experiences in building a successful api platform, vinay kumar, telus
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Welcome
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Who is TELUS?
TELUS is Canada’s fastest-growing national telecommunications company, with
$12.4 billion of annual revenue and 14.0 million customer connections.
TV 980,000 customers
Wireline 3.1 million customers
Wireless 8.4 million
customers
BUSINESS TO BUSINESS EMERGING
• Consumer Health
• M-Payments/ Commerce
• Big Data
• Small & Medium Business
• Enterprise
• Government
Internet 1.5 million customers
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Putting Our Customers First
Uniform customer experience at each touch point via backend
APIs
The result: Direct impact on customer loyalty
#1 0.9% 75% National service provider by J.D.
Power & Associates
2011, 2012, 2013
Industry-leading, monthly
postpaid wireless subscriber
churn rate
Fewer customer complaints
than our competitors
Discover Buy Fulfill Pay Use Support Renew Turndown
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Current State of business capabilities
APIs being leveraged by external partners as well as for
internal development
SMS/
MMS
Identity
Mgmt
Subscriber
Profile
Subscriber
Profile
Account
Mgmt
Partner
Solutions
Business
Solutions
Consumer
Solutions
Service Delivery Framework
Payment TV Services Location Device
Carrier
Billing
Messaging Fleet MgmtDevice
Mgmt
TELUS
Marketing
TELUS
Support
Store
Purchases
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Challenges in Building reusable Business Capabilities
Large number of interfaces with different
business rules
Channel provides differentiated experience,
the information provided should be the same
Alignment takes time and concerns about
being held up by other projects
Organizational structure to support agile
development
Discoverability and Management of APIs
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Enablers of Success
Core cross functional team with Business,
Technology and IT representation with the
aim to promote the use of API capabilities
Identify key projects during the funding
approval stage which can leverage or build
new APIs
Workshop with various business stakeholders
Telus Partner Manager, Digital, Emerging
Markets (M2M, IoT, Big Data, etc.)
Publish description of API capabilities in easy
to understand business terms
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Be
ne
fits
Benefits
Cost Avoidance Partners Emerging Mkts