One of India’s leading retail chains of consumer electronics solves challenges related to growing data and documentation management with OpenText Core Archive solution
Croma leverages OpenText and Avaali to manage data growth, compliance, and document management.
Cromā is an Indian retail chain of consumer electronics and durables run by Infiniti Retail, a subsidiary of the Tata Group. Its product range covers more than 500 products across the electronics and consumer durable categories.
Addressing the challenges of rapid SAP data growth and meeting Statutory Compliance
Croma was keen to address continual challenge to efficiently store, retrieve, and manage massive amounts of data as a result of business growth over the past number of years and expects to have substantial data growth in the upcoming years as well.
Croma explored options for archiving and document migration solutions with the goals to keep the production database lean, increase performance and improve business efficiency in order to increase performance, reduce maintenance windows & system administration costs, implement compliant long term data storage mechanisms and also meet industry standards from a statutory and regulatory perspective.
Key Challenges
- Rapid business growth, resulting in large database, reduced performance & elevated administration costs & increased downtime during upgrade.
- Need for Reduction in database size and archiving business data.
- Need for reduction administration, operation cost, system downtime during maintenance & upgrade activities
- Requirement of migrating the data to OT ADA Cloud (Core Archive)
- Reduce administration, operation cost, System downtime during maintenance & Upgrade activities.
Partnering with Avaali to implement a solution efficiently and well within the time
Croma chose to partner with Avaali for the implementation of OpenText Core Archive Solution for SAP which is a SaaS based solution for archiving SAP and Non-SAP content in the cloud. The implementation team from Avaali conducted detailed workshops with key stakeholders from Croma to understand the current system and business processes, their pain points, requirements, and created a roadmap for implementation, transition and change management.
Archiving Automation solution leads to significant benefits
OpenText™ Core Archive for SAP Solutions securely store SAP data and documents as well as non-SAP content in the cloud and integrate business documents with SAP transactions and processes.
Industry
Retail
Customer
Croma – Infinity Retail
Partner
Avaali Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
OpenText™ Core Archive for SAP Solutions
- Long term cost effective secured storage, retrieval and management of archived data through OT ADA Cloud.
- Archiving of 14 objects including BC_DB Logs, FI_Documents etc).
- Reduction of FTE required for maintenance activities, patch upgrade.
- Archived approx. 1.5 TB of data till date.
- Significantly Reduced operational & administration costs.
- Significantly Reduced downtimes during maintenance & upgrade activities.
- Reduced database size and Improved system performance.
Avaali Solutions (www.avaali.com) is a company that enables large enterprises to bring down the cost of executing business processes via Digital. Avaali has delivered success for numerous large enterprises globally in the form of process agility, timely visibility and governance to processes by leveraging emerging technologies. Avaali’s advisory, consulting and implementation services has enabled enterprises to transform their business processes and engage better with their stakeholders including customers, employees, partners, vendors and shareholders.
Cromā is an Indian retail chain of consumer electronics and durables run by Infiniti Retail, a subsidiary of the Tata Group. Its product range covers more than 500 products across the electronics and consumer durable categories.
To learn more about Croma visit: https://www.croma.com/company-information