ONLINE RETAILER MARKET DASHBOARD A PERPETUAL EDGE ON GROWTH 15% 10,000 $3.8bn How Tectrade is enabling a major retailer to speed up the delivery of new Channel shift is The company offers In 2019, this retail sector offerings to their target market in order to sustain growth. significant in this market an extended range of was worth over $3.8 with 15% of 2019’s sales over 10,000 products billion – an increase of Our Client: is evolving its online retail website to take advantage of containerisation to made online – on its online shopping almost 20% over the last drastically reduce the time taken to release new functionality. The new transactional double the level in 2015. website. five years. shopping system will also reduce operational overheads. CONTEXT CHALLENGE SOLUTION OUTCOMES “WITH HIGH PROCESSING DEMANDS FROM CUSTOMER INTERACTIONS, As an omni-channel retailer, our The current e-commerce platform is By moving to a containerised version The success of this containerisation client must exploit new technology based on HCL Commerce (formerly of the application, our client can initiative can be measured across CONTAINERS OFFER A WIDE RANGE to enhance offerings in store as IBM WebSphere). The version exploit the advantages of this recent several factors: well as online. deployed is essentially a very large technology. OF ADVANTAGES, FROM BETTER • Deployment processes have been monolithic Java application. In today’s fast moving e-commerce By breaking the application into decreased by 60%. HANDLING OF ORDER PEAKS environment, the company has Our client wants to introduce new smaller units, different areas of • Deployment frequency has been seen dramatic growth online, feature and function at pace, but functionality are isolated from each THROUGH TO IMMENSE REDUCTIONS increased by a factor of four – raising revenues by 35% over the this is hampered by the unwieldy other. Each area can be changed, effectively moving from a monthly IN COSTS DUE TO THE REDUCED past five years. The companies nature of the application and the tested and deployed independently. implementation cycle to weekly ambition is to increase online need to thoroughly test new This simplifies the deployment process DEMANDS ON THE COMPANY’S releases. revenue by 50% year-on-year for releases before launching into and reducing the time to implement the next three years. production. The current deployment new features. • Peak server load is 15% lower INFRASTRUCTURE.” schedule is resource intensive and than previously due to more Compared to virtual machines (VMs), takes days to complete, resulting in efficient use of resources. containers make more efficient use of a monthly release cycle at best. GOAL infrastructure. At any time, resources In the digital economy, services need To reduce the time to deploy new The company needed a solution to are only required for the number of to be available 24/7 and new updates functionality from the current three achieve two objectives: increase the containers necessary to run the must be introduced regularly. Our to four day process - and increase frequency of deployment while current workload. client required tools that guarantee the deployment cycle from monthly reducing the cost of each speed, stability and scalability and New versions of software can be rolled to weekly. Ultimately the company deployment. cloud-native technologies such as out seamlessly and with no down-time wants to be able to introduce new containers offer maximum flexibility thanks to the container orchestration features daily. and adaptability. engine that manages the process..