WSO2 adopts Microsoft’s trusted cloud for open-source innovation

WSO2, an open-source integration vendor, and Microsoft have announced a strategic partnership to deliver cloud-native solutions for securely delivering APIs, applications, and digital identities to regions around the world via Microsoft Azure. The integration vendor will also use Microsoft Azure as its preferred cloud platform as a result of the collaboration.

WSO2’s products and solutions are used by over 800 customers in over 90 countries, including government agencies and global leaders in financial services, communications, healthcare, and technology. The collaboration will help enterprise customers across multiple markets and industries accelerate their cloud adoption and digital transformation initiatives by accelerating the delivery of the Choreo digital platform as a service (digital PaaS) and Asgardeo identity as a service (iDaaS).

Choreo enables businesses to quickly deliver new digital experiences by developing and deploying services, integrations, and APIs. The platform removes the complexity of cloud native infrastructure, allowing development teams to quickly create, compose, collaborate on, reuse, and deliver API-driven business logic.

Asgardeo makes it easy for any developer to integrate customer identity and access management into their applications. To create a secure personalized digital experience, it combines traditional employee Identity Access Management (IAM) principles with consumer credential security.

“WSO2 is pleased to enter into this strategic partnership with Microsoft,” said Sanjiva Weerawarana, Founder and CEO, WSO2. “With Microsoft’s trusted cloud and services, the experience that WSO2 has cultivated in its own systems will enable development teams to build digital services that are safer and more secure than ever before. This partnership will allow them to increase their speed of innovation and accelerate our growth and customer adoption.”

WSO2 has been fulfilling its mission to democratize the development of modern applications and services since 2005 by providing industry-leading, cloud native, and open-source technologies for API management, integration, and customer identity and access management (CIAM). The company is now expanding on these offerings with a new generation of platform-as-a-service solutions that will accelerate customers’ time to market and ability to innovate even further.

WSO2 received US$93 million in Growth Capital from Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Info Edge Limited subsidiary, RedStart Labs, in its most recent funding round. The company is investing in expanding the functionality of its core open-source products for API management (WSO2 API Manager) and customer identity and access management (WSO2 Identity Server), as well as in speeding up global business expansion and expanding its global partner and support network.

“Developers are the catalyst to innovation that disrupts countless industries and help businesses transform and thrive!” said Diomedes Kastanis, Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft Asia Pacific. “It’s about creating the right environment and removing the friction so developers do what they know best: innovate. Our partnership with WSO2 will help accelerate cloud-based digital transformation and enable developers to increase their speed of innovation.”

WSO2 and Microsoft are dedicated to go-to-market and co-selling activities such as customer events, demand generation, sales enablement, and an Azure Marketplace presence. The companies will also work to expand the capabilities and community surrounding Ballerina, WSO2’s open-source language that dramatically simplifies the development and deployment of cloud-native applications.

“Our deeper collaboration has never been more important as companies become digital-first workplaces and pioneer new ways of working,” said Harsha Randeny, Country Manager, Microsoft Sri Lanka, and Maldives. “By combining our expertise with WSO2, we have an opportunity and responsibility to deliver innovative solutions that will empower organizations around the world to achieve their productivity goals and cloud ambitions.”