Case Study: a leading retailer accelerates back-office services with Hazelcast Platform

Retail Success Requires Back-Office Performance and Agility cuts service setup from 2 months to 2 days with Hazelcast

A leading global retailer with billions in dollars in revenue faced significant challenges in integrating its disparate back-office systems. Its massive, distributed IT team needed to accelerate data access and reduce the time required to stand up new applications, which previously took months. To solve this, the platform team sought an open source in-memory technology to build a centralized cache-as-a-service and chose to pilot Hazelcast.

The retailer implemented Hazelcast IMDG Enterprise to create an in-memory data grid, which integrated with Apache Kafka and IBM MQ to feed data into the cluster. This Hazelcast-powered solution provided a microservices-based architecture with secure, low-latency data access. The results were substantial; the time to stand up new services was reduced from two months to just two days, dramatically improving business agility. The platform team also valued Hazelcast for its ease of use, security, and support.

Retail Success Requires Back-Office Performance and Agility