Case Study: Digiexam achieves automated, scalable exam grading and doubles users annually with Google Cloud Platform

Digiexam freeing teachers’ time with automated assessment on Google Cloud Platform

Digiexam is a Swedish digital exam and assessment provider that helps schools replace time‑consuming paper grading with an intuitive, cloud‑based SaaS platform. Founded in 2012, the company faced two main challenges: making automated marking affordable for schools that couldn’t bear high upfront infrastructure costs, and delivering a highly reliable, secure system that can scale instantly during national exam peaks (as many as 30,000 students at once).

Digiexam built its service on Google Cloud Platform—using App Engine, Cloud Datastore/SQL, Kubernetes Engine, Load Balancing, Cloud KMS and BigQuery—to provide strong security, automatic scaling and low maintenance. The result: the platform auto‑scales to handle 5,000% spikes in activity, lets a 24‑person team support rapid global growth, has doubled its user base annually since 2014, and uses BigQuery analytics to boost product insights and improve customer retention.

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Robin Andersson

Chief Technology Officer