Technology
Asia Pacific
Enterprise/Public Sector
"As part of its core business, ADVANCE employs diverse cloud-native data storage and management solutions from Alibaba Cloud. These solutions are utilized by ADVANCE to manage its data warehouse and facilitate data analytics procedures essential for its AI and machine learning algorithms. For example, the Group employs ApsaraDB for Redis to facilitate in-memory caching and high-speed access. Additionally, ApsaraDB for MongoDB is utilized for flexible and semi-structured data storage. DataWorks serves as a platform for aggregating, processing, and governing data across diverse sources, while Realtime Compute for Apache Flink handles real-time big data processing."
About ADVANCE
Advance Intelligence Group (ADVANCE) is an Al-driven technology company in Asia-Pacific, one of the top players in the Southeast Asian (SEA) market, especially in Indonesia. The Group has over 1500+ employees serving 1,000+ enterprise clients, 75,000+ merchants and 20 million+ consumers across 12 markets across South and Southeast Asia, Greater China and Latin America.
With the vision of helping companies with digital transformation, fraud prevention, and process automation, ADVANCE has built an ecosystem of AI-powered, credit-enabled products and services, covering the industries of banking, fintech, retail, and e-commerce. Since 2016, ADVANCE has expanded its business into several core business lines in Asia: Asia’s leading BNPL platform Atome, SaaS big data analytics and enterprise solutions provider ADVANCE.AI, omnichannel ecommerce merchant services platform Ginee, as well as digital lending platform Kredit Pintar.
The company’s comprehensive product offerings show a strong presence in the Indonesian market; Kredit Pintar is one of Indonesia's top digital lending apps, and Genie has also grown to support more than 30,000 SMEs and processed nearly 30 million e-commerce orders in less than a year, integrating with all major e-commerce platforms in Indonesia.
With the vision of helping companies with digital transformation, fraud prevention, and process automation, ADVANCE has built an ecosystem of AI-powered, credit-enabled products and services, covering the industries of banking, fintech, retail, and e-commerce. Since 2016, ADVANCE has expanded its business into several core business lines in Asia: Asia’s leading BNPL platform Atome, SaaS big data analytics and enterprise solutions provider ADVANCE.AI, omnichannel ecommerce merchant services platform Ginee, as well as digital lending platform Kredit Pintar.
The company’s comprehensive product offerings show a strong presence in the Indonesian market; Kredit Pintar is one of Indonesia's top digital lending apps, and Genie has also grown to support more than 30,000 SMEs and processed nearly 30 million e-commerce orders in less than a year, integrating with all major e-commerce platforms in Indonesia.
Challenges
After the global pandemic, COVID-19, there has been a profound shift in how we lead our lives and conduct our daily routines. ADVANCE recognized the significant potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in helping traditional and offline businesses to transition towards digital and online channels, improving efficiency, growth, and productivity.
However, complex AI algorithms lead to increased requirements for processing power and larger data sets to be used for data analytics and machine learning. ADVANCE needed a reliable and capable partner to build a massive-scale computing cluster and data warehouse platform with high performance, availability, scalability, and high-cost efficiency.
However, complex AI algorithms lead to increased requirements for processing power and larger data sets to be used for data analytics and machine learning. ADVANCE needed a reliable and capable partner to build a massive-scale computing cluster and data warehouse platform with high performance, availability, scalability, and high-cost efficiency.
Why Alibaba Cloud
As the number one cloud provider in the Asia-Pacific region, Alibaba Cloud is also renowned worldwide for its technological innovation, especially across data storage middleware, big data processing, and AI. Alibaba Cloud offers one of the most extensive portfolios of cloud-native database solutions, supporting all the mainstream open-source and commercial database solutions, including MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, and Redis. Database Solutions like RDS and PolarDB have played pivotal roles in supporting Alibaba's systems during the annual Double 11 Shopping Festival, the world's largest online shopping event.
Regarding product type and quantity, Alibaba Cloud offers more than 200+ cloud services that help optimize costs, scale efficiently, and maintain robust data security.
Furthermore, Alibaba Cloud has proven to be able to provide dedicated 24/7 support to partners, helping technical teams deploy systems and expand businesses on Alibaba Cloud quickly and smoothly. It also provides high availability of 99.95% uptime guarantee backed with industry-leading service-level agreements (SLA).
Regarding product type and quantity, Alibaba Cloud offers more than 200+ cloud services that help optimize costs, scale efficiently, and maintain robust data security.
Furthermore, Alibaba Cloud has proven to be able to provide dedicated 24/7 support to partners, helping technical teams deploy systems and expand businesses on Alibaba Cloud quickly and smoothly. It also provides high availability of 99.95% uptime guarantee backed with industry-leading service-level agreements (SLA).
Architecture
ADVANCE deployed its core application using a Kubernetes containerization framework, and together with Alibaba Cloud's infrastructure-as-a-service, such as Elastic Compute Service (ECS) clusters and Server Load Balancer (SLB), to build systems with better scalability and cost-effectiveness. It also leveraged Alibaba Cloud CDN, Anti-DDoS service and Web Application Firewall (WAF) to accelerate application frontend access, protect the system from malicious end-user requests and mitigate possible threats.
As part of its core business, ADVANCE utilizes various cloud-native data storage and management solutions on Alibaba Cloud to manage its data warehouse and data analytics processes for its AI and machine learning algorithm. For example, the Group uses ApsaraDB for Redis for in-memory caching and high-speed access, ApsaraDB for MongoDB for flexible and semi-structured data storage, and DataWorks for data aggregation, processing and governance between various data sources, and Realtime Compute for Apache Flink for real-time big data processing.
ADVANCE leverages Alibaba Cloud Elastic GPU Service for computing power in large-scale parallel computing modules, such as deep learning, video processing, and visualization.
Moreover, ADVANCE relies on Log Service and Object Storage Service (OSS) to collect, retrieve, and analyze a huge amount of system logs and operational transactions securely and efficiently, with cost optimization.
As part of its core business, ADVANCE utilizes various cloud-native data storage and management solutions on Alibaba Cloud to manage its data warehouse and data analytics processes for its AI and machine learning algorithm. For example, the Group uses ApsaraDB for Redis for in-memory caching and high-speed access, ApsaraDB for MongoDB for flexible and semi-structured data storage, and DataWorks for data aggregation, processing and governance between various data sources, and Realtime Compute for Apache Flink for real-time big data processing.
ADVANCE leverages Alibaba Cloud Elastic GPU Service for computing power in large-scale parallel computing modules, such as deep learning, video processing, and visualization.
Moreover, ADVANCE relies on Log Service and Object Storage Service (OSS) to collect, retrieve, and analyze a huge amount of system logs and operational transactions securely and efficiently, with cost optimization.
Looking Forward
ADVANCE is dedicated to delivering advanced AI services to its customers, with continued support from Alibaba Cloud to drive success through innovative cloud infrastructure services. The integration of AI and cloud computing promises to offer customers significantly enhanced value, characterized by improved efficiency, productivity, and digital security.
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