Following recent industry initiatives and the rise in digitization, Vodafone, a leading European and African telecoms company, identified an opportunity to engage the developer community and provide access to its API-based products and services. Through Developer Marketplace, Vodafone sought to deliver a catalogue of APIs to its customers and provide an enhanced developer experience through improved functionality and added features.
In launching Developer Marketplace, Vodafone established a consolidated digital platform that provides easy access for both internal users and the developer community across multiple company sectors. Vodafone selected Google Cloud Apigee X as its API management tool as part of its centralized platform strategy.
The development of the Developer Marketplace uncovered several challenging parameters:
Vodafone partnered with SoftServe to support its implementation based on its strong Apigee practice and expertise in dynamic and responsive environments.
Rapid Development of Apigee X-Based Vodafone Developer Marketplace
To meet a tight deadline with multiple teams, SoftServe’s engineers took the lead to ensure productive collaboration. Throughout the project, the team leveraged its expertise to deliver:
- Comprehensive Apigee X configuration:
Onsite learning and adoption of Apigee X enabled custom microservices configuration with precision. - Ongoing platform enhancement:
Continuous support through proxies, shared flow, and configurational artifacts refined to API development, publishing, and monetization. - Seamless system integration:
Simulations in the sandbox environment provide rapid back-end system integration to accelerate development while minimizing dependencies.
Enhanced Innovation, Developer Enablement, and Heightened Monetization
With the initial delivery of Developer Marketplace, Vodafone is poised to effectively commercialize its API library through rapid and secure access provided to both internal and external developers. The increased innovative potential of its APIs further benefited from:
- Accelerated end-to-end user flow:
Intuitive self-service onboarding and registrations automatically give developers credentials, access to APIs, and the ability to test their applications. - Full integration with existing systems:
The incorporation also supports tools for authentication, authorization, charging, monitoring, and logging. - Robust publishing, analytics, and monitoring capabilities:
Vodafone’s API owners can easily control how their APIs are being used.
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