"A101" carries out purchases through a cloud Croc

On January 30, 2018 the development company of "A101" announced transfer in a cloud of CROC of electronic marketplace through which monthly there undergo approval about 5300 documents from more than 1500 partners of A101 Group. A system is designed to make process of purchases of materials, the equipment, joint products for support of primary activity by more transparent, to increase efficiency of expenditure of means and to formalize communications with suppliers.

In A101 Group the electronic marketplace works from a cloud of CROC since launch at the beginning of 2017. Thanks to migration of this key business application on a cloud platform fast functioning with service of purchasing managers and partners of group is ensured: almost instant loading of documents, introduction of adjustments and unloading. In turn, representatives of IT department of A101 Group note that using a cloud of CROC there is an opportunity to optimize costs for IT, to lower staff costs and to provide permanent availability of electronic marketplace.

"Work of electronic marketplace directly affects efficiency of all our activity. Quick search of suppliers with the most competitive prices of products allows to reduce cost value of construction, and fast approval of contracts — in required terms to hand over an object and to fulfill obligations to clients, investors, partners. Our global purpose — at increase in efficiency of purchasing activity to lower operating costs of IT services. It is obvious that in the current economic conditions it is better, than the cloud, cannot cope with such tasks any IT tool". Oleg Sorokin, head of department of IT infrastructure of department of information technologies of A101 Group

Cost optimization on IT is possible thanks to payment only for the consumed resources which volume varies. At launches of projects load of electronic marketplace increases, at other moments — remains the same or falls. The cloud allows to trace automatically loading in the hourly mode, selecting or removing required capacities. Using a cloud it is possible to approach management of technicians more flexibly. Having shifted a part of tasks to cloud provider, the customer eliminates "headache" on management of the selected administrators. The quality of work of CROC is fixed in tough SLA which regulates availability of service at the level of 99.95% (simple no more than 1 hour a month).

Permanent system availability and reduction of risk of its idle times are provided with placement of service in the cloud distributed in network of failsafe DPCs CROC, and use of a communication channel the, open for the customer, integrating four independent operators.