Case Study: Leading New York mixed-use real estate company achieves 5x online inquiries and 90% return-visit growth with Akumina

Leading Real Estate Company - Customer Case Study

Leading Real Estate Company, a major mixed‑use property in downtown New York marketing over two million square feet of commercial and residential space, needed a modern, personalized public website that could leverage its Office 365, Azure and Dynamics ecosystem, scale for massive traffic spikes (up to 6 million requests/sec), and isolate backend systems for security. The organization engaged Akumina and used Akumina’s server‑side framework (InterChange) to overcome SharePoint Online’s public‑site limitations and meet strict branding, personalization and scalability requirements.

Akumina implemented a three‑tier, headless SharePoint Online solution that centralized disparate Office 365 APIs into a single REST layer, added object/output caching and CDN support, and hosted the site in Azure. The results were substantial: return visits rose 90% year‑over‑year, time on site tripled, online inquiries increased fivefold, and peak‑period performance showed no measurable degradation (<.0001); the CIO became an internal advocate and the customer now extracts much more value from its Office 365 investment thanks to Akumina.