Case Study: De Volksbank

Challenges

• De Volksbank is moving towards a more data-driven approach, but their current message queue (MQ) solution doesn't meet their requirements for this. It’s hard to scale and doesn’t support a hybrid architecture.
• Real-time data is crucial in understanding customer behavior. With MQ, de Volksbank isn’t able to collect and feed real-time data from four different brands into its data analytics platform for automated analyses with desired volumes.
• Kafka is already being used across a couple of applications. However, this concerns 'local' Kafka clusters with no interconnections, which makes sharing data difficult.
• Teams are spending too much time on maintaining all these “local” Kafka clusters - achieving high-volume and high-resiliency has proven a challenge.

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Why Volksbank Choose Axual

• With Axual, de Volksbank introduced a pub/sub architecture to effectively integrate applications across their different domains and provide real-time connectivity between all parts of the organization.
• Axual is used as a streaming business event bus as well as a bulk transport mechanism for a wide range of applications.
• Axual’s self-service capabilities makes it easy for teams to connect heir own applications. The platform team delivers this as-a-service to 50 internal teams.
• Axual is deployed across multiple availability zones, and allows for automatic recovery.
• Data governance is built in - control data flows from start to finish at any time.
• Events can be consumed, processed and re-submitted without custom development and application development.
• Support for off-the-shelf, hybrid cloud architectures - events can arise anywhere (on-premise/off-premise) and be consumed anywhere (on-premise/off-premise).

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“We were at a crossroads, with legacy technology preventing a solid digital transformation, and an ambitious strategy for customer centricity underlining requirements for becoming data-driven. We really needed the Axual platform to allow us to make the leap. With Axual,

Roger Stoffers | Enterprise Architect

Results

• With the adoption of the Axual platform, de Volksbank continues to take concrete steps towards a solid data-driven approach and is able to easily share data with any team and from any app.
• Axual’s event streaming platform feeds the de Volksbank’s data analytics platform with real-time data making it possible to perform quick analyses and automated decisions.
• The out-of-the-box enterprise readiness (such as data governance and multi-tenancy) of the event streaming platform allows de Volksbank to focus on business and customer value.
• Maintenance is now centralized and used for one single event streaming platform. De Volksbank was able to reduce the amount of DevOps teams working on maintenance by 3. Those teams can now have a full focus on delivering value and innovation.

Integrations:

• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Support for “everything-as-code”
• BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio