Case Study: European Association of Urology achieves €2.5M savings and 24 months faster development with Betty Blocks

EAU Saves €2.5 Million in Development Costs by Replacing PHP and MySQL Systems with Betty Blocks

The European Association of Urology faced a legacy PHP/MySQL system that couldn’t scale with their growing conference and association needs and would have taken years and high costs to redevelop. After piloting platforms, they chose Betty Blocks’ low-code platform to rapidly build a more functional, adaptable solution (later named Oxygen) that could replace their brittle, single-purpose systems.

Using Betty Blocks, EAU developed Oxygen — a single platform integrating CRM, membership and registration modules, abstract handling, logistics, finance, scientific program, accreditation and events management with third‑party integrations. Oxygen handled peak loads of ~1,500 requests/minute and supported 11,000–13,000 attendees with 56,000 scans and 30,000 evaluations/tests, was built by a small team (≈4 developers), and delivered measurable impact: €2.5 million saved in development costs, over 24 months of development time avoided, and an industry award for Best Use of Technology in Events.

European Association of Urology

Antoine van der Velden

IT Project Manager