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Background

TrueCredit.com, a TransUnion company, helps millions of consumers manage their own credit health through credit reports, credit and insurance scores, credit monitoring, debt management tools and identity theft insurance products.

TrueCredit's Consumer Connect program opens APIs to core products, which include TrueCredit financial information such as credit reporting, monitoring and scoring. These APIs enable select partners to create applications for their own customers.

TrueCredit selected Apigee's API gateway to provide visibility and control for Consumer Connect APIs. Apigee's solution provides authorization, access control, analytics and monitoring in a separate, flexible policy layer so that changes can be made independent of core services.

Apigee enables TrueCredit to protect consumers and partners and ensure rapid time to market, simplifying policy enforcement and focusing development resources on core services.

Challenge

• Provide a standardized approach for authorization and access control.
• Inflexibility due to API versioning and multiple protocols and formats for different clients.
• Significant development cycle to build necessary infrastructure for first external API customer.

Solution

• Apigee provides API routing, protection, and control on-premise as a virtualized software layer.
• Apigee performs flexible yet sophisticated caching for API requests to scale and reduce cost.
• Apigee ensures API scalability and manageability with caching, endpoint-routing and transformations.

Results

• Time-to-market accelerated with pre-built API infrastructure.
• Control over APIs in an independent layer reduces complexity and improves agility
• Full visibility of API operations with business-level analytics, monitoring, and root-cause analysis.