MFEC Public Company Limited

MFEC Public Company Limited (MFEC), founded in 1997, is one of Thailand’s leading technology providers.

The company delivers end-to-end digital solutions across IT Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Cloud Solution, Enterprise Business Solution, Data & Analytics, and AI Solution. MFEC primarily serves large enterprises and industry leaders across both the public and private sectors.

MFEC Public Company Limited (MFEC), founded in 1997, is one of Thailand’s leading technology providers.

Customer Showcase 1

Bank credit card cloud migration

Customer Background

Anonymous bank is one of the largest state-owned commercial banks in Thailand. It has a number of branches around the world and is committed to provide a wide range of financial services and products, including credit cards, payments, loans, leases, e-money, and merchant services.

Challenges

1. The database system has limited performance and capacity:

All systems running in IBM appliance, and the system supports a maximum of 4 million credit card accounts and the performance is limited.

2. Multi-DC strategy, focusing on data security:

If one DC has problems, it will not affect the whole system.

3. High IT costs:

High infrastructure, private line, and O&M costs on the live network.

Solutions

With the “cloud first” strategy, MFEC help customer to build an agile service platform to support flexible resource scaling, rapid service development and secure and reliable service deployment based on Huawei Cloud.

1. Cloud-Native Architecture Restructuring: Mainframe migration to the cloud, the cloud-native container CCE platform enables on-demand fast capacity expansion.

2. High Availability Architecture: Dual-AZ deployment, comprehensive multi-tier, multi-account architecture. meet the compliance and security requirements of Thailand.

3. The Landing Zone solution: Centrally manage multiple accounts and networks, simplifying O&M and reducing the cost.

4. Business Continuity Assurance: MFEC employs a "Dual-Live Migration + Gray Release" strategy to achieve zero-downtime migration.

Huawei Cloud Services Used

Elastic Cloud Server (ECS)

RDS for MySQL

GaussDB

TaurusDB

Customer Benefits

Part of credit card system has been running on Huawei Cloud, connecting thousands of merchants and supporting several million consumers.

Cost Reduction

30%, Simplified O&M, reduced private line costs.

High Reliability

RPO =0, RTO < 10s, Stable, reliable services, tens of million transactions processed per day.

High Performance

Unlimited accounts >thousands TPS, service rollout shortened from years to months.

Cost Reduction

30%, Simplified O&M, reduced private line costs.

High Reliability

RPO =0, RTO < 10s, Stable, reliable services, tens of million transactions processed per day.

High Performance

Unlimited accounts >thousands TPS, service rollout shortened from years to months.

Customer Showcase 2

Data Solution: Move Financial Workloads to GaussDB

Customer Background

The customer is a large financial institution whose core business includes a rewards system. Due to the rapid development of its business, the existing database system is under immense pressure and cannot meet the growing demand for data processing.

Challenges

1. Capacity expansion of the current system is not straightforward:

The systems used Db2 databases and run-on IBM AS/400 servers. It was hard to scale out resources to keep up with fast business growth.

2. Performance bottlenecks:

20 minutes at least to complete to reporting and complex queries.

Solutions

1. Migration: GaussDB fully supports SQL syntax, allowing for seamless migration without changing application code, ensuring business continuity and stability.

2. DataWise Task Management: Automate routine operations tasks through DataWise, including proactive task health checks, daily operations and support, monitoring, and diagnostics.

3. Intelligent Routine Operations: Utilize tools like Data Admin Service (DAS), Huawei Cloud Eye, and GaussDB Management Platform (TPOPS) to achieve intelligent routine operations management, enhancing work efficiency and accuracy.

Huawei Cloud Services Used

GaussDB

Data Admin Service (DAS)

Cloud Eye

Customer Benefits

Fast Scaling

Auto scaling in seconds with expandable capacity exceeding 20TB.

High Performance

The completion time for daily reports and complex query tasks has been reduced from 20 minutes to 3 minutes.

High Reliability

GaussDB has robust disaster recovery capabilities, achieving RPO=0 and RTO≤10s, ensuring data security and business continuity.

Effective Cost

By adopting GaussDB, the customer successfully reduced costs by 35%. Due to smooth migration and easy O&M, especially resource utilized with no-changed coding.

Fast Scaling

Auto scaling in seconds with expandable capacity exceeding 20TB.

High Performance

The completion time for daily reports and complex query tasks has been reduced from 20 minutes to 3 minutes.

High Reliability

GaussDB has robust disaster recovery capabilities, achieving RPO=0 and RTO≤10s, ensuring data security and business continuity.

Effective Cost

By adopting GaussDB, the customer successfully reduced costs by 35%. Due to smooth migration and easy O&M, especially resource utilized with no-changed coding.