14 Dec 2023

Real-Time and Event-Driven Banking at Rabobank

Read how Rabobank became an event-driven bank and scaled Kafka across 150+ DevOps teams.

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Rabobank and Apache Kafka

Rabobank is a Dutch multinational banking and financial services company headquartered in Utrecht, Netherlands. Rabobank is active in forty countries worldwide, has over 43,000 employees, and serves approximately 10 million customers. Compelling Event Rabobank decided to move towards 100% digital and become a real-time, event-driven bank from batch jobs to real-time. They chose Apache Kafka as the engine for their event streaming platform but quickly discovered that Kafka was costly to maintain and needed a number of features to scale across the enterprise while guarding governance and security.

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Case Study: Eneco

Industry:
Energy
Results:

200% faster data processing compared to previous systems, 30% reduction in energy usage

Energy

Challenges

  • Eneco needed to accelerate their energy transition journey to help customers use energy more sustainably. They required both market knowledge and deep customer insights, all derived from data.
  • To achieve its objective, Eneco set out to launch an event streaming platform with Apache Kafka in 2019.
  • However, they also needed governance and control for their mission-critical operations.

Why Eneco Choose Axual

Eneco selected the partnership between Axual and Conclusion Mission Critical because of:

  • Proven open-source foundation with Apache Kafka
  • Self-service environment enabling teams to define and manage data flows independently
  • Built-in governance ensuring compliance without sacrificing flexibility
  • Enterprise-grade security meeting strict energy sector requirements

“By having access to this real-time data, Eneco can use its data flexibly to help the organization and its customers even better.” - Said Iem Smid, Project Manager Program and Portfolio Management Eneco

200%

Faster data processing

30+

Energy savings

1M+

Messages sent per day

Results

  • 200% faster data processing compared to previous systems
  • 30% reduction in energy usage through real-time heat supply optimization
  • Enhanced customer experience with immediate responses to queries
  • Accelerated innovation with self-service data flow management
  • Seamless integration with existing systems and IoT devices

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