Implementation of Comarch Cloud at Nicols

About Nicols

Nicols Group is a leading European manufacturer focused on the market of household cleaning products: sponges, scouring sponges, wipes and microfiber wipes, air fresheners, toilet care products, insecticides and moth-repellent products. Nicols is one of the most important manufacturers of this type of specialized products for the European market. Headquartered in Belgium, and the main production centers are located in factories in France and Poland.

50
countries
650
employees
100 m €
turnover

Business Objectives

Recent years have brought dynamic development and growth of sales in the European market for Nicols Group. Poland has become a strategic market. With the increase in financial results, there appeared increased needs for IT infrastructure, including data center resources. The ultimate catalyst for the project turned out to be the internal transformation of the company, including migration of the Nicols headquarters to a new office in Nivelles, Belgium. On this occasion there was a need to find a new server room. Comarch’s offering turned out to be the most competitive one.

The project has three main goals:

Reducing overall IT costs
Making new solution more scalable
Shortening the reaction time of the IT

What Were The Advanatage of Comarch?

The most important success factor was Comarch engagement from the beginning of the sales process. Our experience and previous successes in the processes of large migrations to the Comarch cloud - not just a single application, but even complete IT environments - have proven to be our strong advantages. In addition, our customer has highly evaluated our substantive preparation and organization.

After several months of collaboration, the customer wanted to build Disaster Recovery Center (DRC) and wanted to negotiate the terms of the transition from IaaS to PaaS service models. After two extra months we agreed on all the technical and financial conditions. In the first place, Comarch would build a DRC solution and in the next few months, the customer would gradually implement PaaS service.

OCTOBER 2012
Talks about the project began
JULY 2013
Start of project implementation
DECEMBER 2013
Successful completion of the implementation and the beginning of the operational phase – providing continuous services (IaaS)

Why Has Nicols Decided to Choose Comarch?

Experience in projects with similar Data Center specifics
Robust Comarch brand and international activities
Flexible offer and solutions for the client
Individual approach to the project
Sharing the risk with the client
Beneficial financing model adapted to the needs pf the customer

Characteristics of services

In July 2013, the process of data migration from the current headquarters to our cloud began. At this stage, we acquired the know-how from the existing IT service provider, prepared our systems to accept Nicols applications and in December we started providing a whole set of services known as IaaS, or Infrastructure as a Service. In June 2014 Comarch launched Data Recovery Center (DRC) for Nicols and it was located in Comarch Data Center in Warsaw.

Scope of services

OVER 30 VIRTUAL SERVERS IN THE HYBRID CLOUD
3TB OF DISK RESOURCES
CO-LOCATION OF THE EXISTING CLIENT DEVICES
BACKUP SERVICES MANAGING CUSTOMERS ARCHIVES
PROVIDING TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES
DRC SERVICES IN PAAS MODEL

More About The Implemented Product

Comarch Data Center

Modern data processing and storage facilities used as an alternative for companies to expanding their IT infrastructure resources.

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Benefits for Nicols

Aaccessibility of it resources on demand - full scalability not only increases the demand for ict services but also reduces contracted resources
Improved efficiency and effectiveness of the it department
Optimization of it costs
Comarch’s flexible approach to project development