An administration portal solution

In this second case study, you’ll see how a German hidden champion introduced micro frontends for the administration of their new digital platform. The company specializes in developing and distributing high-quality tools and protective clothing, mostly for construction sites.

The company is organized as a single entity with over 70 subsidiaries all over the world. In Europe alone, the group has more than 440 sites.

Overall, it has around 4,000 employees worldwide. Its 2022 revenue was nearly one and a half billion euros. It operates in more than 50 countries.

Problem description

The company wanted to create an administration portal that allows full stack teams to provide a decent level of configurability to the administrators of a new digital service platform. A key idea was to keep the responsibility for the administration UI within the team of the respective API service, essentially not only distributing services but also the...