Case Study: University of Helsinki achieves faster internal developer onboarding with Gravitee

Providing a seamless process for 30k students to enroll each year

The University of Helsinki, Finland’s largest university, needed a better way to connect many IT systems across student administration, research, operations, and internal apps. With multiple engineering teams building similar APIs in isolation, they faced duplication, inconsistent practices, and slower development. Gravitee’s API management platform was chosen to centralize oversight and make APIs easier to govern and discover.

Using Gravitee, the university created a centralized API gateway and internal API catalog, along with access controls and subscription auditing to secure sensitive data like the student registry. Gravitee helped speed up internal developer onboarding by 85%, reduce duplication, improve API performance visibility, and accelerate product development across departments.

University of Helsinki

Tapio Piironen

Data Management, Group Manager of Information Technology Center