Radio 2 tunes into the cloud to streamline competition admin

CloudSense managing director Richard Britton told Computing that the BBC's main challenges were data protection and the high volume of submissions.

The initial prototype

"Having done the initial prototype, we took feedback on both the customer-facing user interface and on the internal business process that it started within the BBC," said Britton.

"The BBC used a reverse proxy to forward critical parts of the web communication to Salesforce servers. This is a standard way to integrate third-party content as your own. Pointing your web browser to a reverse proxy is very much like calling a call centre – most information can be provided by the operator who you reach first, however for some inquiries the operator will forward your call to someone else," he said.

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