When the founders of GRATISBROKER (now part of Finanzen.net), one of the first, free, online German trading platforms, had to assure that their platform could reliably deliver trade data and securely process trades in real-time to hundreds of thousands of customers they chose Diffusion. Familiar with the power of Diffusion from their former work in banking, they signed up to Diffusion Cloud to handle their real-time data requirements. Diffusion Cloud helped them to; provide customers with real-time trading information, seamlessly scale up and down based upon trading demand, and Improve infrastructure in a cost- efficient way.
Seamlessly scale up and down based upon trading demand.
Efficient delta-streaming minimized backend strain and costs.
Finanzen.net’s decision to deploy Diffusion Cloud was driven by the need for; Assuring real-time trading performance, the ability to easily scale to support hundreds of thousands of users, secure and reliable cloud operation, and reduce the costs to a minimum while offering customers an attractive product. The challenge was to reduce the costs to a minimum while offering customers an attractive product without noticeable cutbacks compared to competitors. To remain profitable, Finanzen.net concentrated on trading and is deliberately not a full-service provider.
To manage high-volume, live, event- driven information in real-time to many thousands of customers online, the Finanzen.net platform had to be secure, reliable and easily scalable to support the constant ebb and flow of trading volume. Searching for a solution, Finanzen.net evaluated the Diffusion Distribution Framework. To determine if Diffusion could meet their rigorous performance requirements and allow them to deliver a commission-free trading platform, the team had to; assure a competitively high quality-of-service, minimise administrative overhead, and provide a responsive and intuitive frontend.
Running on Diffusion Cloud, Finanzen.net provides their free securities trading website to customers. The platform operates on mobile phones, tablets, laptops, and desktops, delivering real-time trading, while efficiently minimising the amount of data required to be sent to customers. At the outset of the platform design and with no legacy systems to worry about, the team made several important strategic business decisions to benefit their future customers. Their new trading platform would; offer the several thousand stocks that comprise more than 90 % of trade order flow in Germany, eliminate exotic stocks that produce costs that spread across everyone on other trading platforms, even though most traders have no interest in these, and be completely free to all customers – no commissions, setup charges, monthly fees or extra-costs.
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