Real-Time and Event-Driven Banking at Rabobank

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

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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Answers to your questions about Axual’s All-in-one Kafka Platform

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Why should I use Axual for Apache Kafka?

Simplification: Apache Kafka users benefit from Axual's simplification of managing Kafka complexities through a user-friendly interface and tools that abstract away much of the operational overhead associated with Kafka clusters, thereby reducing the learning curve and operational burden for teams.Enterprise-Grade Security: Security is a top priority in enterprise environments. Axual's out-of-the-box security features, including encryption, authentication, and authorization mechanisms, provide immediate protection for your data and Kafka infrastructure, ensuring they are secure from unauthorized access and breaches.

Which connectors can I use with Axual for Apache Kafka?

Axual for Apache Kafka supports a wide range of connectors, enhancing its versatility and integration capabilities. Some of the connectors you can use with Axual include: Debezium, Cassandra, JDBC and IBM   MQ and many more. Explore our full list of connecters(link to connectors page)

What’s included in Axual's customer support for Kafka?

Using Axual includes access to support services and expertise from Kafka and streaming data specialists. This can be invaluable for troubleshooting issues, optimizing performance, and planning for future growth.

Challenges

TenneT, a leading European electricity Transmission System Operator (TSO), collected vast amounts of data from sensors and systems across their high-voltage network but their batch-driven setup prevented real-time responses to grid changes.

This limitation hindered their ability to maintain optimal grid stability, perform advanced analytics, monitor power quality, and detect potential issues for real-time decision support.

TenneT recognized that meeting future energy challenges required building real-time situational awareness and advanced analytics capabilities with event streaming architecture capable of handling large volumes of high-speed data processed continuously and acted upon in real-time.

Why TenneT Choose Axual

Axual emerged as the Economical Most Beneficial Proposal (EMVI), offering:

Out-of-the-box Kafka solution combining Strimzi's open-source capabilities with enterprise features

User-centric interface enabling large organizations to utilize Apache Kafka without complexity

Enterprise features including access control, data governance, and visual data flow management

Expert implementation support with TenneT's own engineers designing and installing the platform

Results

Real-time grid monitoring with continuous data processing and analysis

Enhanced grid controllability through real-time situational awareness

Simplified bottleneck identification through visual data flow management

Seamless data integration from grid monitoring systems to decision-making teams

Role-based access control ensuring secure data governance

Scalable architecture that grows with TenneT's expanding network needs

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