Case Study: Ovum achieves operational transformation in API development with Axway AMPLIFY API Management

How Commerzbank improved API development processes with Axway AMPLIFY™ API Management

Commerzbank, a leading German commercial bank serving over 11 million retail customers and 70,000 corporate clients, faced pressure from regulators (PSD2), BigTech competition and FinTech partners to open its systems and accelerate digital services. Constrained by legacy infrastructure and a small central team, the bank needed an operational transformation to make APIs accessible, speed time-to-market and support an agile, partner-driven ecosystem as part of its digital strategy to digitize 80% of processes.

Commerzbank selected Axway AMPLIFY™ API Management in 2017, deploying the AMPLIFY Gateway and Manager while building its own developer portal, and migrated from on‑prem VMs to a multi‑cloud, container-friendly model. With Axway support the API program scaled from ~15 to ~80 developers, went live externally in 2018, put consumer‑loan APIs into production, and established metrics and governance—delivering a secure, stable and scalable API platform and laying the groundwork to develop ~150 APIs and seed agile development clusters across the bank.

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