API First Strategy

Customer Stories: 

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Britain’s leading fast fashion high street retailer engaged SR-STAR to develop their API strategy. Our consultant developed a cloud connectivity strategy to support digital transformation, connected customer over an omni-channel retail commerce strategy (connected customer, loyalty, social media interactions etc). Our consultant authored and developed an API adoption methodology (API Enablement), API roadmap, API platform on the cloud and a full API lifecycle including governance and delivery through a competency centre. In this role we worked with senior leadership team on a daily basis like the head of digital business, head of architecture, delivery and service. The API platform selected was MuleSoft anypoint platform with DevOps, CI/CD pipeline and environments managed on AWS.

 

Our key focus in the role was to champion a platform approach that is aligned with the new delivery model to fully support on boarding new technologies faster, reacting to change in industry like regulatory (GDPR), Open banking (PSD2), Mobile POS, Click and Collect, faster checkout, wholesale management and optimisations in product lifecycle.