Case Study: Pivotree achieves record Black Friday scalability and zero-downtime Oracle RAC performance on AWS with FlashGrid

Pivotree handles 5x Black Friday session growth with FlashGrid

Pivotree was leading a digital transformation project for a global retailer, which involved moving an on-premises Oracle ATG Commerce with Oracle RAC implementation to AWS. The challenge was to achieve better scalability for the retailer's e-commerce systems to handle the holiday season. FlashGrid was engaged to support this initiative.

FlashGrid provided an assessment and initial sizing before Pivotree used FlashGrid Launcher to deploy a new Oracle RAC cluster in AWS. The solution consisted of three database nodes across availability zones. This implementation supported a record-breaking 5x growth in peak user sessions during Black Friday 2019 with zero downtime, leading to a substantial revenue increase for the retailer.