Case Study: DB Cargo achieves flexible legacy system integration and high-availability process orchestration with Camunda

DB Cargo achieves 99.98% high availability with Camunda

DB Cargo, a major European rail freight operator, faced a challenge in integrating its IT systems with the international Xrail production alliance. The initial architectural approach was inefficient and would have distributed critical business logic across multiple systems, increasing complexity. To solve this, they implemented Camunda as a central orchestration component within their new Transport Chain and Service Management (TSM) system.

Using Camunda's workflow engine, DB Cargo created a central platform to decouple order management from capacity management and provide a technical interface to the Xrail broker. The solution provided flexible integration with legacy systems and enabled the company to react efficiently to changing conditions. The measurable impact included compliance with high availability SLAs of 99.98% and the provision of visible execution of business processes for monitoring. Camunda also proved to be a valuable tool for efficient analysis and is a driving force for DB Cargo's ongoing digitalization efforts.

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