Muna Noor Business Systems & IT Excellence Standards

Muna Noor Business Systems & IT Excellence Standards

Dear Muna Noor staff members,

The following points we would like to produce for proving BS and IT Excellence standards. 

1. To start with, we would like to comment on our Data center and available facilities.
a. Data Center room with high security specifications.
b. Fireproof with smoke detection and Aerosol gas emission technology.
c. Environmental Monitoring System (EMS) featured to alert concerned users with SMS and Email and is continuously monitoring Humidity, Water leakage and Temperature.
d. Online UPS with 10 Hours of power backup.
2. Also, our Data Center is equipped with industry leading Dell and HP Server with high specification standards, Firewalls with advanced threat detection technology and industry leading Network switches and storages for our Business continuity and Backup requirements.

3. We have Implemented SAP Business ByDesign ERP. SAP ByD is a complete cloud based, fully integrated business solution for all Muna Noor key business functions including sales, finance, production, customer relationship management, supply chain, managing and controlling projects and procurement.

4. SAP ByD is using a secure platform for Customer Data interface and a secure Cloud Infrastructure. 

5. All interactions from a user browser and functional tools to a SAP Business ByDesign backend occur over secure channels (TLS/SSL) complying with state-of-the-art open cryptographic standards. Even if a user initiates an unsecure request (a plain http) it is converted into an https request before redirecting to the SAP Business ByDesign backend.

6. In order to ensure identity federation SAML-based authentication tokens are in place in SAP Business ByDesign and it is integrated with our G-Suite platform.

7. Only authenticated users will have access rights (read/write) on the business data. Such a user is associated with well-defined UI components (called work center views) which only show data and provide required UI buttons (edit, delete, print, report etc.) needed for their daily work. 

8. The data center that store our SAP ByD is in Germany, U.S & China and is under 24 hour’s surveillance with hundreds of cameras and sensors. The centers are fire-safe, flood-safe and are isolated in computation and storage parts. Based on a biometric security system only designated individuals can access to these sensitive areas. For data backup and recovery purposes regular backups are performed over redundant hardware storage systems that are supported by multiple connections from several power companies and in-house power supply.

9. All the access to the SAP Business ByDesign is logged in a central place and stored in a separate storage. At any point in time, this log and tracing data can be retrieved for auditing and regulatory compliance purposes. Such data includes information about changed access rights, current access rights, current users and their activation/deactivation etc.

10. All our local servers taking backup on regular intervals using Acronis Image Level Recovery solution to local storage as well as cloud. Acronis backup solution are leaders in disaster recovery with universal hardware recovery feature to ensure maximum business uptime. All servers and its corresponding databases are taking backup on daily basis (weekly full and daily incremental backup).

11. Our Datacenter and branch offices are equipped with Industry Leading Firewalls along with Gateway Antivirus, Intrusion prevention, Botnet detection and Bad reputation traffic filtering features enabled, to safeguard our network resources. Also, all Firewalls can send logs to our centralized server located in our main Datacenter for reporting and monitoring purpose.

12. IT Department is closely monitoring recent threats happening all over the world and maintaining necessary precautions to safeguard our network from cyber-attacks.

13. We are providing frequent training for all our staffs about best practices to follow in order to prevent cyber-attacks through Internet and through removable medias. 

14. All our locations are equipped with high speed Internet connection (Either 50 Mbps or 16 Mbps lines) and all our branches are interconnected using Branch office VPN connectivity. 

15. We are having our Head office located at Russayl Industrial Estate and Eight branch offices (includes factories, Showrooms, Warehouses & Offices) located in different parts of Sultanate of Oman and one overseas office located in Dubai with around 200 internal users connected to our centralized Datacenter located in Russayl.

16. Currently we are on the process of upgrading our legacy telephone system to high technology IP based telephones for better communication and customer call handling. Out of nine we succeeded in upgrading our four locations and remaining are in our pipeline.

17. All our showroom locations are equipped with high speed internet access for Guests / Customers managed by Wi-Fi controller technology with customized Guest authentication portal.

18. Our Domain emails are hosted with Google and 2-Step verifications enabled for secure access. Google provides best in market technology for anti-spamming and spoofing.

19. All our Servers, Laptops, Desktop PCs and workstations are secured using hybrid cloud (On-premise & Cloud) based ESET Nod 32 antivirus with latest signatures installed on frequent intervals. And scheduled daily to run system scan for threat detection.

20. We are facilitated with Group mailers for better communication between departments and clients.

21. Muna Noor always support Nations Go-Green policy by reducing paper consumption in all our locations by implementing following policies.
a. Implementing Microsoft One Drive Cloud based technology for archiving &sharing files between users.
b. Removing all personal desktop table top printers and provided users with centralized one Heavy Duty Color and one Heavy Duty Black and White printer for all locations & users are trained to use lock print feature. Also new Machines are having copy / Print volume monitoring facility.
c. To enhance our Go-Green and to support less fortune families in Omani society, we donated around 50 used/replaced printers to “AL-Rahma Association”.
22. We are equipped with centralized Video Conferencing solution in all our locations and having four high standard conference rooms for video conferencing and meetings.

23. Also, all users are trained to use cloud-based contact directory integrated with mobile contacts and accessible even through web.

24. Regarding End User Level Support
a. We have implemented Business system support portal for SAP powered by ZOHO Desk for fast and easy management of support requests.
b. We subscribed TeamViewer Corporate unlimited license and all end users can interact with IT Support team through a client installed in all PCs/Laptops.
c. Also, as an add on facility, end user can contact support team using a common email for managing and maintaining support requests and are redirected reach all our support members. 
d. Beauty of our support team is our response to users request and maintain an average issue resolution time of 1 hour.
25. All Staffs are enrolled in Biometric Database for time attendance and for secure door access control.

26. All locations including factories, offices, Showrooms and warehouses are equipped with high resolution HD quality CCTV cameras with centralized monitoring and footage playback facility through web and mobile.

27. Our IT department always maintain stock for all IT related equipment’s and consumables such as Laptops, PC’s, toners etc. for serving our users in a better way without any down time.

28. Regular IT member visit to all our locations for systems preventive maintenance and health checkup.

29. All IT members used to meet on weekly basis to discuss about support quality assurance, improve services, introduce new technologies, issues currently dealing with and future plans to serve company in a better way. All our previous meeting notes are documented and available online for future reference.

Last updated on 25/08/2019


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