Customer 

One of the Largest Brokerage Firms in the US

Business Challenge

The bank wanted to build a centralized account authorization mechanism for applications supporting multiple languages with low latency & high performance.

They required:

• An always-on account authorization with low-latency response times for the growing number of users from new mobile applications
• A solution to reduce queries from mainframe, to lower TCO
• Centralized  account information from various databases

Technical Challenge

• Millisecond business requirements
• Mission critical availability
• Elastic scalability
• Ability to support multiple applications, and handle large amount of mobile users

Solution

GigaSpaces in-memory real-time data and analytics platform delivered a seamless, always-on, millisecond response times for a superb customer experience specifically from the growing usage from mobile applications.

• Seamlessly integrated with existing mainframe
• Provided elastic scalability for growing and peak loads
• Microservices architecture powered fast-to-market modern services

Results

• Centralized account authorization information
• Reduction of $7 million annually on MIPS usage
• No downtime since deployment
• Excellent user experience for over 10 million users
• 1 TB data grid, stores accounts, user sessions, profiles