Case Study: 100 US Retailing Company achieves low-latency, scalable real-time eCommerce inventory with GigaSpaces

100 US Retailing Company - Customer Case Study

A Top 100 US retailer with 300 stores, a growing online presence, $4.1B in revenue and 50% annual growth faced multiple challenges: maintaining transactional integrity for real-time inventory, scaling the web-tier cache, establishing a multi-data-center and cloud-capable deployment, providing reliable, fully tolerant HTTP session sharing, and migrating off a legacy Blue Martini platform on proprietary hardware to commodity hardware and modern eCommerce platforms (ATG/Hybris).

The retailer implemented XAP to deliver a multi-tenant, grid-based, cloud-oriented in-memory inventory and catalog system decoupled from the eCommerce platform, enabling migration with minimal changes and zero impact on the frontend. The solution sustained low latency at peak loads (50,000 requests/sec), supported reliable, scalable session and inventory handling, and experienced no failures during the holiday season, resulting in an excellent user experience.