Case Study: Largest Aircraft Manufacturing and Defense Contracting Company achieves web-scale, millisecond identity performance with Ping Identity

Global Aerospace Leader Rockets to Web-Scale Response Times

A global aerospace leader — one of the world’s largest aircraft manufacturers and defense contractors — was struggling to manage rapidly growing identity records for employees, retirees and contractors. Legacy Oracle and Sun directory systems caused outages, could not scale to meet modern app and cloud needs, were expensive to maintain, and lacked the data access governance and security required for sensitive government contracts.

The company performed a phased migration to the Ping Identity Platform, consolidating 20 directory servers across three data centers and modernizing its IAM stack. The result: web-scale millisecond response times for 100M+ identities, military‑grade encryption and access controls, reduced hardware and operational costs, minimal disruption during migration, and improved extensibility for new cloud deployments.