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 seamlessly 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 has deployed Solace Platform in financial centers around the world to act as the message bus of their low latency trading platform.
Benefits
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. Additionally, 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.