Integrating EU Market Place with Market Player Platforms using lightweight web-based APIs - FLEXICIENCY EU Market Place

Abstract— This paper presents the integration architecture implemented in the FLEXICIENCY project. The integration architecture defines how Market Players can integrate their platforms with a central EU Market Place in order to provide interfaces enabling the automated exchange of data.  RESTful APIs with standardized interfaces are acting as a facilitator of the interoperability between the integrating parties. APIs enable EU Market Place to initiate the B2B integration process between Service Provider and Service Requester that agreed on service subscription via EU Market Place. The benefits of EU Market Place and integrations are demonstrated on the case of flexibility offers exchange. The FLEXICIENCY project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement n° 646482.