Pega Cloud: Performance and Scalability

Now, more than ever, executives acknowledge the importance of performance and scalability of their solutions at a time when businesses need to be agile in order to respond to changing conditions and customer demand.

Poor application performance may cause organizations to lose customers, impede employee productivity, and severely reduce revenues. To ensure optimum performance and unwavering reliability, companies ought to test their business applications under rigorous conditions for base-line performance results.

Answering the need for greater performance and scalability in cloud computing environments, Pegasystems offers scalability features and options that boost application performance, including dynamic scaling and load balancing. To ensure that our customers' environments are highly available, we have developed robust disaster recovery and data backup strategies including support for very aggressive recovery time and recovery point objects.

This document details the design, operation and results of scalability tests performed by Pegasystems on Pega Cloud. The tests involved diverse use cases including both human-centric workflow and rules engine applications.

The testing and benchmark results show that the Pega Cloud is capable of supporting enterprise scenarios under the most intense load conditions.