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Digital exhibitions have become an essential channel for global organizations. In this project, Acropolium supported the long-term development and optimization of a large-scale virtual exhibition platform used by international organizations. During this engagement, we were focused on platform stability, performance optimization, and the system's continuous evolution over several years.
client
Global multi-media platform
United Kingdom
800+ employees
The client is a United Kingdom–based organization operating a global multimedia exhibition platform used by international companies and event organizers. The platform enables organizations to create digital exhibition spaces where participants can present products, share multimedia content, and interact with visitors.
With more than 800 employees, the organization manages numerous exhibitions across different industries and a global client base. These digital exhibitions include multimedia presentations, product catalogs, event content, and interactive visitor experiences.
As the platform expanded and began supporting larger audiences, the client required long-term technical support and development capabilities to ensure the online exhibition platform could handle increasing user demand.
request background
Not just maintenance
The client initially approached Acropolium to provide maintenance and technical support for their existing exhibition system. The platform was already operational but required continuous monitoring, optimization, and improvements to ensure reliable performance.
Over time, the platform began to experience performance limitations as the number of exhibitions and visitors grew. Certain system components were not optimized for large-scale use. The previous infrastructure created the bottlenecks during peak traffic periods.
In addition to maintenance tasks, the client wanted to improve the system's flexibility. Event organizers required the ability to quickly create new exhibition websites, customize presentation formats, and manage large volumes of multimedia content.
As a result, the scope of the engagement gradually expanded beyond simple support tasks. The project evolved into a long-term collaboration focused on improving the architecture of the digital exhibition platform. One of the requirements was the new functionality that would allow the system to scale effectively.
challenge
One of the primary challenges are maintenance of a complex platform that had already been in production for several years. The system included numerous interconnected modules responsible for content management. Some of them were modules: multimedia presentation, event pages, and visitor interaction features.
The client’s internal team lacked sufficient expertise to support complex infrastructure fully. Managing system updates, troubleshooting performance issues, and implementing architectural improvements required specialized knowledge. This expertise is what we offer backend and frontend technologies.
Another significant challenge during the development involved performance optimization. As the platform gained popularity, the system began to experience performance bottlenecks when hosting large-scale online exhibitions. Ensuring that the hybrid exhibition platform could handle high volumes of concurrent users required careful analysis of system architecture and database operations.
The platform also needed to support a large number of dynamically generated exhibition websites. Event organizers expected to create new digital exhibitions quickly without requiring extensive manual configuration. This bottleneck required automation capabilities within the platform.
Finally, maintaining the stability of the exhibition management platform while introducing new features required careful coordination. Updates needed to be implemented without interrupting ongoing exhibitions or affecting the experience of active users. Continuous maintenance had to be combined with architectural improvements and performance tuning over an extended period.
goals
- Maintain and support the existing virtual exhibition platform infrastructure.
- Eliminate architectural bottlenecks affecting system performance.
- Enable the platform to handle high volumes of concurrent users.
- Improve the scalability and reliability of the exhibition management platform.
- Automate the creation of exhibition websites and digital event pages.
- Optimize code quality and improve system maintainability.
- Reduce operational costs related to infrastructure and support.
- Increase platform flexibility for organizing online and hybrid exhibitions.
solution
Continuous platform development and optimization
.Net, Angular, Azure
4+ years- 5 specialists
The collaboration with the client began as a maintenance-and-support engagement. Still, it gradually evolved into a long-term development partnership focused on improving the scalability and flexibility of the online exhibition platform. The Acropolium team conducted a detailed technical assessment of the existing system. We identified performance bottlenecks and defined which areas need architectural improvements. Our development goal was to enhance the system reliability.
One of the early priorities was to stabilize the infrastructure and improve system performance. The engineering team analyzed backend processes, database queries, and frontend interactions to identify components that were limiting the platform’s ability to support large online events. We addresed these issues to make the system process higher traffic volumes while maintaining stable performance.
Another important focus was improving the platform's flexibility. Event organizers needed to launch new exhibitions quickly. Also, it needed to maintain consistent user experiences across different event formats. To address this requirement, the team introduced automation mechanisms that allowed the rapid creation of new exhibition websites within the digital exhibition platform ecosystem.
Acropolium’s development team also implemented improvements to the platform architecture and codebase. All our actions were done regarding the increased maintainability. We optimized code structures and improved deployment processes. It enhanced our capabilities to update platform functionality without interrupting ongoing exhibitions.
Over more than four years of collaboration, Acropolium engineers continuously supported the platform’s evolution while helping the client improve operational efficiency and scalability.
- Conducted a technical audit of the existing exhibition management platform.
- Identified system bottlenecks affecting performance and scalability.
- Optimized backend architecture and database operations.
- Implemented automation for generating new exhibition websites.
- Improved frontend performance using Angular-based architecture.
- Migrated and optimized cloud infrastructure on Microsoft Azure.
- Refactored code to improve maintainability and reliability.
- Implemented monitoring and performance optimization mechanisms.
- Supported continuous virtual exhibition platform development and feature improvements.
outcome
Significant operational improvements
- Reduced monthly infrastructure costs by 48% through system optimization.
- Increased platform user flow by 62% due to improved performance and scalability.
- Reduced support service costs by 30% through improved system stability.
- Enabled the platform to support large-scale digital exhibitions and events.
- Established a scalable architecture capable of supporting long-term platform growth.
client feedback
Acropolium’s team became an essential partner in maintaining and improving our exhibition platform. Their engineers helped us stabilize the system, eliminate performance issues, and introduce new capabilities that allowed us to scale the platform for larger events. Their long-term support has played a key role in the continued growth of our digital exhibition ecosystem.
