Case Study: a multinational retailer achieves real-time API visibility and secure digital agility with Perforce Akana

Multinational Retailer accelerates digital transformation with Perforce, aiming to save £500 million a year

A multinational UK-based retail chain faced challenges in its large-scale IT transformation, which aimed to create a unified view of product and supply chain data through a shared API framework. The key problem was securely managing and monitoring these APIs to prevent performance issues and security risks while breaking down digital silos. To address this, they turned to vendor Perforce and implemented the Akana API Gateway as a SaaS solution.

The solution from Perforce provided a centralized dashboard for real-time monitoring, security, and policy management, enabling secure and scalable API shared services. This resulted in faster application development, improved security posture, and greater digital agility, supporting the retailer's multi-year transformation program expected to yield significant annual savings. The deployment is ongoing, starting in the UK and Ireland.