We’re entering an age where many organizations are trying to increase productivity by transforming themselves into digital organizations. Digital organizations are built on top of digital architectures that unlock agility across the enterprise. Agility, which is the ability to respond to changes and new needs fast, enables most of the other advantages such as shorter times to market, better customer experiences, and competitive advantages in the long run.
With the start of a brand new year in 2023, it would only be fitting to look back on the past year and reflect on the developments and accomplishments of WSO2's CIAM Suite. For the second consecutive year in a row, KuppingerCole Analysts have recognized WSO2 as an Overall Leader and an Overall Product Leader in their CIAM Platforms Leadership Compass 2022 report. WSO2 Identity Server and Asgardeo, both components of WSO2’s CIAM suite, were evaluated in the report.
There may be dozens of off-the-shelf and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions available, but organizations still need to write their own applications if they expect to compete. We live in an experience economy, meaning every IT effort and spend inside modern enterprises must focus on providing better digital experiences internally and externally. These unique digital experiences, delivered using application software, are the key to standing out from the crowd and unlocking top-line growth.
As 2022 draws to a close, we sat down with our Chief Revenue Officer Devaka Randeniya to talk about how WSO2 performed over the year, key highlights, and what stakeholders can expect in 2023.
I’m pleased to share that WSO2 has been recognized by Gartner® in both the Magic Quadrant™ for Full Life Cycle API Management . We view this as validation of the efforts we’ve made to address real-world enterprise demands. We’re sincerely thankful to our many satisfied customers for sharing their feedback on how WSO2 has been instrumental in driving innovation and success.
REST APIs have become the building blocks of all enterprise business applications over the last few years. There have been significant improvements for these components to make them more convenient to implement, manage, and maintain. Authentication and authorization have been the key element controlling these REST APIs. However, with the advancement of business use-cases, they are used to address modern business problems.
Spending two decades in the middleware field has given me deep insight into the evolution of this technology domain. I began my career as a software engineer in a platform group, building reusable components using technologies like object linking and embedding (OLE), the distributed component object model (DCOM) and common object request broker architecture (CORBA).
