API is short for Application Programming Interface, and it is a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications. The word REST in connection with API is short for Representational State Transfer and is a software architectural style that uses a subset of HTTP and provides a great deal of flexibility for creating web services. RamBase is built on a set of APIs, whether you need to make a new application within the RamBase framework or just allow the flow of information between systems: the APIs are the tools you work with. The APIs can gather information from external software and communicate it to RamBase or the other way around, extracting it from RamBase and displaying it in external applications.