Festo case

Festo is a leading world-wide supplier of automation technology and leader in industrial training and education programs. Festo works together with clients with the key goal of improving productivity. The company is present worldwide with 61 countries, 250 branches and ~21,000 employees globally. To add to this scale of operations, Festo has around 33,000 catalogue products in several hundred thousand variants with ~15,000 customer solutions per year.

“Before the launch or start of the API journey, we discussed with a lot of stakeholders for more than a year to really challenge the competitors of Apigee in the market, we also discussed the migration between our integration layer in the API management, spending a lot of time. In the end we decided that Apigee fits us the best for our use case”
- Dennis Hunt, Enterprise Architect, Festo

- Support innovations and develop new business channels
- Migrate existing solutions and focus on consolidation of internal APIs
- Open up SAP data for IT Agility and more use cases based on the core business data via APIs

Festo wanted to improve security, serve new business requirements and open up new business channels. After 1.5 years of thorough research from Festo, they decided that Apigee fits all their use cases (Use apigee as the central API platform for internal and external APIs and creating shareable and reusable APIs) and reduces costs for new frontends using the available APIs.