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API Connect Industry References

Banking and Financial Services

Tech and Telecom

Retail

Automotive and Travel

Government and Education

Insurance

API Connect Industries

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Industry- Banking and Financial Services

E.SUN Commercial Bank The bank provides a traditional array of banking

products and services

API Economy optimizes the customer experience and

accelerates time to market

Need: The client needed to reinvent its services and accelerate time to

market for those services to deliver an optimal customer experience.

Why IBM?: With its cognitive solutions, next-generation cloud platform, IBM

Design Thinking approach and extensive industry insights, IBM could deliver

values that none of competitors could match.

Solution: The client worked with the Business Consulting Services team to

implement an IBM WebSphere DataPower B2B Appliance XB60 and IBM API

Management software. While the WebSphere DataPower B2B Appliance

XB60 acts as a secure gateway for APIs, the API Management software

enables the client to quickly create, manage and monitor APIs on the cloud.

Using the new solutions, it can connect with partners in numerous industries

and unlock the value from its existing IT assets to develop new services.

Benefits: The client reports that the combination of the IBM API Management

software and the Bluemix platform not only enables IT agility but also fuels

innovation in business models.

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Yes Bank A private bank in India that offers investment products

and services

API Management helps to expand business

opportunities and integrate partners and developers

Need: Yes Bank wanted to expand its business by building new digital

partnerships. To enlarge its footprint in this marketplace, the bank needed to

partner with as many exchange houses as possible, seamlessly and securely.

Why IBM?: It signed a zero-interest loan agreement with IBM Global

Financing for the new software and appliance purchased. This helped the

client manage the budgets with deferred payment.

Solution: The bank used the API Management software and WebSphere

DataPower Service Gateway XG45 appliance to manage, secure and enforce

APIs and to engage with the partner and developer community. It also used

the Integration Bus Standard software to form the foundational service-

oriented architecture (SOA) layer for the enterprise.

Benefits: The solution helped the bank rapidly integrate partners and

developers through a socially enabled developer portal. It also helped in

monitoring and gaining insights about API consumption to drive business

results. In addition, the solution increased the client's agility and supported

multispeed IT.

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Moneytree A personal financial management applications

company based out of Japan

Moneytree monetizes data and maintains customer

trust in the API Economy

Need: Moneytree needed to deploy a new set of application programming

interfaces (APIs), called Moneytree Link, that businesses could use to get

access to the financial data they needed to improve their services for

consumers without jeopardizing individual privacy. The company sought a

reliable platform that it could use to deploy and manage the set of APIs.

Why IBM?: Moneytree sought IBM API Management as it connected

businesses with consumers in a way that would generate revenue for the

company.

Solution: The client registers its platform to financial institutions such as

banks and credit card companies on a case-by-case basis, and a secure

sharing mechanism of API Management gives individuals the ability to opt in

or out of sharing their personal financial data with select companies.

Benefits: Moneytree accelerated application development and ultimately

expanded its customer base. In addition, the client improved application

security so that it can better protect individual privacy.

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RBL Bank A scheduled commercial bank offering a range of

banking products and services

API Connect™ enables digital transactions and boosts

its ability to engage in a security-rich way

Need: The bank realized that by branching out into the digital transaction

business, in addition to offering traditional banking services, they could drive

revenue growth. But to facilitate such transactions, it would need to open their

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) while maintaining appropriate

security protocols.

Why IBM?: The client sought to develop such a digital transactions business

while controlling operating and technology costs and found IBM API

Management to be the best choice for it.

Solution: The Systems Lab Services team helped the client construct a highly

scalable and reliable API infrastructure based on the IBM API Management

platform, incorporating multiple security customizations. With the IBM API

Connect platform in place, the client has been able to open its APIs so that

developers can create innovate solutions for all types of customers.

Benefits: The bank essentially extended its enterprise in a security-rich

fashion to partners and customers, all the while increasing the reusability of its

API assets, ultimately cutting operating and technology costs.

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A Big Banking Group A Spanish banking group

API Connect™ helps the bank to be more agile and to

follow regulation and compliance like PSD2

Need: The client is in the middle of a transformation project adopting agile

methodologies and APIs help them in this initiative, although they need to

integrate with all the current SoRs based on Websphere Application Server

and Cobol/CICS/DB2 on a hosted or private cloud infrastructure

Why IBM?: The tech sales team at Spain helped a lot during the sales cycle.

This was the reason to win this opportunity at WW (together with the rest of

the players, like CTAs and sales reps) .

Solution: IBM deployed API Connect 5 for each geo configuring the

installations to support both public APIs and private/internal APIs (One

manager, two gateways). IBM also deployed their advanced developer portal

based on Drupal, supporting also two sites (internal | external/public). , and

having in mind Sandbox and Production environments for API consumers to

be integrated in the external portal site.

Benefits: With APIs, they became more agile internally, started to follow the

regulations as PSD2 and reach new market in API Economy concept. In a

medium period of time, they exposed business logic to third parties to

monitise their artifacts and business logic.

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A Leading Commercial Bank A leading commercial joint stock bank in Vietnam

IBM API Connect™ enables new business models and

grows ecosystems

Need: The client faced misalignment of integration requirements and

available web services. Also, they needed to redefine and expose current

enterprise APIs to customers/business partner.

Why IBM?: The API Connect installation and configuration and API creation

and deployment mentoring made their case strong for the client.

Solution: The client implemented IBM API Connect Administration and

Developer Portal along with IBM DataPower® Gateway with HSM Card

Appliance along with assistance services for implementation of API and

DataPower.

Benefits: Advanced secure API gateway and standardize enterprise APIs

was the baseline of the complete solution. Also, security and validation off-

load for back-end servers was also created. It led to enabling new business

models and growing ecosystems.

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A Huge Banking Company An American multinational investment banking

corporation

IBM API Management helps to transform the client

from a traditional bank to a “Fintech” company

Need: The client wishes to transform from a traditional bank into a "Fintech"

company providing mobile banking services and other digital interfaces into

what was traditionally a brick and mortar model. To do this, they are exposing

API's to their consumers and business partners to simplify digital interaction

with the firm.

Why IBM?: The ability of the IBM DataPower® gateway to scale and securely

manage hundreds and up to thousands of transactions per second in a secure

manner was the single biggest reason for the API expansion at the firm

Solution: The client was using DataPower physical and virtual gateways to

scale and manage transactions. Also, IBM API Management version 4 and

Advanced Developer portal came into the picture to simplify digital interaction.

Also, the solution will be moving to API Connect V5 in production Q1 2017.

Benefits: The client received the ability to enhance the mobile banking

experience through the delivery of improved banking applications. Also, the

ability to re-use microservices and API's to more quickly compose and deliver

applications and functionality to their clients

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Moneytree A personal financial management applications

company based out of Japan

Moneytree monetizes data and maintains customer

trust in the API Economy

Need: Moneytree needed to deploy a new set of application programming

interfaces (APIs), called Moneytree Link, that businesses could use to get

access to the financial data they needed to improve their services for

consumers without jeopardizing individual privacy. The company sought a

reliable platform that it could use to deploy and manage the set of APIs.

Why IBM?: Moneytree sought IBM API Management as it connected

businesses with consumers in a way that would generate revenue for the

company.

Solution: The client registers its platform to financial institutions such as

banks and credit card companies on a case-by-case basis, and a secure

sharing mechanism of API Management gives individuals the ability to opt in

or out of sharing their personal financial data with select companies.

Benefits: Moneytree accelerated application development and ultimately

expanded its customer base. In addition, the client improved application

security so that it can better protect individual privacy.

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A Financial Services Provider A South African subsidiary of a world renonwed bank

API economy creates better collaboration across

functional groups

Need: The client was looking for a way to assist small businesses and

entrepreneurs. For all those reasons, the client sought a solution to deliver

better collaboration across functional groups

Why IBM?: The client evaluated all platforms in order to find the right fit for

their business and finally chose IBM for their ability to improve ‘time-to-value'

and ‘time-to-market' for new products.

Solution: The ‘banking as a service' solution enables any external

organization such as a fintech venture or start-up, to easily use the client’s

services such as biometric identification, transactional capabilities, ATM

locators and more. The mobile app developed incorporates nine of the bank's

recently built APIs into an integrated solution that gives micro-business

owners, a convenient way to stay in touch with and pay their employees.

Benefits: Through API Connect, the client is able to manage and enforce the

consumption of these services while providing enterprise security and

analytics. By embracing API Economy strategy, they are creating compelling

client experiences and significant revenue opportunities.

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Industry- Tech and Telecom

Inomera Research It develops software and solutions for mobile, Internet

and cloud-computing technologies and services.

Inomera chooses API Management as an ASL partner

and lands their first client

Need: Inomera Research wanted to provide its clients with an API

management solution as a means to expose some APIs externally to telecom

and financial institutions for use in billing, reporting and monetizing external

API services

Why IBM?: IBM convinced the company through a successful proof of

technology that IBM API Management software would meet its requirements.

Solution: The client offers IBM API Management software to its customers to

use on-premises or through its cloud delivery platform. Inomera Research

made the solution, complemented by the IBM DataPower Gateway platform

and a monetization module developed by the client, as a complete platform

for selling APIs to external parties.

Benefits: Using the API management offering and the modularization

extension, the client enabled self-registration and onboarding processes for

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IBM Corp One of the largest technology and consulting company

in the world

API Management develops and deploys Quote-to-

Cash application in a hybrid cloud environment

Need: IBM was planning to develop a comprehensive Quote-to-Cash

application that would allow users to manage the pre-sales process, but that

would support multiple brands and a global audience. So, the client needed a

solution to rapidly provide new business capabilities. Finally, the company

needed to settle on a deployment model that would yield a lower total cost of

ownership (TCO) than a traditional, on-premises model.

Why IBM?: The Quote-to-Cash application complies with US and European

data privacy requirements, enabling organizations to protect their data and

avoid sanctions. Highly flexible, the Bluemix solutions enable the client to

deliver new capabilities to the application in days, which will help

accommodate the evolving business requirements of its users.

Solution: They built and deployed its Quote-to-Cash application on a hybrid

cloud with API Management software, which enables the application to

securely invoke the APIs of systems of record behind corporate firewalls.

Benefits: IBM reduces the total cost of ownership of its Quote-to-Cash

application by 22 percent and improves the efficiency of its sales lifecycle.

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An Online Electronic Distributor A large electronic component distributor in North

America

Leveraging technology with IBM API Connect™

Need: The client wanted to expose product search and inventory levels via

API to aggregators via REST. They had SOAP based services that they

wanted to expose as REST using OAUTH as the security mechanism.

Why IBM?: Client had narrowed their choice to IBM and another vendor, and

originally the other vendor won. During implementation, the other vendor’s

team and their solution could not meet the client’s business requirements. So,

they went back to IBM.

Solution: While the DataPower® needs were going well, the overall project

was lagging behind when the other vendor could not meet the business

objectives. The Business partner executed a quick proof of concept to

demonstrate that IBM’s API Connect did meet client’s business requirements

quickly.

Benefits: The client was able to improve their standings with the aggregators

and improve their relative position. This lead to increased visibility and

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A Major Mobile Network Operator A major Vietnamese mobile network operator

IBM API Connect™ reduces processing time with

better monitoring and bug-fixing mechanism

Need: The client needed IBM's help with managing many siloed gateway with

partners. The environment was difficult to manage and extend to new

partners. Also, there was insufficient security management and no centralized

monitoring and management.

Why IBM?: The client implemented IBM because faster API configuration and

development in direction of cloud computing and no-coding approach.

Solution: API Management on cloud component was installed in two servers

in active-active mode (HA). Also, the client uses two physical DataPower®

boxes for API Gateway and configure as cluster architecture. Also, it finished

the deployment of DataPower and API Connect in Q2 2016.

Benefits: The client consolidated partner gateways with state-of-the-art

worldwide newest technology. Created a strong API Gateway to connect and

manage integration with partners. Also, reduces processing time with better

monitoring and bug-fixing mechanism.

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A Large Telecom Company A New Zealand-wide communications service provider

API Economy pushes the client to be an innovator in

the industry

Need: The technical team responsible for the API Solution is building a

platform as an innovation lab, with internal ideas and Proof of Technology.

The more the API concept is taking off and the more business is building

awareness about API economy, the more requirements and projects are

landing on the table of the integration team responsible for APIs.

Why IBM?: After evaluating several API Management solutions they selected

IBM because they have been already using DataPower® gateway and they

trusted in the security and the solidity of the appliance.

Solution: Creating a simple architecture from an API perspective. DataPower

appliance as API runtime gateway on the cloud, API Management node to

govern API. Different teams are exposing web services in order to be consumed by API Management.

Benefits: Creating a platform that will enable the client to be an innovator in

the industry, being able to leverage a consumable API platform to provide

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Industry- Retail

Walmart Stores Walmart is an American multinational retail corporation

that operates a chain of hypermarkets

Walmart uses APIs to accelerate development and

time to market

Need: To decrease time to market, Walmart adopted agile development

methodology. But to support its developers in their agile approach, the

company needed to be able to quickly give them computer resources.

Why IBM?: IBM’s delivery team has been providing quality services for many

years to Walmart, and earned Walmart’s confidence in their ability to deliver

for years to come.

Solution: Walmart created a cloud platform that’s driven by API Connect. The

platform gives developers on-demand access to the resources they need,

including infrastructure, storage, databases and web servers. The Walmart

cloud also helps the business scale to meet unpredictable spikes in demand.

Benefits: The client achieved 99 percent decrease in time needed to deliver

resources to developers, from five days to 10 seconds.

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An American Footwear

Manufacturer One of the world’s major sports footwear manufacturer

IBM API Connect™ helps to gain a global integration

platform

Need: New Balance needed a Global Integration platform for their Direct to

Customer Business

Why IBM?: IBM built a partnership with the business partner to create a great

competitive advantage. Also, the product performance is quite high and IBM

has been exteremely responsive to the client.

Solution: API Connect was hosted on the Bluemix® platform where full API

creation, monitoring, profiling and tracing capabilities were handled. The

platform features visual tools for debugging, profiling and tracing Node apps.

Benefits: With API Connect in place, IBM enabled more

connected/integrated, agile and faster eBusiness. Also, accelerating

development speed by a factor of four, and helping the company get new

features to market ahead of its competitors.

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A Large Office Supply Retailer An American office supply retailing company

IBM API Connect™ helps to collaborate with Business

Partners

Need: As they expanded, the client’s existing e-commerce services also

needed to scale to support the business in terms of reaching out to new

partners. In parallel though they wanted to be agile & reduce time to market

for new services while not incurring any overhead costs.

Why IBM?: IBM API Connect on Cloud became the platform of choice due to

the flexibility it provided & the ease with which APIs can be defined &

managed without the hassles of installation & operational-management

issues.

Solution: Enable secure exposure of APIs to external Business Partners, via

tiered plans, each with unique enforced rate limits. Also, provided a

development portal to build, deploy and manage APIs.

Benefits: IBM API Connect on Cloud helped the retailer to quickly & securely

expose existing services. It also provided an easy & controlled on-boarding

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A big supermarket chain A supermarket chain in the Netherlands

API Management improves mobile application

development efficiency, in-store processing efficiency

and customer service

Need: The client wanted to increase its in-store processing efficiency and

motivate in-store employees to improve customer service. It also sought to

stimulate franchiser entrepreneurship and boost subscriptions to promotions

and events.

Why IBM?: IBM won the project because of its strong business innovation

capabilities and positive relationship with the client.

Solution: As part of the API Management solution, IBM DataPower®

Gateway Virtual Edition software was used to secure all API calls into the

client’s API infrastructure. The API Management software would secure the

gateway component and the traffic by authenticating and authorizing

requests.

Benefits: The client improved mobile application development efficiency. It

successfully deployed its first mobile app in three months. Based on the

superior mobile app development environment, the supermarket chain

improved its in-store processing efficiency and enhanced customer service.

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A North American Retailer An American luxury specialty department stores

IBM API Connect™ provides easy & secure access to

retail services

Need: It was difficult for internal partners and developers to discover & access

key retail services. Also, there was no visibility on Service consumption or

ability to chargeback for LoB’s use of Services

Why IBM?: The key differentiator for IBM was responsiveness to the

customer’s requirements demonstrated in the quick turn around and analysis

of their requirements.

Solution: API Connect on cloud provides a secure environment for

transactions to take place and includes near real time analytics to understand

what is going on with the transactions. To help generate new applications

from internal, partner or independent developers, a branded, easy to use

developer portal is included.

Benefits: After implementation, the client offers 3rd party merchants secure

standards-based access to key business services as APIs, with a self-service

experience. Also, the solution provides an internal ecosystem for partners and

a central repository with usage analytics

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A Finnish Retailing Conglomerate A big food trading company

IBM API Management on Cloud helps to get better

customer experience for the end users

Need: At business level, client's goal is to get better customer experience for

the end users. This will require better capabilities to implement omni-channel

services with faster time-to market. Cloud technologies are one of the key

enablers in this.

Why IBM?: The client is a long term IBM Integrations customer with IBM

Integration Bus as the backbone of their integration infrastructure. IBM API

solutions enable customer to quickly create and securely publish on-premise

and cloud APIs to their developer community - both internal and external -

who are innovating new digital services.

Solution: Customer has a centralized API Management solution and

Datapower Virtual editions both on-premise and in Amazon Web Services.

They are currently running version 4, but are migrating to API Connect during

October 2016.

Benefits: They have more effective integration functions with easier

integrations to existing environments. Building of active developer community

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Industry- Automotive and Travel

An airline company A Canadian airline company

IBM API Management establishes a single access

point

Need: The client’s external partners wanted access to internal services.

However, these services were supported across the company by separate

teams, which would mean that each team would have to support and expose

each service independently as the partners wanted to access them.

Why IBM?: WestJet sought a solution that could provide a single access point

to each service. API Management proved to be the best choice in that aspect.

Solution: It implemented IBM API Management V3 software to provide a

single point of exposure to its separately supported internal services and to

support migration to an API economy. The API Management software acts as

the main conduit for connecting everything, from third party applications to

native mobile applications and on to web applications.

Benefits: The client can now easily and securely connect its website to new

APIs, reducing cost and increasing accessibility. The solution also eliminated

the need to build a developer support infrastructure with centralized

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A major automotive company Multinational automaker in the U.S.

APIM manages and governs API access and service

level agreements

Need: To address global mobility issues and help transform its business the

client wanted to implement a complete mobility solution from IBM Cloud

Business Solutions

Why IBM?: The client put out a request for quotation (RFQ) to which IBM

responded. IBM provided a coordinated technology and services solution

based on a single platform and offered on a platform as a service model. IBM

pulled together a strong team that demonstrated tremendous expertise and

thought leadership in a process that required dedication, tenacity and

personal sacrifice.

Solution: IBM BlueMix software on the SoftLayer platform provides

application programming interface (API) development and runtime

capabilities, letting developers quickly compose and build applications for the

cloud environment.

Benefits: By using the IBM Cloud Business Solutions product and services

portfolio, the client can ramp up and launch its four London-based mobility

experiments quickly and economically with the cloud-based PaaS offering.

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A French Car Manufacturer A leading auto manufacturer

IBM API Connect™ helps to provide innovative vehicle

connectivity

Need: The client wanted to offer innovative connectivity services to

customers, improve the driver experience, improve safety and create new

revenue sources. Also, they wanted to collect data to monetize them for

partners

Why IBM?: This was a collaboration between the client account team, AIM

sales/tech sales, IBM MessageSight sales & lab teams. They were convinced

of the low-latency reliable communications with the car systems.

Solution: API Connect is used to make use of the connected car data once it

has been stored. Internal/external developers will use the data to develop

mobile applications based on these data. API Connect will then propose a

portal to developers in order to describe the API and to socialize around the

available services.

Benefits: By implementing API Connect, the vehicle data APIs got published

on a secure developer portal. Also, it created the “Always connected” low-

latency reliable communications with the car systems/apps and customer

mobile app

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A Large Airline Company A subsidiary of a big Japanese airline company

IBM API Management on Cloud configure the client’s

API management infrastructure

Need: Customer intends to provide their flight status APIs, which can search

flight number and airport, to their airline partners and also business

contractors.

Why IBM?: IBM has a long-term relationship with the client and has become

a trusted provider. The IBM team sought to fully understand the client’s goals

and cultivated opportunities by addressing its business agenda.

Solution: The client engaged IBM API Management on Cloud to configure

the API management infrastructure.

Benefits: Customer can now expand their API business because their APIs

are disclosed easily and the access to the APIs is managed through IBM API

Management.

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A Travel Services Company A travel services company in the US

IBM API Management smoothly streamlines

application lifecycle management

Need: The company needed to develop better application programming

interfaces (APIs) for building applications and a more comprehensive platform

to expose and manage those APIs.

Why IBM?: IBM was chosen over other competitors because of the strong

story around its associated security gateway for APIs - the IBM WebSphere

DataPower Service Gateway appliance - and also the pricing model

developed with the client to meet its needs.

Solution: The client installed the IBM API Management Administration and

Developer Portal application for non-production software licenses on its cloud

platform to more securely share APIs from existing systems with the

development team.

Benefits: The client reduced approximately two full-time equivalent positions

and decreased costs by approximately 40 percent through ESB off-load. The

client also accelerated time to market by cutting the development time for its

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A Large Automobile Company A Subsidiary of a multinational automotive

manufacturer

IBM Hybrid Cloud beats top competitors to bring

Toyota an API management solution

Need: The client saw development moving away from services toward APIs

and determined a need to monitor and manage APIs across sales,

distribution, finance, and manufacturing

Why IBM?: No other competitor could orchestrate on-premise and off-

premise API management better than the IBM Hybrid Cloud offering

Solution: Amidst a large data center reorganization, they chose to expand

upon an API management deal (deployed on the Bluemix® platform) to

include a Private Cloud solution to manage their APIs.

Benefits: The client finds out that IBM’s Hybrid Cloud solution saves them

money and provide simplicity that will allow their partners and customers to

share and run apps quickly and easily.

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A Canadian Railway Agency A big railway agency in Canada

IBM API Connect™ helps to promote innovation,

agility and mobility

Need: The client was unable to securely expose & socialize its enterprise web

services which meant slower innovation, agility & mobility. They required a

robust and scalable security gateway to meet IoT/mobile projects and other

future mobile business demands.

Why IBM?: Through the executive one-on-one platform, the IBM team

demonstrated the completeness of the IBM long-term vision. This helped it to

win the deal.

Solution: The WebSphere DataPower appliance provides a lightweight

hardware platform for rapid cloud and mobile-services deployments and

governance, and the API Connect solution provides the tools for creating,

proxying, assembling, securing and scaling web APIs on cloud.

Benefits: The client gained an enterprise security and API gateway that

seamlessly integrates with its existing IBM WebSphere software. The solution

allows the company to securely expose and socialize its web services,

increasing business agility and mobility. Create Run

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A Large Automobile Company A Subsidiary of a multinational automotive

manufacturer

IBM Hybrid Cloud beats top competitors to bring

Toyota an API management solution

Need: The client saw development moving away from services toward APIs

and determined a need to monitor and manage APIs across sales,

distribution, finance, and manufacturing

Why IBM?: No other competitor could orchestrate on-premise and off-

premise API management better than the IBM Hybrid Cloud offering

Solution: Amidst a large data center reorganization, they chose to expand

upon an API management deal (deployed on the Bluemix® platform) to

include a Private Cloud solution to manage their APIs.

Benefits: The client finds out that IBM’s Hybrid Cloud solution saves them

money and provide simplicity that will allow their partners and customers to

share and run apps quickly and easily.

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Industry- Government and Education

An Educational Institute A university in Kenya.

IBM API Connect™ improves research quality,

increases innovation and reduces data costs

Need: The university sought an open data platform where research data

could be stored and provided for public consumption without restrictions.

Why IBM?: The client used IBM to build, run and manage several application

components to support research data dissemination.

Solution: IBM API Connect software, which the client uses to create and

manage application programming interfaces (APIs) on the Bluemix® platform

to build, run and manage several application components to support research

data dissemination.

Benefits: The client gained the ability to make research data available for

wider, public use because people can use and republish data through the

open environment, the cost of creating and storing data significantly

diminished, and research quality improved.

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A Postal Services Company A postal services company based in the United

Kingdom

API Connect™ reduces on-boarding process from

weeks to hours

Need: The need for an API Gateway was driven by a number of factors;

external factors such as clients requesting JSON APIs and the ability to

interact with documentation and APIs, internal factors such as the ability to

manage, migrate, throttle and analyze their clients whilst scaling the number

of APIs/consumers and also wishing to bring their on-boarding process to

more of a self-service model as demanded by the API Economy.

Why IBM?: IBM API Management BlueMix Public SaaS provided the flexibility

and scalability required, with an attractive commercial offer, and market-

leading security that allowed the client to explore cloud computing.

Solution: The client implemented IBM API Management V4 on Cloud

(BlueMix Public, London) (currently migrating to V5) to extend their IBM

Integration Bus and DataPower® existing integration.

Benefits: API Economy brings down the on-boarding process from weeks to

hours. Also, partner number has risen drastically up to few hundreds due to

the ability to manage and scale through the platform in turn increasing the

revenue.

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A State Government In India A governing authority of an Indian state

IBM API Management facilitates data use and

application integration.

Need: Using data in the best way and integrating applications were big

challenges. Therefore, the client sought a robust solution that would help

facilitate data use and application integration.

Why IBM?: IBM delivered a successful proof of concept in creating an

integration hub and an API store for web services in the shortest time frame.

The government appreciated the overall IBM Middleware solution and

selected IBM.

Solution: The client employs the IBM API Management solution as a

developer portal where application developers can log in and view various

exposed APIs. The API Management solution helps externalize and socialize

APIs on the cloud so that people can use them and build mobile apps.

Benefits: The client significantly improved data integration and analysis. It

also facilitated high performance for its multiple applications. The client

enhanced its ability to complete the electronic-governance projects and saved

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Industry- Healthcare and Pharma

A Large Healthcare Insurer An American managed health care company.

IBM Cloud Integration software supports an

aggressive expansion plan.

Need: The insurance industry is very competitive. The client is pursuing a

planned expansion into new client services, and integrating multiple acquired

business to also support this plan, and consider it essential to their survival.

Why IBM?: IBM is helping the client by providing project services and a

bridge from legacy applications to a modernized applications that support

growth and integration.

Solution: The client is upgrading IBM API Management v4 to v5, and in the

course of this upgrade they are creating a scalable and secure architecture to

support their vision.

Benefits: An integrated enterprise provides a platform where a client vision

can be implemented quickly, successfully and at scale. Some specific

elements of their API software migration have been completed in a fraction of

the expected time, resulting in cost savings and a shorter project span. This

client is trusting its enterprise integration to IBM. Create Run

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A Pharmaceutical Servicing

Company A Pharmaceutical manufacturing company based in

the United States

IBM API Connect™ improves data accessibility Need: The client had developed new services and was acquiring customers

and trading partners who needed access to their environments and data.

Why IBM?: The Business Partner had been working with the client for over a

year and had previous experience with the CIO, thus gaining a position as a

trusted partner. They recommended IBM as the right choice for the solution.

Solution: The Business Partner has been working with the client for over a

year providing professional services in Business Architecture, Project

Requirements, Program Management and Consulting. As the client’s

business grew and expanded, the client partnered with them to provide

additional services and through this work identified APIC as a solution.

Benefits: With API Connect in place, the client collected and displayed data

related to KPIs, operational measures, alerts, other information important to

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A Managed Healthcare Provider A non-profit health services consortium based in the

United States.

Transforming business through faster time to market

with IBM API Connect™

Need: Newly implemented policies indicated that the client engages and sells

memberships to individuals than groups as done in the past, to advance

memberships. The client thus sought to refactor its member-facing application

and to build new Systems of Engagements (SoEs).

Why IBM?: The IBM® API Connect team along with the client teams devised

and shaped the solution to facilitate faster time to market for new applications

by providing integration and Presentation API's for developer consumption.

Solution: The client implemented a Node.js based presentation server that

can be leveraged by web and mobile applications providing UI specific data

aggregation and filtering from multiple API's. It also established an integration

API gateway to provide RESTful access to client System of Records (SoRs).

Benefits: With the implementation, the client achieved all round digital

transformation by providing its application teams with APIs for access to its

System of Records (SoRs) and presentation, resulting in faster time to market

on new applications. Additionally, the client is expected to migrate away from

substantial investments in Axway and Apigee.

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A Health Management Company A national leader in population health management

based in the United States

IBM API Management helps to manage the client’s

application program interfaces (APIs).

Need: The client needed to provide its customers access to their information

through mobile channels, which triggered the company to look at ways to

expose and manage its application program interfaces (APIs).

Why IBM?: The client turned to IBM through a formal request for proposal

(RFP) process in the fourth quarter of 2015. The IBM team was awarded the

business for its IBM API Management solution and for having an

implementation approach that included estimates to perform the work.

Solution: The client engaged IBM API Management on cloud and IBM

DataPower® Gateway platform. The IBM team plans to develop and

document the solution design and then develop, build, deploy, and test the

API Management infrastructure. The team expects to develop and implement

APIs for the client’s app and the Mobile Health applications.

Benefits: With an IBM Application Program Interface Management solution,

the client’s customers will have access to their information via mobile

channels.

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A Mutual Insurance Company A mutual insurance company based in the United

States

IBM API Connect™ improves developer experience

Need: The client wanted to improve their ability to support their lines of

business in partners and enable them to deliver improved capabilities more

quickly.

Why IBM?: IBM tech rep along with the business partner CTO conducted an

onsite POC validating that IBM's API Connect would meet the client’s

requirements, including the incorporation of their DataPower framework,

BizTalk, and .net services into a cohesive API Management solution leading

to negotiations for a deal

Solution: The client have a variety of applications they develop for their

business as well as partners that use these services and they were looking at

the opportunity of leveraging APIs and the API Economy to improve their

ability on the cloud to support their lines of business in partners and enable

them to deliver improved capabilities more quickly.

Benefits: API Connect's ability to provide common access to their integration

framework services as APIs enabled more of a self-service approach enabling

quicker development and delivery of new applications. Create Run

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