Who Uses Apache Camel (original) (raw)
Processes tens of billions of messages per day on Apache Camel and ActiveMQ on OpenShift. The largest known Apache Camel deployment by message volume.
National US travel gateway — migrated from proprietary TPF mainframe to Apache Camel with significant cost savings and zero system failures. Processes tens of thousands of transactions per second for airlines and hotels worldwide. Presented at CamelOne 2011 and 2012.
Vocalink, a Mastercard company
Camel is the backbone of Vocalink’s core real-time payment platform, processing millions of transactions.
Denmark’s largest privately owned software company and Scandinavia’s leading healthcare IT provider. Their Columna CIS electronic patient record is the most widespread EMR in Denmark, serving 3 of 5 Danish regions (Central, North, Southern Denmark) — approximately 60,000 doctors, nurses, and secretaries caring for 3.2 million citizens. Apache Camel powers the integration layer connecting Columna with hospital systems, labs, and national registries.
California’s health insurance marketplace serving 39 million residents. Uses Apache Camel, 3scale, and DROOLS on OpenShift. Migrated 72 interfaces in 7 weeks with zero downtime. 170 million transactions during 2024 open enrollment. 60% reduction in VCPUs.
Washington Health Benefit Exchange
US state healthcare marketplace serving 2 million+ residents (1 in 4 in Washington state). Uses Apache Camel, AMQ, and 3scale on OpenShift. API response times improved 50%. 75 APIs migrated in 100 days. 160% enrollment growth.
Provides managed IT services for over 85% of Germany’s statutory health insurers. Built GesundheitsCockpit patient-facing mobile app using Apache Camel and API Management on OpenShift. Connects on-premises systems to cloud-based patient apps for medical records, prescriptions, and vaccination status while maintaining strict German/EU healthcare data protection compliance.
National digital health network connecting healthcare providers’ databases across all 24 Argentine provinces using Apache Camel and Data Grid on OpenShift. Over 6 million patients registered.
Ireland’s Driver and Vehicle Computer Services Division. Uses Apache Camel, 3scale, and OpenShift for national vehicle and driver database API platform — 2.4 million vehicles, 2.65 million drivers. Delivered COVID-19 emergency payment integration in 4 weeks.
KPMG / Tennessee Dept of Human Services
KPMG built the KRIS Connected Platform using Apache Camel and OpenShift for US state government citizen services — SNAP, TANF, and energy assistance programs. Serves 2 million+ Tennessee residents. Already adopted by North Carolina and New Mexico, with 15+ additional states exploring.
Argentina National Migration Dept
Argentina’s border security and immigration agency (350,000 employees, 3,600 offices). Uses Apache Camel and OpenShift for a migration analysis platform accessing 2 billion+ data assets. AI-driven criminal threat analysis. Reports reduced from 48-72 hours to 1 day.
PERKESO (Malaysia Social Security)
Malaysia’s Social Security Organization (3,400 employees). Uses Apache Camel to digitize national social security services for 400,000+ employers. 75% fewer manual processes, 90% boost in online engagement. Service delivery reduced from months to days.
Provides critical IT infrastructure for Croatian government ministries and public administration. Uses Apache Camel, AMQ, and OpenShift. 80+ production projects running with 200+ more planned. Modernized 20 years of legacy systems.
Mexican state government serving 7 million citizens. Uses Apache Camel for digitized public services — online tax payments, traffic fines, vehicle licensing. 60% of services digitized, 60% infrastructure cost reduction.
Colombia’s Superintendence of Industry and Commerce (2,000 employees). Uses Apache Camel as part of a service-oriented architecture for consumer protection and market regulation. Digital case management processing 51,000 cases and 24,000+ rulings per year. Citizen-facing mobile app and online dispute resolution.
SAP’s Integration Suite uses Apache Camel as its core integration runtime. See Commercial Products below.
Huawei Cloud ROMA uses Apache Camel as its integration engine. See Commercial Products below.
Telefónica Colombia (Movistar)
Serving 21 million customers across Colombia. Uses Apache Camel, 3scale, and OpenShift for its Mi Movistar customer app. Feature release time cut 51%. Security patches in 19 minutes (99% faster). Migrated from Oracle proprietary stack.
Global Integration Gateway migrated from IBM DataPower to Apache Camel. Over 100 integrated systems processing 10,000+ transactions per second.
The world’s largest container shipping company uses Apache Camel with Kafka and Artemis for warehouse automation, integrating Industrial IoT/AOT systems with Warehouse Management. From idea to production in 3 months. Presented at Community Over Code 2025.
Argentina’s largest container port terminal (50%+ of the country’s containerized foreign trade, 1,900 employees). Uses Apache Camel to integrate Navis N4 terminal system with SAP billing. Built paperless digital shipping operations with online payments, real-time cargo tracking, and mobile arrival app on OpenShift.
One of the world’s leading insurance groups (300+ year history, 33 million customers in 16 countries). Uses Apache Camel (Red Hat JBoss Fuse) to power MyAviva customer portal integrating 2 million customers, 12 million policies, 800,000 claims, and 530 million data records. Deployed in under 6 months. 30% more efficient, maintenance costs reduced by 50%.
One of the world’s largest natural gas network operators (Italy, with operations in Austria, France, UK, Greece, UAE). Uses Apache Camel and OpenShift for IoT edge computing across Italy — connecting up to 30,000 devices with 100x data increase. Application deployment improved 10x (down to ~30 minutes). Expanding into hydrogen and biomethane sustainable energy.
Australia’s largest fuel and convenience retailer (A$28.7B revenue, 1,000+ retail sites including Shell, Coles Express, OTR). Uses Apache Camel (via Red Hat Fuse) for customer and delivery APIs — proactive delivery notifications, self-service across Shell card, fuel, and lubricant lines. Replaced legacy ESB platform. Integration platform built with Leonardo Consulting since 2016.
Operates New Zealand’s national electricity grid (174 substations, 25,000 towers, 6,800+ miles of lines). Uses Apache Camel as core ESB, AMQ Streams, and OpenShift. Saved NZ$50 million in avoided costs. Launched real-time electricity pricing in 2022 — “the largest single change in the electricity market since 1996.”
Protects and promotes New Zealand at the border. Uses Apache Camel (Red Hat Fuse), JBoss EAP, and AMQ for eGates automated passport system processing 20,000–25,000 passengers daily. Won Red Hat Innovation Award APAC 2018 for Enterprise Integration and Digital Transformation.
Argentina’s largest electricity distributor (3 million customers in greater Buenos Aires). Uses Apache Camel on OpenShift for billing, outage management, field service, and vehicle monitoring (800,000 events/day). Incident response times reduced by 70%. Replaced legacy integration platform that failed during peak demand.
The European Organization for Nuclear Research uses Apache ActiveMQ and Camel for the Large Hadron Collider’s mission-critical 24x7x365 controls, monitoring, and alarm systems. Processes 190 million messages per day across 85,000 machines with 99.98% uptime. As CERN’s principal JMS engineer stated: “If there is no JMS there is no particle physics.” Progress FUSE underpinned CERN’s search for the Higgs boson (“God Particle”).
India’s largest airline (25,000+ employees). Uses Apache Camel to integrate 400+ applications with zero downtime. Saves ₹500 million/year in fuel costs through more accurate predictions. Post-flight crew reporting reduced from 30 minutes to 5 minutes.
South Korea’s largest airline (17,000 employees, 125 destinations). Uses Apache Camel for Cargo and Passenger Integration Platforms — 100+ passenger systems and 50+ freight systems integrated. Transaction speed doubled. Replaced 20+ year old legacy platforms after evaluating IBM, TIBCO, and others.
The US Federal Aviation Administration uses Apache Camel and ActiveMQ for the SWIM program — real-time aviation weather, flight, and surveillance data sharing across the National Airspace System.
Integration of Air Traffic Control systems using Enterprise Integration Patterns and Apache Camel. Camel routes integrating Java with legacy C++ flight scheduling systems.
Netflix uses Apache Camel as part of the cloud payment system.
Digital transformation across 60 markets using Apache Camel and OpenShift.
Global financial services corporation migrating APAC trade technology from TIBCO to Apache Camel on Spring Boot. Enterprise integration for trading applications handling SWIFT, EDI, ISO XML, and NACHA financial formats. Citi Cyber Security Operations actively monitors Camel and reported CVE-2025-29891.
One of Argentina’s largest private banks (3 million customers, 150,000 businesses). Built an AI/NLP platform for digital onboarding on OpenShift, using Apache Camel and AMQ to integrate the AI platform with core banking systems. Reduced onboarding from days to minutes with 90% accuracy.
Fortune 500 consumer goods company with a 4-year Apache Camel journey. Runs production integrations on GCP Cloud Run. Now adding AI-augmented pipeline with agentic code reviews on every commit.
India’s largest automobile manufacturer (Tata Group, USD 113B, 80,000+ employees). Uses Apache Camel, AMQ, and 3scale on OpenShift for dealer integration across 1,000+ dealers. Onboarding reduced from 30+ days to 7 days. API-driven transactions increased from 20% to 95%.
Indian health insurer. Uses Apache Camel (Red Hat Fuse), 3scale, Decision Manager, and OpenShift for partner onboarding and policy transaction processing. Won Red Hat APAC Innovation Award 2020 for Digital Transformation.
Global energy company (Fortune 10) uses Apache Camel for enterprise integration. BP engineers contribute directly to the Apache Camel open source project.
Deutsche Telekom’s IT services subsidiary uses Apache Camel. T-Systems engineers report issues directly to the Apache Camel JIRA tracker.
Global telecommunications company uses Apache Camel. Nokia engineers contribute directly to the Apache Camel open source project (19 commits).
German engineering and technology multinational uses Apache Camel. Bosch engineers contribute directly to the Apache Camel open source project.
UK’s largest supermarket chain uses Apache Camel. Tesco engineers contribute directly to the Apache Camel open source project.
US retail giant uses Apache Camel. Target engineers contribute directly to the Apache Camel open source project (7 commits).
China’s largest retailer by revenue uses Apache Camel. JD.com engineers contribute directly to the Apache Camel open source project (11 commits).
Dutch multinational banking and financial services corporation with strategic Apache Camel adoption. ING built a dedicated Center of Excellence (CoE) for Apache Camel to support teams across the bank in adopting and migrating to the framework, handling lifecycle management and regulatory compliance. ING engineers contribute directly to the Apache Camel open source project.
Fortune 50 industrial conglomerate uses Apache Camel. GE’s security team actively monitors Camel — Eedo Shapira from GE discovered and reported CVE-2018-8041.
Global CDN and cybersecurity company. Akamai Security Intelligence Group (SIG) actively monitors Apache Camel and reported CVE-2025-29891.
American electric vehicle manufacturer uses Apache Camel. Rivian engineers contribute directly to the Apache Camel open source project.
British Broadcasting Corporation uses Apache Camel. BBC engineers contribute directly to the Apache Camel open source project.
World’s largest brewer (Budweiser, Corona, Stella Artois). AB InBev engineers contribute directly to the Apache Camel K open source project.
French defense, aerospace, and cybersecurity multinational uses Apache Camel. Thales Digital engineers contribute directly to the Apache Camel K open source project.
UK Her Majesty’s Courts & Tribunals Service uses Apache Camel. HMCTS engineers contribute directly to the Apache Camel K open source project.
Largest Dutch supermarket chain uses Apache Camel. Albert Heijn engineers contribute directly to the Apache Camel K open source project.
US healthcare IT company (now part of Optum/UnitedHealth Group) uses Apache Camel. Change Healthcare engineers contribute directly to the Apache Camel Quarkus open source project.
Scandinavian postal and logistics service (Denmark and Sweden) uses Apache Camel. PostNord engineers contribute directly to the Apache Camel open source project.
Major US insurance and financial services company uses Apache Camel on Spring Boot. Transamerica engineers contribute directly to the Apache Camel open source project (10 commits).
Swiss pharmaceutical giant uses Apache Camel. Novartis engineers contribute directly to the Apache Camel open source project.
eGRIS (Swiss Federal Land Registry)
Switzerland’s electronic land registry information system (egris.admin.ch) connecting cantonal land registries nationwide. Uses Apache Camel for the integration layer. Presented at JUG Switzerland’s “Apache Camel Night” in Zürich 2012.
US restaurant technology platform (NYSE: TOST) uses Apache Camel on Spring Boot. Toast engineers contribute directly to the Apache Camel open source project (9 commits).
Dow Jones / News Corp’s flagship business publication uses Apache Camel. WSJ engineers contribute directly to the Apache Camel open source project.
UK e-commerce and technology group uses Apache Camel on Spring Boot. THG engineers contribute directly to the Apache Camel open source project.
UK online supermarket and robotics technology company uses Apache Camel. Ocado engineers contribute directly to the Apache Camel open source project.
Publisher of The Daily Telegraph, one of the UK’s major national newspapers. Telegraph engineers contribute directly to the Apache Camel open source project.
Major UK media and telecommunications company (part of Comcast). Sky engineers contribute directly to the Apache Camel open source project.
UK online gaming company (now part of Bally’s Corporation). Brands include Jackpotjoy and Virgin Games. Gamesys engineers contribute directly to the Apache Camel open source project.
UK’s largest dedicated parcel delivery company (formerly Hermes), handling 245 million parcels per year. Evri engineers contribute directly to the Apache Camel open source project.
Lithuanian fintech company (Vilnius) building payment infrastructure — SEPA, SWIFT, and TARGET2 connectivity for banks and payment institutions across Europe. Inventi engineers contribute directly to the Apache Camel open source project.
Danish Tax Administration (Skatteforvaltningen)
Denmark’s tax authority uses an Apache Camel integration platform. The platform was built by Netcompany, Denmark’s largest IT consultancy.
Danish insurance company uses Apache Camel on Spring Boot. Alm. Brand engineers contribute directly to the Apache Camel open source project (12 commits).
Australian global education provider (80,000+ students per year). Uses Apache Camel (Red Hat Fuse) on OpenShift with 3Scale API Gateway to integrate 20+ disparate systems for student applications, courses, visas, and accommodation. Over 100 integrations, 20 universities onboarded, no severe issues in 2 years of production.
Australian operator of Westfield shopping centres uses Apache Camel. Scentre Group engineers contribute directly to the Apache Camel open source project.
Nordic and Baltic telecom operator uses Apache Camel. Telia engineers contribute directly to the Apache Camel open source project.
The Netherlands Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (MinVWS) uses Apache Camel. Ministry engineers contribute directly to the Apache Camel open source project.
IT subsidiary of Canada Post Group uses Apache Camel. Innovapost engineers contribute directly to the Apache Camel open source project (11 commits).
Fortune 500 semiconductor company uses Apache Camel as their middleware integration platform handling thousands of daily integrations. Business users independently create integrations using Karavan and custom Kamelets on Spring Boot.
Central Denmark Region (1.3 million citizens, 600+ IT staff, 36,000 users) runs Apache Camel on Spring Boot on OpenShift as its healthcare integration platform. Migrated ~60 integrations from TIBCO to Camel over a six-year journey completed in 2025. The platform integrates with Systematic’s Columna CIS (MidtEPJ) electronic patient record used across the region’s hospitals. Systematic is the implementation partner. The integration layer connects hospital systems, prehospital patient journals (ambulances/helicopters), labs, and national registries — reliability is critical as human lives depend on it.
University Health Network (UHN)
Canada’s largest hospital-based research center (5 major facilities, 15 programs). Integrates 170+ platforms and systems using Apache Camel. Reduced integration creation time from ~1 week to ~1 day. Scaled during COVID-19 for time-sensitive patient care data delivery.
Argentine nonprofit health insurer (300,000+ members). Uses Apache Camel and 3scale on OpenShift. Scaled telemedicine 100x during COVID-19 lockdown. Cut time-to-market by 92%. Built digital services for appointments, medical records, billing, and a COVID-19 monitoring app for vulnerable patients.
Sweden’s second largest healthcare region (1.78 million inhabitants) migrated critical integrations from Mule ESB to Apache Camel on Spring Boot and Kubernetes. Presented at Cadec 2026.
Korea’s oldest bank (founded 1897, 13,500 employees, 900+ branches, 20 countries). Uses Apache Camel, 3scale, and OpenShift for global open banking front-end processing. Time to market reduced 50%+, development and operating costs reduced 60%.
Brazilian federal government bank for the Amazon region (95% government-owned). Uses Apache Camel, 3scale, and OpenShift. Credit processing reduced from 6 months to 24 hours. 370% year-over-year digital credit growth. Serves remote Amazon communities — family farmers, fishers, and miners.
US digital financial services leader (8,000 employees). Uses Apache Camel and OpenShift for online banking, auto finance, insurance, and investing platforms.
Argentine cooperative bank serving 2.3 million customers. Replaced legacy ESB with Apache Camel on OpenShift for faster service delivery across all channels.
Danish financial IT provider serving 25% of all Danish bank customers (1,600 employees, DKK 2.3B revenue). Rewrote 20+ critical banking ETL applications using Apache Camel on Spring Boot. Presented at JEurope 2025.
Finnish fintech serving the Nordic banking sector. Built Account Insight open banking platform using Apache Camel, Quarkus, and 3scale on OpenShift. Analyzes bank account data for credit assessment under EU PSD2. Reduced production deployment cycle by 95%. Quarkus delivered 90% less memory and 70% less CPU.
Migrated 200+ MuleSoft applications to Apache Camel in 8 months. Observed lower memory footprint, faster performance, and high production stability. Subsequently used Camel for X12 EDI transaction processing.
Built “Medley,” a Camel-based data integration platform for internal data integrations at scale. Presented at ApacheCon North America 2019.
Brazil’s largest media company uses Apache Camel for high-performance integration infrastructure processing 85,000 messages per hour.
DR (Danish Broadcasting Corporation)
Denmark’s national public broadcaster. Has used Apache Camel in production for over a decade, since Camel 2.x. Camel powers integrations across broadcast and streaming applications.
Japan’s largest department store group modernized core systems with Apache Camel, delivering digital retail experiences 4x faster.
Japan’s largest semiconductor manufacturing equipment maker. Uses Apache Camel (Red Hat Fuse) and Red Hat Integration on OpenShift to connect SAP S/4HANA with departmental subsystems. Deployed with Fujitsu, achieving 100% system availability and improved developer productivity.
US telecommunications giant uses Apache Camel in their Customer Management space. AT&T’s security team actively monitors Camel — Mark Thorson of AT&T discovered and reported 3 CVEs (CVE-2025-27636, CVE-2025-29891, CVE-2025-30177). Presented at CamelOne 2011.
Rapid Technology Integration Framework built on Apache Camel for defense systems. Presented at CamelOne 2012.
Turkey’s largest e-commerce company uses Apache Camel for receiving data from business partners via SFTP/FTP and Kafka, processing and routing between internal systems.
Built an EAI middleware solution on Apache Camel connecting CRM systems to e-commerce webshop via AWS SQS. Around 15 internal teams send millions of data entries per year. Deployed on Kubernetes.
Italian water technology manufacturer (founded 1975, multinational). Uses Apache Camel on Quarkus and OpenShift to integrate previously isolated IT systems. Reduced time to market by 60%. Migrating from monolithic architecture to microservices with Camel providing the integration layer for their hybrid cloud platform.
Airport Integration Message Broker — the digital nervous system of modern airports. Built on Apache Camel, Quarkus, ActiveMQ, and OpenShift. Zero message loss, event-driven backbone.
At 314e Corporation, Apache Camel is the powerhouse behind our SaaS-based healthcare integration engine ‘ZSegment’. It quietly runs 10K–20K messages per second, connecting EHRs, labs, payers and more in real-time.
“Banking on Apache Camel” — uses Apache Camel for banking integration solutions. Presented at CamelOne 2013.
NAV (Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration)
Norway’s largest public agency, handling one-third of Norway’s state budget. NAV engineers presented “Hvordan få en kamel til å danse” (How to make a camel dance) at JavaZone 2014.
Norwegian payment processor using Apache Camel for processing and validating payment transactions with message loss prevention and crash recovery. Presented at JavaZone 2011.
Integration at Norway’s largest classifieds platform, part of the Schibsted media group. Presented at JavaZone 2014.
Polish manufacturing company (1,100+ employees, exports to 68 countries) uses Apache Camel for ERP-MES integration connecting iScala ERP with PSIasm MES production management for continuous manufacturing.
SMS gateway built on Apache Camel in 2012, processing millions of messages daily at 200+ SMS/second per node. Still running in production over a decade later.
University-wide integration solution — “A Hundred Departments, Same Integration Solution” — built on Apache Camel. Presented at CamelOne 2012.
US Department of Transportation
Real-time weather tracking with Big Data and Apache Camel at the Volpe Center. Presented at CamelOne 2012.
“Apache Camel in Criminal Justice” — US county government using Camel for justice system integration. Presented at CamelOne 2013.
Migrated from Ruby on Rails to Apache Camel for multi-datacenter warehouse and distribution center integration. Normalized messaging across FTP, SFTP, HTTPS with CSV, XML, and pipe-delimited formats for 24/7 international flash-sale operations.
Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority
Canadian healthcare organization innovating with Apache Camel on ROSA (Red Hat OpenShift on AWS). Presented at Red Hat Summit 2024.
German IoT company uses Apache Camel for receiving sensor data from Loriot for temperature monitoring at a dairy company, smart meters, and coffee machines. Integrated with MariaDB, Oracle, Artemis, SAP, and Sugar CRM.
Public safety communication service using Apache Camel (via Jetic iPaaS) to enhance emergency services and break language barriers in emergency calls. Running mission-critical production for 3+ years.
Germany’s major internet hosting company uses Apache Camel for enterprise integration. Presented at JUG Karlsruhe 2008.
German IT company built the “Cosmo Router” on Apache Camel to integrate insurance software with CRM systems, exchanging XML documents between Java and .NET systems.
IT services company (39,000 employees, 36 countries) implementing Enterprise Integration Patterns with Apache Camel. Presented at WJAX 2012.
Online gaming company used Apache Camel and Spring Integration for real-time poker information processing and distribution to 30 receivers. Presented “Enterprise Integration Patterns i praktiken” at Jfokus 2010.
Uses Camel to integrate business backend with web application for farmers to access information about quality of their delivered milk. Application used in numerous european countries.
An open core-banking platform, uses Camel.