the end of the day, an automatic process calls the application automation API to retrieve all the insurance contracts finalized during the day by the customers for forecasting or reporting purposes. This specific example is also applicable to the partner automation API, where a partner of the insurance company needs to use an API to perform backend activities, retrieve data, or update contract clauses.
From a technical perspective, the partner automation API and application automation API usually use the same authentication flow due to a matching requirement: an automated service needs to be authenticated. What could...