Case Study: Ace Hardware achieves 24/7 highly responsive global applications and CRM/ERP reliability with Radware's Application Front‑End

Ace Hardware Provides Customers and Employees with Global Enhanced Service

Ace Hardware, the largest retailer‑owned cooperative with over 4,800 stores in 50 states and 70 countries, needed to improve customer shopping and employee responsiveness by increasing the reliability, performance and security of its CRM, ERP and other distributed applications across its global retail locations.

Ace deployed Radware’s Application Front‑End (AFE) solution—providing health monitoring, load balancing, traffic prioritization, bandwidth management and application acceleration—across its server farms. The result was fault‑tolerant transactions, faster application response times, prioritized mission‑critical traffic (CRM/ERP), 24/7 availability for e‑commerce and internal apps, and immediate ROI through reduced latency and more efficient SSL handling.

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