Public Cloud Chief Consultant
The challenge
As a public transportation operator, Vy has a large active customer base of 1 million monthly active users. In order to provide services like ticketing, travel planning and entertainment, Vy must provide its customer with a dependable and easy-to-use system for signing in.
After careful considerations, Vy decided to move away from the existing platform to Azure Active Directory business-to-consumer (AAD B2C) as the solution for the future.
Wanting to ensure that customers can always buy and access their tickets, Vy needed a secure, highly available and highly scalable identity platform that could be integrated with both existing and new applications, using open and modern standards.
The solution
Azure AD B2C was chosen as platform, as it met all the customer’s needs and provides the scalability and availability required. The Azure AD B2C identity platform is delivered by TietoEvry as a Managed Service (IDaaS). The Azure AD B2C Managed Service is built and deployed using Azure DevOps pipelines.
About the customer
The Vy Group is one of the largest transport groups in the Nordic countries. The company is owned by the Norwegian government and its Ministry of Transport and Communications.
Vy has four operational business areas in Norway and Sweden:
- Rail passenger services
- Bus services
- Freight transport
- Customer experience and innovation
Stable & secure operations
Stable and secure operations of the cloud solution
Access to identity developer expertise
Subscribing to the TietoEvry Azure AD B2C Managed Service offering, Vy has access to identity developer expertise to further develop the identity platform for current and future needs.
Focus on developing core functionality
Using Azure AD B2C as their modern identity platform, Vy can focus on developing the core functionality of their applications without having to worry about authentication.
Seamless transition to the new system
All customer accounts have been migrated from the old solution to Azure Active Directory B2C, with a limited amount of reported issues. As part of the migration, the Vy branding was kept intact to maintain the familiar look of the Vy applications
The Vy application is available both as a web application and a mobile application, supporting both iOS and Android devices, and presents a layout consistent across these platforms.
The customer experience was the primary focus during the project implementation phase. The sign in screen is efficient and offers self-service options such as signing in with Vipps (Logg inn med Vipps), signing in with email, creating a new profile and performing password reset.
The "Remember me" functionality enables user sessions to stay active for an extended period of time, to avoid unnecessary sign in prompts, and ensure quick application access.
Moving to customer authentication with Azure has allowed us to add third party authentication with ease. Doing this together with TietoEVRY allows us to focus on the Customer Experience, while TietoEVRY ensures stable and secure operations of the cloud solution.
Erik Korme
Product Manager, Digital Customer Services
The agility of the identity platform
The identity platform is managed using a DevOps methodology with continuous deployment, providing features like versioning and traceable changes.
Building for the future
Equally as important to landing on a trusted identity and authentication provider was to find a vendor with a product that is built for the future and adopts a cloud-first mentality.
Microsoft is investing heavily in the identity space and has been doing so for several years. Azure AD B2C, their platform for handling consumer identities, is now part of their external identities product portfolio, which is continually getting new features added to it.
