An Insurance Company Chooses WSO2

as a Vendor to Displace MuleSoft

CASE STUDY

BACKGROUND
The customer is a leading insurance company in the
Nordic region with a market capitalization of more
than $3bn. The insurance industry is a highly
competitive, innovation-driven industry where
technology plays a key role. To provide insurance
services such as claims, pensions, asset management,
etc., in a fast, efficient manner, insurance companies
need to have a solid technology platform. Technology
platforms always evolve with time and according to
the demands of the business leaders and sales teams
who urge the technical teams to deliver new services
quickly - at times without much consideration of
management, governance, and the standards
“We found that the WSO2
associated with these services. Sometimes existing API Management platform
technology platforms do not allow technical teams to
think about these aspects due to the lack of features.
was considerably more
flexible and met our needs
more closely than the
Challenges Of the Existing Solution With MuleSoft
The technical teams have realized over time that around
Anypoint Platform. Our
250-300 APIs have been developed and managing these
APIs can be challenging. Some key challenges identified in
experience with WSO2 was
the existing platform are:
that they were responsive
• The requirement for a vendor-specific skill set. Even if
there was a process in place to acquire talent externally, to our needs and the result
•
they didn’t meet expectations.
A consequence of the skill set needed to make proper is a powerful solution to our
API requirements.”
usage of the Mule platform hence requires using a
centrally managed development Team to implement
the system integrations. If you - as an organization -
prefer to go the DevOps way (so to speak) then a
centrally managed development Team is an anti-
pattern.
• Vendor-specific training programs were too expensive
and didn’t meet the level of expectation. Evaluation Process
• Access to platform functionalities was mainly GUI based. Spending a fortune of money for licenses while not having a
But the internal developer community preferred a set of properly managed API program that is not future-ready has
APIs to invoke the same functionalities for obvious become a big issue. The customer decided to thoroughly
reasons. evaluate the best APIM vendors in the market by going
• Around 90% of integrations were simple service- through live demos done by the vendors and in-house POCs
chaining scenarios. The complexity of developing them by the internal teams. After a 4-week long evaluation where
was too high. they evaluated various aspects including deployment
• Lack of accessibility to development-related materials flexibility, licensing approach, and costs, alignment of
such as libraries and freedom/flexibility to combine with features with the expected outcome, and product maturity
the existing pipeline (based on Git and Java-based open (including several others) they selected WSO2 as the vendor
technologies). to displace MuleSoft. This was mainly due to the following
• APIs without proper details on usage and performance two factors:
and how to get the required support in case of a failure.
• Lack of details on ownership, dependencies, and • TCO and overall return on investment (ROI) benefits
workload/usage patterns. • Open-source licensing and flexible engagement models
• No proper governance on the API design, development,
and publishing process which made the process of
managing API development difficult.

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An Insurance Company Chooses WSO2
as a Vendor to Displace MuleSoft
CASE STUDY

New Platform and The Benefits.

With the introduction of the WSO2 platform into the stack,
the customer was able to achieve several benefits:

• A properly governed API design and implementation

process through WSO2 API Publisher with standardized,
versioned APIs that has clear ownership.
• Improved developer efficiency through developer self-
sign up, automated deployments, and support for
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) paradigms through the
product level REST APIs available in WSO2 API Manager.
• With better understanding of API usage, performance,
and dependencies, business decision-makers and
architects could make the right decisions at the right
times.

TCO Advantage
The total cost of ownership advantage WSO2 over MuleSoft
depends on multiple factors, for example:

• Much lower subscription cost which means lower

operating cost for the similar/comparable functionality
provided by these two platforms. This would result in
immediate savings.
• A lowered barrier to entry for projects with WSO2’s all-
inclusive pricing model compared MuleSoft’s per-
connector pricing model, consequently, approvals and
additional funding are no longer necessary. This would
also result in many more projects delivered in a given
period of time.
• The year-over-year savings would be making a positive
contribution towards balance sheets and along with
other benefits, would translate to better overall
performance of a team or business unit

About Yenlo
Yenlo is the leading global integrator and specialist in
enabling digital transformation with open source and
agile technology. Yenlo is the leading Platinum Value-
Added Reseller (VAR) of WSO2 and has been awarded
both WSO2 Partner of the Year 2018 and 2019 and WSO2 About WSO2
Founded in 2005, WSO2 enables the composable
Most Certified Partner of 2019. Our business is founded
on the belief that enterprises need to regain their agility enterprise. Our open source, API-first, and decentralized
and become digital agencies to optimize their customer approach helps developers and architects to be more
productive and rapidly build digital products to meet
intimacy; achieve operational excellence; or add new
services, products, or business models. We believe this demand. Customers choose us for our broad, integrated
platform, approach to open source, and digital
agility—in technology, knowledge and finance—can be
transformation methodology. The company’s hybrid
created by applying an open source-first, API-first, and
cloud-first strategy. At Yenlo, we bring agility to platform for developing, reusing, running, and managing
integrations prevents lock-in through open source
enterprises by delivering first-class professional services
based on deep expertise. Our services range from software that runs on-premises or in the cloud. With
enterprise and solution architecture to software offices in Australia, Brazil, Germany, Sri Lanka, the UK,
and the US, WSO2 employs over 650 engineers,
development; operational support; and WSO2 product
support, training and certification programs. These are consultants, and professionals worldwide. Today,
hundreds of leading brands and thousands of global
complemented by our pre-built solution-as-a-service
projects execute over 6 trillion transactions annually
offerings, including our Connext service, a fully managed
integration-platform-as-a-service. using WSO2 integration technologies.

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