Rackspace supports Eagle Eye move to Google Cloud for platform scale and growth
London, United Kingdom – 24 April 2019: Rackspace, the technology services company, has helped to power a five-fold (556%)* increase in Eagle Eye’s ability to manage the promotional and loyalty activity of market-leading retail merchants and brands in the last financial year.
Rackspace worked with the digital marketing company to accelerate the time to value of its migration to Google Cloud. Eagle Eye’s AIR platform supported 403.7 million redemptions and interactions globally during the period for brands including Tesco, Heineken, Pizza Express, Greggs, M&S and Loblaw.
Through the collaboration, Eagle Eye can process up to 3,000 API requests per second and take full advantage of the increased scalability and reliability of Google Cloud. The migration also enables improved performance, enhanced resilience and additional layers of security.
With the support of Rackspace’s fully managed service programme and ‘Fanatical Experience’ for customers, Eagle Eye is working to sustain its upward trajectory and implement the tools and technologies provided by Google, such as Artificial Intelligence, logging and monitoring to aid in the innovation of its AIR platform. Its real-time engagement capabilities now enable it to deliver faster throughput and response times to its customers, for loyalty, promotions and gift management.
“From their continuous support to their excellent culture, Rackspace has been an ideal partner to guide us on this journey,” said Steve Rothwell, Founder and CTO, Eagle Eye.
“By consolidating our technology estate across the globe, we’ve been able to create scale on-demand, rather than working with the continuous expense of ‘always-on’ data centres. What we’ve done here is achieve real efficiency, establishing a single set of build scripts, code releases and deployment methods for all our Google Cloud Platforms, even earning the project recognition at Google Next 2019, seeing Rackspace named as Google Cloud Migration Partner of the Year.”
Nick Henry, General Manager, Managed Public Cloud, Rackspace said: “We meet our customers at any step in their digital transformation journey to provide them with unbiased expertise. For Eagle Eye this meant they could focus on providing great loyalty programmes and coupons for their retail customers whilst we managed their migration to Google Cloud to offer the scalability they required.
“The award-winning migration is kudos to Fanatical ExperienceTM we provide our customers as we put them first through every step.”
For further information around Google Cloud Platform naming Rackspace its 2018 Global Migration Partner of the Year, please visit here.
* Redemptions and interactions increased 556% to 403.7m, FY18.
Notes to Editor:
Eagle Eye is a customer of Rackspace Dedicated, Rackspace Managed Cloud and DevOps Automation Services. Through the Google Cloud migration, Eagle Eye now has access to Google’s Site Reliability Engineering.
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About Rackspace
At Rackspace, we accelerate the value of the cloud during every phase of digital transformation. By managing apps, data, security and multiple clouds, we are the best choice to help customers get to the cloud, innovate with new technologies and maximise their IT investments. As a recognised Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader, we are uniquely positioned to close the gap between the complex reality of today and the promise of tomorrow. Passionate about customer success, we provide unbiased expertise, based on proven results, across all the leading technologies. And across every interaction worldwide, we deliver Fanatical Experience™. Rackspace has been honoured by Fortune, Forbes, Glassdoor and others as one of the best places to work. Learn more.
About Eagle Eye Solutions Plc.
Eagle Eye is a leading SaaS technology company transforming marketing by creating digital connections that enable personalised performance marketing in real time through coupons, loyalty, apps, subscriptions and gift services. Eagle Eye AIR enables the secure issuance and redemption of digital offers and rewards at scale, across multiple channels, enabling a single customer view. We create a network between merchants, brands and audiences to enable customer acquisition, interaction and retention at lower cost whilst driving marketing innovation. Our current customer base comprises leading names in UK Grocery, Retail and Food & Beverage sectors, including Asda, Sainsbury's, Tesco, Waitrose and John Lewis & Partners, JD Sports, Burger King, Greggs, Mitchells & Butlers, Pizza Express and in Canada, Loblaws, Shoppers Drug Mart and Esso. Eagle Eye is headquartered in Guildford, United Kingdom and has offices in Manchester, Toronto, Canada and Melbourne, Australia. Learn more.
