Customer Profile

20th Century Fox

Company

20th Century Fox is a developer, producer, and worldwide distributor of feature films and television programs, as well as broadcast and cable television network programming.

Industry

Media & Entertainment

Geography

Americas

Solutions Products Challenges
  • Simulate Fox’s anticipated load of 240 users with simultaneous online transactions and report generation activity
  • Meet growing demand for more users, faster transaction processing, and high volumes of report generation
  • Load balance report servers across operating systems and process types
Results
  • Improved online transaction processing by 50 percent
  • Verified a bottleneck caused by an undersized system database
  • Generated the data required to optimize load balancing on report servers, thus improving report generation functionality for users
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Case Study

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When five or six users were making entries onto the system, there was no problem, but when 50 or 60 users tried it, the system crashed. That was something that was so difficult to find, something we would have never been able to catch had we not done a load test with Borland SilkPerformer. Rajeev Diddee Director of information technology financial systems
20th Century Fox