Case Studies > ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING
CONSTRUCTION
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- About us
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At Hardware Solutions Builders or HASOUB, we specialize in the supply and
distribution of a wide spectrum of IT products and services. We target many
levels within the corporate market in the fields of enterprise hardware,
passive and active infrastructure components, software products and operation
and maintenance services. Our product portfolio holds within it some of the
world's most successful and highly recognized brand names.
With our sister company BT-BS is a leading technological solutions provider in
the region, with offices in Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Dubai. BT- Applied
Technology is a company with integrity, great capacity and resources,
presenting a leading products and services, driven by a solid commitment and
highly experienced and energetic professionals willing to utilize it all in
order to help you succeed in fulfilling your business objectives. We are able
to provide full fledged services including business consulting, business
process reengineering, software provision and implementation, hand held
machines provision, commissioning, and integration services. In addition to
that, and to grant integrated turn-key solutions, we have a technical division
which provides best-of-breed hardware and networking solutions in addition to
integration and high-tech multi-media solutions.
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- The customer
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ABCD (ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING CONSTRUCTION) is one of the leaders in
construction and smart building projects in Middle East. ABCD employs a total
staff of about 3,600. The company is involved in city planning as well as the
construction of airports, housing complexes, high-rise structures, tunnels,
bridges, underpasses and real estate development.
The ABCD is currently participating to various fields of activities including
telecommunications, real estate and oil production. All the projects of the
corporation are concentrated within the Arabian Peninsula, although it as an
office and a few proprieties in the United-Sates and in Europe as well."
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- The business challenge
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ERP full processes automation for one largest
construction and project management group of companies with international
branches in addition to large scale of integration with other non ERP software.
Simplify the storage infrastructure while increasing functionality,
availability, and security.
- Minimize IT costs for ERP application monitoring.
- Minimize costly downtime in the global infrastructure.
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- The solution
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NetApp Fibre channel SAN store the high volume of log information and database.
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- Project Description
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The objective of the proposal is "to provide
JDEdwards EnterpriseOne ERP and to provide implementation services needed to
automate the operations and supportive functions of the company's main offices
at the company's HQ in Jeddah" in addition to the outside local and
international projects and branches.
The goals was to consolidated storage capacity, improved data access, faster
backup recovery and archive security flexible allocation of storage, and
implement disaster recovery in three sites, Abu Dhabi, Jeddah, and Senegal.
Three Dell PE6850 quad processors diskless servers connected to a NetApp
FAS3040 SAN Storage with two disk enclosures via a pair of Brocade SAN
switches, to be configured for SAN Booting and installation of SQL and ERP
software packages in a clustered environment.
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- Customer Challenges
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Manageability and Serviceability:
The SAN Storage should be easily accessible for configuration, management and troubleshooting within the perimeter network without need of additional appliance as in the case of other Storage vendors, in order to keep a check on the total cost of ownership without compromising on its performance.
Space Utilization and Fault Tolerance:
None or a minimum number of disks to be used by the SAN Controlling units as the referred disk space would be rendered unusable for normal storage as in the case of other storage vendors. Also high data availability should be maintained in case of disk failures with minimum or none effect on the performance.
Backup:
Backup of EPR SQL databases should be completed within a reduced time frame without impacting mission critical applications during normal business hours.
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- Customer Experience:
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"We chose Network Appliance as a storage vendor
for our mission-critical business solutions because NetApp products deliver
high availability with solid, consistent performance and a much lower total
cost of ownership. NetApp has reduced the overhead necessary.
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