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Client Overview

With US$5 billion total revenue in 2013, the client is a US based luxury leather goods provider operating over 700 global retail locations and employing over 12,000 people

Business Need

Client was using Liferay-based intranet developed by New Jersey-based consulting company and hosted it with Liferay-certified hosting provider. The site was LIVE for over a year with following critical performance and stability issues
  • Slow performance
    • Page load time over 70s when accessing from retail outlets on a 256kbps connection
    • Page load time varied from 10s to as much as 60s when accessed within the premise
  • Lack of stability
    • Intranet had to be restarted on a daily basis
    • Intranet unresponsive at 80-100 concurrent users

Solution

After evaluating various Liferay partners, the client engaged CIGNEX for a 3- week assignment comprising performance assessment and tuning consulting services.

Benefits

  • Stability and Speed
    • Stability:
      • Intranet was responsive for 80-100 concurrent users
      • No need to restart intranet everyday
  • Performance
    • Page load time came down from 70 to 18 secs on 256Kbps connection (>300% improvement)
    • Page load time came down to 3-4 seconds (>250% improvement) for in-premise access
    • Delivered performance review & recommendation guidelines