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Technology
Macau (China)
Enterprise/Public Sector
"Alibaba Cloud products help MACAU Pass better respond to challenges, reduce operational costs, and improve competitiveness."
MACAU Pass
About MACAU Pass
The first multi-functional electronic payment app in Macau:
The MPay Macau Wallet (developed by MACAU Pass) is Macau’s first third-party electronic wallet that supports multiple bank accounts and credit cards. It offers a range of essential features under the MPay platform, including online and offline payments, fund transfers, telecommunications and utility bill payments (such as water, electricity, and gas), online ticketing systems, self-service parking payment through MPark, and bus QR code payments. These versatile and convenient features guide users to embrace a new lifestyle in the era of smart cities. In addition to providing consumers convenient electronic payment services, MPay offers users the mCoin loyalty platform dedicated to promoting reward programs. MPay allows users to earn points through transactions and enjoy various benefits and discounts when redeeming their accumulated points. It brings joy and satisfaction to users while enhancing their overall payment experience.
The MPay Macau Wallet (developed by MACAU Pass) is Macau’s first third-party electronic wallet that supports multiple bank accounts and credit cards. It offers a range of essential features under the MPay platform, including online and offline payments, fund transfers, telecommunications and utility bill payments (such as water, electricity, and gas), online ticketing systems, self-service parking payment through MPark, and bus QR code payments. These versatile and convenient features guide users to embrace a new lifestyle in the era of smart cities. In addition to providing consumers convenient electronic payment services, MPay offers users the mCoin loyalty platform dedicated to promoting reward programs. MPay allows users to earn points through transactions and enjoy various benefits and discounts when redeeming their accumulated points. It brings joy and satisfaction to users while enhancing their overall payment experience.
Challenge
The public’s demand for electronic payment services is experiencing rapid and widespread growth. However, this trend presents challenges for the local infrastructure in terms of operation, maintenance, and upgrades. One major obstacle is the high cost associated with maintaining the local infrastructure, posing a significant burden on businesses. Additionally, during promotional periods when merchants offer special discounts, the substantial increase in mCoin redemptions puts immense pressure on the system, demanding robust capabilities to accommodate the growing volume of transactions. MACAU Pass must proactively seek effective solutions to address these challenges, ensuring the consistent stability and security of their systems during operation.
Why Alibaba Cloud
MACAU Pass needed a reliable solution to support business expansion and provide technical support (such as fast, reliable, and compliant cross-regional networks). Alibaba Cloud provides capabilities to run businesses in compliance with local laws and regulations. Alibaba Cloud also provides professional technical support and efficient solutions. Alibaba Cloud has a local team in Macau to provide timely customer support, helping MACAU Pass expand its business.
Architecture
In order to continuously provide a stable, fast, reliable, and compliant user experience with the mCoin service, MACAU Pass uses Alibaba Cloud technologies and products, such as Server Load Balancer (SLB), Elastic Compute Service (ECS), ApsaraDB RDS, and Object Storage Service (OSS) to implement basic services, including load balancing, high-performance and highly available network, data security, and storage. MACAU Pass also uses VPN Gateway to ensure the security of network connections to its data centers across regions. In addition, MACAU Pass uses ApsaraDB for Redis, Dataworks, and QuickBI to obtain high-performance in-memory database services and a complete data development, management, and operations platform. QuickBI provides fast and flexible business intelligence analysis services.
Key Results
Alibaba Cloud products help MACAU Pass respond to challenges, reduce operational costs, and improve competitiveness.
Through its collaboration with Alibaba Cloud, MACAU Pass saves costs by reducing the labor cost of daily O&M on the system and infrastructure and using the pay-as-you-go billing method. It improves the efficiency and reliability of its business by using elastic computing to support high concurrency. These measures allow MACAU Pass to meet user requirements, cope with challenges, reduce operational costs, and improve competitiveness.
The elastic scaling mechanism of Alibaba Cloud allows MACAU Pass to cope with unexpected traffic surges on the Internet more flexibly, especially during large-scale promotions. This can improve cost-effectiveness. MACAU Pass has improved cost-effectiveness by 25% since cooperating with Alibaba Cloud.
Looking Forward
MACAU Pass is looking forward to deepening its cooperation with Alibaba Cloud. It wants to use Alibaba Cloud technologies to migrate all its business to Alibaba Cloud. At the same time, MACAU Pass wants to add cloud security solutions to meet regulatory requirements. With these technical solutions, MACAU Pass can manage data systems better, improve business reliability and efficiency, and ensure business security.
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MACAU Pass needs a reliable solution to support business expansion and provide technical support, including fast, reliable, and compliant cross-regional networks. Alibaba Cloud provides capabilities to run businesses in compliance with local laws and regulations. Alibaba Cloud also provides professional technical support and efficient solutions to help MACAU Pass expand its business.
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