By collaborating with cloud computing infrastructure supplying partner IaaS Microsoft Azure, NGS nowadays is Microsoft’s regional leading partner for SAP ERP implementation on cloud.
This is the solution bringing to clients the fastest IT infrastructure environment for SAP ERP implementation, accelerate the implementing progress as well as optimize the capital flow by investing for IT investment just once upon project kick-off and simultaneously paying for IT infrastructure costs along with progress, demands for baselined IT infrastructure implementation and ERP operation facilities fast, easily following to each enterprise exploitation.
CLIENT: MAVIN – The pioneer in application of high automation in entire cultivation’s stages, deduct the impacts to environment and health.
Challenges: As a business having relatively unmatured IT infrastructure base and not highly specialized operating staffs, Mavin currently applies the software solutions and incoherently utilizes the infrastructure to operate the IT solutions for business. The reporting systems for enterprise management and administration are handled manually and have various particular limitations for information updatability, report accuracy. Otherwise, since the Company is in agriculture sections with plenty of farms cross the geographic locations, which results in the difficulties in direct connections to corporate’s expertise managing unit. Implementing SAP ERP, Mavin expect to optimize IT infrastructure investing expenditures as well as expand dynamically serving capacity of the infrastructure adapting to project’s progress, easily connect SAP ERP to implemented places via common internet system. SAP ERP piloting implementation on cloud computing (MS Azure) also aims at long-term ambition to migrate the entire shared software applications currently deployed on traditional IT infrastructure in order to cut down the investment, operation expenditure and fit with conditions and operation capabilities of Mavin’s IT systems.
Solutions: According to consulting proposal from NGS and Microsoft, Mavin selected IaaS of MS Azure for IT infrastructure environment for SAP ERP implementation. After evaluation, this proposal should make Mavin cut down the investing expenditures, operating costs; adapting to IT conditions and capabilities of the company. Moreover, this is also the dynamic solution for IT infrastructure capacity catering for project implementing demand for the requirements of IT infrastructures in varied stages.
Outcome: Although SAP ERP project has not been officially implemented and operated at Mavin ( Go-lived SAP ERP in 11/2019), the investing efficiency and agile capability adaptation of IT infrastructure with MS Azure had been proven since 4/2019 at which the project of kicked off. Along with IT infrastructure for ERP project implementation, Mavin has experienced back-up, recovery and migrating solutions for software applications shared on MS Azure platform. The result has gradually realized Mavin’s ambition since the entire shared application migration to cloud is not only feasible but it also brings in investing efficiency and, dynamically adapt to the demands, easily manage the IT infrastructure operation while Mavin continuously grow and extend their business.
CLIENT: TECOMEN Corporation – Number 1 enterprise in South-East Asian in manufacturing, trading and distributing business for water-filtering, household and healthcare equipment.
Challenges: With the target in 2040 to become one of top 10 corporation worldwide in environment and household electricity, TECOMEN has implemented and applied SAP ERP, to manage all business activities as well as support high-level managers to make decision quickly and accurately. However, the identified problem is how to extend the IT infrastructure service capabilities, adapt to expanding operating requirements for business growth; whereas, optimize the cashflow for IT infrastructure investment.
Solution: NGS and Microsoft recommended TECOMEN to use IT infrastructure renting solution with IaaS cloud computing solution from MS Azure. Furthermore, to ensure information system safety and security, TECOMEN should use the most cost-saving back-up, recovery solutions with specialized services for this area from MS Azure.
Outcome: Only 2 days after contract signed, NGS delivered entire IT infrastructure for SAP ERP operation to TECOMEN (compared to traditional investment, the servers needs at least 2 months from purchase order to delivery). The investing expenditures, instead of pay at once delivery, can be paid monthly by actual operation stating bills. TECOMEN affirms, the SAP ERP operation on MS Azure platform has facilitate the most optimized IT infrastructure exploiting efficiency, easily adjust the operation serving capabilities by company’s demands.
