CASE STUDY
BY USING AZURE, VIPPS HAS
STRUCTURED ITS MOBILE APP TO
ACCOMMODATE ITS EXPECTED GROWTH.
IT’S BUILDING A DIGITALLY-NATIVE
COMPANY POSITIONED TO COMPETE
AND WIN ON A GLOBAL SCALE.
and share new APIs and get new services
to merchants and consumers quickly. With
unlimited scalability and a global Azure
presence, Vipps can meet almost any
demand in Norway or anywhere else.
“With Azure, we can scale Vipps as it
grows and streamline future development,
upgrades and innovation,” said Johansen.
“This allows us to focus less on operations
and more on building new services, creating
value and competing effectively.”
A new verb, for a new way to pay
working with the expert Microsoft cloud
team in Norway and the mature, flexible and
powerful Azure platform.”
The company uses Azure Notification Hubs
for push alerts, Azure Cosmos DB to support
Vipps chat and Azure Active Directory
for authentication and access control. By
November 2017, the company hosted all
core Vipps services on DC/OS clusters in
Azure Container Service.
Consumers expect free peer-to-peer (p2p)
payment so to drive revenue, Vipps is using
Azure to help launch new paid services
for merchants and e-commerce vendors,
such as bank-agnostic instant payment,
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online payment, account payment, Vipps
invoice service and reporting tools based on
Microsoft Power BI. “Last year, Vipps p2p
transactions increased by 75%, but paid
transactions grew more than 300%,” said
Johansen. “As merchants continue to see
more sales with Vipps, we will use Azure and
Power BI analytics and reporting to help
them generate more business insights.”
Scale, success, innovation and value
By using Azure, Vipps has structured its mobile
app to accommodate its expected growth.
It’s building a digitally-native company
positioned to compete and win on a global
scale. Vipps developers can easily build
With the power of the cloud, Vipps might
just replace credit cards, debit cards and cash
in Norway. Already, Norwegian diners can
Vippse their order, eat, pay and get a digital
receipt without ever bothering a waiter.
Team Norway fans can Vippse their hockey
tickets instantly. Shoppers at pop-up stores
can Vippse if they don’t have cash and if
Norwegian online shoppers don’t like card
numbers, expiration dates, or security codes,
they can Vippse their purchases instead.
“We think mobile payment will be the new
normal in Norway within one or two years,”
said Rune Garborg, Chief Executive Officer at
Vipps. “Azure is helping us make it possible.” n
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