About PayTabs Group
Introduction
The PayTabs Group is an award-winning payment solutions powerhouse founded by Saudi entrepreneur Abdulaziz Al Jouf. Since processing its first live payment gateway transaction in 2014, PayTabs has earned the trust of business owners across the MENA region. Renowned for its reliability, PayTabs processes transactions in multiple currencies and operates in several key markets, including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Jordan, and Kuwait.
To better expand both locally and globally, PayTabs taps into the robust Huawei Cloud. As one of the top five cloud service providers and the fastest-growing cloud platform in the Middle East, Huawei Cloud provides a solid foundation for PayTabs' continued growth and innovation.
Challenges
Challenges
PayTabs faced several critical business challenges in its mission to deliver seamless and secure transactions. Key pain points include:
PayTabs faced several critical business challenges in its mission to deliver seamless and secure transactions. Key pain points include:
Scalability and Reliability
As transaction volumes surge and PayTabs expands their global presence, they need highly scalable and reliable infrastructure to maintain a consistent, seamless user experience.
Service Level Agreement (SLA) Compliance
Meeting stringent SLA requirements is vital for PayTabs. Downtime or delays in processing payments can significantly impact businesses and erode trust.
Cost Management
Managing and maintaining the on-premises infrastructure incurred a significant expense for PayTabs. PayTabs aims to optimize its operational expenses without compromising on service quality.
Security and Compliance
Ensuring robust security measures and adhering to various regional regulations are critical to prevent fraud and data breaches.
Technological Advancements
PayTabs needs to continuously innovate and integrate new technologies to stay competitive and offer cutting-edge solutions to their clients.
Why Huawei Cloud
Why Huawei Cloud
Huawei Cloud offers a suite of advanced cloud services to enhance performance, stability, and efficiency. Key services utilized by PayTabs include:
Huawei Cloud offers a suite of advanced cloud services to enhance performance, stability, and efficiency. Key services utilized by PayTabs include:
Elastic Cloud Server (ECS) & Auto Scaling (AS)
By employing these two services, PayTabs significantly improved their computational capabilities. The ECS infrastructure allows for seamless horizontal auto scaling to accommodate increasing transaction volumes.
Elastic Volume Service (EVS)
This high-performance, scalable storage service ensures that data is efficiently stored no matter their size.
Object Storage Service (OBS)
For unstructured data, OBS offers secure, durable, and cost-effective storage. This service is crucial for managing large volumes of data generated from transactions.
Elastic IP (EIP)
EIP maintains robust and flexible networking, ensuring high availability and reliable connectivity for uninterrupted payment processing.
Relational Database Service (RDS)
RDS takes care of both transaction processing and data management. Highly available, scalable, and secure, RDS satisfies PayTabs' need for reliable and efficient database management.
Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
ELB evenly distributes application traffic across multiple servers and maintains continuous service availability through auto scaling and health checks. This improves reliability and fault tolerance by preventing server overload.
Host Security Service (HSS)
HSS protects Paytabs's cloud servers with robust security measures against vulnerabilities, malware, and intrusions, ensuring the cloud environment remains secure and compliant.
Cloud Eye (CES)
Cloud Eye helps Paytabs monitor their cloud resources in real-time. It provides metrics, alarms, and notifications to quickly identify and resolve issues. Insights from Cloud Eye help improve resource and cost efficiency.
Customer Benefits
Customer Benefits
Through this strategic collaboration, PayTabs has successfully overcome its business challenges, achieving better SLA performance, reduced operational costs, and enhanced service quality. Key benefits include:
Through this strategic collaboration, PayTabs has successfully overcome its business challenges, achieving better SLA performance, reduced operational costs, and enhanced service quality. Key benefits include:
Agile Innovation
Able to scale swiftly, PayTabs now enjoys robust infrastructure management, responding to market changes and innovation demands in a more agile manner. This agility has resulted in a 20% to 40% improvement in operational efficiency, allowing PayTabs to quickly implement new features and services.
Smart Operations
The integration of advanced technologies, including AI and big data analytics, has enabled PayTabs to enhance operational intelligence and efficiency. Sophisticated data analysis, predictive insights, and informed decision-making significantly streamlined processes and elevated service quality.
Security & Reliability
Huawei Cloud's robust security measures and high reliability have significantly bolstered PayTabs' compliance and operational availability. This partnership has resulted in a 25% to 50% increase in system reliability and availability, ensuring SLA compliance and a secure, reliable payment experience for customers.
Cost-Effectiveness
Huawei Cloud's pay-as-you-go model enabled PayTabs to optimize IT infrastructure costs by paying solely for the resources they used.
Future Collaboration
PayTabs and Huawei Cloud are committed to driving further innovation and implementation of cloud and AI technologies across diverse industry use cases. Both companies aim to jointly explore and develop innovative digital payment services and orchestration technologies, fostering growth in the fintech ecosystem and delivering smoother, more secure payment experiences for global consumers.