UPSTACK works with Zulily to provide a business growth strategy for a modern hosting infrastructure

Summary

Seattle-based Zulily has rapidly become an eCommerce industry darling thanks to a brilliant business strategy, company culture that embraces speed, and willingness to fully embrace cloud economics. Zulily reached its first $1 billion in annual revenue with only Amazon and Old Navy hitting that mark faster.

The Approach and Services

UPSTACK first spent weeks with leadership and the application team leads to fully understand their needs, knowing that they would have unique requirements in an extremely complex environment. The new hosting infrastructure would have to support them in customized ways and still be able to take advantage of cloud economics. Client confidentiality would be paramount too, allowing Zulily to remain anonymous throughout a multi-vendor due-diligence process.

Services included:

• A technology roadmap
• Application workshops and requirements gathering
• Due diligence via a market intelligence assessment
• Solutions architecture
• Proposal management

The Outcome

After reaching its first $1 billion in annual revenue, Zulily launched an extremely successful IPO and now leverages their new solution to support millions of customers daily. Their hosting strategy supports their continued growth of millions of new customers each month. UPSTACK provided Zulily the tools to better plan, navigate, and negotiate future growth.

Results included:

• Secure savings of 20% over previous hosting model
• Ensured client confidentiality while preparing IPO
• Achieving flexibility and massive scaling via cloud economic model
• Establishing a hosting strategy to address technical complexity

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