Retail Industry

Enhancing Remote Work Capability for Improved Retail Experience

Aritzia is a Canadian fashion brand that designs and sells women's clothing and accessories. The company operates through various retail stores, as well as its e-commerce platform. Aritzia is known for its focus on high-quality, fashionable clothing, and has gained a following among young, style-conscious consumers.

The Challenge

Need for a Remote Desktop Solution to organization

In response to COVID-19 pandemic, Aritzia had an immediate need to enable a large workforce to be able to work remotely while maintaining operational effectiveness, efficiency, security without significantly increasing costs.

In this challenge, Aritzia needed a quick solution that was cost-effective and enabled them to:

Provide the best remote experience as they could for the the retail and executive staff

Keep data secure and compliant, while proactively capturing logs to take actions

Use existing license to save costs and reduce administrative overhead on operational team

Implement a highly scalable solution that could be deployed across the organization

The Solution

Connect Securely to Aritizia Central System using Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD)

We enabled Aritzia with remote desktop capabilities. A customized AVD image was built to match the user experience and usage requirements tailored to specific application sets and infrastructure. The implementation addressed an initial set of use cases followed by complex policy management with GPO and Conditional Access Policy.

Our Approach

Deployed high performance computer using Azure Virtual Desktop & app virtualization service to provide consistent and secure virtualized experience for staff.

Deployed Host Pools and Application to be used on the remote system.

Integrated the application used by Aritzia with the AVD to provide single sign-on capabilities and seamless end user experience.

Securing the infrastructure with conditional policies and MFA

Developed a DevOps Pipeline to enable ongoing automation and continuous deployment.

Provided documentation and training to set the team up for long-term success.

Technologies Used

The following tech stack was leverage the achieve the results in the project.

Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD)

Azure Virtual Machines

Azure DevOps (Repos, Artifacts and Pipelines)

Azure Functions

Azure Automation Account

FSLogix and Packer

Azure Log Analytics

Azure Key Vault

Azure Monitor Dashboard

The Results

Ability to Scale and Automate for Demand

As a result of our implementation, Aritzia was able to save time and resources that would have been spent on deploying and managing their infrastructure. They now have a reliable and secure solution that allows their staff to work remotely and access the necessary resources from any device. The implementation also improved their scalability, enabling them to handle increased demand without compromising on security or performance.

Secure Remote Access

Enable the staff to work remotely while maintaining the security of their data by implementing Azure Virtual Desktop solution.

Improved Scalability

Our custom solution enabled scalable infrastructure based on demand, allowing them to handle increased traffic and workload without compromising on performance or security.

Automated Deployment

The DevOps pipeline allowed for automated deployment process, saving time and resources that would have been spent on manual deployment and management.

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