Bizao, committed to enabling seamless digital payments across Africa, faced intricate challenges. The dynamic landscape made integrating with numerous southbound operators and accessing diverse payment and billing APIs a significant hurdle. This complexity impeded the delivery of efficient payment solutions, highlighting the necessity for a comprehensive solution to streamline integration, unify APIs, and connect telecom operators, banks, and mobile money providers.
To overcome these challenges and accelerate their transformation journey, Bizao recognized the need for a robust platform. This platform had to enhance engineering efficiencies, streamline governance, enable seamless multi-cloud operations, and foster collaboration with multiple vendors simultaneously. This strategic choice was instrumental in ensuring a comprehensive and efficient solution process, paving the way for Bizao’s digital payment services to thrive.
However, the quest to find a platform meeting these intricate requirements, with enterprise-level capabilities and proficient domain experts’ support, proved challenging. Bizao’s complex ecosystem demanded a partner capable of simplifying integration while ensuring scalability, stability, and innovation. This search for the ideal solution partner added complexity to Bizao’s mission to revolutionize digital payments in Africa.
Bizao embarked on a transformative journey, propelled by Axonect’s API Aggregator Hub. This innovative platform seamlessly integrated with our existing infrastructure, acting as a bridge between Bizao and the African network operators. Key to our success were the Hub’s microservice-enabled capabilities, which simplified the integration process and significantly reduced complexity for external service providers. Leveraging Axonect’s technology, we established a centralized platform connecting 30 telecom operators, banks, and mobile money providers, making their payment and billing APIs easily accessible. Scalability was paramount, and Axonect delivered, enabling us to manage a remarkable load of more than 270 million requests per month across both on-prem K8S and cloud AKS environments. This newfound flexibility allowed us to thrive, forging enhanced partnerships, monetizing our network, and seamlessly embracing a hybrid cloud model, all while accelerating our digital payments journey across Africa.
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