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New Ably Study Reveals That Two-Thirds of Organizations with Self-built Realtime Edge Messaging Infrastructure Have Experienced Significant Downtime in the Past 12-18 Months

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Majority of organizations think the challenges of DIY edge messaging infrastructure will slow down the delivery of future digital projects

LONDON, May 17, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ably, the edge messaging platform to power live and collaborative online experiences, today reported that two-thirds (65%) of organizations experienced an outage or significant downtime in the past 12-18 months with the edge messaging infrastructure they had built in-house. Edge messaging infrastructure is critical to last-mile data delivery to power the experiences consumers expect, such as live chat, order delivery tracking, and document collaboration.

Based on a survey of 500 U.S. and U.K. engineering leaders, the State of Edge Messaging report highlights the challenges facing organizations as they look to build and maintain the infrastructure required to power live and collaborative online experiences, now and in the future.

Ably’s State of Edge Messaging report reveals that:

  • 90% of organizations think challenges with edge messaging infrastructure built in-house will slow down the delivery of future digital projects
  • Ensuring continuity of service (46%) and delivering the same quality of services to larger volumes of users (43%) were identified as the biggest concerns

“Delivering shared live and collaborative experiences separates the business winners from the rest, yet the engineering complexity required to manually stitch together disparate systems remains a significant hurdle,” said Matthew O’Riordan, co-founder and CEO of Ably. “Organizations need to find ways to simplify and speed up the delivery of realtime connections with their existing stacks to keep up with customer demand; otherwise, they’ll drag down digital transformation at the precise time it needs to accelerate.”

Drain on in-house time and resources

Most (89%) of the organizations surveyed believe a scalable and reliable realtime edge messaging infrastructure will give them a competitive advantage in the future. However, the research reveals that many organizations have found building such infrastructure to be a much larger undertaking than they originally envisaged.

  • Over half (53%) of organizations say the amount of engineering time required to complete their first edge messaging infrastructure project was more than expected. On average, it took 3.5 months longer than they planned.
  • Over half (52%) of organizations say it took more engineering resources than expected to complete their first edge messaging infrastructure project. On average, they required two additional engineers, with it taking on average 10.2 “person months” to build their edge messaging infrastructure in-house.
  • Nearly all (91%) organizations say they faced challenges during their development of edge messaging infrastructure. The main challenges cited were project costs (46%), development time overrun/late project delivery (41%), and the overall solution being too complex to use or update (38%).

The cost of maintaining realtime expectations

When organizations were asked what is most critical to them when it comes to their edge messaging infrastructure, reliability (50%), high availability of service (50%), and integrity of data (44%) were the most commonly cited responses.

For most organizations, the cost of operating and maintaining homegrown edge messaging infrastructure will only rise and result in growing technical debt. As a result, many see the benefits of switching to a realtime platform-as-a-service (or managed service provider).

  • A majority (60%) say switching would improve the existing realtime user experience with a more stable and dependable infrastructure.
  • Over half (56%) say it would reduce the risk of delivering new user experiences that require new edge messaging capabilities.
  • Over half (55%) say it would enable them to redeploy engineering bandwidth away from infrastructure and into core product work to move faster.

Companies have spent a decade perfecting the intake and storage of data. The new challenge is extending realtime event-driven architectures to the edge with the speed and reliability digital consumers demand. Ably is a leader in edge messaging. We make it easy for companies to reliably deliver realtime event information and experiences to millions of people and the devices they use. Our suite of APIs and a global edge network service make it easy to create live and collaborative applications, and then guarantee a flawless consumer experience with those experiences globally at scale. Try our APIs for yourself: ably.com/signup

Download the full report.

Methodology

The State of Edge Messaging report, in partnership with Coleman Parkes Research, surveyed 500 IT decision makers and developers with a knowledge of their organization's real-time infrastructure. The online survey was conducted between December 2021 and January 2022 in the United States (350 responses) and United Kingdom (150 responses). Only suitable candidates participated in the survey and were verified using a rigorous, multi-level screening process. All respondents work at organizations with at least 250 employees.

About Ably

Ably is the edge messaging platform to power live and collaborative experiences. There’s no infrastructure to provision or manage, just an evolving suite of SDKs and APIs that give you the freedom and flexibility to power shared live experiences with a few lines of code. Brands like HubSpot, Toyota, and Webflow trust Ably to power shared live experiences like business-critical chat, order delivery tracking, or document collaboration for millions of simultaneously connected devices around the world.

In the same way that content delivery networks simplify and underpin large parts of the internet, Ably is the invisible platform and infrastructure layer powering the instant economy on a global scale. Our 500 customers trust Ably to reach more than 300 million devices across 80 countries per month. In just two years, we’ll reach one billion a week.

Press Contact:

John Moran

Look Left Marketing

ably@lookleftmarketing.com

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