by parth.devdhar@aeonx.digital | Sep 15, 2022 | aws, Success Stories - AWS
BVG India Limited, founded in 1997 by Mr. Hanmantrao Gaikwad, is a responsible and forward-thinking company that seeks to support India’s entire development. By 2030, the BVG group hopes to make a positive difference in the lives of ten million people through empowerment, employment, and education.
Trying to Meet Recovery Goals
BVG’s Disaster Recovery(DR) system was on the verge of failure. For disaster recovery, they used on-site infrastructure servers, which lacked the flexibility they would have needed. As a result, they lost all of their data. To overhaul its DR solution and fulfil the company’s larger goal of migration to the cloud, BVG turned to AeonX.
BVG’s focus on customer service has fuelled a rapid level of growth since its launch around three decades ago. BVG’s DR testing and drills revealed the following issues with its existing infrastructure:
- The solution, which was hosted on a physical server on-site, was unable to keep up with the expansion of the business.
- Backup was performed in the on-premise data centre, which was expensive and hard to scale as requirements increased.
- Hardware was starting to deteriorate and would last for 2 to 3 years at most.
- Having no disaster recovery system enabled a heavy reliance on local backups that are unreliable, which led to the loss of data.
Furthermore, it had limited assistance for technology testing and development and its systems were not as adaptable as they would have desired. Additionally, the company lacked a comprehensive business continuity and disaster recovery(DR) plan and required a technology infrastructure that could meet demand while also fostering additional expansion.
In search of reliability and automation
BVG India Limited began working with AeonX, an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner, in the summer of 2022 to deploy AWS On-Cloud Disaster Recovery, which minimizes downtime and data loss with the quick, dependable recovery of cloud-based applications using economical storage, minimum computing, and point-in-time recovery.
By working through the night through its 24/7 delivery centre, AeonX came up with a solution to fix the production server. It was accomplished by proposing the following structural changes:
- By hosting Disaster Recovery on the cloud, we minimize downtime and data loss, utilizing affordable storage, minimal computing, and point-in-time recovery methods of cloud-based applications.
- Review of monthly costs using AWS Trusted Advisor and, if necessary, recommendations to reduce the number of instances.
- Recommended to turn off the preload option when setting up replication between primary and secondary instances. By deactivating this option, duplicated data is not loaded into the memory of the secondary HANA instance, so the second instance does not require the same amount of memory. Lowering costs while ensuring fail-safe protection.
- By using scripting, we were able to automate the DR monitoring and DR health status.
- With the scripting automation technique, BVG is given real-time notifications; this allows them to be informed of any problems immediately and take swift action.
With a more efficient DR solution in place, BVG India Limited has been working alongside AeonX to accelerate the migration from its on-premises data centre to the cloud on AWS. Using AWS disaster recovery hosting in the cloud, BVG has saved at least 20x on upfront costs. It improved its recovery goals, achieving an RTO of 4 hours as opposed to 12 hours (a 67 per cent jump) and an RPO of 2 hours as opposed to 4 hours (a 50 per cent boost).
Additionally, it postponed a sizable planned capital expenditure to upgrade the hardware in its DR data centre and instead redirected that money to cover the operational costs of maintaining DR in the cloud.
by parth.devdhar@aeonx.digital | Sep 13, 2022 | aws
Public Sector Competency in AWS Government organizations is rapidly adopting cloud services to drive efficiency and unlock new digital experiences for their users.
As the market leader in cloud infrastructure services, Amazon Web Services (AWS) continues to see strong adoption among government agencies – particularly departments with high IT security standards and compliance requirements.
In this brief, you will learn about the benefits of implementing AWS in government agencies. By understanding these best practices, you can ensure that your implementation of AWS will be secure and compliant with all relevant regulations.
Read on to understand why your organization should adopt AWS, the different ways it can be implemented within your agency, and more.
Strengthening public sector infrastructure with AWS
Maintain security and compliance:
Designed with comprehensive security capabilities, AWS can meet the most rigorous requirements in terms of information security.
With AWS, you can access cloud services at every level of classification: Unclassified, Sensitive, Secret, or Top Secret.
AWS Cloud provides comprehensive controls, auditing, and wide security accreditation to support compliance with numerous laws, including those related to health, family education rights, privacy rights, and criminal justice information systems.
Drive innovation in support of citizens :
The government is better able to innovate in order to safeguard and assist individuals thanks to our builder’s mentality. More services are provided from AWS than from any other cloud provider, with 200 fully featured services available for a variety of technologies. Within such services, AWS also offers the most sophisticated capabilities.
AWS offers the most comprehensive and in-depth selection of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) services for your company. We are primarily concerned with resolving some of the most difficult problems that prevent every developer from using ML.
Power, modernize, and maximize enterprise systems:
The massive enterprise-level systems that manage the social, medical, and financial benefits in providing care to millions of people can be powered and transformed by AWS.
- Get assistance with database migration and dependable, scalable data storage
- Transform your data into valuable insights by sharing it across platforms
- Reduce costs by quickly scaling up or down IT resources
- The most complex organizations can easily implement sophisticated and secure access permissions and processes
Facilitate innovation and enhance the customer experience:
Access constituent services more easily and effectively for improved social outcomes.
- Increase staff efficiency by creating mobile applications, virtual assistance, and self-service portals
- Get instant access to powerful IT resources, like natural language processing or machine learning, to improve customer service
Make your solutions faster, better, and more accessible with AWS:
AWS unlocks business enablement, marketing, and technical resources. Connect with your customers while accelerating your go-to-market efforts.
- Utilize technical resources, consultations, and well-architected evaluations to speed up development with AWS.
- Create useful data visualizations to aid in decision-making
Maintain and modernize legacy databases and systems:
The scalability, high availability, and lower costs of the AWS Cloud give law enforcement and public safety organizations greater leverage.
- Support for database migration and reliable and secure data storage
- Ensure fast, reliable disaster recovery to minimize data loss and downtime
- Create sophisticated and secure access permissions for organizations of any size
- Hybrid cloud solutions using on-premises resources
How AeonX can help?
Keeping a long-term consumer focus, being hyper-vigilant, and avoiding practices that slow down innovation is essential for a company in today’s world.
The AWS Public Sector Competency demonstrates AWS technical expertise and proven customer success across a wide range of industries, use cases, and workloads.
AeonX assists you in using the cloud to transform ideas into opportunities, resulting in new avenues for expansion, improved productivity, and improved customer service.
With the support of our knowledgeable personnel, you may increase your company’s performance by more than 40% and get better outcomes.
by parth.devdhar@aeonx.digital | Sep 6, 2022 | SAP
With a history spanning more than 60 years, Ashapura is a top provider of multi-mineral
solutions with a global presence, operating throughout a vast network of states in India and in
seven other nations.
Ashapura is a preferred supplier to multinational corporations in more than 70 countries on four
continents due to its consistent quality and capacity to customize mineral solutions. However,
their methods of operation were not efficient, putting their growth prospects at risk.
Business Challenges
All types of data in the business were maintained using Excel, including data pertaining to manufacturing, logistics, and maintenance. Upon examining the mining activities in different regions of Guinea, it was readily apparent that they were completely dependent on the information
provided in Excel. Consequently, disparate data sets were generated, inaccurate records were kept, and control and profitability analysis were flawed.
Their multi-country structure required the management of numerous accounting systems, different currencies, and currency consolidation,which they could not accomplish with their current setup. The company reached a point in its expansion where its legacy systems could not
provide the visibility it needed to effectively manage its operations.
Furthermore, Ashapura operates out of Guinea, where French is the official language. A majority of the client’s personnel only speak French. They do not speak English. In addition, a significant number of shipments are moved to a port for sales, where the skilled crew is unavailable due to the port’s remote location. For clients, this stage is an important part of the process since they are receiving actual weight details on their materials.
Business solutions achieved through AeonX
Ashapura sought the help of AeonX after evaluating all the available options. AeonX helped to redesign its business completely and include its fundamental tools and procedures as well. AeonX recommended SAP S/4HANA 1909 for a mining and manufacturing operation, too simplify the processing of sales papers in sales and distribution. This new feature boosts the efficiency of the sales process by building a funnel for requests for credit memos, sales quotations, and orders.
Finance & Controlling (FI/CO) now allows them to accept multiple currencies, including the transaction currency. Using this function, reports can be taken in multiple currencies as required.
Further, AeonX proposed the SAP GUI language pack for French support to overcome the language barrier and kept all configuration and master data in both English and French. AeonX suggested utilizing the work centre to identify the performance and productivity of owned or
hired resources.
There is now a system in place for tracking activities in the work centre to identify the machines own or contractual and also created storage locations for vendors so that the quantity of inventory can be determined.
A Standard Operating Procedure was created to maintain track of vendor invoices where everything depends on approximation. To record weight in SAP, the weighbridge integration was completed.In order to reduce entry errors and attempts due to a lack of skilled staff, RFID sensors and AI technology are used.
Vehicles are now fitted with RFID tags that are used as unique identifiers while doing transactions. The system automatically captures all the information by scanning an RFID tag when the vehicle arrives at the specified spot for loading or unloading material.
In order to store the information, the system additionally records the vehicle’s weight and creates a gate pass entry in SAP. By taking into account the information that was gathered, the system will automatically post SAP standard transactions in the background when the journey is
over.
Value Delivered
By collaborating with a team of knowledgeable consultants with multiple modules of experience, the AeonX team was able to deliver a high-quality implementation in a short amount of time. Because of the extensive interconnection, it’s crucial to have SAP consultants who are aware of both their individual modules and how they work together with other SAP modules.
Within two weeks of going live, the client teams established a new routine in their business procedures and experienced minimal downtime. AeonX’s role quickly changed from implementation to assistance. Following a successful implementation, AeonX was chosen to provide SAP system support for the next three years.
by parth.devdhar@aeonx.digital | Jun 13, 2022 | aws, SAP, Success Stories - AWS
With the laying of the foundation stone, Gopal Namkeen was established in 1994. The company sells snacks and Namkeen both domestically and internationally and is one of the oldest and most well-known Indian brands. The headquarters of Gopal Namkeen is located in Rajkot, Gujarat, India.
Gopal Namkeen has a large dealer network, and on a busy day, this means processing a large number of orders and integrating backend ERP systems. To collect orders from their dealers, Gopal Namkeen relied on a legacy system. As most dealers buy wholesale products, these transactions involve bulk purchases as well. Traditional hosting was used for the underlying dealer portal application architecture, which was not well suited for speed. As the number of transactions increased, it became sluggish, and the user interface was difficult to manage.
Our team worked remotely on this project due to the pandemic, and it only took us two months to complete. They also needed the data to be in JSON format, which they could feed into the dealer portal.
Here’s how AeonX went about delivering a high-quality end solution:
- Detailed Requirement Gathering from Gopal Snacks
- Finalize solution design and database for Dealer Portal.
- Dealer Portal development as per the scope.
- Hosting of Solution in Development Environment
- Testing by AeonX and Gopal Namkeen team for end-to-end portal
functionalities.
- Solution Improvement as per the findings during testing.
- DNS update for Domain Authentication using DKIM and CName records.
- Go Live + 1 Month Go-Live Support
After gaining a thorough grasp of their needs, AeonX devised the following architecture to ensure that they don’t run into problems again:
The following are the advantages of the new dealer portal we created for Gopal Namkeen:
- Dealers can order products based on their needs – the dealer portal allows them to be more flexible when it comes to ordering things. They can now put an order size that corresponds to their requirement.
- Some of their items are produced in various locales. When a dealer places an order in this situation, the order is sent directly to the factory where the product is made.
- If a dealer orders many products, not all of them are manufactured in the same place. In this situation, the order is sent to the appropriate factory, which subsequently delivers it to the dealer.
- It’s possible that certain products will spoil while in transit. In that instance, the dealers are prohibited from purchasing the merchandise since the food may spoil before it reaches them.
- Potato chips, for example, are created in all factories. When a dealer places an order for certain products, it is sent straight to the facility closest to them.
- Gopal Snacks can limit order values based on a Dealer’s credit limit in the system — certain dealers were bringing in more sales for Gopal Namkeen than others. As a result, we created a gateway where they can allocate a higher-order value to their top dealers. This guarantees that companies are maximizing earnings and properly allocating their products.
- Dealers may now access their credit limit on the dealer portal — Dealers can now easily view their credit limit on the order screen. This saves both parties a lot of time because they don’t have to engage on a frequent basis to verify how much credit they have.
- With the help of live integration, once the vendor has paid, the system will automatically release the credit block – We designed a solution to automate their process once the money from the vendor is received.
- Dealers can check on the status of their orders.
- Through the portal, the dealer can obtain an account statement.
We assisted them in taking a stride forward and digitally transforming by having one of Gujarat’s largest automated plans. Their most important day-to-day operations have been automated. With the support of AWS, they can keep track of real-time SAP data. They may now study a wide range of data and make decisions based on analytics to maximize their earnings because they have access to a large amount of data.
by parth.devdhar@aeonx.digital | Jun 8, 2022 | aws, Cloud Computing
AeonX, an SAP and digital solutions consultant, proudly announces its Amazon Web Services (AWS) Advanced Tier Services Partner status achievement in the AWS Partner Network (APN). Just like AeonX, AWS Advanced Tier Services Partners are the organizations known for their prowess in technology and exceptional customer service.
AeonX’s technical proficiency can be estimated by its number of service-specific AWS technical certifications validated by AWS Partner Solutions Architects, including architecture review, customer documentation, and customer case study details to assure they follow only the best AWS practices for their product integration with specific AWS services.
To date, AeonX has 1 AWS Service Validation, 5+ AWS Certifications, 20+ AWS Customer Launches, 74 AWS Partners for our global AWS Competency, AWS Managed Service Provider (MSP), AWS Service Delivery, and AWS Service Ready programs in their portfolio, including “Professional” DevOps (Development plus Operations) Certifications for AWS solutions and services.
“We are excited to highlight these designations span workload, solution, and industry, and help AWS customers identify top AWS Partners that can deliver on core business objectives. AWS Partners are focused on your success, helping customers take full advantage of the business benefits AWS has to offer.” Derek Belt, Sr.Communications Manager, AWS Marketing
Organizations looking to explore or optimize their cloud environment can opt for AeonX as their trusted AWS Partner. AeonX’s proven AWS expertise and capabilities include AWS Advanced Tier Competency, and AWS Systems Manager Delivery, for which the organizations should undergo technical validation and evaluation of their AWS solutions and practices.
AeonX offers the best AWS & DevOps consultation for building solutions and services. We believe in enhancing prospects with empowering ideas and engaging efforts to serve our customers better. We help in making businesses grow, market, and sell by providing valuable technical support. We help companies reduce costs & be efficient using SAP products & solutions. AeonX is an SAP Gold Partner with an interest in SAP Consulting & Resell.
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