WSO2. Under this acronym salad, one of the companies that is going to speak most in the not so distant future is hidden. Founded in 2005, its approach focuses on providing tools that allow companies to integrate, manage and optimize their digital assets in a scalable and efficient way. And all this under a common denominator: the open source.
With origins in the remote Sri Lanka, but with employees and founders from all parts of the world, WSO2 operates under a business model based on annual subscriptions, offering technical support, updates and patches, which can provide its customers with a reduction in costs that usually go associated with traditional licenses. But the business that will report your leap to fame will be that of the APIs, a field in which it is already one of the world leaders and that is currently being reinforced with the incorporation of artificial intelligence since the market demands more and more personalized and efficient digital solutions.
The growth and interest in the company has been seen these days in Barcelona, the city chosen by WSO2 to celebrate its annual event in which its main novelties have been presented. The firm, has just transferred its regional headquarters from London to Madrid less than a year to, as said in a meeting with the specialized press Ricardo Diniz, vice president and general manager for Europe and the United Kingdom, “because of the Brexit. The election of Madrid is based on the fact that the growth of Spain is higher than that of most European countries and Madrid currently offers very important growth and logistics conditions”.
The objective proposed by the WSO2 is that of sustained growth and knowing that the applications and products that develop will be increasingly important for companies and public administrations. Therefore, Diniz is dividing his work team into vertical sectors that allow the company to directly approach the needs of each of the companies. Currently, the company has in bank, insurance and public administration, most of its business. An expanding business and that will allow you to make your way between another typology of companies.
The formula of success
There are few companies that in the Open Source world have succeeded. The formula of Wso2’s success is that, “the client begins to try us. WSO2 cannot compete with giants such as IBM. We have neither the resources nor the infrastructure that companies of this size have. So we compete in value and in the capabilities that we provide the client for free when he begins to test our solutions. And there our success lies: when they try them and begin to incorporate them in their daily operation, They become critical applications for their business, ”said Wso2 responsible for Europe.
A simple catalog
Another base on which the WSO2 strategy is based is that it offers a very simple catalog. As Diniz explained “we offer an Api Manager product, an integration product and an authentication or security product. That is, we offer what a company needs for its modernization. And we are the only supplier in the world that can offer these three solutions.”
WSO2 offers a simple catalog: an Apis Manager product, an integration product and an authentication or security product
During the annual event, of course, artificial intelligence could not miss. WSO2 is aware of the importance that this technology will have and is already incorporated into its product porpholio. The difference with other companies is that it is aware that the projects, currently they do not just land. Therefore, the development around it is carried out with pause and checking the impact it can have on the different solutions and in the customer business.
Rania Khalaf, Chief Ai Officer of WSO2, explained that “all products will change with the AI. I direct a small R&D team that is responsible for experimentation and provide the coherence of the concepts. It is about seeing that things fit each other. And we want to have a first class AI, because we clearly see that the next generation of APIs will have pieces of the APIs. powerful to provide very attractive digital experiences and with a tremendous potential. ”
Khalaf explained that around AI, “today we are seeing the first part of artificial intelligence, which basically focuses on assistance and co -pilots as well as the life development life cycle. The next step we will find in what we call code for AI, that is, how the software is applied to accommodate the AI. For that part, we have just announced today several news in data today.”
These novelties affect Choreo, its Native Internal Development Platform (IDP) of the As a Service. Designed to accelerate business innovation, this version presents two transformative features: an platform engineering perspective that allows equipment to define and manage the infrastructure on scale and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities that amplify productivity in software and platform engineering equipment. Initially available as a cloud service, Choreo IDP now also offers as a downloadable open source software, which maximizes the flexibility of companies implementation.
In a panorama where companies compete to take advantage of AI to obtain competitive advantage, Choreo eliminates the bottlenecks of the complex development ecosystems. The platform optimizes the delivery of software, operations and business engineering, allowing equipment to focus on the creation of value for the business.
Among the novelties of the new version are the following:
- Advanced Pipeline Management: Customizable IC pipelines and parallel implementation options admit multicloud architectures and rapid corrections.
- Self -service data plans (BETA): Customers can transform kubernetic clusters into totally managed and ready -ready for production data plans by means of an intuitive user interface.
- Finops with AI: automatic learning information identifies cost patterns, detects anomalies and recommends optimizations, which facilitates the proactive management of cloud costs.
- Application alerts: equipment can supervise applications based on metrics and records, and receive automatic alerts.
- Compatibility with local pipelines and observability: Organizations now have the option of executing pipelines and observability metrics completely within the client managed infrastructure to provide greater control, visibility and flexibility.
The AI will be the engine of new applications and services. And, as explained by Sanjiva Weerawarana (in the main image of this article), founder and CEO of WSO2 during the main presentation of the event, “the AI is fundamentally changing the applications that companies are building, as well as the way they are building them. That is why, in WSO2 we are immersed in a transformation trip to help our customers to use the AI to boost their own productivity Digital.
That journey that the founder of the company spoke is slow but without pause. In such a way that any development of AI that is incorporated is guaranteed success. And this can be seen on its platform. The native WSO2 IA platform is the result of the long -term strategy that WSO2 product and research teams have built around the generative AI (Genai) and the agricultural economy. It is based on the wide functionality and experience of WSO2 to cover the entire life cycle of an AI application, from coding to delivery, supervision and observability.
The platform brings together Low-Code and Pro-Code program to build AI agents, applications that take advantage of the capacities of generative and AI agents, and a novel programming approach that combines natural language and code. In addition, the WSO2 open platform is immediately integrated with the libraries of the AI ecosystem, the agents frames, the knowledge bases and the API Genai. Together, capacities allow companies to create APIS, applications and agents of resistant, scalable, safe and observable, while taking advantage of WSO2 Genai productivity support to reduce costs and commercialization time.
Companies can also incorporate AI agents created within the framework of their choice and apply WSO2 service quality capabilities, including safety, governance or supervision. In addition, the WSO2 platform, open and highly extensible, is designed to evolve with the advances in AI technology, providing companies with a platform prepared for their intelligent digital experiences of the future.
APIS, APIS and more Apis
The beginning of WSO2 has to do with the APIs. And these are going to collect prominence in business’s IT strategies. The management of them plays a fundamental role in allowing digital applications and services to take advantage of the power of artificial intelligence technologies (AI).
Wso2 allows software developers to obtain new levels of productivity and governance in the creation and management of APIS with their latest APIS management offers: the latest version of their WSO2 Api Manager open source software, market leader, and the new APIS management software of the Bijira As a Service (SAAS).
The most recent version of WSO2 Api Manager has been redesigned for governance and compliance with APIS promoted by AI, the management of APIS of AI, the management and federation of multiple liaison doors and the expanded compatibility with native APIS gates of kubernettes, among other functions. Bijira expands significantly and replaces Choreo for Api Management to serve as an APIS management saas of Ai that provides the latest capabilities of WSO2 Api Manager to an environment in the robust and tested cloud.
