CSX(Onprem API Management)

Overview: 

CSX Transportation is a Class I railroad operating in the eastern United States and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. The railroad operates approximately 21,000 route miles of track. CSX has over 24,000 employees and reported $11.4 Billion in total revenue in 2017.

Challenge

CSX is embarking on a full Digital Transformation plan for 2019.   CSX currently has approximately 300 Soap based services, running on Data Power integration bus with a big footprint.  The primary focus of  the information technology digital transformation is moving from Mainframe to micro service api containers that will modernize 300+ soap services to restful interfaces.  Built out this new E- commerce platform, the transformation will follow the industry best practices in Identity Management, API Management, Scalability, Developer Engagement, Modernization and Governance.

Solution

Develop robust containerized api’s that are built to scale. The api’s will  be secured and fronted using an API Management platform that will promote faster rollout of the e-commerce platform. Purchase Microsoft ADFS for identity management, Apigee Edge 250 Private Cloud for API  Management and Redhat Linux containers  to help reduce conflicts between development and operations teams and use container technologie like Docker and Kubernetes to help application teams simplify, speed up, and orchestrate application development and deployment.

Benefit

Apigee will help produce and publish APIs that will help our developers be able to get the information they need quicker, more securely, and with consistent analytics. The proposed solution will enable to deliver an API management solution to the enterprise ahead of schedule This will allow us to spend more time on solving business problems and less time on plumbing.