City Mart Holdings Ltd – Together We Innovate

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Access Spectrum is a leading technology solutions provider and distributor, offering a spectrum of products, services and turnkey solutions.

With the long term relationship between Access Spectrum and the customer, they had a deeper understanding of City Mart’s requirements and were able to provide a future ready solution swiftly and within budget
As a local provider they were familiar with the internal and external issues facing the customer and the delivery needs for a successful project
Access Spectrum acted as a dedicated IT department for City Mart providing and implementing the VMware solutions for the cloud infrastructure, management and security tools. This allowed City Mart to concentrate on their business success
Holding a number of VMware Master Service Competency including Data Center Virtualization – Access Spectrum has a deep knowledge of VMware products and solutions allowing them to deliver fast, seamless solutions to their customers

The Story

Myanmar’s largest retailer, City Mart, prides itself in keeping a finger on the pulse of customer demand. As it gears up to face direct competition from foreign entrants in the industry, it needed to overhaul its IT infrastructure as a step in ensuring that the shelves are stocked with goods that consumers want. City Mart found its answer working with partner Access Spectrum, in VMware vCloud Suite®. The virtualization solution underpins everything the retailer does, totally eliminating system downtime for seamless customer experience, while streamlining inventory management and financial reporting.

Customer Name: City Mart Holdings Ltd
Solutions Platform: Anywhere Workspace, Multi-Cloud
Country: Myanmar
Industry: Retail
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With disposable incomes on the rise in Myanmar, the country has experienced a retail boom leading to an influx of foreign brands. Local retailer City Mart found their legacy IT infrastructure holding them back from finding efficient, economic and effective ways to stay competitive. They struggled with unreliable and inflexible infrastructure leading to downtime that impacted revenue, supply chain issues that effected both customers and suppliers as well as operational inefficiency. To be able to pioneer breakthrough retail concepts for expansion, City Mart needed an agile and resilient infrastructure that provides high availability, security and speed of application development and rollout.

VMware vCloud Suite Standard

An enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure and management solution

VMware vRealize Operation

Enable self-driving IT Operations Management across private, hybrid and multi-cloud environments with a unified operations platform that delivers continuous performance, capacity and cost optimization, intelligent remediation and integrated compliance through AI/ML and predictive analytics.

VMware vRealize Log Insight

Manage data at scale with centralized log management, deep operational visibility and intelligent analytics for troubleshooting and auditing across private, hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus

Bring the benefits of the cloud to on-premises workloads. vSphere supercharges performance, enhances operational efficiency, and accelerates innovation.

VMware vCenter Server Standard

VMware vCenter is an advanced server management software that provides a centralized platform for controlling vSphere environments for visibility across hybrid clouds.

VMware Workspace ONE powered by AirWatch

VMware Workspace ONE combines Zero Trust conditional access control with industry-leading modern management to help IT proactively secure their digital workspace.

Working with Access Spectrum, a VMware partner, City Mart set about modernizing its IT infrastructure to support its entire network of stores. To provide cloud infrastructure for the whole chain, it deployed the VMware vCloud Suite, (vSphere® Enterprise Plus Edition™ and VMware vRealize® Suite), this allowed them to consolidate servers and data centers and improve application availability and performance – all in a scalable manner. Using VMware vRealize® Operations™ provided intelligent operations management, and for centralized control and visibility, vCenter Server was deployed. City Mart leveraged Workspace ONE powered by AirWatch for data security and endpoint compliance.

100% availability of systems
Reduced capex by 30%
Reduced opex by 60%
Scaled up operational efficiency by 90%

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