Summary
About Schaeffler
The pioneer of motion
Outcomes
Pronovix’ and Schaeffler’s collaboration kicked off with an IA (Information Architecture) workshop, which helped map out Schaeffler’s already existing content, discuss long-term goals, and define their users’ needs to provide them with meaningful content, materials and functionality. This phase also helped to understand the brand-related needs and plan logical site navigation.
The most important goals were: to have a central digital storefront and create self-service both for consumers (who want to consume Schaeffler’s APIs) and publishers (Schaeffler’s developers who bring APIs to the storefront). The self-service includes better onboarding via documentation, tutorials, and automated processes.
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Features
SSO and Login
For login, HybridAuth Connect module - developed by Pronovix - has been connected with Microsoft Azure Active Directory SSO [Single Sign-On authentication]. On top of that, further customizations happened in a form of a role map. The Microsoft Azure AD SSO groups are connected with different products.
Onboarding
On the homepage of the Schaeffler Developer Portal, well-detailed onboarding materials are available for every user under the 'Guides' menu. The page contains an ‘Introduction’, ‘Sign Up’ and ‘Log In’ sections. This way, everyone can understand where and how they can start their integration efforts. The necessary steps are easily scannable and the visual explanation makes the process transparent.
Service Integration
Pronovix embedded a VUE.JS application that was built by the Schaeffler team. This provides a seamless integration with their internal systems. The Zero Gravity Devportal Solutions nicely ties in with most of the custom-made widgets.
Notification system
Schaeffler has a configured group access control structure, and a new custom module was created to improve the behavior of the notification module. This solution allows defining an email address for specific roles (Group Owners) where the notifications about the newly created/added API Reference to a group could be sent to.
