WSO2CON 2024 - API Management Usage at La Poste and Its Impact on Business and Partners
- 1. La Poste BSCC
API Management usage at La Poste and its
impact on business and partners
WSO2CON 2024
May 7-9 | Hollywood, FL, USA
Jean-Marc DAGORNE
APIM Platform Manager, Parcel Mail Services Branch, Technical Department, La Poste
- 2. La Poste Group Identity
• Our purpose :
To be the first European platform for links and exchanges, human and
digital, green and civic, at the service of our customers in their projects and
of the society as a whole in its changes.
• A company with 100% public capital
• A multi-business model, structured around four branches
• Services-Mail-Parcels (BSCC)
• Geopost
• La Banque Postale
• Consumers and Digital.
With a growing international ambition
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- 3. La Poste Group Key Figures
A growing international ambition The first local service company A committed group
Connect 2023 Brussels - La Poste BSCC
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- 4. La Poste : a mission driven company
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La Poste has expanded its offering to tie in with major societal changes, including
ecological transitions, digital transformation, e-commerce development and an
ageing population.
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- 5. La Poste BSCC Information System « WANT TO BE »
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- 6. Sale and partners channel
for retail and online business
Preparing channel
with industrial sorting and flashing
Main channel
with internal and corporate APIs
API-led Integration Architecture
• A project started 6 years ago to open the IS and remove the siloes
• A governance and integration teams to address the lifecycle of APIs
• API teams are decentralized
• 4 channels to adress and separate differents business processes
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Delivery channel
for postman mobile usage
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- 7. La Poste BSCC IS APIsation: KPI
• A resilient, scalable, reactive, microservice and API First architecture with :
• 600 APIs / 600 Applications / 2500 Subscriptions
• Web app, mobile device, server connection patterns for Internal and external services
• Identity Federation with internal IDPs
• 2 tenants (BSCC and Corporate)
• 40 Millions requests a day
• 1 Billion requests a month
• A peak each morning (up to 1500 req/s) due to 65000 postmen delivery
activity especially during Christmas period
• QoS 24/7 99,99 % : mandatory for a centralized asset
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- 8. LA POSTE BSCC APIM Platform solution
• Deployment on a PAAS Openshift in 2 Data Centers (Actif/Actif)
• Custom Store and Integration center interface
• Observability with ELK/Kibana/Grafana (Log, Analytics, system)
• Version WSO2 2.6 moved to V4 early in 2024
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Store/La Station
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ELK
Kibana/Grafana
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- 9. LA POSTE API products for our partners
• Address Qualification with AI
• CRM, Notification (SMS, email)
• Online payment and billing
• Track and Trace of objects and missions
• Custom taxes computing
• Postage for C2C/B2C/B2B
• Territory knowledge
• Postman missions command and reporting
• Hybrid letter production
• Kafka connector
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- 10. API Management assets for digital transformation
• Information System Observability
• Central point of view that can feed many supervision system
• Contribute to API optimization (workload, response time)
• Accelerate intégration achievement and tuning
• Facilitate business analysis and reporting
• Contribute to data flow frugality and sustainable IT
• Security improvement
• Standardisation of connectivity
• Traffic management, throttling
• Identity federation
• Fast Integration of La Poste digital services in the partners IS
• IS opening and interoperability improve time to market and allow to grow faster
• User experience improved for B2B integration thanks to integration tools and support team
• Developing digital product takes weeks instead of months
• The workload concerning network flow has dramatically dropped for projects.
• The governance we have set up alongside with API integration make most of the APIs being reused
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- 11. WSO2 Partnership
• A reliable and scalable solution to address our increasing traffic
• An annual support contracted, based on number of transactions
• An efficient support that take in account our spécificities
• A solution that can be customized to address spécific processings
• A solution that has been upgraded to address La Poste needs (global Key
Manager) and migration issues
• An update tool that allow continuous patch management delivery
• A WSO2 french team that is growing
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- 12. Jean-Marc DAGORNE
APIM Platform Manager, Parcel Mail Services Branch, Technical Department, La Poste
jean-marc.dagorne@laposte.fr
+33(0)6 79 65 98 12
Thanks
for your
attention