| eCommerce | eLearning | Entertainment |
| Financial | High Tech | Media |
| Services | Social Media |
| eCommerce | ||
 | Mattel: American Girl - As one of the leading brands for Mattel, American Girl experiences significant activity on their site during the holiday shopping season. They not only sell dolls and merchandise, but they are also a destination site for their fans. They made great use of SOASTA Performance Engineers and the ability to do external testing to ensure high performance throughout the holidays. | |
 | Best Buy - One of the brands working with SOASTA partner Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Best Buy needed to prepare for the holiday rush. Hintdropper is a Facebook app that allows you to send a friend a hint about what you want for Xmas. This past holiday season it was tested up to 50,000 simultaneous users. Carolers is a similar app that allows for gift suggestions, was also tested. | |
 | Brightstar - Working with big box retailers to fulfill high volumes of online orders, Brightstar built a very powerful fulfillment engine. As they needed to make sure the site could handle a max volume of orders, Brightstar utilized CloudTest to simulate the peak traffic. | |
 | Chegg Inc. - Chegg's innovative business of renting books, not unlike you would rent instead of buy a DVD, has earned them a spot on virtually every list of up-and-coming companies. It also creates huge demands at very specific times during the year. Read more | |
 | Cooper Industries - Cooper Industries relies on SOASTA CloudTest to help them conduct regular, internal testing on a number of applications and sites. Cooper takes advantage of the fact that with CloudTest inside their test lab, a testing team can conduct both load/performance tests as well as Functional/WebUI tests. | |
 | Crayola - Over the course of testing a wide range of scenarios with Crayola we were able to identify characteristics that slowed down the site as well as measure the benefits of partners such as Akamai in offloading resources and increasing performance. | |
 | Cuervo - In partnership with CP+B, Cuervo launched a Facebook app that corresponded with a live music event run on Justin.TV. The app allowed visitors to vote on a performance. CP+B called on SOASTA to test the voting application prior to the live event. | |
 | Dominos Pizza - A CP+B customer, they wanted to ensure that pizzaturnaround.com could support peak load levels expected on a target date for a major campaign. This test was designed to ensure peak capacity of 2 million unique visits per day; roughly 80,000 visits per hour or 1500 visits per minute. | |
 | Gap - In conjunction with a major national TV ad buy, CP+B launched a site for Gap called Cheer Factory, which allowed visitors to send 'holiday cheers' to friends in the form of short videos of cheerleaders performing a cheer. They launched the site and after experiencing a flood of users, leveraged CloudTest to improve the website's performance. | |
 | Gilt Groupe - They can accurately replicate the stress put on the infrastructure by their steadily increasing volume, as well as the dramatic spikes put into motion by “flash sales”. Seeing the results in real-time through the CloudTest Analytics Dashboard illustrated the speed with which they can identify potential bottlenecks. Read more | |
 | Hallmark Cards, Inc. - Throughout the year Hallmark uses the CloudTest appliance to test the performance of their website. To prepare for spikes associated with e-card holidays such as Valentine's Day and Mother's Day, they take those same tests to the Cloud to test externally and at scale. Watch the Webinar | |
 | LeapFrog Enterprises, Inc. - A primary goal in testing was to identify any bottlenecks in the LeapFrog infrastructure. The scenarios simulated page views with slow ramp times. The virtual users were ramped up to identify the point at which the infrastructure became saturated. | |
 | M-Dot - When providing services to the retail industry, companies such as M-Dot Networks, which does real-time redemption of digitial coupons, must make their customers (the retailers) confident that the solution can scale and not negatively impact the shopping experience. Read more | |
 | Old Navy - Old Navy tested a micro-site developed by CP+B where visitors log on and received coupons for large discounts on a weekly basis. They used CloudTest to eliminate performance issues that were occurring every week when the new coupon dropped. | |
 | Parago - Parago is a leading provider of rewards-based incentive solutions. They've developed and launched websites for the government's Appliance Rebate program in many states. As the deployment continues to expand to additional states, and the application changes, they need to make sure they can handle the growth. | |
 | Procter & Gamble - From Pampers to Head and Shoulders, P&G has some of the most recognizable brands in the world. And they are the masters of promotion. SOASTA has tested how well their sites can respond, not only in the U.S. but even with users coming from China. | |
 | Thompson and Company - When Thompson and Company moved their ecommerce platform to a new host, they needed to make sure the site performed better in the new environment. Testing with CloudTest gave them the actionable information necessary to make the switch with confidence. | |
 | Ulta - SOASTA helped this online beauty supply company gain the confidence they needed when upgrading their production infrastructure. Hosted and managed by SOASTA's partner Rackspace, this service was delivered as part of their initiative to add value for their key customers. | |
 | Wendy's - SOASTA worked with leading development shop White Knight to test applications for Wendy's, including a very cool auction site (99CentBidForValue.com) and an eCard delivery platform for Father's Day (FrostyCard.com) | |
| [ back to top ] | eLearning | |
 | Blackboard Inc. - needs the ability to conduct frequent load tests inside their lab, but at times they require the ability to test at a scale beyond their internal capabilities. This is a consistent testing requirement seen by SOASTA that leverages the power of CloudTest to test inside the firewall, and use the same tests to push higher traffic by generating virtual users with the Cloud. | |
 | University of Notre Dame - Universities face spikes in traffic at various times throughout the year, whether it's handling applications in the spring, on campus events or class scheduling. Notre Dame leveraged CloudTest to help make architecture decisions to support these applications. | |
 | Silverchair Learning Systems - In advance of a major release of their online education platform, and quickly approaching their go-live date, Silverchair relied on SOASTA to quickly build testing scripts and conduct load testing before the deadline. Speed was of the essence and SOASTA delivered. | |
| [ back to top ] | Entertainment | |
 | Activision - With just a month to go before the 2007 holiday season, Activision used CloudTest to ensure their website would be ready to launch the newest edition of its biggest selling game, “Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock.” Activision continues to use CloudTest help to optimize the performance of their site. Read more | |
 | Boylesports - Based in Ireland, the gaming site BoyleSports was gearing up for a busy weekend. The NFL Super Bowl and high-profile Premier League matches were occurring on the same day and betting would be at peak levels. CloudTest allowed BoyleSports to test well beyond their anticipated peak user levels; enabling the site to perform perfectly on the big day. | |
 | Churchill Downs - The Kentucky Derby may only last a couple of minutes but the stress on the Kentucky Derby website lasts for hours around race time. How did they prepare for the onslaught of horce racing fans? Read more | |
 | Netflix, Inc. - Streaming video is coming to more devices than ever before, from smart phones to gaming systems. SOASTA is helping address not only the bandwidth challenge, but the complexities of authenticating users without adversely affecting the user experience. | |
 | THQ Inc. - a leading worldwide developer and publisher of interactive entertainment software, utilized SOASTA's CloudTest solution for load testing the launch of a UFC Community website to quickly identify bottlenecks and ensure confidence with performance under high capacity traffic. THQ appreciated the flexibility and monitoring capabilities to identify issues and ensure performance of the web property. | |
| [ back to top ] | Financial | |
 | Associated Bank - Responding to potential events is important for almost every website. In this case, SOASTA stressed 401.associatedbank.com to simulate a rush of users coming onto the site to view and change their 401k investment choices in the case of a sudden market event. | |
 | Intuit - Each year Intuit faces one of the most consistent and challenging performances problems on the Internet: insuring filers can get those last minute taxes in. Read more | |
 | Mortgagebot.com - As the leader in online lending technology, 950 banks and credit unions depend on Mortgagebot's award-winning SaaS platform to deliver mortgage origination services of $150 billion per year. Mortgagebot selected CloudTest as the only solution that could support the full-scale validation of their market-leading Rich Internet Apps built with Flex/AMF and SOAP web services. | |
| [ back to top ] | High Tech | |
 | BloomEnergy - Introducing a product on 60 Minutes and then putting a count down clock on your website that says you're going live 3 days later is inviting a huge spike in traffic. That's what Bloom Energy did and, they used CloudTest to gain the confidence they could handle it. | |
 | Day Software, Inc. - Having a terrific Content Management System has made Day a success. But as the software is customized the opportunity to impact performance grows. With CloudTest, Day is able to establish a baseline of performance and provide their customers with a way to test their implementations. | |
 | Microsoft - Using the Azure platform to generate load, Microsoft tested the Office.com website using CloudTest. “As a result, we are more confident than ever before about our domestic scalability capabilities.” Read more | |
 | Netcraft IT - Understanding the limits of your infrastructure is critical for planning. With the help of SOASTA, Netcraft was able to see how thir site responded to sudden spikes in traffic and where on the site they were most likely to find latency. | |
 | SAP - SAP, a public proponent of Cloud Computing for Product Testing, uses CloudTest to regularly validate the production scalability and performance of SAP technologies and platforms. | |
 | Symantec - SOASTA has taken performance testing to the Cloud...and now Symantec has taken anti-virus applications to the Cloud. But how to test them? CloudTest is used to ramp users, which identified the relationship between users and send rates and yielded a large number of errors that Symantec was able to address before going live. | |
 | Tarsin - eCards have become a common alternative to snail mail cards and their use grows each year. Tarsin provides a way for well-wishers to send cards from their mobile phones. Working with SOASTA, Tarsin used CloudTest to make sure they could deliver on major holidays, such as Valentine's Day. | |
 | Vovici - Using a slow ramp with real world delays, Vovici was able to handle their initial traffic goals without a problem. When hit with a spike test they discovered where the likely sources of stress are and gained insight into how long it would take to recover. Knowledge is power! | |
| [ back to top ] | Media | |
 | Media General, Inc. - This major media outlet, which runs a number of newspapers, television stations and web sites primarily in the Southeast, launched a new CMS used by all their web properties. In the deadline driven news world, Media General needed to make sure the platform performed well at peak times as to not impact their readers. | |
 | Newsday - needed to test up to 3000 VUs for their online customer subscription application and did not have the pre-requisite licenses from their current vendor. They did several rounds of testing to improve the performance of the application, resulting in the confidence they could scale to meet expected demand. | |
 | Newsweek - One of the Newsweek value-added services are quizzes and polls about topics ranging from President Obama to lifestyle. Such interactive applications need to perform in order to engage the user. CloudTest has also been used to test auto-scaling of the applications on the site. | |
 | Radio network While we can't use their name, this is a particularly interesting customer because of the Apple iPad. Mobile apps, particularly those that offer a rich experience, are driving more users to websites than ever before. This network released one of the first, and most popular, iPad apps and used CloudTest to ensure they could scale. | |
 | SNL Financial - SNL is the premier provider of breaking news, financial data and expert analysis on the business sectors critical to the global economy. The company was in the midst of relaunching their platform and came to SOASTA to perform baseline testing on both versions to make sure V 2.0 performed as well as its predecessor. | |
 | St. Petersburg Times - When a high traffic web site such as Yahoo! links to a story on their site, the huge spike in traffic could potentially bring the site down. St. Petersburg Times uses CloudTest to make sure they can hold up under the stress. | |
 | The Street - Launching a new site can be a stressful time, particularly when you have high expectations for traffic. For TheStreet.com, knowing the precise level at which they would encounter slowed response times, and why, along with identifying appropriate caching schemes helped them launch the site with confidence. | |
 | theRoot.com - A site run The Washington Post, theRoot team rolled out a new application that required hitting their main page, verifying load times for javascript and testing registration and log in flows. | |
 | VentureBeat - Over the course of testing you learn what actions will lead to better performance, assuming you have a service like CloudTest. For VentureBeat, hardware and caching changes helped them achieve their goal of handling the maximum amount of traffic that their incoming bandwidth could support. | |
 | Washington Post - The team initially engaged with us for the Newsweek testing. Impressed with the results and the responsiveness provided by SOASTA, they began using CloudTest for their own projects, eventually investing in a block of hours to be used throughout the company. They continue to use the pooled hours for testing throughout the organization. | |
| [ back to top ] | Services | |
 | APCO Worldwide - United Airlines and Contintental knew that the announcement of a merger would spark interest from shareholders, press and customers. To address those questions they created a specific site that, without Cloud Testing, would likely have had problems under the onrush of visitors after the merger was announced. | |
 | CACI International Inc - CACI provides professional services and IT solutions for the defense, intelligence, homeland security, and federal civilian government arenas. CACI needs to identify potential bottlenecks in the infrastructure on which they host various applications for its clients, which have the potential to be quite large. | |
 | Crispin Porter + Bogusky - Launching 'buzz' and social media campaigns has shifted the way companies spend their ad dollars. Ensuring that the campaign performs well in times of heavy stress is of utmost importance. SOASTA works with CP+B on a regular basis testing campaigns they launch for their clients. Brands include Best Buy, Gap, Old Navy, Dominos, and Cuervo. | |
 | Denny's Corporation - Denny's came to SOASTA to help identify potential performance problems in advance of a major ad campaign on Super Bowl Sunday. The result: after finding and fixing a few areas of risk, Denny's experienced a 1,700% increase in traffic to their site on Super Bowl Sunday and cruised across the goal line. | |
 | Irdeto - Protecting and managing rich digital content for their clients is what Irdeto is all about. High bandwidth content has implications on performance and Irdeto uses CloudTest to help ensure their customers' success. | |
 | Pictela - Originally came to SOASTA for functional testing, but saw a way to do performance testing without taking on additional workload. Hallmark of this engagement was the quick turnaround - testing the same day the contract was signed. They were impressed with the affordability and signed up for a block of hours for testing throughout the year. | |
 | Pittsburgh Foundation - is a non profit that was doing load testing to find bottlenecks in their infrastructure. By testing with CloudTest they found bottlenecks due to their hosting provider's inability to scale. As a non profit, they were impressed with the affordability of large scale testing - in this case, up to 10K VUs. | |
 | REA-Group - Australia's No. 1 real estate web site regularly tests with CloudTest, simulating real search scenarios at a very high volume of virtual users. They also regularly test their environment from an internal perspective using the CloudTest Appliance. They've also used CloudTest to help test disaster recovery. | |
 | Schlumberger Limited - Schlumberger launched an internal employee training portal overseas, but had no way of creating a load test that could simulate load from geographic locations outside of the US. Schlumberger harnessed the power of SOASTA's global testing platform simulating traffic coming from Chennai, India. | |
 | Youcastr - YouCastr uses SOASTA to provide testing of its web site and broadcasting system. The ability to build and execute functional tests against different browsers and Flash versions in order to do end to end system testing was key. Read more | |
| [ back to top ] | Social Media | |
 | Milyoni - Milyoni created the first shopping cart that operates entirely within Facebook, enhanced with features that makes shopping seamless to the social experience. The CloudTest solution was used to load test the capacity of its NBA-focused Ifanstore to ensure confidence with performance during spikes in traffic. | |
 | MySpace - When MySpace launched a new wave of streaming music video offerings they prepared by testing with 1 million concurrent users using 800 EC2 instances. Read more | |
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