During the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, many multi-industry corporations turned to cloud computing as a strategic solution to overcome challenges such as declining sales and profits. However, for some cooperations that had been pioneering digital transformation, the reality exposed new difficulties, with many cloud migration projects in the manufacturing industry failing to meet initial expectations.
While nearly all industrial enterprises have embarked on their digital transformation journey, most have not yet been able to optimize their cloud operations or achieve significant business impacts. To prevent this from becoming a growing problem, it is necessary for the manufacturing industry to rapidly restructure its cloud strategy, focusing on data modernization and analytics while adjusting business processes and enhancing human resource capabilities.
As a multi-industry corporation operating in real estate, energy, manufacturing, and agriculture, Thanh Thanh Cong Group (TTC) has faced challenges due to data silos that disrupted the monitoring process and overall management. This not only hindered data quality, security, and compliance but also hampered the ability to harness the full potential of data for in-depth analytics and drive business metrics.
Transforming Systems and Applications to the Cloud with TechX
Seeking a leading technology partner in Vietnam to consult and implement digital transformation solutions, TTC collaborated with TechX—an Advanced Tier Services Partner in deploying infrastructure and data analytics services on the AWS cloud platform.
In the foundational phase, TechX worked with TTC to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of its existing infrastructure. This collaboration resulted in a tailored transformation roadmap designed to accelerate TTC's digital transformation strategy.
The next critical step was successfully developing and standardizing a Multi-Account Landing Zone on AWS. This solution enabled TTC to deploy applications and launch new products to target markets swiftly.
Following the deployment, TTC achieved a 50% reduction in product preparation time compared to previous timelines. Additionally, centralized management of all applications allowed for streamlined operational processes, enhanced real-time system monitoring, improved response times, and reduced administrative costs.
Building the Data Lake Solution
The final step in TTC's comprehensive transformation roadmap addressed its pressing challenges. TechX, in collaboration with TTC’s IT team, designed and implemented an Amazon Datalake to consolidate data from multiple sources. Integrated with Amazon EMR, the Datalake ensured efficient management and processing of massive data volumes, enabling seamless operations even in complex scenarios. This setup prepared high-quality data for business analytics or storage in data warehouses.
The Data Lake system was tightly integrated with on-premise platforms like Azure and Oracle Cloud, providing TTC to maintain a critical, organized, secure, and easily accessible data repository.
Additionally, the system utilized Amazon Redshift as a data warehouse to ingest, store, and execute complex queries and analyses. Combined with advanced encryption and security policies, the system provided comprehensive layers of data protection, enabling TTC to quickly recover from any incidents, minimizing downtime, ensuring security, strictly adherence to industry standards throughout the transmission and storage process.
Results
The project has yielded outstanding results, creating significant improvements in TTC's business operations. First, data security was significantly enhanced through the application of modern encryption frameworks and strict compliance policies, ensuring that TTC's data was always protected safely, and minimizing risks associated with breaches and unauthorized access.
Furthermore, building Data lake has strengthened TTC’s business continuity, enabling rapid recovery and ensuring uninterrupted operations. The system also offered operational flexibility, designed to scale easily with the growth of TTC, ensuring that businesses can scale up to 70% in the future while maintaining high performance and security.
TTC has optimized cost efficiencies by leveraging AWS's scalable infrastructure, significantly reducing the needs for resources and cutting overall operating costs by nearly 40%.