Ricardo.ch
Biggest internet auction in Switzerland ricardo.ch.
Development in years 1999 - 2006, during all the time it was on the 1st place, while Ebay was at the 2nd place.
At the end of SysTeam's contract with QXL ricardo.ch had following nubmers:
- More than 1 million of registered users,
- More than 350 000 live products at once,
- More than 12 transactions per second in rush-hours.
Platform contained Web Frontend, API, Windows Application for Customers, Integrations with partners like SwissPost and Backend with reach set of features like: User Management, Billing, Reporting, Statistics, Advertisment, etc.
Grow rate was most of the time 30% higher than predicted which was leading to extreme requirements for software optimization without additional hardware spends.