Information Technology
Trading in an international, dynamic-growing large combine calls for an continuous flow of information and an exchange of data that have to be fast and flexible. Efficient information technology creates the best prerequisites to meet these demands, as access to right information at the right time will secure crucial competitive advantages.
This can only be realised by highest levels of functional reliability and operational efficiency of the IT infrastructure - an indispensable prerequisite to control worldwide trading processes effectively.
MGI METRO GROUP Information Technology GmbH is the internal IT service provider of METRO GROUP. As an IT service company MGI, with its international subsidiaries and IT supply organisations, provides information technology services to METRO GROUP companies on a national and international basis.
The scope of duties consists of system engineering and consulting, operation of data centres, providing network services and IT buying.
The systems looked after by MGI are designed to support the company’s business processes efficiently and effectively. For example, 5,600 users in 900 stores and at headquarters of Metro Cash & Carry work with the web-based merchandise management system developed by MGI.
MGI provides all companies of METRO GROUP with corporate infrastructures as a basis for communication and data transfer. For this purpose, MGI operates one of the largest European in-company networks that more than 80,000 mail users in more than 2,000 corporate locations are connected to. Some 2,900 users benefit from MGI’s "Data Warehouse" with a capacity of 162 Terabyte.
More than 630 Gigabyte of traffic between the Internet and internal networks, 2.8 million e-mails per day, as well as three computer centers (including one of the biggest computer centers in Germany) with 1.250 Terabyte hard disc memory, 130 NCR nodes, 145 Unix server systems and 600 Windows servers are just a few key figures demonstrating MGI's gigantic achievement potential.