Retail banks can support a microservices architecture with event-driven data, decouple front-end and back-end systems, extend middleware, ensure real-time data delivery, integrate legacy system data with web, mobile, and IoT data, and deliver data fast for event processing and analytics. The Diffusion Intelligent Event- Data platform integrates and intelligently manages all of this data to assure an optimal omni-channel customer experience and fuel retail banking success.