Enterprise API Ecosystem Development
The Challenge
A Malta-based conglomerate with operations spanning insurance, property, and financial services had acquired multiple companies over a decade, each bringing its own technology stack. The group lacked a coherent way for these systems to exchange data, resulting in duplicate customer records, inconsistent financial consolidation, and an inability to offer cross-sell opportunities. Previous point-to-point integration attempts had created a fragile web of dependencies.
Our Approach
skios designed an API ecosystem strategy that replaced fragile point-to-point integrations with a governed, centralised API layer. We defined a canonical data model for shared entities (customers, products, transactions) and designed domain-specific APIs that each subsidiary system would consume, with an API gateway managing security, rate limiting, and routing.
The Solution
We delivered a .NET-based API ecosystem comprising twelve domain APIs, an Azure API Management gateway, and an event-driven integration bus using RabbitMQ for asynchronous data synchronisation. The platform included a developer portal with interactive API documentation, OAuth 2.0 authentication, and monitoring dashboards. Customer data was unified through a master data management pattern, enabling a single customer view across the group for the first time.
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