About GLO Integration

GLO Integration is a specialist in providing services and (hybrid) integration solutions. GLO has over twenty years of experience in SOA, SaaS Integrations, APIs and SBR/XBRL. Within the team we have architects, business consultants and developers. Our expertise bridges multiple platforms, under which MuleSoft, Tibco, webMethods and Splunk. We are a young team of enthusiastic consultants with a passion for IT integration!

Personal development is of great importance to GLO. Our work environment is friendly and in addition to work, we like to organize cozy get-togethers such as beer & pizza sessions. Can you beat us at foosball? 

The assignment

Research which tools in the market could fullfill the requirements on API Data Governance.

Questions that require answering:

·       What is the difference between MDM and Meta Data Governance tooling?

·       What requirements does GLO have on an API Data Governance tool?

·       Which Meta Data tools availble in the Market could generate Meta Data usable for Abstract API Contracts?

·       Which API contract management tools available in the Market are usable?

·       What is the influence of GDPR, SOX, and other restrictions on Data? How to classify?

·       What are potential classifications like public, confidential, secret or top secret of Data? How does Meta Data tag this?

·       What is ownership of Meta Data?

Tools which could be part of the investigation: EC-Design, Collibra, Tibco EBX and others.

Competences

·       Strong knowledge of Meta Data e.g. Entity Relationship diagram (ERD), constraints, rules

·       Strong knowledge of modeling (model driven)

·       Nice to have: knowledge of XML & JSON

·       Nice to have: knowledge of Meta Data schema's like JSON Schema or XML schema

·       Nice to have: knowledge on an API platform like MuleSoft

·       Nice to have: knowledge of API contracts like Swagger, OpenAPI, RAML

A possible POC could for example be conducted where a business problem is finally is transferred into a API contract containing the required Meta Data.

To understand the core of GLO Integration, two separate courses are offered which teaches basic understanding of integration. These courses are followed by all our interns and thesis students. GLO has Msc and/or Bsc educated staff for guidance of this thesis available.