Afrigather South African retailer Pick n Pay has migrated its whole on-premises info know-how (IT) infrastructure to Amazon Web Services (AWS). Decide n Pay labored with Lemongrass Consulting, an AWS Premier Consulting Accomplice, for the migration.
In a press assertion seen by TechCabal, the retailer acknowledged that it’ll use the AWS Market and AWS’s wide selection of companies together with storage, databases, analytics and enterprise intelligence to automate Decide n Pay’s operations, ship real-time insights, and establish and buy AWS Accomplice Community (APN) choices.
By analyzing information within the cloud, Decide n Pay can forecast demand, establish buyer patterns and sentiment, and enhance the in-store and on-line purchasing expertise for purchasers. With AWS, the retailer can dynamically scale its infrastructure assets according to enterprise demand and peak retail seasons.
Decide n Pay states that this elasticity will assist it scale its on-line purchasing companies, which run on AWS, to serve 1000’s of South African prospects throughout its busiest purchasing durations and holidays.
Talking on the migration, Chris Shortt, chief info & know-how officer at Decide n Pay, acknowledged that leveraging AWS’s cloud companies comes with higher operational effectivity for the retailer.
“The brand new cloud-based enterprise intelligence platform allows us to make much more data-driven selections that may assist us ship decrease costs and extra worth to our prospects,” he added.
Decide n Pay is the primary African retailer to wholly migrate its whole on-premises info know-how infrastructure to AWS. In accordance with Eamonn O’Neill, chief know-how officer at Lemongrass Consulting, the technique will see potential value financial savings of between 45% and 75% for the retailer.
