German online auto dealership AutoScout24 shares its thoughts on managing and securing APIs using Layer 7 products.

1. www.autoscout24.com
Case Study
AutoScout24 Webservices
Berlin | 05.10.2010 | Martin Ströbele

2. Speaker
Martin Ströbele
Team Leader Business Integration
Team Leader within Product Management department
Product Owner within Scrum Team „Business Integration“
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3. Agenda
AutoScout24 Company Portrait
Target Groups for Webservices
Use Case Layer7 SecureSpan
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4. AutoScout24
Company Portrait
AutoScout24 – EVERYTHING„S CAR HERE.*
13 million users in Germany a year, 1.8 million
vehicles on offer, more than 300 million virtual car
inspections – AutoScout24 is Europe-wide the
largest online car marketplace.
Involved in the markets in 18 countries, and with
37,000 member dealers, AutoScout24 is present in
all the main markets in Europe.
*Translation, original claim reads: “HIER IST ALLES AUTO.”
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5. AutoScout24
Company Portrait
AutoScout24 – EVERYTHING„S CAR HERE.*
Since 1998, the best-known online car market in
Germany offers private customers, car dealers
and other partners in the automotive, finance
and insurance industries a comprehensive
platform for trading cars on the Internet.
On AutoScout24, users find both car offers as
well as all necessary information about cars in
the AutoScout24 magazine and on the
information platform AutoWissen24.
*Translation, original claim reads: “HIER IST ALLES AUTO.”
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6. AutoScout24
Facts and Figures
Head Office Munich
Founding Year 1998, then as MasterCar AG
wholly-owned subsidiary of
Scout24 Holding GmbH
Corporate Structure
(part of Deutsche Telekom AG
since 2004)
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7. AutoScout24
Corporate Structure
Parent Company
Holding
Belgium Netherlands Verticals
France Spain
Italy Russia
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8. AutoScout24
Market Presence
Involved in the markets in 18
countries, AutoScout24 is
present in all the main
markets in Europe:
Germany, France, Italy,
Spain, the Netherlands,
Belgium, Austria, Switzerland,
Luxembourg, Bulgaria, CZ.
Republic, Croatia, Poland,
Romania, Sweden, Turkey,
Ukraine, Russia
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9. AutoScout24
Portal Cooperations in Germany
IT-Lösungen
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10. www.autoscout24.com
Target Groups
for Webservices

11. 3 layers of cooperation
There are 3 types of cooperation partners
3rd party
3rd party: Registered partner
after acceptance of terms / conditions
Developers
Automotive Dealers and their suppliers
Education
2nd party
2nd party: Individual contract
with partner
External development partners
Marketing coops
1st party: AS24 peripheral tools 1st party
Mobile Apps
Car Portal CMS
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12. Webservice Connections
Access points
• client administration, registration
• terms / conditions
• SDK, Docu
• 1st level Support
3rd party
• individual access profiles
• freq cap per client
• global access limit
• logging
2nd party
AS24 1st party
API
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13. www.autoscout24.com
Use Case
Layer7 SecureSpan

14. Requirements
Partners Services
Partner 1
Partner 2
Partner 3
Partner 4
Administer partner accounts:
Define access profiles
Enable Product Manager to setup accounts
Access profiles on 3 layers:
Services
Methods
Fields
Define Service Level per partner
Freqency quoata (x requests per s / min / h / d)
Log service usage, enable billing
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15. Solution
Partners
Endpoints
„Policies:“
Access profiles AD
Service levels
AS24 webservices
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16. Questions?
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17. www.autoscout24.com
Thanks for your attention!
contact:
AutoScout24 GmbH Fon: +49 89 450990-717
Rosenheimer Str. 143 b Email: martin@stroebele.biz
81671 München URL: www.autoscout24.com