The SIFMA Foundation is an educational non-profit organization dedicated to fostering knowledge and understanding of the financial markets for individuals of all backgrounds, with a focus on youth in underserved communities and students of color. Drawing on the support and expertise of the financial services industry, the SIFMA Foundation provides high quality financial education programming that strengthens economic opportunity across communities and increases individuals’ access to the benefits of the global marketplace.
Payara Platform Enterprise enabled the SIFMA Foundation to scale its operations and to modernize its systems.
Challenges
As student participation surged and expectations around the uptime and flexibility of SIFMA Foundation’s financial education platform increased, the organization’s top application began to show its age. During peak sessions, the platform needed to support upwards of 8,000 concurrent users, yet the infrastructure was only comfortably handling 2,000-4,000 users. The SIFMA Foundation needed a path to modernization for its application and middleware that could support a large volume of requests while integrating smoothly with AIX.
Solution
The SIFMA Foundation decided to migrate its platform to Payara Platform Enterprise. The move from a monolithic C/C++ implementation to a Java-based architecture was a major undertaking, but Payara’s support team and technology minimized disruption and provided immediate modernization benefits. With direct support from expert engineers, the foundation was able to complete the transition smoothly, address compatibility issues quickly and establish a future-ready environment for continuous growth and innovation.
Results
After moving to Payara Platform Enterprise, the impact was immediate and dramatic: user capacity increased by 2x , with per-machine capacity more than doubling from 2,000 to 5,000. Besides unlocking scalability opportunities, the new system improved flexibility for agile enhancements, and enabled future growth to support more machines and users.
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