Forrester Azul Zing TEI Report

Learn how four innovative customers leveraged Azul Zing to reduce total server count, simplify operations, and improve developer productivity – all while driving down operating costs up to 50%.

Azul commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ study in August, 2020 to evaluate Azul Zing’s total cost of ownership and return on investment based upon results from a variety of customers and use cases. Forrester interviewed Azul customers from the payments, electronic trading, online advertising, and leisure sectors to build a composite organization that realized the following benefits:

224% ROI in 3 years
20% increase in developer productivity
Up to 50% decrease in infrastructure costs
< 3 month pay back on original Azul Zing investment
$800K deferred purchasing on servers in 2 years
$2M net benefits in 3 years by deploying Zing

A Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact™ Study Commissioned By Azul August 2020.

“We reduced our infrastructure cost 20% to 30% by converting to Zing, while meeting our service levels.”

“We now have around 2,000 Zing servers, are meeting our service levels, and are very happy with where we are.”

— VP IT, web ad technology

“To process at our transaction scale and remain cost effective requires use of open source software, much of it [is] based upon Java.”

“Zing provides a hugedifference in performance and the ability to scale.”

— VP of IT at web ad technology company

“Zing allows us to effectively use Cassandra, Hadoop, HDFS, and other open source projects.”

“We have an application that runs on the Hadoop community version that won’t even work anymore without Zing and, with Zing, it has acceptable performance.”

— VP of IT at web ad technology company

“I have gotten superb support from Azul.”

“If I could get other vendors to be like Azul then I would be much happier dealing with vendors — a ten-fold difference in support.”

— Chief platform architect with the financial services

“Developers now focus on implementing new features and functionality without work arounds for JVM-related penalties.”

“That was code that the developers no longer have to write, no longer have to maintain, and no longer have to troubleshoot.”

— Java architect, online shopping

“We work in microseconds.”

“With Zing, we are meeting our SLAs between 99.99% and 99.999% of the time.”

— Chief platform architect for the financial service firm