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Customer Story
Sears uses Apigee's API management and developer portal solution to offer open APIs for developer innovation.

Background

Sears is the nation's fourth largest broadline retailer with approximately 3,900 full-line and specialty retail stores in the United States and Canada.

Sears offers open APIs through its Sears Developer Network as the gateway to the Sears Open API Platform. The platform provides access to Sears’ product catalog, featuring full product information including pricing, availability, specifications, descriptions and images.

Sears selected Apigee to provide developer management, visibility and control for Sears APIs. Apigee's solution provides a developer portal and API access control and analytics as a cloud service, enabling Sears to quickly onboard and manage new APIs and developers.

Challenges

  • Visibility into API traffic and control over API access and back-end protection.
  • Developer onboarding, community resource integration, and API access control.
  • Agility and rapid time-to-market for deployment of new APIs.

Solution

  • Apigee provides a complete developer portal and API management solution.
  • Apigee enables visibility into API traffic with API analytics.
  • Apigee protects back-end services with API throttling and data protection.

Results

  • Solution deployed in two weeks as a cloud service.
  • Enables rapid introduction of new APIs and visibility into API traffic.
  • Developer portal provides a platform for developer collaboration and community.

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