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We just wrapped up Red Hat Summit and it was a great time! Thank you for those of you who were able to attend and we hope to see those who couldn’t in San Francisco next year!
Customers using Red Hat Integration capabilities were recognized and showcased their relationships with Red Hat. BP and Emirates NBD were honored as Red Hat Innovation Award winners for their technological achievements and demonstrated creative thinking, determined problem-solving and transformative uses of Red Hat technology. Ally Financial and Banco Galicia received honorable mentions for the Innovation Awards as well. In addition to the Innovation Award winners and honorable mentions, multiple Red Hat Integration customers spoke about their respective paths to success. These customers included the Government of Canada, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) Bank, Spark New Zealand, Deutsche Telekom IT and Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT).
BP was selected as an Innovation Award winner for modernizing their complex technology infrastructure by building a self-service platform and a DevOps culture. BP utilized Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, and other Red Hat technologies, to build their Application Engineering Services’ Digital Conveyor. The Digital Conveyor empowers product delivery teams with self-service capabilities, a DevOps approach and a continuous integration/continuous delivery pipeline.
Emirates NBD was named an Innovation Award winner for its implementation of a cloud-native platform and agile methods to offer customers personalized, always-on digital banking. Emirates NBD established their own scalable private cloud platform, Sahab (White Cloud), with the flexibility to accommodate a future hybrid cloud model. Emirates NBD built Sahab on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and employs other Red Hat technologies like Red Hat 3scale API Management, Red Hat Fuse and Red Hat AMQ. With the new platform, Emirates NBD is able to manage over 500 APIs and is able to more easily integrate and collaborate with third parties including FinTechs, government institutions and technology partners.
Ally Financial was recognized as an Innovation Award honorable mention for creating a containerized hybrid cloud platform to support cloud-native application development and adopting DevOps practices to increase collaboration, innovation and efficiency. Ally Financial needed to be able to develop and deploy releases faster and with greater reliability to satisfy their customers’ needs for speed and efficiency. Ally Financial used a range of Red Hat technologies and services including Red Hat Fuse, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Red Hat OpenShift Application Services and Red Hat Consulting to develop the new platform and adopt practices to improve time-to-market, increase agility and strengthen its competitive advantage.
Banco Galicia was chosen as an Innovation Award honorable mention for streamlining its digital services by migrating its channels and back-end systems to a unified, cloud-native, omnichannel platform. This platform supports collaborative agile development, provides cross-environment workloads and offers more secure integration with existing banking systems. Banco Galicia has taken advantage of Red Hat Integration products including Red Hat 3scale API Management, Red Hat Fuse, Red Hat AMQ and Red Hat Data Grid to simplify digital services. This simplification has produced an improvement in customer experience while seeing a decrease in application downtime and estimating a decrease in development costs.
The Government of Canada examined overcoming API challenges by building a central API hub for government departments to publish and monitor their APIs using Red Hat 3scale API Management and Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.
CIBC Bank described how they built an optimal architecture for open banking by using service mesh and API gateways. They also laid out how to balance creativity and standardization while building a culture focused on speed and innovation.
Spark New Zealand discussed how they navigated a company-wide journey of agile transformation and migrating from a legacy, proprietary integration platform to a container-based, open source, agile integration solution utilizing Red Hat AMQ, Red Hat Fuse and Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.
Deutsche Telekom IT spoke about harnessing agile integration to empower internal development teams to deliver services faster in a consistent and standardized way by building a next-generation integration platform using Red Hat Fuse and Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.
SWIFT chronicled how they integrated customers’ back office functions with SWIFT functions to help ease customer pain points. SWIFT chose Red Hat Fuse, Red Hat AMQ and Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform to be embedded in the main messaging client application which hundreds of financial institutions use to exchange millions of financial messages each day across the SWIFT network.
This is just a small sample of the successes customers across industries are having with Red Hat Integration. Agile integration and the application environment are having profound impacts on institutions around the world. We at Red Hat are standing by to help you make the next (or first) step in your digital transformation.
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About the author
Sameer Parulkar is a Product Marketing Director for Red Hat Integration products. He coordinates marketing, evangelism and product strategy for those products across all regions. Sameer has around 20 years of experience in the IT industry with various roles like developer, technical architect and product marketing primarily supporting integration middleware technologies. Sameer holds a Bachelors in Electronics Engineering (BE) from India and a MBA from Babson College.
