Transforming Reporting Performance & Scalability for a Global Enterprise Platform

The Problem

A mission-critical enterprise platform—supporting sales, configuration, and product cataloging—was heavily reliant on server-side reporting. As the platform scaled to include over 100 internal modules, the existing reporting infrastructure began to show significant limitations and generating large, complex reports became inefficient and slow due to:

• Customizable widgets that allow you to focus on the metrics that matter most to your business
• Advanced filtering options to segment your data by date, user type, location, and more
• Improved visualization tools including new chart types and color customization
• Real-time data updates that refresh automatically without requiring a page reload
• Export capabilities for sharing insights with your team or stakeholders

The lag in performance was impacting user experience and operational productivity. A new approach was needed—one that was faster, scalable, and modular.

The Challenges

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1. Standardization Across 100+ App Workflows: Each module on the platform had unique data schemas, reporting requirements, and transformation logic. Building a unified system that could support all workflows—without excessive complexity—was a central challenge.

2. Processing Massive and Varied Data Volumes: Reports ranged from a few hundred rows to tens of thousands of deeply nested records. A universal processing method was impractical, and the system had to dynamically adapt to different data scales and complexities.

3. Enabling Custom Data Logic per Module: Every builder required its own filters, aggregations, formatting rules, and sometimes entirely separate transformation pipelines. The reporting system needed to be flexible enough to accommodate deep customization at the module level.

Our Approach

The Velspark team built a robust, scalable, and flexible client-side reporting solution—a complete overhaul of the traditional server-based model.

1. Client-Side Reporting with Stimulsoft Integration:

• Transitioned to a fully client-side rendering model using Stimulsoft, enabling reports to be generated directly in the browser.
• This shift eliminated backend bottlenecks, dramatically improving performance and reducing server dependency.
• Reports could now be exported to PDF, Excel, and other formats instantly, with near-zero latency.

2. Flexible Config Architecture:

• We designed a standardized config file architecture that served as the foundation for flexibility.
• Each builder could define its own reporting logic via this config like custom data sources, column definitions and middleware functions for advanced transformations etc.
• This enabled plug-and-play customization without modifying the core system—empowering individual builder teams while keeping the system maintainable.

3. Centralized Core + Plugin-Like Extensibility:

• Core logic was centralized but extensible through a plugin-like system.
• Each builder registered its custom behavior via config, which the engine invoked dynamically.
• This ensured maintainability, rapid onboarding of new modules, and efficient debugging.

4. High-Performance Frontend Processing:

• Leveraged JavaScript for in-browser data processing, along with optimizations like Virtualized rendering, Real-time aggregation and filtering.
• Even large datasets performed smoothly on the frontend, ensuring a responsive experience.

The Outcome

• ✅ Performance Boost:

  Average report generation time decreased from 60+ seconds to under 5 seconds, even for data-heavy builders.

• ✅ Greater Flexibility:

  Builder teams could implement or modify reporting logic independently—reducing dependency on the central dev team and speeding up releases.

• ✅ High Adoption:

  Over 100 builders successfully migrated to the new system, with zero downtime and improved developer satisfaction.

• ✅ Scalability for the Future:

  Carrier now has a future-proof, modular architecture that can support more builders, users, and report types—without risking backend overload.

The Outcome

By combining innovative engineering, a user-focused approach, and deep integration with Carrier’s platform, Velspark Technologies enabled a seamless transition to a faster, smarter, and more scalable reporting system.

This project not only solved Carrier’s pressing performance challenges but also set the stage for continuous evolution and growth—true to our core philosophy of building solutions that don’t just work, but scale with purpose.