Deutsche Börse Group API Platform (2023)

Owner

Deutsche Börse Group

INTRODUCTION

The Deutsche Boerse Group developer portal presents a common entry point for customers, providing access to all public and partner APIs and giving the opportunity to new and existing customers of DBG to connect and use our financial data and services. It contains extensive documentation of all the functionalities and data that can be accessed, necessary requirements for access, rate limits, and quota. It provides an opportunity for people to connect with Deutsche Boerse and request and propose new API products that they would like to see and use.
 

WHY NOMINATED

Best Findability of Products in a DevPortal:

We have been working on the DBG Developer Portal to provide the best experience for our customers in terms of the findability of API Products. Our platform consolidates the offerings of different companies and businesses that belong to the Deutsche Boerse Group including products related to pre-trading, trading and clearing ,and post-trading. Customers of our portal can filter APIs based on company logos, business categories, source systems, or descriptions and tags in order to easily find or group together the best suitable APIs for their needs.

Our landing page features APIs from the API catalog allowing new users a sneak peek into what it is offered in the portal. We are constantly working on improving the findability as the aPI catalog grows and on providing the portal users with curated categories of new / trending or top-used APIs.

Best Onboarding:

The portal's onboarding process is very quick and offers a smooth experience. Customers can register in a matter of minutes in a few easy steps. The "Getting Started" section in the documentation walks both publishers and consumers through all the steps needed in order to either consume or publish an API. The personal dashboard page we develop guides users through all the areas relevant to them depending on their role as an API consumer or publisher. If a partner API requires an agreement to be signed, the API documentation points to a contact, which users can reach out to, in order to handle the agreements. However, the portal offers also a bunch of public financial APIs, which developer portal users can start consuming quickly right after the registration is completed.
For developers, who want to automate their processes, we offer our portal API, which would allow them to create applications, manage APIs, create consumption credentials, and consume APIs in an automated way without needing to access the DevPortal user interface.

Best Interface DevPortal:

We call our API Portal an API Platform because it does more than just provide documentation and API access to external customers. It is a platform with a self-developed gateway that manages internal and external access and security policies, rate limiting, and quota around the APIs. It offers the possibility to have its own organization with publisher or consumer permissions. Multiple customers can work within one organization using different roles for API admins, API readers, application admins, and application readers as well as some technical roles for macine-to-machne communication. The platform targets both business users and developers providing easy examples and documentation to suit users with less experience in developing or consuming APIs.
 

Nominated in these Categories

Best Interface Developer Portal

Best Interface Developer Portal

Business alignment

Interface portals are outward- focused (business) developer portals that have a holistic approach to simplify human-to-machine and machine-to-machine interactions between an organization and the...

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Best Findability of Products in a DevPortal

Developer experience

Devportals with easy to discover tools or structures that allow for finding APIs. 

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Best Onboarding

Developer experience

Developer portals that strike the right balance of just enough information to get an end user engaged, access, and up and running with an API product.