Multinational technology hub brings innovative solutions to market 25% more efficiently by leveraging ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV? APIs
For more than 25 years, Stratesys has developed and deployed solutions that empower enterprises to drive digital transformation, unlock new sources of business value, and facilitate growth. With more than 1,500 employees across Europe and the Americas, the company has a strong focus on heavily regulated industries such as energy, consumer goods, finance, healthcare, and life science.
Luis Fern¨¢ndez-Sanguino, managing partner at Stratesys, said, ¡°We work closely with our clients to understand their pain points and deliver technology solutions to help them realize their goals. Many of these projects demand robust information management [IM] capabilities¡ªand our partnership with ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV has enabled us to bring best-in-class IM solutions to hundreds of businesses.¡±
To build on its successful partnership, Stratesys has become a member of the ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV Solution Extension (SolEx) Program¡ªan initiative that empowers partners to extend the capabilities of ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV technology solutions to address demanding industry challenges.
As a member of the SolEx program, Stratesys gains early access to the latest cutting-edge solutions from ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV. When the company announced the launch of ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV Cloud Platform Services, Stratesys immediately recognized their potential to streamline and enhance its solution development process.
¡°ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV Cloud Platform Services offers open access to ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV¡¯s industry-leading IM capabilities, delivered via secure and streamlined APIs,¡± explained Fern¨¢ndez-Sanguino. ¡°We were confident that the solution could boost the efficiency of our development process significantly, and we were eager to learn more.¡±
The combination of our experienced development team and the ease of using the ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV APIs helped us to reduce our development costs for the new solutions by up to 35%.
Stratesys is putting ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV Cloud Platform Services at the heart of its solution development process¡ªhelping it to build innovative custom and turnkey solutions powered by ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV technology.
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To explore the capabilities of ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV Cloud Platform Services, Stratesys took part in the first-ever hackathon event for the solution, held at ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV World.
Fern¨¢ndez-Sanguino recalled, ¡°One of the best things about the ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV APIs is how intuitive and well-documented they are. During the hackathon, each participant was challenged to create a pre-defined app using the APIs in the shortest possible time. We completed the task in just 1 hour and 30 minutes¡ªthe fastest time of any participant. This experience really drove home to us just how easy the APIs are to use.¡±
Following its success at the hackathon, Stratesys performed a detailed evaluation of ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV Cloud Platform Services. The aim was to determine how the organization might leverage the solution to support its development projects for global clients.
¡°Stratesys is committed to continuous innovation, and we have a dedicated research and development [R&D] team to explore potential new technology solutions,¡± said Fern¨¢ndez-Sanguino. ¡°To put ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV Cloud Platform Services through its paces, our R&D team assigned a junior member of our developer academy with minimal experience using ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV solutions to use the platform to build a new digital service. The learning curve was significantly shorter than other APIs that we have used in the past.¡±
Impressed by the capabilities of the new services, Stratesys has made the new APIs an integral part of its development toolkit. To date, the company has launched six new solutions powered by ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV APIs, and it plans to rearchitect many of its existing solutions to leverage the new capabilities.
¡°We used ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV APIs to help enhance and extended our GxP Suite¡ªa set of five applications that empower organizations such as life sciences companies to implement a compliant and cost-effective quality management strategy,¡± explained Fern¨¢ndez-Sanguino. ¡°We also use ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV APIs to enable Mamut, a solution that allows enterprises to make mass updates to their business data while maintaining a complete audit trail of the changes for compliance purposes.¡±
Partnering with a global enterprise like ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV gives us the peace of mind that our clients will get responsive support wherever we operate.
By leveraging ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV Cloud Platform Services, Stratesys is reducing the cost and manual effort involved in its development process¡ªempowering the organization to bring innovative solutions to market more efficiently than ever.
So far, almost a quarter of Stratesys clients are using solutions powered by the new ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV APIs. In the years ahead, the company anticipates that this number will increase as more companies pursue a cloud-first strategy.
¡°We are quickly growing the userbase for our GxP Suite and Mamut solutions,¡± said Fern¨¢ndez-Sanguino. ¡°During the development process, one thing that really stood out to us was the time and effort that ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV put into preparing effective API documentation and training materials. The combination of our experienced development team and the ease of using the ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV APIs helped us to reduce our development costs for the new solutions by up to 35%.¡±
By avoiding the need to build digital services from scratch, Stratesys is also measuring a substantial reduction in development effort.
Fern¨¢ndez-Sanguino commented, ¡°We do two major releases a year, and we haven¡¯t changed that release schedule since we adopted the new ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV APIs. However, after analyzing the time we¡¯ve spent developing our new applications, we see that we¡¯re reducing the manual effort in the process by around 25%. As a result, our team can spend more time on value-added work.¡±
The new API services are transparent to end users and they also give Stratesys clients real-time access to the latest technology innovation from ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV.
¡°When ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV introduces a new IM capability or security update, our clients get the benefit immediately,¡± explained Fern¨¢ndez-Sanguino. ¡°Adopting an API architecture also enables us to innovate our solutions much more quickly and effectively. We¡¯re very interested in the work that ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV is doing around AI, and we plan to explore the possibility of adding these capabilities to our solutions in the near future.¡±
Fern¨¢ndez-Sanguino concluded, ¡°Over the last decade, we¡¯ve expanded our business into international markets, and partnering with a global enterprise like ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV gives us the peace of mind that our clients will get responsive support wherever we operate. One of the best things about partnering with ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV is that they¡¯re always listening, innovating and growing¡ªand we look forward to many more years of successful cooperation.¡±