NIKE Barcelona Merchandising: Platform change in the AWS cloud
Nike, through its brand “FCB Merchandising"From 2002 to 2018, he managed the manufacturing and operation of the entire retail market of Fútbol Club Barcelona.
It is 16 years of a business that came to include three own stores, 15 licensed stores and 328 licensees. With a workforce of more than 250 employees, 7.000 licensed products and generating an annual turnover of around 65 million euros.
What challenge did the company face?
FC Barcelona hosted its entire retail structure on a hybrid platform deployed on AWS and in a data center in Barcelona, both locations managed by apser.
Mixed server platform
Reorganizing your management
Nike then faced a challenge in multiple areas:
Solution implemented
Apser offered you an initial assessment that would allow us to analyze the current status of your AWS account and, subsequently, our Sherpa support service to be able to implement the potential improvements detected during the assessment.
Nike consulted with apser and the ICG solution provider on a plan to achieve the objectives it had set. With the clear objective of keeping costs to a minimum, apser proposed the creation of a New customer area in AWS for Nike, since the one in use was going to be managed exclusively by FC Barcelona, with a server with the minimum viable resources and migrating the database relative to the data owned by Nike with the help of the ICG partner.
A was deployed EC2 server based on SSD EBS storage. It was also implemented Lifecycle Manager for managing backups and GuardDuty to analyze possible security incidents. To minimize unauthorized access, access to the server was restricted using security groups limited to the IPs of the client's offices.
As an additional expense control measure, apser implemented its solution server schedulings to turn on and off coinciding with the client's working day. The deployment was carried out in July 2019 according to the schedule designed to not impact the client's business.
Listed below are some of the optimizations made by service:
Results
Once the deployment was completed, the client could continue using the platform with which they had been working for more than 15 years, maintaining the history of their data, in a maximum security environment, and with a 20% cost savings thanks to the server automatically shutting down at night.
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> Savings on platform costs, thanks to AWS's pay-per-use approach that allows the platform to be available only when the client really needs it
Next steps
The following challenges are planned:
> Minimize costs even further allowing the client to power cycle the server when needed
> Inclusion of a VPN system for private access to the environment even if it is not located in any of the client's offices
Why Apser
apser is the AWS Advanced Consulting Partner specialized in private companies, public sector, ISVs and non-profit organizations.
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