Case Study: Rabobank achieves scalable, cost-efficient trading partner growth with IBM

Enhancing competitiveness with simple, cost-efficient management of five times more trading partners

Rabobank, a leading international financial services provider, needed a more scalable and cost-effective way to manage its growing base of trading partners as it outsourced non-core activities and shifted more banking services online. To keep pace with competitors, Rabobank turned to IBM for an EDI and B2B integration platform that could support secure, resilient partner connections and simplify onboarding.

IBM implemented IBM Sterling B2B Integrator, IBM Sterling File Gateway, IBM Sterling Control Center, and IBM DataPower Gateway to standardize partner integration, automate onboarding, and improve monitoring and compliance. The IBM solution helped Rabobank grow from 40 to more than 200 trading partners, process around 18,000 EDI messages and 300,000 Connect:Direct files per day, reduce onboarding time by 66%, avoid 30% in projected operating spend, and eliminate 80 hours of annual manual compliance work.

Rabobank

Carsten van den Bogert

Middleware Specialist