Madar Holding, the international arm of the building materials business of Saudi-based Al Fozan Group, announced it has registered significant reduction in IT operational costs over a period of 11 months through leveraging eHosting DataFort (eHDF)’s managed IT services.
eHosting DataFort provides Madar Holding with a secure data centre environment to host critical business applications including their ERP systems, communications and security infrastructure. As one of its initial outcomes, eHosting DataFort successfully migrated Madar’s IT infrastructure to a centralised environment from a formerly fragmented model.
The partnership with eHDF has allowed Madar to focus on key business areas such as strategic planning and customer service. This approach has, in turn, facilitated the expansion of its operations into new markets.
Yasser Zeineldin, CEO of eHosting DataFort, said: “A strong IT infrastructure forms the backbone of a company. eHDF has clearly understood Madar Holding’s vision and specifically designed and altered solutions to meet its unique data centre requirements. Through providing a specialised, best-in-class suite of managed services including security, high speed bandwidth connectivity and 24/7 support, eHDF has assisted Madar to maintain its focus on service, quality and value to both customers and shareholders.”
Madar Holding’s partnership with eHDF has facilitated an efficient, economical and seamless connectivity to all its current regional offices in Jordan, Qatar, Bahrain, Syria, Oman and Sudan. The flexible implementation will extend its reach to new regional offices in the MENA region, in addition to ensuring the complete redundancy of its servers and infrastructure.
Hussein Ali, Head of IT Infrastructure, Madar Holding, said: “Madar Holding has been able to expand its business despite the economic crisis and benefitted largely from eHosting DataFort’s end to end solutions. We have, in fact, achieved a high return on investment from this project. The new implementation has resulted in the expansion of our server infrastructure by nearly seven times in the MENA region with users across the region connected to the ERP system hosted and managed by eHDF from their data centre in Dubai.”
