abrdn & endjin

Building solid foundations for the Core Services Platform.

abrdn is an international investment management group, managing assets for both institutions and private investors across the globe.

They saw the strategic need to deliver their services to partners and customers through public APIs but the key to success was developing a centralized service layer over an array of disparate and heterogenous systems.

We used the solution endjin provided to accelerate our early Core Services Platform development sprints. By providing us with a blueprint, the team was able to accomplish Sprint Zero without any impediments and have gone on to build on these foundations.

— Michael Speed, Head of Core Architecture, abrdn

With help from endjin in the form of a production quality, Proof of Concepts, API Platform reference architecture based on Azure API Management, abrdn eliminated the need for lengthy R&D and could hit the ground running on day one.

By applying DevOps best practices to process and automation using Azure DevOps, endjin left abrdn with a frictionless path from feature development to production, allowing the team to deliver rapidly whilst ensuring the required quality at every step of the way.

Boosting the API Economy with Microsoft Azure PaaS & DevOps

abrdnFinancial Services

abrdn saw the strategic need to deliver their services to partners and customers through public APIs. They selected endjin's best-of-breed Azure reference architecture, security framework, blueprints, and implementation services to kick-start their API Management and Delivery programme.

Querying the Azure DevOps Work Items API directly from Power BI

James Broome07/18/2016

Azure DevOps Work Items offer a lot of power and features out of the box, but sometimes you need insights that Azure DevOps doesn't natively provide. In this blog post Director of Engineering, James Broome, shows how you can use the Azure DevOps Restful API to generate insights and even use Power BI to visualise them in this step-by-step guide.

"But it works on my cloud!" - are your developers still making the same mistakes in a world of DevOps and PaaS services?

James Broome06/30/2016

In the world of DevOps, cloud and platform services, how does a developer's "definition of done" need to change? This post argues that as the silos of development and operations are broken down, the responsibility of understanding the whole solution increases meaning, to truly take advantage of the cloud, the need for quality and professionalism is critical for success.