Case Study Merchandising Company A canadian merchandising company celebrating 30 years in business. THE Challenge The company’s current setup on Dedicated servers at OVH which consisted of almost 4-5 dedicated boxes based on Windows and one OpenVpn server based on Linux VPS at OVH. So current infrastructure level challenges are: Out of place quick disaster recovery competencies. Potential hard drive failures leading to data loss. High recovery time for an SQL database system. Current setup is not easily scalable on dedicated boxes. Manual application deployments. THE solution After analysis of the current setup at OVH data centre we assessed the current state of the company. We created an optimised roadmap which improves the overall stability and scalability of the infrastructure. The transformation added confidence on current application setup and they were able to scale quickly. Developed a highly efficient web- based portal using DotnetCore and Angular Developed a highly efficient web- based portal using DotnetCore and Angular. Built-in chat module enabling voice/text/video chat by making groups. Enabling different user categories like Admin, Representative, Financial Users, Director, National Accounts Manager, and Operations Manager Fast build deployment and rollback with help of CI/CD Multiple security Features and Firewall Fast Disaster recovery from quick backup access Will Host SQL server on AWS EC2 Servers with our current SQL licence under BYOL policy. Cost optimization What did we tap into? $31.8 Retail automation market 10.94% Estimated annual growth 88% Reduction of human error through cloud deployment 46x More frequent software deployments than their competitors 96x Faster recovery from failures 440x Faster lead time for changes Cloud migration roadmap Solution Summary The client are now able to take advantage of cloud native development practises to reduce their data centre footprint and focus on increasing their AWS cloud native development and IaC capabilities. The application and its infrastructure are now more highly available, scalable and resilient, which requires less effort to resolve issues. The client are now able to take advantage of cloud native development practises to reduce their data centre footprint and focus on increasing their AWS cloud native development and IaC capabilities. The application and its infrastructure are now more highly available, scalable and resilient, which requires less effort to resolve issues.