Case Study: Bayer achieves 200% faster product development with MuleSoft

Bayer doubles product development speed with API-led integrations

Bayer Crop Science faced a sprawling, global Salesforce ecosystem tied together by costly custom point-to-point integrations that left data trapped in silos, slowed product development, and made fault resolution difficult. The company needed a scalable, repeatable worldwide integration strategy to break down silos, unify customer data, and accelerate time to market.

Bayer implemented MuleSoft Anypoint Platform with API-led connectivity (plus CloudHub and the MuleSoft Metrics Toolkit) to replace P2P connections, sync service cases across systems, and create a single view of customer data. The move produced measurable results: product development time dropped from 5–6 weeks to 2 weeks (200% faster), speed to market improved 5x, process functions fell 70%, overhead and security governance costs decreased ~20% per month, and Bayer built 40+ reusable APIs to drive ongoing agility and lower maintenance.

Bayer

Geoff Hickman

Technical Platform Owner