Case Study: a leading German automotive manufacturer unifies 3 Kafka platforms and speeds onboarding with Conduktor

Leading German Automotive Manufacturer cuts Kafka onboarding to 30 minutes with Conduktor

The customer, a leading German automotive manufacturer, faced significant challenges after its Apache Kafka usage grew uncoordinated across three separate divisions. This resulted in three independent platforms, severe inefficiency with over 100,000 production partitions, major security risks from shared superusers, and an onboarding process that took up to a week. They partnered with vendor Conduktor to address these issues using its governance platform, Conduktor Console.

Conduktor implemented a solution that provided governed self-service, enforcing RBAC and SSO for over 700 users. This allowed the manufacturer to consolidate its three platforms and teams into one. The results were a 10x reduction in partitions, cutting onboarding time from a week to under an hour, and the elimination of major incidents, leading to huge cost savings and operational efficiency.