MASH
continues
European
expansion with
Oracle food and
beverage cloud
CSC selects Opengear Smart
Out-of-band to streamline
remote management
M
odern American Steak House (MASH), a
high-end Danish restaurant chain, has
chosen Oracle Simphony Cloud to power its
steak house restaurants across Europe. With
13 restaurant locations across Denmark,
Germany and the UK, and plans for additional
international growth, MASH needed a
technology platform that could support the
strategic expansion of its business at scale.
In addition, the restaurant needed a solution
that would help reduce the complexity of its
IT infrastructure and streamline both front
and back-office operations across all of its
restaurant locations.
“Our biggest challenge was scalability – since
opening MASH in 2009, our expansion
into other countries proved to be a very
difficult and complex undertaking due
to obstacles around IT infrastructure,
regulations, taxes, language and currency,
so finding a technology solution that would
help us manoeuvre around these obstacles
and enable us to grow at scale was a top
priority,” said Mirek Nørkjær, Assistant COO,
Copenhagen Concepts, the parent company
of MASH restaurants. “Implementing
Oracle Simphony Cloud has enabled us
to minimise IT complexity through one
centralised system, streamline front and
back-office operations with real-time data
and localisation capabilities, and support our
vision for expansion, all at scale.”
Oracle Simphony Cloud provides MASH with
one centralised system to manage operations
across all 13 of its restaurants, reducing
the cost and complexity of IT, ensuring
high-performance scalability and allowing
for more business efficiency and agility. In
addition, Oracle Simphony Cloud enables
MASH to maintain brand standards across its
restaurants globally by enforcing brand, menu
and employee management standards and
allowing for localisation. It also ensures menu
and pricing consistency, within a country,
a region, or a single location and offers
multilanguage and currency support.
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O
pengear, a leading provider of
solutions that deliver secure, resilient
network access and automation to
critical IT infrastructure, has announced
CSC – IT Center for Science Ltd, a Finnish
centre of expertise in Information and
Communications Technology, has deployed
Opengear Smart Out-Of-Band appliances
to streamline a major upgrade project and
improve day-to-day remote management.
CSC, a non-profit organisation with
70% ownership by the state of Finland
and 30% controlled by Finnish higher
education institutions, provides services
for research, education, culture, public
administration and enterprises to help
them thrive and benefit society at large.
Antti Ristimäki, Senior Network Specialist
for CSC, explained: “Getting from our
data centres to some of the sites we
look after might take many hours and so
having remote out-of-band access is vital
for us.” CSC has used a legacy out-of-
band (OOB) console server solution for
several years, but with a major network
upgrade planned for 2018–2020, it was
decided that more flexibility was needed
to help the small networking team
support clients at around 40 sites spread
across the country.
“What we liked most about Opengear
was its small footprint and high-quality
software, along with the 4G mobile
connectivity option which provides us
with the opportunity to deploy the OOB
console server at site before we have any
working in-band access,” said Ristimäki.
CSC has already deployed Opengear
ACM7004-5-LMR – Resilience Gateway
appliances at around 10 locations across
the country, which were initially used
to help remotely configure networking
equipment at sites connecting to its
newly upgraded backbone network.
Having a remote access server at distant
locations makes it easier to reliably
commission and configure new network
equipment from its main offices at Espoo
and Kajaani. At the final stage, there
will be around 40 Opengear Resilience
Gateway appliances across the country.
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