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Banking
Crédit Agricole
Infrastructure arm of France's largest retail banking group
Kestra allowed us to move from fragmented automation to a unified control plane—secure, scalable, and manageable by all our teams.
Julien Legrand, Data Product Owner
→ Automating infrastructure operations across 100+ clusters for France's largest banking group
7data teams unified
100+managed clusters
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Retail
Fila
Global sportswear brand with a century-long legacy
Kestra has changed how we handle data orchestration. Instead of spending days fixing issues, we now have full visibility and control. As we scale, having a system that grows with us is invaluable
John Kim, IT Lead
→ Orchestrating ERP and supply chain workflows across 70+ countries during a global IT transformation
2.5 Millionmonthly executions
2000+workflows
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Retail
Leroy Merlin France
Global home improvement and gardening retailer
Kestra is the unifying layer for our data and workflows. You can start small, but then there is no limit to the possibilities and scalability of such an open architecture.
Julien Henrion, Head of Data
→ Replacing Airflow to build a self-service data mesh serving 250+ engineers across 140 stores
+900%in data production
+250active users
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Banking
JPMorgan Chase
Global financial services and investment banking leader
For the first time, with Kestra, our analysts weren’t waiting for engineering to catch up. They could define the workflows themselves. That changed everything.
Product Owner
→ Processing billions of cybersecurity records and 4,000+ weekly API pulls for 100+ JPMorgan Chase analysts fighting fraud and threat intelligence
Billionsof cybersecurity records processed
100+users empowered to run secure workflows
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Media Tech
Riverside
Remote recording platform for podcasts and video interviews
Simply powerful yet simple enough.
Hernán Estrin, Analytics Engineering Lead, Riverside
→ Connecting dbt Cloud, Snowflake, Metaplane, and Hightouch into a single dependency-aware pipeline without rewriting a single existing script
6+data tools orchestrated
4orchestrators evaluated Astronomer, Dagster, Mage, and Orchestra all rejected
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E-commerce
Víssimo Group
Brazil's leading premium wine e-commerce and retail group
With Kestra, orchestration stopped being a fragile point in the architecture and became a stable foundation for the business.
Rafael Bartalotti, Engineering and Architecture Manager
→ Consolidating an iPaaS and AWS Lambdas onto one platform to cut costs 90% and run Brazil's premium wine group's first zero-incident Black Friday
40%BI and ETL cost reduction
90%integration cost reduction
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Telecom
Amdocs
Global provider of software and services for communications and media companies
From a technical point of view, Kestra sits at the first place.
Alex Lernerman, DevOps Engineer, Amdocs
→ Delivering fully provisioned, deployed, and validated integration environments on demand, shrinking wait times from days to hours
Days → Hoursenvironment delivery time
Validated on Deliverytest-ready environments out of the box
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API Management
Gravitee
Open-source API management platform for modern DevOps teams
Our goal is for Kestra to become the go-to solution across the organization whenever data wrangling and complex pipeline orchestration are needed.
Rémi Sultan, AI/ML Lead
→ Orchestrating AI-powered OpenAPI spec generation and ML model pipelines so Gravitee customers can auto-document their APIs with one click
Zerocustomer training needed
50%reduction of pipelines maintenance time
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SaaS
Gorgias
Leading AI customer experience platform for ecommerce brands
Declarative Data Engineering is rising as Data teams embrace software practices and Kestra got this point right allowing data practitioners to collaborate around a common tool.
Antoine Balliet, Senior Data Engineer
→ Unifying data ingestion, dbt transformations, and reverse-ETL in a declarative IaC stack
Centralizedcontrol plane
20 000+executions per month
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Customer Intelligence
Acxiom
Global leader in customer intelligence and AI-driven marketing
Kestra was the only tool that combined true multi-tenant isolation, metadata-driven orchestration, and easy integration with our existing AWS and Databricks environments. It provided the foundation we needed to scale confidently.
Director of Engineering
→ Running 50+ enterprise clients in fully isolated multi-tenant pipelines on the Axiom Cloud platform
Declarativedynamic & metadata-driven workflows
120+engineers empowered
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TelecomTechnology Services
Amdocs
Global provider of software and services for communications and media companies
→ Delivering fully provisioned, deployed, and validated integration environments on demand, shrinking wait times from days to hours
Days → Hoursenvironment delivery time
Validated on Deliverytest-ready environments out of the box
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Technology Services
Apple
Global technology company behind iPhone, Mac, and the world's largest app marketplace
→ Replacing Airflow for 200 ML engineers running massive ETL workloads across the App Store, Apple Music, and device data
200ML engineers on Kestra
Language-Agnosticdeclarative YAML pipelines
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Advertising
Foundation Data
Data and analytics partner for automotive dealerships
→ Replacing SuperMetrics, Prefect, and dbt Cloud with one platform to cut toolchain costs 90% and serve 1,000s of automotive dealerships
50+workflows in production
10xfaster to build
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Public Sector
Dataport
Government-owned IT service provider for German public administration
→ Building a fully self-hosted, auditable private-cloud control plane for Germany's public-sector IT services provider Dataport
1 Control Planefor private-cloud automation
3 Weeksto validate compliancy
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Retail
Leroy Merlin France
Global home improvement and gardening retailer
→ Replacing Airflow to build a self-service data mesh serving 250+ engineers across 140 stores
+900%in data production
+250active users
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RetailManufacturing
Fila
Global sportswear brand with a century-long legacy
→ Orchestrating ERP and supply chain workflows across 70+ countries during a global IT transformation
2.5 Millionmonthly executions
2000+workflows
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GovernmentPublic Sector
Government IT Provider
European government IT provider managing SOC operations across multiple German federal states
→ Replacing Palo Alto XSOAR with 100+ fully self-hosted SOC alert workflows serving 6 German federal states with zero cloud dependencies
100+SOC workflows in production
6federal states served
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E-commerceRetail
Víssimo Group
Brazil's leading premium wine e-commerce and retail group
→ Consolidating an iPaaS and AWS Lambdas onto one platform to cut costs 90% and run Brazil's premium wine group's first zero-incident Black Friday
40%BI and ETL cost reduction
90%integration cost reduction
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Healthcare
Pharmacy Retailer
Leading pharmacy retail chain operating in a highly regulated market
→ Replacing a 30-year-old legacy integration platform to modernize 50+ critical workflows across 400+ on-prem pharmacies
400+pharmacy relies on Kestra workflows
50+critical workflows modernized
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BankingInvestment
JPMorgan Chase
Global financial services and investment banking leader
→ Processing billions of cybersecurity records and 4,000+ weekly API pulls for 100+ JPMorgan Chase analysts fighting fraud and threat intelligence
Billionsof cybersecurity records processed
100+users empowered to run secure workflows
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Banking
Crédit Agricole
Infrastructure arm of France's largest retail banking group
→ Automating infrastructure operations across 100+ clusters for France's largest banking group
7data teams unified
100+managed clusters
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Heavy Industry
Fortune 500 Company
Global Fortune 500 heavy industry manufacturer
→ Replacing VMware Aria Automation to deliver isolated per-OT-asset orchestration 30x faster at 90% lower licensing cost for a Fortune 500 industrial manufacturer
4 OT + 1 ITisolated automation platforms
30× fastertime to deliver
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InvestmentBanking
Bouygues Immobilier
Leading French real estate developer and property investor
→ Orchestrating a modern data stack with dbt, BigQuery, and Hightouch to double conversion rates for a real estate investment platform
Plug&Playintegrations
2xincreased conversion rates
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Cloud Provider
Clever Cloud
European cloud provider and IT automation platform
→ Automating 20TB of weekly monitoring data offloading for a European PaaS provider, reducing manual tasks by 80%
20TBof data managed weekly
80%reduction in manual data offloading tasks
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Human Resources
CleverConnect
AI-driven recruitment and talent management platform
→ Accelerating connector development 10x to build hundreds of HR system integrations for an AI-driven recruitment platform
10xincrease in connector development speed
2 Monthsto production readiness
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SaaS
Gorgias
Leading AI customer experience platform for ecommerce brands
→ Unifying data ingestion, dbt transformations, and reverse-ETL in a declarative IaC stack
Centralizedcontrol plane
20 000+executions per month
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Cloud Provider
Software Provider
Cloud platform provider for regulated banking and insurance industries
→ Turning ad-hoc Terraform scripts into auditable, least-privilege self-service automation across three isolated environments for banking and insurance customers
100%automation runs auditable and traceable
0uncontrolled access
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Media TechSaaS
Riverside
Remote recording platform for podcasts and video interviews
→ Connecting dbt Cloud, Snowflake, Metaplane, and Hightouch into a single dependency-aware pipeline without rewriting a single existing script
6+data tools orchestrated
4orchestrators evaluated Astronomer, Dagster, Mage, and Orchestra all rejected
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Customer IntelligenceMarketing
Acxiom
Global leader in customer intelligence and AI-driven marketing
→ Running 50+ enterprise clients in fully isolated multi-tenant pipelines on the Axiom Cloud platform
Declarativedynamic & metadata-driven workflows
120+engineers empowered
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Green IT
Sopht
French startup automating Green ITOps and decarbonization tracking
→ Scaling from 1,240 to 6,200 daily jobs with 99.5% reliability in tenant-isolated pipelines for a Green ITOps decarbonization platform
Plug & Play Terraformmanaged flow activation
99.5%job success rate
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API Management
Gravitee
Open-source API management platform for modern DevOps teams
→ Orchestrating AI-powered OpenAPI spec generation and ML model pipelines so Gravitee customers can auto-document their APIs with one click
Zerocustomer training needed
50%reduction of pipelines maintenance time
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Education Management
NetworkLessons
Online learning platform for Cisco network certifications
→ Consolidating AWS Lambda functions, ChatGPT, and Zendesk into one platform as a one-man Cisco training business
Cutmaintenance time
Increasedresponse rate to customers
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Travel Industry
Airpaz
Online travel platform for flight and hotel bookings
→ Cutting manual data processing by 70% while connecting 10 sources for a Southeast Asia flight and hotel booking platform
70%reduction in manual data processing
Improveddata pipeline reliability
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Travel Industry
Copines de Voyage
Exclusive travel agency for women
→ Replacing legacy PHP cron jobs with dbt and BigQuery pipelines for a women-only travel agency, doubling team efficiency
X2team efficiency
Simplifiedworkflow management
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Advertising
Displayce
Digital out-of-home advertising platform across 1 million+ screens worldwide
→ Cutting processing time 40% by centralizing orchestration across dbt, ClickHouse, and S3 for a digital out-of-home ad platform covering 1M+ screens
40%reduction of processing time
50%increase in workflow efficiency
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SaaS
HTCH
Collaborative architectural modeling and design tool
→ Orchestrating Kafka events, S3 uploads, and 3D file transformations for a collaborative architectural design web platform
EasyKafka integration
Terabytesuploaded to S3
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Consulting
Ntico
Geospatial data consulting and system integration
→ Orchestrating 250+ geospatial datasets from satellite imagery and public APIs for a housing intelligence platform, cutting processing costs 50%
Terabytesof geospatial data managed
50%cost reduction of processing
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Automotive
Quadis
Spain's largest car retailer
→ Automating daily financial reports and customer communications for Spain's largest car retailer after replacing Pentaho ETL tools
ZEROdowntime
50%cost reduction of processing
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Retail
Reglo
Premium pet nutrition brand
→ Triggering Airbyte ingestion and dbt transformations from a single Slack command for a French premium pet nutrition e-commerce brand
AutomatedETL process
1 dayof manual effort saved each month
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