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Alight Solutions Boosts Digital Deliveries with Unified Data Platform

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 Alight Solutions Boosts Digital Deliveries with Unified Data Platform - IoT ONE Case Study
Technology Category
  • Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics
  • Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms
Applicable Functions
  • Product Research & Development
The Customer

Alight Solutions

About The Customer
Alight Solutions is a leading provider of technology-enabled health, wealth, and human capital management solutions. The company is committed to innovation and the rapid delivery of new digital products to the market. As part of this commitment, Alight recently embarked on an initiative to align its internal organization with its next-generation digital strategy. This strategy was designed to reduce barriers to enterprise innovation and accelerate the pace at which Alight brings new digital products to the marketplace.
The Challenge
Alight Solutions, a leading provider of technology-enabled health, wealth, and human capital management solutions, faced a significant challenge. The company needed to integrate data from numerous back-end systems into a forward cache to enhance performance, simplify the development of consumer-facing applications, and reduce the demand on expensive mainframes. This integration was crucial to align the company’s internal organization with its next-generation digital strategy. The strategy was adopted to eliminate barriers to enterprise innovation and speed up the rate at which Alight brings new digital products to the market.
The Solution
To address this challenge, Alight Solutions turned to Confluent Platform and Apache Kafka. These technologies were used to implement scalable, secure streaming data pipelines that refresh data in the cache in near real-time. As part of this initiative, Alight developed a low-latency, single view of the customer application using the Confluent Platform. This solution not only addressed the immediate need for improved performance and simplified application development but also established a platform for future expansion. The use of Confluent Platform and Apache Kafka allowed Alight to accelerate the delivery of new solutions and reduce mainframe costs.
Operational Impact
  • The implementation of Confluent Platform and Apache Kafka has brought about significant operational benefits for Alight Solutions. The company has been able to simplify the development of consumer-facing applications, thanks to the integration of data from numerous back-end systems into a forward cache. This has not only improved performance but also reduced the demand on costly mainframes. Furthermore, the solution has facilitated innovation by reducing barriers to enterprise innovation. This has enabled Alight to accelerate the pace at which it brings new digital products to the market, thereby aligning the company’s internal organization with its next-generation digital strategy.
Quantitative Benefit
  • Significant reduction in mainframe costs
  • Acceleration in the delivery of new solutions
  • Establishment of a platform for future expansion

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