Pan-Asian retailer Dairy Farm Group has selected a multi-million dollar managed private cloud solution from Telstra, to help drive growth and enhance customer engagement.
Under the agreement, Telstra will oversee the storage, physical security, maintenance and connectivity of the company’s SAP suite, enabling the organization to stay focused on its core business.
With more than 100,000 employees and 5,800 stores and franchises across Asia – including IKEA, Mannings and 7-ELEVEN – the Dairy Farm Group serves more than one billion consumers annually across its highly diversified businesses.
The Dairy Farm Group’s SAP migration to Telstra’s private cloud offering started last November, with health and beauty stores being the first to move, and is due for completion this April.
The firm is continuing to explore further expansion of the platform, including unified communications as a service, network and retail media solutions within the next two years.
“Opting for Telstra’s managed private cloud solution should help lower the total cost of ownership for the Dairy Farm Group’s SAP suite, with less resources required to manage the environment,” said Andrew Wildblood, head of Asia Pacific enterprise at Telstra’s global enterprise and services unit.
“Hosting business applications in the cloud, helps empower the Dairy Farm Group’s employees to work on the move, delivering a consistent level of productivity while addressing increasing demand for mobile workspaces,” said Wildblood. “Furthermore, the Dairy Farm Group will benefit from improved business continuity with the managed solution’s disaster recovery offerings.”