IT SUCCESS STORIES
AN EXCERPT OF SUCCESSFUL PROJECTS
apo.com Group
High available infrastructure for online pharmacies
The apo.com Group, a logistics and IT service provider for apodiscounter.de and other pharmaceuticals and cosmetics webshops, wished to set up a modern, highly available IT infrastructure and was in search of a future-oriented solution for this. It was especially important here that the data center in question meet the most stringent security requirements while also possessing potential for growth. The primary data center in Leuna had long fulfilled its duties successfully, but was now nearing its capacity limits. Nor did the facility offer the space for anticipated ex-pansion required to serve the ever-increasing number of online pharmacies.
Bildungswerk der Bayerischen Wirtschaft e. V.
Redundant IT of the bbw Group
The Bavarian Educational Institute for Industry and Commerce (Bildungswerk der Bayerischen Wirtschaft e. V. (bbw)) was in need of secure and high-performance resources for the operation of its extensive IT systems. Redundant systems were to be set up in two spatially separated secure data centers. Its requirements also called for high-bandwidth connections and energy-efficient operation. The goal was to obtain an IT system that functions smoothly in the background so as to optimally support the bbw organization geared toward teaching, learning and support.
censhare GmbH
Cloud software from the vDatacenter
censhare GmbH, provider of Universal Smart Content Management Software, will completely dispense with its own hardware and has moved its systems to the “vDatacenter” of noris network. The live and development environment of Content Management SaaS and censhares internal systems are now run on a highly flexible, fully virtualized IT platform. censhare can easily configure and provision virtual data center resources via a portal.
Finanz Informatik Technologie Service (FI-TS)
Construction and operation of the FI-TS data center
Finanz Informatik Technologie Service (FI-TS) provides IT services for private and public banks, insurance companies, and financial service providers. The company was looking to update its Nuremberg data centers. A new location needed to be found for one of them, a task which proved difficult partly because it had to meet the highest security standards according to Trusted Site Infrastructure Level 4 and EN 50600. Since FI-TS does not want to own any real estate itself for strategic business reasons, it sought a partner.
GameDuell
Online gaming without borders
Entertaining online games with thousands of real players – this is GameDuell’s highly successful concept. Since the company was founded in 2003, more than 125 million users have registered with the Berlin-based provider. However, the requirements on the performance of online games are high – any disorder or even interruption resulting from technical problems spoils the party and could cause the players to turn their backs on the platform. When the IT infrastructure needed to be expanded as a result of GameDuell’s strong growth, the company was looking for a partner who could guarantee technical reliability.
IDnow GmbH
Highly Secure Data Centers Provide Identity Verification as a Service
In 2014, a small team of security and IT experts founded IDnow GmbH. Their goal was to make the connected world more secure and provide tamper-proof identity verification for online customer interactions in the areas of banking, insurance, gaming, automotive, telecommunications, and other industries. One of the most pressing questions at the time was where to host the platform for electronic identity verification.
ISE Information Systems Engineering GmbH
Optimum accommodation for ISE Oracle Technology Center
ISE Information Systems Engineering GmbH is the first system house in Germany that has specialized in the Oracle Exastack Family (Exadata, Exalogic, Exalytics). At the end of 2010, the award-winning Oracle Platinum Partner opened its first test center following the purchase of an Exadata Database Machine. However, this test center soon reached its limits, since not only the database server, but also the application and analysis systems should be tested in a complete operating environment. The overall solution marketed as Oracle Exastack Family was consolidated in the ISE Oracle Technology Center and places stringent demands on its accommodation.
Klebl GmbH
Secure Internet at the construction site and in the corporate headquarters
Today, the availability of a comprehensive IT infrastructure is mandatory for modern construction companies. The construction sites must be securely interconnected with the company via fast connections – as well as the individual sites with another. For this purpose, the Klebl Group is looking for a technical and organizational solution that ensures for all parties easy and efficient access to the existing applications, processes and technologies.
Küchen Quelle
Secure IT for Küchen Quelle
Kitchen retailer Küchen Quelle relies on an extensive IT infrastructure to handle the electronic workflow between sales staff, head office, five kitchen megastores, the manufacturers of furniture, sinks, stoves and refrigerators, and finally the coordination of freight forwarders and cabinetmakers who deliver and install the kitchen in the customer’s home. When Küchen Quelle was detached from insolvent Arcandor Group, the company had to move its IT out of the group data center within less than two months.
Lufthansa WorldShop GmbH
High-availability webshop for Lufthansa WorldShop GmbH
At www.worldshop.eu, customers participating in the Miles & More frequent flyer programme can acquire a wide range of high quality branded products from aircraft models and suitcases to sports equipment, entertainment electronics and wines and also pay the products with their bonus miles. Around 20,000 visitors, from 200,000 to 300,000 page impressions a day and a complex, mixed payment system (bonus miles and cash) make www.worldshop.eu a technologically demanding webshop that operates in five languages.
MADELEINE Mode GmbH
Customized IT for fashion house MADELEINE
The mail order business today increasingly runs over the Internet, and hence a reliable IT infrastructure is mission critical for the venerable fashion house MADELEINE. In the past, MADELEINE Mode GmbH used to rely on the IT structure of the Arcandor Group. In order to prevent the shutdown of its own online shops when Arcandor became insolvent, MADELEINE was looking for a reliable partner to provide long-term IT support and host the madeleine.de and emilialay.de sites.
Max Bögl Group
Virtual private networks: networking of sites and construction projects at Max Bögl
Over the past decades, the Max Bögl Group has continuously evolved through innovations in technology and organization from a mere provider of construction services into a modern technology and services company. Projects around the world need to be coordinated and organized. Not only the company’s globally distributed locations, but also the construction sites must be permanently linked in a secure and reliable manner to the Group’s central IT infrastructure.
Max Bögl Group (Nürnberg Süd)
Backup data center for Max Bögl Group
In 2010, Max Bögl Group, Germany’s largest privately owned construction company, installed a 200 square meter backup data center on their premises in Sengenthal near Neumarkt (Upper Palatinate). Designed by noris network AG, the group’s long-term IT service provider, the data center reflected the latest state of technology. However, a basic principle of IT security through redundancy consists in spatial separation, so Max Bögl Group chose to achieve a disaster-proof accommodation by placing the backup center at a greater distance from their live system.
ndgit GmbH
Data centers for the open banking platform
PSD2, the European payment services directive, is forcing banks to open their payment systems to third parties. ndgit GmbH, which was founded in 2016, aimed to provide accompanying solutions and developed an open platform to network banks, insurers, fintechs, and platform providers to digital ecosystems. The platform would allow banks to offer their customers new financial services without having to modify their core systems. The data centers that are needed to host the platform are subject to stringent regulatory requirements imposed on the sector.
NUREG GmbH
IT services: online connection, hosting and security solutions for the full-service agency
In printing companies, work processes are increasingly shifting towards computers and purely digital end-products. Building up, maintaining and optimizing the required IT infrastructure by oneself is therefore a major endeavor. Along with the implementation of content, a modern full-service multimedia agency also strives to offer its clients customized technical services, from the provision of the necessary IT systems through to services such as maintenance and support, which can guarantee non-disruptive, smooth operation.
Nürnberger Versicherung
TSI Level 4 Housing for Nürnberger Versicherung
It was foreseeable that, in the near future, Nürnberger Versicherung’s data centers would no longer meet the state of the art nor comply with the security criteria customary in the industry. Strategic considerations, which included the make-or-buy decision, resulted in the plan to replace both data centers but to only build one new one. The data center for mirroring would be leased. Due to regulatory requirements for IT that apply to the insurance industry, not just any colocation data center would do.
PROFI Engineering Systems AG
PROFI network with MPLS
As a system house, PROFI Engineering Systems AG generates intensive data traffic between their offices throughout Germany. Higher bandwidth and redundant protection were needed.
RCI Bank and Services Deutschland
IT-Services
RCI Bank and Services Deutschland – as Renault Financial Services, Dacia Financial Services, and Nissan Financial Services – distributes its financing, leasing, and insurance products through Renault, Dacia, Alpine, and Nissan car dealers. A data center service provider was sought as part of a migration project. In addition to several central systems in France, numerous systems were to be operated in the future in bank-secure data centers in Germany in order to make the IT systems for leasing and financing, as well as dealer workstation and configuration systems, more powerful.
REWE Group
Linking webshop and branch network
When REWE Retail Group became the owner of the electronics retail chain Promarkt, this should not remain REWE’s only activity in the field of consumer electronics. In order to implement a particularly customer-friendly combination of specialist stores and webshop sales channels, REWE Group had also taken over the online provider myby and thus secured advanced webshop technology. The next step was to coordinate the products on offer at the ProMarkt branches and on www.promarkt.de, and to network their IT systems.
rexx systems
SaaS and IaaS
rexx systems develops software that meets a broad range of personnel management needs. This includes time management and training tools as well as interfaces to job platforms and payroll systems. Organizations that manage this sensitive information in a cloud service expect it to be secured by top-of-the-line data protection solutions. The client was in need of a high-security data center for SaaS and IaaS meeting the highest standards and certifications. In addition, the operator was required to provide services for client-side certification and audits. Moreover, management of the booked services was to be simple and user friendly, because rexx systems needs the ability to scale its services very flexibly.
Schmetterling Reisen
Virtual server and storage systems for 3500 travel agencies
Schmetterling operates the largest independent medium-sized travel agency cooperation in Europe. The 3500 travel agents and tour operators participating in this cooperation can rely on Schmetterling’s services, for example, when it comes to developing and operating their IT solutions. For this purpose, the full-service provider must be able to provide a growing number of diversified solutions with consistently high performance, reliability, safety and efficiency.
Senacor Technologies AG
Data center partnership according to DevOps principles
In 2014, the Volks- und Raiffeisenbanken (German cooperative banks), Commerzbank, Deutsche Bank, Postbank, and others joined forces to offer a new banking standard for payments on the Internet by founding paydirekt GmbH. Senacor Technologies AG, now one of the fastest-growing IT service providers in the DACH region (Germany, Austria, and Switzerland), was commissioned to develop the payment service. Senacor was soon faced with the question of how paydirekt would be operated. The company needed to find a service provider that could meet the special requirements presented by a banking application.
SONAX GmbH
Flexible combination of co-location, cloud, and service
As part of their IT and digitalization strategy, the diverse companies in the Hoffmann Group were looking for an IT platform they could all share. The aim was to balance out the need for data sovereignty and security with the need for wide-ranging flexibility. Like other SMEs, Hoffmann and SONAX did not have the IT resources internally to carry out digital projects alongside their day-to- day IT operations. This was a real challenge for them. They lacked the technical staff, infrastructure, and specialized technological expertise required for the task.
TeamBank AG
easyCredit banking system 2.0: centralized web application combines front and back office
The easyCredit sales concept that is pursued by TeamBank AG with a particular focus on service quality and added value requires an IT infrastructure that provides specialist advice to clients at conveniently accessible locations and quick and transparent lending practices. To ensure efficient processing of loan agreements, the bank strives to enable its client advisers to access all stored data at any time while simultaneously relieving them from manual routine work and minimizing potential errors.
Willis Towers Watson
EU data center for Willis Towers Watson
Willis Towers Watson has rented cages for IT systems in noris network data centers in Nuremberg and Munich. These systems are mirrored between the two sites via the noris network backbone to provide georedundancy. The colocation infrastructure, which is set up to be redundant across two data centers, complies with all the necessary regulations, thus making it the perfect addition to the Willis Towers Watson globaldata center infrastructure. The systems operated at noris network build the foundation for GDPR-compliant handling of EU customers and their data.
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