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Digital Platform Transformation: 39% Revenue Increase, 300M Peak Hits

Head of Product|

7 months

+39%

Revenue YoY

300M hits

Peak Traffic

50% faster

Page Load

Projected $68M benefit

Marketing Forecast

The Challenge

The client's digital platform had a legacy Websphere architecture that couldn't scale for peak traffic, price inconsistencies across web, mobile app, and stores causing cart abandonment, and a batch-based marketing system that couldn't do real-time personalization. $2B+ in projected annual digital revenue was at risk.

The Approach

Led four workstreams: (1) Platform Modernization — migrated Product Pages from Websphere to Google Cloud Platform with phased rollout and A/B testing, (2) Price Unification — created single source of truth with real-time sync via Kafka framework, (3) Peak Readiness — built monitoring dashboards and war room for Thanksgiving/Cyber Monday, (4) Marketing Modernization — delivered through price unification and Kafka event-based architecture.

Key Learnings

Phased migration with A/B testing reduces risk vs big-bang cutover
Cross-functional war room alignment is critical for peak readiness
ROI-first business cases unlock executive investment