Case Study: BBC achieves faster real-time content delivery with Progress Software MarkLogic

BBC handles 3 billion requests in its first year with Progress Software

The BBC faced challenges with its legacy system, which slowed productivity, innovation, and content delivery. Their growing content required massive scalability and faster response times, and they needed to integrate diverse data types while meeting rapid development deadlines. To address this, they turned to vendor Progress Software and its product MarkLogic.

Progress Software implemented an Operational Data Hub in the cloud. This solution resulted in query times dropping from 20 seconds to 200 milliseconds, allowing the BBC iPlayer to handle three billion requests in its first year. The BBC also served 2.8 petabytes of data on a single peak day with zero downtime, dramatically improving scalability, speed, and reducing total IT costs.

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