Case Study: Alight Solutions accelerates digital delivery and reduces mainframe costs with Confluent Platform

Alight Solutions reduces mainframe costs and accelerates digital delivery with Confluent

Alight Solutions, a provider of technology-enabled health and wealth solutions, faced challenges with slow performance and high development complexity due to its applications directly integrating with multiple back-end systems, including costly mainframes. To improve speed and reduce costs, they sought to build a forward cache of unified consumer data. They partnered with Confluent and used Confluent Platform, based on Apache Kafka, to address this.

Using Confluent Platform, Alight built scalable and secure streaming data pipelines to populate its Unified Data Platform in near real-time. This solution reduced mainframe costs by offloading demand, accelerated the delivery of new customer-facing solutions by simplifying integrations, and established a foundation for future innovation. Explicitly, Confluent enabled a platform that increased developer productivity and set the stage for event-driven business models.

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