ApiShare partners with SNAM
to seamlessly standardize APIs across their business domain and technological infrastructure
“The ApiShare team works alongside us, focusing on the API Governance scope, showcasing professionalism, expertise, and passion every day”
Simone Manzoni
SNAM Team Architecture
“TheApiShare team works alongside us, focusing on the API Governance scope, showcasing professionalism, expertise, and passion every day”
Simone Manzoni
SNAM Team Architecture
Country:
Italy
Industry:
Energy supplies
Goals
Improving
API overall quality
Reducing
API redundancy
Positive impacts
on faster time to delivery and reduced cost of maintenance
Business challenges
SNAM, one of the largest European Energy players, started has gnoe through al longlasting process aiming to re-engineer their application architecture. After some important technology paradigm shift involving both platform and infrastructure than application portfolio, during these innovation path their organization had to face also three important additional needs:
API lifecycle standardization
Build a solid framework able to put compliance and standardization all along the overall API lifecycle. Improving overall quality of APIs developed both internally than via multiple external Application Teams, all the above allowing different technologies coexist.
Stakeholders’ involvment
Gain people buy-in to pursue success and mitigate the risk of their poor engagement or information and increasing at the same time everybody’s tasks adherence to operative guidelines.
Promote reuse
Through greater visibility of the technical information pertaining to each digital product, they wanted to increase the reuse of what was already available, increasing the efficiency of the production and release processes of each component.
Why ApiShare
Creation and adoption of an Operating Model and Shared Guidelines
ApiShare was adopted by SNAM as the tool capable of containing and controlling the processes and the guidelines associated with them. Promoting the development of a "common culture" associated with the life cycle of digital products and making it attractive within an unified platform, shared by all, which did not involve duplication of activities for individuals (in whatever role involved).
Governance = Process + People + Technology
We made available to SNAM our process automation capabilities, whether related to compliance or service development. The out of the box availability of a series of procedures capable of facilitating developers, product owners or managers of the various sectors involved has significantly increased quality control and overall Governance of the entire eco-system
Availability of a Unified Catalog
ApiShare Catalog represents a single place where all the people (each according to their own skills or tasks) can explore SNAM resources, understand them, feed them in order to "socialize" all the information in a single context and easily find what they need, avoiding costly and expensive adventures within the various company organizations
Benefits / Outcomes
Quality
Through effective Governance of all processes related to APIs, SNAM has increased all levels of quality related to its digital services, not only the quality of the software and its reliability, but also for example compliance, ease of communication and sharing of business objectives, all characteristics of a high-quality operating environment.
Efficiency
Through consolidated ideation, development and release policies, SNAM has significantly shortened its API release and production times, with obvious benefits in terms of efficiency and consequent reduction in the time to market of its digital solutions.
Savings
There are no more hidden areas where duplicate developments or redundancies of functionality could nest. The entire catalog is organized and able to cover even the most diverse organizational aspects, making it easy and fast to eliminate duplicates or redundancies, with obvious benefits in terms of overall cost of the infrastructure.