John Musser sits as the Director of Engineering a Ford Pro new division focused solely on commercial customers. While Ford has been servicing commercial customers for over a decade as a multibillion dollar business. With the new focus on the commercial customer a new set of software opporunities have emerged because of how cars are all connected today.
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Client Story
Building a Successful API Strategy at Ford Pro
Mission Critical Priority
Currently focused on building cloud, data, and API platform services for Ford's commercial vehicle customers. A plethora of opportunity to build software presents itself as they work to create a one stop chop for commercial customers.
Challenges
A challenge arises as they work to stick to one of their core principles of "platform first" while focusing on API use cases for internal, external , or partner instances. Additionally, they must consider tooling, developer experience, and how they can build to measure and learn.
Measuring Success
Measuring success at Ford Pro can be defined on how lon it takes a developer that comes in to get something out the door, API consumuption numbers, and non-functional requirements aroind perfromance and availability. Holistically, they are looking at API growth in terms of their entire catalog and how the pipeline they built is performing.
Industry
Manufacturing
Revenue
Approx. $5.9B
Employees
>150,000
