Overview

Egyptian Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) operates a state-of-the-art two-train liquefaction facility in Idku, Egypt. With a total capacity of 7.2 million tons per year, the plant leverages advanced Phillips Optimized Cascade technology to ensure efficient operations. Egyptian LNG is committed to maintaining high standards of technical proficiency and operational excellence.

With a drive to leverage the full potential of Microsoft 365 features and applications, Egyptian LNG sought a reliable partner to bridge the knowledge gap and optimize the use of its tools. 

The Challenge

As part of their digital transformation journey, Egyptian LNG faced challenges with troubleshooting and installation for Microsoft 365 applications. Lacking in-depth knowledge of the platform’s new features and capabilities, the organization sought expert guidance to optimize its use and empower its workforce. This knowledge gap hindered their efficiency and limited the adoption of new functionalities. 

The Solution

Recognizing the challenge, Egyptian LNG engaged Global Brands Group (GBG), a leading Microsoft FastTrack service provider across EMEA. GBG’s expert team developed and delivered tailored training sessions to address the client’s unique needs.

These sessions focused on:

• Advanced troubleshooting techniques: Equipping teams to handle technical issues efficiently.
• Installation best practices: Ensuring smooth deployment of Microsoft 365 applications.
• Deep dives into new Microsoft 365 features and capabilities, with a special emphasis on Outlook.

The training catered to both end users and IT professionals, empowering them to confidently adopt and troubleshoot new functionalities. By combining hands-on exercises, interactive discussions, and practical troubleshooting scenarios, the program enabled participants to fully leverage Microsoft 365’s potential.

Outcome and Business Impact

The impact of the collaboration was transformative for Egyptian LNG: 

1. Enhanced Knowledge: The team gained increased awareness and a better understanding of new Outlook features, significantly improving their workflow. 
2. Troubleshooting Mastery: Practical tips equipped the team to address challenges swiftly, saving time and effort. 
3. Fostering Innovation: The sessions fostered a culture of learning and innovation, positioning the team to adapt to future technological advancements confidently. 

The training delivered by Global Brands Group resulted in heightened awareness and understanding of new Outlook features and capabilities. Egyptian LNG’s team gained valuable troubleshooting tips, leading to a significant improvement in workflow. A team member remarked, “The training helped us increase awareness of the new Outlook, offering troubleshooting tips and knowledge about new features and capabilities.”

The sessions went beyond technical training, fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation. Another team member highlighted, “My team and I enjoyed fruitful discussions, which saved us a lot of time and effort in finding solutions.” These discussions empowered Egyptian LNG to approach challenges more efficiently and confidently.

This transformative experience elevated Egyptian LNG’s operational efficiency and technical proficiency. Reflecting on the program, the organization emphasized its impact: “At Egyptian LNG, we are always striving to enhance our operational efficiency and technical proficiency. These consulting sessions by GBG have been transformative. They have elevated our technical capabilities, enhanced productivity, and fostered innovation. We highly recommend these sessions to any organization looking to boost their technical skills and streamline operations.“

By equipping their team to leverage Microsoft 365 features effectively, the collaboration with GBG has driven Egyptian LNG forward with renewed efficiency and confidence.

The collaboration between Egyptian LNG and Global Brands Group demonstrates the value of targeted training and expert guidance. By addressing specific challenges and fostering a deeper understanding of Microsoft 365, GBG has empowered Egyptian LNG to drive operational excellence and innovation. 

Porto Developments is a leading real estate developer that offers mixed-use, family-oriented destinations. Porto has diversified businesses in the market of primary and secondary homes, complemented with hotels, shopping malls, and restaurants. The massive company has over 16 years of experience and has built 6,500 units, two shopping malls, 15 all-year-round destinations, one clinic hub, and much more.

The unprecedented focus of the Egyptian Government on establishing new infrastructure and destinations has led to the evolution of Porto Group. But the organization recognized that a change to adopt more modern approaches to deploy remarkable improvements is inevitable. This includes optimizing the Group’s operational systems and IT workflows.

OPTIMIZING PORTO DEVELOPMENTS’ IT WORKFLOWS

Global Brands Group, a name synonymous with building comprehensive solutions, has established a trustworthy relationship with Porto Developments over the years. We have previously walked the large-scale organization through an inclusive digital transformation.

As a reputable leader in the real estate industry, Porto Developments decided to take serious steps to becoming an all-digital real estate developer. They needed an IT provider that could accommodate a more agile organization by building a more flexible infrastructure, and sought Global Brands Group as the go-to provider for their IT project.

Global Brands Group, a Microsoft award-winning partner, designed a roadmap to navigate and optimize Porto’s system complexities. After which, the highly experienced team migrated Porto’s workloads to Linux on SAP Virtual Machines on Microsoft Azure. 

The process of migration to Microsoft Azure is rendered one of the best decisions for a big entity like Porto. Best of all, GBG conducted the process smoothly and seamlessly with a zero-error margin. The end-product is a powerful and scalable infrastructure that can contain future developments and allows for more reliable performance and lower operational costs. GBG has led yet another successful experience of end-to-end digital transformation, as always.

Connect with GBG today and get your own roadmap crafted to fit your requirements, and rest your real estate infrastructure on a robust malleable system.

Founded in 1985, Amer Group is a leading company in Egypt’s real estate development industry. The Group has created landmark destinations, homes, world-class restaurant chains, malls, hotels, and more to accommodate Egyptian families. In addition, the company’s other activities include the provision of touristic boats, investment activities, marketing, and real estate maintenance services. A major contributor to Egypt’s economy, Amer Group created 12,000 new job opportunities across the country and has pioneered Porto Said in Port Said, and Porto El-Minya in Minya.

As one of the largest resort developers in the country, Amer Group recognized that implementing a digital transformation would be key in optimizing the organization’s large-scale workflows, systems, and services. Unfortunately, during the time of the pandemic, and with the prevalence of COVID-19, there was a major breakdown in the systems. 

This disruptive IT infrastructural hurdle required immense expertise and experience to overcome. They needed a scalable and effective solution to optimize their operational efficiency and accessibility.

PROBLEM-SOLVING WITH MINIMAL DISRUPTION

Global Brands Group, market leaders in the Digital Transformation industry, partnered with Amer Group to overcome a major infrastructure issue. GBG helped optimize the services and systems of Amer Group, transforming its efficiency and accessibility. 

With more than 20 years’ experience in end-to-end digital transformation, Global Brands Group employed its expertise in helping Amer Group provide uninterrupted services to its customers. The Microsoft award-winning company recommended Microsoft Azure as a competent solution for the systems, and Amer Group followed suit. It was like a dream come true. Having SAP workloads on Azure provided the necessary robust system as well as the wanted reliability and availability.

This is not the first cooperation between Amer Group and Microsoft. Amer Group had its email systems and internal communications moved to the cloud by shifting to Microsoft 365 years ago. This made the migration to Azure smooth and rapid.

Global Brands Group makes all digital transformation processes easy and possible. The cherry on top is that further systems can be easily integrated without much hassle, because everything is included in one cloud environment and single network. With GBG, every step counts, and each desire is possible. 

El Araby Group has been one of Egypt’s pioneer enterprises in appliances, electrical, and electronics manufacturing since 1964. It operates in the MENA region through 16 commercial, industrial, medical, and service companies, 26 industrial facilities, and two hospitals; with employees exceeding 40,000, and carrying over 14 global brands with 25 product categories. El Araby’s far-reaching distribution network within Egypt consists of over 3,000 sales partners, 20 branded stores, and 600 after-sales service centers.

One of the Group’s missions is to enhance employees’ effectiveness, productivity, efficiency, and satisfaction – a goal that can only be met with the right IT tools, systems, and workflows.

With its extensive portfolio of stakeholders, products, and industries, the Group knew that pursuing continuous upgrades in technology would be pivotal for sustaining its daily operations. It needed a reliable and non-disruptive IT transformation that could accommodate day-to-day operations while providing flexibility to scale.

El Araby decided to seek Global Brands Group’s help to migrate its servers to the Cloud. This was a monumental task considering the massive scale of the Group’s enterprise pursuits.

The IT revamp not only optimized bandwidth to accelerate data and application workflows; it also streamlined online publishing resources and applications. The transformation enhanced and smoothened El Araby’s business operations, while equipping them with the tools and scalability for tomorrow’s challenges.

A TRUE TRANSFORMATION

Raising the Bar in Productivity

We integrated Riverbed SteelHead®, Azure and O365 into the design of El Araby Group’s digital transformation. This enriched their efficiency of critical product tools and gave their performance a huge boost. GBG also seamlessly migrated the Group’s operations to the cloud without any new investments in servers. The solution maximized electricity cost savings whilst increasing operational responsiveness and flexibility. Our tailored solutions were scalable and rendered a 30% performance improvement of El Araby’s multi publishing software.

A Bandwidth Upgrade for Improved Cloud Connection

As a specialist in Cloud productivity and security, Global Brands Group thoroughly researched El Araby Group’s market requirements in order to design a bespoke solution for the organization. We aptly chose to implement one Riverbed SteelHead® CX device per Gbps connection for efficient real-time testing. These cloud-dedicated devices installed on the WAN connections of the perimeter network structure analyzed, optimized, and sped up the flow of data.

Al Nas Hospital is a children’s healthcare facility located in the Shubra El Kheima area, north of Cairo. With nearly 600 beds, it is one of the largest and most sophisticated medical centers that operates entirely on charitable donations. Al Nas Hospital takes pride in providing no-charge healthcare services that use cutting-edge technologies, innovative equipment, and advanced medical practice standards.

The facility spans five buildings, 110 rooms, 140 intensive care units, 10 operations rooms, four cardiac catheterization units, and 48 outpatient clinics. In order to uphold its vision to provide high-level Egyptian healthcare, Al Nas Hospital recognizes that advanced cybersecurity is critical in delivering high-quality care and mitigating harmful disruptions in its day-to-day operations.

The healthcare facility sought Global Brands Group and adopted a Dell Technologies solution to enhance its digital security to protect patient safety and privacy vigilantly. GBG also tuned up the data storage and systems stability to ensure that Al Nas Hospital is reliably operating on the latest systems. Today, the facility is not only prepared for disaster events but is also shielded against cybersecurity, threat, and attack vulnerabilities. GBG and Dell Technologies were honored to be chosen as the hospital’s go-to IT provider for this digital transformation.

A BESPOKE UPGRADE BY GLOBAL BRANDS GROUP

Building Dependability and Speed

Customizing cost-conscious solutions around Al Nas Hospital’s needs, Global Brands Group engineered a hyper-converged infrastructure system with Dell EMC VxRail. The transformation included 10G Dell EMC Top Rack Switches that enabled stable and uniform speed within the facility. We also equipped the hospital with Dell EMC Isilon Storage to accommodate unstructured data such as those of radiology PACS images.

Protection Through Thick and Thin

Global Brands Group fitted Al Nas Hospital’s main and disaster recovery sites with state-of-the-art Dell Technologies. Applying Dell EMC Data Protection Suite, we secure the hospital’s datacenter with backups from Dell EMC Data domain to disk appliances, thus enabling efficient data recovery in unforeseen events of disaster.

Founded in 1979, Oriental Weavers Group is one of the biggest carpet, rug, and related raw material producers in the world. Its operation spans three manufacturing countries, 31 factories, and 130 distribution countries. The Group is also a global leader in exporting machine-woven carpets, as well as tufted and jet-printed rugs and carpets.

With an unrelenting vision to maintain its position as the world’s largest manufacturer in the industry, Oriental Weavers Group understood that IT innovation and flexibility were vital in helping it scale its business model across more diverse markets as well as the region.

The manufacturer Group sought Global Brands Group to help migrate its existing massive database to SAP HANA. Because SAP HANA is compatible with other databases, software, and hardware, the solution rendered Oriental Weavers Group flexibility, real-time insight, and analytic capabilities without causing disruptions to its existing interfaces. Combined with VMware virtualization and bolstered with disaster recovery measures, Oriental Weavers’ new IT infrastructure enabled unrivalled capabilities with the power to handle and manage larger volumes of data. This empowered Oriental Weavers Group to sustain and continue its expansion, enabling it to scale its business companies and branches with protection against IT risks and operational disruptions.

A GLOBAL BRANDS GROUP COMMITMENT TO THE FUTURE

Efficient and Safe Migration

Harnessing solutions from Dell Technologies, Global Brands implemented SAP-certified hardware infrastructure combined with a VMware virtualization software to effectively migrate Oriental Weavers’s environment. To bolster security, we also equipped the disaster recovery site with Dell EMC Recoverpoint to prevent data loss in unforeseen circumstances.