Case Study: Grocery Retailer achieves near-real-time data processing with IBM MQ and IBM App Connect

A messaging backbone quickly delivers transaction data to a central hub with IBM MQ

Grocery Retailer, which operates 2,400 stores and moves about 50 million messages a day, was struggling with batch-based data flows that delayed analysis and weakened theft prevention. The company needed a better way to collect transaction, credit-check, and pharmacy data across its stores, so it turned to IBM MQ and IBM App Connect.

IBM implemented an in-store enterprise service bus using IBM MQ and IBM App Connect to deliver reliable, near-real-time data transfer to a central hub. As a result, Grocery Retailer reduced the time to move information from stores to the data warehouse from daily batches to seconds, creating a rock-solid, small-footprint messaging platform for transaction and file-based data.