banking Archives - Kai Waehner

Business Process Automation and BPM Workflow Engine and Orchestration with Apache Kafka

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Apache Kafka as Workflow and Orchestration Engine

ByKai Waehner
8. May 2023
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Business process automation with a workflow engine or BPM suite has existed for decades. However, using the data streaming platform Apache Kafka as the backbone of a workflow engine provides better scalability, higher availability, and simplified architecture. This blog post explores case studies across industries to show how enterprises like Salesforce or Swisscom implement stateful workflow automation and orchestration with Kafka.

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The State of Data Streaming for Financial Services

ByKai Waehner
4. April 2023
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This blog post explores the state of data streaming for financial services. The evolution of capital markets, retail banking and payments requires easy information sharing and open architecture. Data streaming allows integrating and correlating data in real-time at any scale. The foci are trending enterprise architectures for data streaming and customer stories. A complete slide deck and on-demand video recording are included.

Cloud Native Core Banking Platform powered by Apache Kafka Data Streaming

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Cloud-native Core Banking Modernization with Apache Kafka

ByKai Waehner
16. March 2022
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Most financial service institutions operate their core banking platform on legacy mainframe technologies. The monolithic, proprietary, inflexible architecture creates many challenges for innovation and cost-efficiency. This blog post explores three open, elastic, and scalable banking solutions powered by Apache Kafka to solve these problems.

Innovation in Financial Services and Open Banking with Apache Kafka

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Apache Kafka in the Financial Services Industry

ByKai Waehner
18. January 2021
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The rise of event streaming in financial services is growing like crazy. Continuous real-time data integration and processing are mandatory for many use cases. Apache Kafka is deployed across the financial services business departments for mission-critical transactional workloads and big data analytics. High scalability, high reliability, and an elastic open infrastructure are the key reasons for the success of Kafka. This blog post explores different use cases, architectures, and real-world examples in the FinServ sector.