Case Study: Soluciones Bolívar achieves 70x faster search, 128% more site visitors and 35% lower operational costs with Elastic Cloud

Soluciones Bolívar expands and sustains digital business with Elastic Cloud

Soluciones Bolívar, the digital-products unit of the Bolívar Group that runs sites like CienCuadras, Doctor Aki, and Jelpit, faced slow search (queries up to 7 seconds), frequent outages during upgrades, and poor SEO that hurt user experience and growth. These performance and scaling issues threatened availability and revenue as traffic and data volumes grew.

Working with Insoftar, they migrated from Amazon Elasticsearch Service to Elasticsearch Service on Elastic Cloud and rebuilt key pages with microservices and Angular, deploying the Elastic Stack. The move yielded millisecond search responses (about 70x faster), a 128% jump in unique monthly visitors (700K to 1.6M), a 101.5% increase in organic users, top‑3 SEO rankings for many keywords, 99.96% uptime with no downtime for scaling, and roughly 30–35% lower operational costs.

Soluciones Bolívar

Aldemar Bernal

Head of Digital Projects