Case Study
One of Hong Kong’s oldest retailers modernizes its business with Equinix, leveraging hybrid cloud to boost competitive advantage
One of Hong Kong’s oldest retailers modernizes its business with Equinix, leveraging hybrid cloud to boost competitive advantage
Business overview: Wing On Group of Department Stores is one of the oldest retailers in Hong Kong, serving the city for over 110 years. In retail, digital transformation is driving the distribution of services and controls closer to customers, employees, partners and ecosystems. This shift requires a digital edge strategy and placing strategic control points next to users, clouds and networks. Wing On needed to build a digital edge, looking to facilitate its transformation with a hybrid cloud model. Business challenge During 2015, Wing On formulated a three-year digital transformation project to lay the foundations for modernization and to allow for a transformation to become a digitally enabled and data driven business. To achieve this, Wing On needed to update its technological f