Media & Entertainment | United States
How a USA Media Company Eliminated Manual MuleSoft Reviews across 400+ projects
Project Overview
A large USA-based media and streaming services provider operates a subscription-based platform delivering live television channels to customers nationwide. MuleSoft is a critical part of their technology stack, enabling integrations across subscriptions, content access, internal systems, and partner platforms.
As MuleSoft adoption increased, development expanded across multiple business groups, each building and deploying APIs independently. While this helped teams move faster, it created a serious challenge for the central platform team responsible for MuleSoft governance, standards, and security.
With close to 400 MuleSoft projects in the environment, manual reviews, post-deployment checks, and ad-hoc reporting were no longer working. The platform team needed a way to automate reviews, enforce standards before deployment, and continuously monitor deployed APIs without slowing down development teams.
To solve this, the organization partnered with Integral Zone and implemented Falcon Suite.
The Challenges
Lack of an Automated API Governance Layer
The organization needs an API governance solution to consistently enforce quality and security controls across MuleSoft APIs.
Absence of Quality and Security Gates in CI/CD
There is a requirement to implement automated quality gates and security gates within their CI/CD pipeline to prevent risky or non-compliant deployments.
No Monitoring of Post-Deployment Policy Changes
There is currently no automated way to detect if API policies are modified, removed, or altered after applications go live, creating a need for runtime compliance checks.
Lack of Early Developer Feedback
Developers need early feedback in Studio IDE so issues can be flagged before code reaches the pipeline or production.
Integration with Existing Tools
The organization wanted integration with their existing CICD framework, so governance runs within current workflows rather than as a standalone tool. Also making sure that the non-compliant projects are not deployed.
Scalability Across Large Multi-Team Environments
The organization needs a solution that scales across ~20 business groups and many developers, and supports running real-environment demos or trials.
Leadership needed reliable reporting
Management needed clear answers to basic questions: What is deployed today? Are standards being followed? Where are the current issues? Manual status updates were time-consuming and unreliable.
Enable Single Sign-on
Management wanted to integrate SSO with the Anypoint Platform so that all users have login access with the appropriate permissions assigned.
The Solutions
Falcon Scan replaced manual reviews by automatically scanning MuleSoft projects. This allowed the platform team to apply the same standards consistently across all projects without reviewing them one by one.
Falcon Scan was integrated directly into MuleSoft Anypoint Studio. Developers began seeing issues while writing code instead of discovering them later during pipeline execution or deployment attempts.
Falcon Scan was integrated into CI/CD pipelines to enforce standards. Applications that did not meet the required rules were automatically blocked from being deployed.
Falcon Eye was used to scan API specifications, applications already deployed, API instances and their applied runtime policies. This ensured the required policies remained in place even after deployment.
Automated scans ran on a schedule, generating reports that were shared with management. This provided continuous visibility without manual effort.
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Head of Integration,
A Leading Global MedTech and Healthcare Company, USA
Results
The platform team no longer needed to manually review hundreds of MuleSoft projects. Automated scans handled governance checks consistently across all business groups.
With feedback available inside MuleSoft Studio, developers corrected problems during development instead of after pipeline failures. This reduced rework and saved time for both developers and reviewers.
Applications that did not follow platform standards were stopped before production, removing reliance on manual intervention.
Continuous monitoring ensured that required API policies remained applied after deployment, reducing operational risk and manual oversight.
Leadership received regular reports showing deployed applications and compliance status, without depending on manual updates from teams.
Project Cost
What Our Client Say
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Platform & Security Lead
Media & Streaming Services Provider, USA
