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Accelerate Development with Bluemix Passport

Key Points

  • Passport on Bluemix offers a full suite of user‑management APIs (authentication, email, etc.) that let developers quickly bootstrap their applications.
  • By handling user‑related functionality, Passport frees teams to focus on core, revenue‑generating features and speeds time‑to‑market.
  • The service was created after recognizing that many customers spent excessive time building and maintaining user management instead of growing their business.
  • Developers can access Passport through the Bluemix catalog, where step‑by‑step documentation and an open‑source example app on GitHub are provided.
  • Using Passport helps deliver a better user experience while allowing businesses to concentrate on the features that drive growth.

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# Accelerate Development with Bluemix Passport **Source:** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI1DFe9AVBU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI1DFe9AVBU) **Duration:** 00:01:45 ## Summary - Passport on Bluemix offers a full suite of user‑management APIs (authentication, email, etc.) that let developers quickly bootstrap their applications. - By handling user‑related functionality, Passport frees teams to focus on core, revenue‑generating features and speeds time‑to‑market. - The service was created after recognizing that many customers spent excessive time building and maintaining user management instead of growing their business. - Developers can access Passport through the Bluemix catalog, where step‑by‑step documentation and an open‑source example app on GitHub are provided. - Using Passport helps deliver a better user experience while allowing businesses to concentrate on the features that drive growth. ## Sections - [00:00:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI1DFe9AVBU&t=0s) **Passport Service Accelerates App Launch** - The speaker explains how IBM Bluemix’s Passport offers ready‑made user authentication APIs that let developers skip building user‑management features, enabling faster market entry and focus on core, revenue‑generating functionality. ## Full Transcript
0:00[Music] 0:06in verse opt with passport brings a lot 0:08of value to bluemix we have a very 0:10comprehensive set of user API s that 0:12provide authentication user emailing all 0:15the features that your business needs 0:16when you have users that allow you to 0:19really just bootstrap your app quickly 0:20you pull in all the api's for the rest 0:22of the function that you need and you're 0:23off to the races 0:24passport brings a lot of value to 0:26bluemix we find that that is it your 0:28core business and that isn't what makes 0:29you money so we want to help you get 0:31your product and your application in 0:33bluemix to market quicker member soft 0:35passport really grew out of many years 0:37of observing the same problem with our 0:39customers all of our customers have 0:41users all of our customers have apps and 0:43all of our customers were spending too 0:45much time and resources developing 0:47functionality manage those users but it 0:50wasn't really growing their core 0:52business it wasn't revenue generating 0:54functionality and it wasn't really what 0:56was allowing their businesses to grow so 0:58when you use inverse off passport on 1:00bluemix we're really allowing you to 1:02skip all of that get your products 1:04market faster and focus on the features 1:06that grow your business and give your 1:08customers a better experience if you're 1:10interested if you have users and you 1:12have applications and you're wondering 1:13what to do next a great way to start is 1:15go to the bluemix catalog search on 1:17passport you'll find our referral tile 1:19we've got a full set of step-by-step 1:21documentation on our website as well as 1:24through bluemix we have an example 1:26application that we've written which is 1:27published in open source on github which 1:29should give you a great example to get 1:30started with how to call the API and how 1:32we can bring value to your application 1:34today 1:36[Music]