CHALLENGE

The NOSI system was composed of a wide variety of applications and services including legacy systems that integrated to exchange data. The majority of these interfaces were point-to-point, with applications and services communicating directly, posing challenges in terms of best practices, scalability, performance, and security. On the other hand, the country is developing an e-governance ecosystem that supports the entire digital economy by modernizing legacy systems. Interoperability between the systems established by the various public and commercial sector institutions was critical to this goal. To address these issues, a project to establish an interoperability platform was launched, to facilitate secure and controlled interoperability across systems developed by both the public and private sectors. The PDEX platform (Platform for Data Exchange) was born. Simultaneously, the requirement for a central platform for identity management and the provision of single sign-on techniques that allow secure and fully controlled authentication and authorisation of users by third-party applications was identified. This platform was called Autentika.

Main challenges addressed:

• Ensure effective and secure communication between systems using different communication protocols.
• Facilitate more agile and seamless interoperability.
• Provide APIs for third-party consumption of data in a secure and controlled manner.
• Facilitate integration with legacy systems while developing modern state-of-the-art solutions.

Following a thorough examination of the many options available, NOSi opted for WSO2 for the following reasons:

WSO2 Enterprise Integrator is a robust low code tool that can handle a wide range of protocols and integration scenarios, a wide range of connectors, and most importantly the ability to develop custom connectors to existing systems creates an efficient and effective integration platform.

WSO2 API Manager facilitates the ability to expose data and service endpoints in a secure and governed environment while creating an API marketplace. The use of the product accelerated the ability to expose APIs for third-party integrations digitizing the government operations interconnecting with the business sectors.

WSO2 Identity Server is a perfect fit for Autentika initiatives as it has a wide array of features and functionalities in creating digital identities across the platform.