The Department for Work and Pensions has created an internal portal based on MuleSoft’s Anypoint platform to manage and promote reuse of a growing number of common application programming interfaces (APIs) that can be shared across different areas of the organisation.
Before beginning a journey on the approach it takes to reuse the software it develops, the DWP had hundreds of point-to-point integrations between multiple systems. These were accessed programmatically using APIs, but as Jacqui Leggetter, head of integration at the department, explains, often the API represented a single connection into a large system and had complex data requirements.
