How Locate partnered with a Fortune 100 company to build a scalable e-commerce platform

e-Commerce Case Study

In the winter of 2016, one of the largest Telcos in the world engaged Locate to drive the soup to nuts revamp of their e-commerce website. There were four key objectives for this engagement:

Replace the existing monolithic systems with a headless API driven eCommerce system that would serve all Web and Frontline systems without having to do a vertical integration on each system

Integrate with all backend systems including Tax Systems, Inventory, Fraud Detection, Enterprise Product Catalogs

Scale to allow over 6,000 orders per minute, and millions of carts

Build from scratch a tailor-made platform that could be brought to market within 10 months, and allow for scaling to meet the ever-changing landscape of eCommerce