This document summarizes Vinci Energies' use of Azure API Management to securely manage interfaces between their applications. It discusses how Vinci Energies used API Management to abstract, secure, and monitor interfaces for applications involved in their digital transformation, including a mobile time sheet app. It also provides an overview of Azure API Management, including key capabilities around publishing, protecting, and managing APIs, as well as pricing tiers and some missing features.

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2. What we will cover in the next 45 minutes
• Customer Story API Management at VINCI Energies
• Azure API Management overview and demo

3. Customer Story
Vinci Energies

4. VINCI ENERGIES SWITZERLAND
POOLING EFFORTS AND RESOURCES
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WE DESIGN, PLAN, CONSTRUCT AND MANAGE
INTELLIGENT, NETWORKED, ENERGY-EFFICIENT BUILDINGS
AND INDUSTRIAL PLANTS!
WE OPTIMISE THE COSTS
INVOLVED WHILE INCREASING
THE VALUE OF THE FACILITY!

5. OTHERS
53%TOP12
47%
TOP 12 CUSTOMERS
Against the backdrop of digital transformation and the shift to
green energy, we ensure that new technologies are implemented
swiftly for the benefit of our customers.
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6. SWITZERLAND-WIDE NETWORK
YOUR ONE-STOP PROVIDER – ALWAYS CLOSE
3254 employees, incl. 484 apprentices
74 business units
704 million CHF
LIESTAL
GENEVA
LAUSANNE
FREIBURG
SION
NEUENBURG
DELÈMONT
BERN
SOLOTHURN
BASEL
SARNEN
ALTDORF
BELLINZONA
STANS
LUCERNE
ZUG
SCHWYZ
AARAU
ZURICH
SCHAFFHAUSEN
FRAUENFELD
GLARUS
CHUR
ST.GALLEN
HERISAU
APPENZELL
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Figures valid as at 31/12/2018
Further locations:
Italy: Milan, Vicenza, Campoformido and Turin
Czech Rep.: Prague and Brno
USA: New Jersey, Texas and Connecticut

7. BRAND STRATEGY
HOLISTIC SUPPORT
THROUGH A COMPREHENSIVE RANGE OF SERVICES FROM OUR 5 BRAND ENTERPRISES
Building services technology (HVAC):
Installation, servicing & maintenance of energy systems
in the field of heating, cooling and ventilation technology
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EE
Technical facility management,
integral facility management
30
EE
Telecommunications infrastructure, communication
solutions and complex ICT solutions, IT consulting
900
EE
Networked industrial and buildig automation systems
plus product management and qualification
210
EE
High and low voltage installations,
switchgear systems, servicing & maintenance
2080
EE
The added value lies in the pooling of expertise
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8. 211,233employees
3,200companies
In 110countries
43.5billion €
GROUP AFFILIATION
VINCI ENERGIES IS PART OF A POWERFUL,
INTERNATIONAL GROUP
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Valid as at 31/12/2018

9. MIT VEREINTEN KRÄFTEN
Only JOINT successes
are TRUE successes!
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10. Securing the interfaces
✓ New Interfaces for new applicatons pushed by the digital transformation
– Time Sheet -> TEMPUS
– Mobile service report
– Organizational data
– as well as further applications (SAP, etc.)
✓ Needs defined by Management and Organization
– Publish, promote and monitor via a secure, highly available and scalable
platform
✓ Typical tasks of interface management
– Automation and connection control
– Ensure consistency between implementations and versions
– Monitoring
– Performance improvements via cache mechanisms etc.
– Protection against misuse via security procedures and policies
Project Requirements
Project "Inter-Opus" started in 2015

11. Project "API" Vision
In 2015. We believed that
the APIs to be created would only
be the first of many.

12. ✓ Electronic self-capture of expenses, attendances
and absences
– For every employee in Switzerland (Language EN, DE, FR,
IT)
– Native iOS and Android App / WebApp (HTML 5)
– Electronic Approval Workflow
✓ Integration with SAP / DMS / Master Data
Management
– Inbound: WBS Element charge; Expenses with TRIP;
HR / Payroll
– Outbound: Time balances & planned working time
✓ Open In and Outbound APIs
– Inbound: Attendances from other Apps like Time stamp
clock, Service report, etc.
– Outbound: Custom Invoicing, Custom Reporting
TEMPUS Time Sheet
Teaser Video
https://youtu.be/dqKtLPtp_A0

13. Azure API Management
overview and demo

14. Digital Transformation runs on APIs
APIs

15. API management solves API-related challenges
APIs
Developers
(use APIs)
Discover
Learn
Get access
Try
SDKs and samples
Get help
Publishers
(provide APIs)
Abstract
Secure and protect
Manage lifecycle
Monitor and measure
Onboard developers
Monetize
Consume PublishMediate
Azure portalGatewayDeveloper portal

16. API Management basics
DEMO

17. Azure API Management
• Publish APIs safely and connect to backend systems hosted anywhere
• Cloud hosted PaaS Service fully managed
• Abstracts, protects and optimizes API
• Promotes and supports app developer engagement
• Developer portal customization
• Provides API governance, insights , and analytics
• 40 policies - security, transformations, traffic management, extensibility

18. Revisions & Versioning APIs
• Revisions
• Make non-breaking changes to your API and set as ‘current’ when ready for consumption
• Only visible for Publishers
• Versions
• Provide new features for testing and an optional upgrade path for end users
• Possible version information places
• Path, Query, Header

19. API Management Pricing Tiers
• Developer
• Dev/Test Scenarios No SLA
• Basic
• Max 2 units 1000 Requests/sec
• Standard
• Max 4 Units 2500 Request/sec
• Premium
• VNet integration, multi-region deployment
• Max 10 Units 4000 Request/sec
• Consumption
• Serverless model per action pricing
• Bring your own response cache

20. Missing features…
• Support for Web Sockets
• Dev/Test/Prod Slots
• Every environment needs a separate APIM instance
• Versioning through content negotiation
• e.g “Header: “Accept: application/json; version=1”