Because data room performance is important to our clients, we recently released the first wave of our new software architecture to address the growing demands of our customers.
For the past few years, our customers have primarily used our data rooms for M&A deals which are usually made up of around 300 folders containing 5000 documents. However, as our clients are adopting electronic deal rooms for other uses, such as litigation and clinical studies, we decided to adapt to these new requirements. Some of these virtual data rooms might have over 80,000 folders containing more than 100,000 documents.
Performance Enhancements for Growing Needs
We’re excited to roll out our new architecture that supports sub second data retrieval, even on these large scale deals. These improvements represent considerable time and money savings for our clients working with multiple small to large transactions. The litigation and life sciences verticals will greatly benefit from these data room improvements.
For us to make effective design and architecture choices, we divided each request for user data into the number of web requests needed, the payload of the request, as well as the response and the time it took for each request to get handled. We then calculated a “resource cost” by multiplying all the values together, using the original product offering as the benchmark.
The new architecture was engineered from the ground up to minimize each one of these metrics and in most cases the improvement was a factor of 10, where as in large complex requests the factor was a 100. The new architecture also supports hot code updates and better load balancing, adding to our commitment of availability and pain free scalability, generally meaning a more technically sustainable solution.
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