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Indian Pharmacy chain to connect with Datacraft

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MUMBAI, INDIA: Datacraft has partnered with an Asian integrated telecommunications services provider based in India, to connect a major Indian pharmacy chain across the country. This prestigious project requires Datacraft to connect the pharmacy stores across key locations to a secure, stable and scalable network.

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In order to address local competition directly, the pharmacy chain decided to relocate its retail outlets to new sites. These new outlets needed to be connected with the existing pharmacy network to ensure a secured and effective email and voice communication for the chain. As many of these stores are located within the rural part of India, network connectivity is key in ensuring effective collaboration and management, adds a press release.

This translates to the need for a highly available network that is scalable and secure. Hence, the pharmaceutical firm reached out to the telecommunications service provider to link up its dealer outlets across the country to a datacentre, hosted by the service provider.

“We were approached by the telecommunications company to customize network infrastructure for one of India’s largest pharmacy chains,” said Sunil Manglore, CEO for Datacraft India. “Our responsibility is to design a cost effective solution that is highly available, scalable and secure, while taking into account the size and complexity of the project as well as the distributed nature of the retail outlets.”

After an initial consultation period, Datacraft gained an in-depth understanding of the business and technical challenges of the pharmacy chain. Considering the scale and scope of the project, the team recommended a virtualised voice infrastructure to address the communications pain points while providing capacity for future expansion.