Nimbus Thailand – Together We Innovate

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Internet Thailand (INET) is a VMware Cloud Verified partner, and an ICT infrastructure provider that offers services such as network connectivity, consulting services, system design and integration as well as a fully equipped data center.

INET is the largest cloud provider in Thailand and the first in the country to be VMware Cloud Verified bringing much needed expertise to the market
As a local cloud provider, more flexible and responsive to the customer’s needs
INET was able to provide engineering and sales support not only in the Thai language but also in person, enabling Nimbus to focus on its core business
Through their partnership with VMware, INET has built an ecosystem for companies like Nimbus, so that they can now grow and scale on demand

The Story

More than 20,000 local wholesalers in Thailand risk falling behind in the new economy. To help them move from paper to digital, Nimbus Thailand needs to make its cloud-based inventory software affordable. The start-up moved from a global hyper-scale cloud provider to Internet Thailand (INET), a VMware Cloud Verified™ Partner, which offered a “reasonable” price based on their business requirements, instead of charges that scaled with the number of transactions. INET is also able to provide engineering and sales support in Thai and in person.

Customer Name: Nimbus Thailand
Solutions Platform: Multi-Cloud, VCPP, Virtual Cloud Network
Country: Thailand
Industry: Technology
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While Thailand 4.0 encapsulates the country’s aim to become a digital hub, digital transformation remains out of reach for many local wholesalers. Many are still not keen on the hefty upfront investment in infrastructure and hardware required for most on-premise inventory management software. To make the service affordable for the store owners, Nimbus was under pressure to lower its cost of doing business. Previously, the company hosted their software with a global hyper-scale cloud provider and the costs were prohibitive due to charges that scaled with the number of transactions. Moreover, the provider offered some proprietary services that would have locked Nimbus in and made it very difficult to change providers down the road.

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After a year with the previous cloud provider, Nimbus knew they had to switch providers to ensure the viability of the company. Having had a positive experience with VMware in the past, Nimbus decided to go with Internet Thailand (INET), as it offered the complete VMware cloud infrastructure delivered as a service.

INET offered the company a “reasonable” price based on their business requirements, such as capacity and storage. Moreover, INET bundled in other services such as backup snapshots and data transfer. Importantly, as a local cloud provider, INET was able to provide engineering and sales support not only in the Thai language but also in person. And now that the company is no longer paying for cloud usage based on the number of transactions, they are better able to control their costs as they scale up their business.

The move to INET made it possible for Nimbus Thailand to offer their services at an economical price point for local wholesalers in the country, with many reporting an increase in revenue after using the cloud-based software. In the past, it could take them 20 minutes to process an order, from receiving an order on the phone to writing it order and checking available supplies and the prices. Now, with Nimbus, it typically takes them less than five minutes. Owners can now see the health of their business from a dashboard but they can also easily support operations in their retail branches without additional investment.

Reduced the cost of doing business by 40%
Grew the number of customers by 300%
Enabled their customers to increase revenue by 25%
With the rapid growth in the number of customers, Nimbus Thailand is considering working with INET and VMware on storage as a service to manage their data transfers and backups, without the need to set up hard drives, servers and hire IT staff. It will also allow them to mitigate risks in disaster recovery as corrupted or lost company data can be easily restored.

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