Aljasser Group (Aljasser for short) is a well-known manufacturer and leading retailer, specializing in office and home decoration and operating in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region. It has a wide network of retail outlets and has been consistently expanding its businesses by opening new retail outlets.
Aljasser's ERP system for managing distributed retail outlets was deployed based on on-premises infrastructure. The high probability of performance bottlenecks, complex backup and O&M, insufficient network flexibility and scalability of the on-premises infrastructure were holding back Aljasser's business development. To address these issues, Aljasser embarked on a journey of cloud transformation.
Aljasser used the Server Migration Service (SMS) provided by Huawei Cloud to quickly migrate their ERP applications and databases to Dedicated Hosts (DeHs) of Huawei Cloud. The utilization of automatic migration and incremental synchronization significantly reduced downtime to just a few minutes and facilitated the successful migration of mission-critical databases for Aljasser. After the core systems were migrated, the automatic synchronization of SMS allowed Aljasser to run both the old and new environments simultaneously with almost no interruption until all verification and testing was complete.
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%Before using Cloud Backup and Recovery (CBR), Aljasser used standard automated tools, and they had to spend two hours manually backing up the ERP system every day. With CBR, the cloud native servers, disks, and file systems of the ERP system could be automatically backed up based on a preset backup policy. This helped Aljasser lower their labor costs and reduced the maintenance downtime to almost zero. In addition, the incremental backup of CBR reduced storage costs by 50% to 80% and greatly enhanced data protection against accidental deletion, software faults, and hardware faults. The point-in-time recovery provided by CBR also ensured security and recoverability for the data of Aljasser in different scenarios.
Aljasser benefited a lot from cloud transformation. The business departments of Aljasser had to process a large number of transactions every month, including customer orders, invoices, and payment receipts. Migrating their ERP system to Huawei Cloud enabled Aljasser to achieve a 30% increase in transaction processing capacity. The new retail outlets could be quickly launched and accessed anytime and anywhere, accelerating the business expansion in the GCC region.