Challenge
Around 2010, RBC Capital Markets was looking to move away from incumbent vendors. They had a variety of messaging systems deployed across hundreds of servers, but it was impossible to make a change to one environment without impacting the others. The result was a ton of manual labor, downtime, and the need to prioritize when changes were made (typically on Saturdays).
Solution
RBC consolidated all of that middleware distribution by deploying Solace Platform in more than 50 financial centers around the world, Today, RBC Capital Markets runs its global low-latency trading platform on Solace — connecting 25,000 applications across all of those sites in six regions.
Outcome
RBC Capital Markets’ 400+ application teams use Solace Platform to facilitate the distribution of data across ~30,000 application connections, giving them an easy way to publish information or subscribe to data they need without worrying about how that information flows, or working with other groups to make that happen.
And new applications and users can be onboarded in the middle of the business day without disrupting their production environment. which is important because in the world of investment banking, downtime equals lost revenue.