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<p>Bringing highly accurate and relevant search results to clients of the leading auction house in the blink of an eye</p>
Services & Technologies Involved
Technologies:
- Amazon Web Services
- AWS Lambda
- Elastic Search
Improving performance of the search engine
<p><strong>Christie's</strong> is one of the world's largest auction houses with a long history of trading large quantities of artworks, unique objects, and famous collections. ACTUM was brought on board to simplify and improve the <a href="https://www.actumdigital.com/cs/cases/christies-success-stories/christies-enterprise-search-case-study"><strong>Enterprise Search Engine</strong></a>, replace multiple legacy search engines, and migrate to a <strong>new solution</strong>. The new Search Engine brings consistent and relevant results that are delivered in the blink of an eye.</p>
The challenges
<p>Due to the limited availability of documentation, the development team had to build up the functionalities by <strong>reverse engineering</strong>. The collaboration and tight communication with Christie's Stakeholders was key in ensuring building an <strong>optimal solution</strong>.</p>
Moving to SaaS
<p>The joint team faced several challenges such as slow performance, high costs, multiple systems to maintain, and legacy technologies. Christie's has migrated the logic to the <strong>SaaS</strong> model, significantly reducing the need to maintain applications and infrastructure.</p>
Real time cooperation
<p>Utilizing ACTUM's experience from <strong>agile delivery,</strong> the team was able to focus on the <strong>most valuable work items</strong> and gave the stakeholders immediate control over the product delivery at the same time.</p>
Results
<p>Now the search runs in <strong><a href="https://www.actumdigital.com/technologies/aws">Amazon Web Services</a> </strong>serverless mode, free of license while ensuring <strong>high performance</strong>. Christie's legacy search engines are being gradually deprecated and replaced by ACTUM-built solutions. Currently, the engine is providing the experience for both internal and external users. The solution was implemented on <strong>Christie's</strong> <strong>Website search</strong> over <strong>lots, auctions</strong>, and articles as well as for use in internal search dedicated to finding items and specifics of the artworks. Enterprise search is ready for use in other channels such as <strong>Mobile Apps</strong> and internal business intelligence apps.</p>
10x faster
<p>The new search solution is significantly faster than the legacy one. The experience of both internal users and website visitors improved vastly</p>
10% of the original costs
<p>With the new search solution, the operational costs were decreased by 90%. These savings could be routed to another value stream.</p>
Consistent data
<p>In such an exclusive and time sensitive business, the data must be precise and consistent across all the systems. Delivering relevant results fast is imperative to make the best business decisions.</p>
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