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Just Group Achieves Web Page Acceleration with Simple, Instant and Effective Radware Solutions

Technology Category
  • Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration
  • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Industries
  • Retail
Applicable Functions
  • Business Operation
  • Sales & Marketing
Use Cases
  • Process Control & Optimization
  • Real-Time Location System (RTLS)
Services
  • Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
  • System Integration
The Challenge
Just Group, a major Australian fashion retail company, was facing a significant challenge with its seven ecommerce sites. With up to 100 million monthly page visits, the company needed a robust and efficient solution to replace its old load balancing solution and ensure optimal performance for each site. The company was experiencing a 10+ second load time for its web pages, despite attempts at web application code optimization. This was a significant issue as research shows that 57% of users abandon pages that take longer than 3 seconds to load, and are measurably less likely to convert from browsing to buying. Just Group needed a solution that would not only minimize page load time but also offload the optimization work from the site’s programmer.
About The Customer
Just Group is a major Australian fashion retail company founded in 1970. The group is comprised of seven well-known retail brands, each operating within its own segment and customers. Headquartered in Richmond, Australia, Just Group has over 1000 retail outlets across the globe. All seven brands of Just Group including Peter Alexander, Just Jeans, Jacqui E, JayJays, Portmans, Smiggle and Dotti are available on both desktop and mobile devices. With over 6,000 employees located across four countries, Just Group relies on the commitment and passion of employees to provide outstanding service to its customers.
The Solution
To address the challenges, Just Group deployed two solutions in front of its ecommerce sites. The first was the deployment of two Alteon 5224s, which provided services that ensure availability, performance, and security of mission-critical applications in the data center. They also deployed Radware ADC-VX, a specialized hypervisor for ADC services which runs fully functional virtual ADC instances such as application acceleration through FastView. The Alteon NG devices deployed are used to load balance each of its seven sites while the additional three are used for their development and staging environments of web applications. The second solution was the deployment of FastView to accelerate both its desktop and mobile web sites. FastView is a high-performance web application optimization appliance. The FastView technology was an easy integration and simple add-on to the Alteon NG solution, further increasing its added value to Just Group’s web applications.
Operational Impact
  • Just Group achieved a simple, instant and effective solution to improve the quality of experience for customers.
  • The organization did not have to change or install anything new in their existing servers, web application code or network but rather just re-route traffic through FastView using the traffic redirection of the Alteon NG they deployed.
  • After a few hours of working with the Radware team to deploy the box and configure Alteon NG for traffic redirection through FastView, Just Group was ready to go.
Quantitative Benefit
  • With FastView acceleration, Just Group attained over a 30% reduction in load time for desktop and mobile users.
  • The amount of traffic from its servers and internet pipe was significantly reduced as caching on the browser side was enhanced due to FastView.

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