Case Study: DKV Mobility achieves real-time payments and faster innovation with Confluent Cloud

DKV Mobility Accelerates Innovation with Confluent Cloud

DKV Mobility, a leading European B2B mobility platform, needed to scale real‑time digital products for its 301,000 customers but found Apache Kafka operations had become a productivity bottleneck for its Customer Product Services team. To overcome instability, costly outages and slow time‑to‑value while migrating to Azure, DKV Mobility turned to Confluent and its managed Confluent Cloud service.

Confluent implemented Confluent Cloud with prebuilt connectors, Schema Registry and role‑based access controls, enabling self‑service cluster and topic provisioning and simplifying integrations. The move eliminated downtime during a six‑month cloud migration (zero hours lost), cut platform team Kafka toil (previously ~10% time, ~8 hrs/week), expanded streaming use from 3 to 8 teams with clusters provisioned in minutes, and increased deployment cadence from monthly to multiple times per week—while enabling real‑time payments and transaction processing for on‑the‑road insights. Confluent’s solution delivered measurable operational stability and faster product innovation.

DKV Mobility

Tobias Gockel

Platform Team Manager