How Customers Won With BlazeMeter

ABOUT BRACKET COMPUTING Bracket Computing was founded with the goal of empowering enterprise IT with controls to stop the spread of malware, malicious insiders, and mistakes without impacting the speed and agility of the self-service cloud.

With almost 30 million customers, and more than 620 stores on the high street, BT is the largest provider of consumer mobile and fixed broadband communications services in the UK. It also sells communications and IT services to around 1.2 million businesses and public sector organisations in the UK and Republic of Ireland. Additionally, BT provides network products and services to more than 1,400 communication providers (CPs) operating in Great Britain and serving enterprise customers in 180 countries.

British Telecom (BT) Group, a global leader in communications services, sought to enhance their software testing capabilities to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and accelerate time-to-market. By leveraging BlazeMeter’s advanced Performance Testing and Service Virtualization capabilities, BT Group was able to transform its testing processes and overcome integration and testing challenges across their complex tech stack. This case study explores how BT achieved remarkable results, including a 93% reduction in spam and 5G Standalone with substantial cost savings.

ABOUT CRUISE Cruise is a San-Francisco-based autonomous vehicle company – offering self-driving services that help people and items get to places with greater safety and efficiency. Cruise’s platform engineers maintain the tooling and processes for collecting and monitoring data, including metrics, logging and incident management. In addition, they manage over 60 Kubernetes clusters, which are used by Cruise’s developers to run production workloads and services.

Deckers Brands uses BlazeMeter as part of their automated continuous testing strategy. Blazemeter tests are run every weekend to ensure their e-commerce website is performing as expected. In addition, BlazeMeter is used to test the website before peak events like Black Friday and the big 5, and when their e-commerce website is being updated.

ABOUT GLOBANT Globant is a global software development house with nearly 10,000 employees, operating in 16 countries around the world. Their customers include multinational airlines, pharmaceutical companies, telecommunication companies and global banks.

The largest bank in Australia was quickly outgrowing vast amounts of old scripts and their testing setup. With such a large legacy footprint to update, it was no easy feat. Yet with effective collaboration and problem-solving, the bank actualized a level of success they had not experienced before.

In preparation for upcoming March Madness and other international television broadcasts, this major media company needed to test the performance of their network prior to these large events.

ABOUT THE COMPANY A Fortune 100 insurance and financial services company is undergoing a highly successful digital transformation initiative. The company spends over $1 billion (USD) on IT every year, of which around $500 million (USD) is allocated to technology-enabled transformation programs. It has approximately 6,000 employees and contractors writing complex code on a daily basis. One of the largest and most respected insurance companies in the United States is undergoing As part of a major enterprise-wide digital transformation project, the organization is optimizing the way they do software testing to achieve quality with speed. This means shifting testing to the left—so testing is primarily done by the Agile teams as part of the application development process.

ABOUT MOVIETICKETS.COM Movietickets.com is a global leader in online movie ticketing, celebrity news, and movie reviews. Moviegoers can quickly and easily buy tickets for over 240 international theater chains from their desktops, mobiles, or car infotainment systems.

ABOUT STANCE E-COMMERCE Stance is a small brand that easily maintained an infrastructure that supported their everyday traffic and holiday spikes, but when they signed Rihanna, they knew they were going to see an unprecedented rise in visitors to their site. “We needed a consistently high service level because we were selling limited edition socks.” Rihanna has over 80 million followers that are very engaged. Her online community, known as ‘The Rihanna Army’, generates a huge amount of interest with every post she makes. “We knew how to handle our normal traffic and spikes, but not scale like this.”

As a nationally recognized leader in the auction industry, Steffes Group was on the verge of launching a sophisticated, customer-facing online auction platform. Their initial performance testing partner was experiencing scaling limitations that did not meet their specific needs. So — in the eleventh hour of the project — Steffes Group turned to BlazeMeter.