Xiamen Tungsten Company Ltd. (XTC) is a holding company listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. With 35 subsidiaries and three engineering research centers, XTC is active in five major areas: tungsten, molybdenum, rare-earth metals, novel materials for energy applications, and real estate. It is one of the first enterprises in the national development model for a circular economy, and one of six national rare-earth mining companies. XTC controls 30% of all tungsten reserves in China.
XTC established the Xiamen Qianlu Technology Co. in 2017 as a group-level IT center to manage and deliver enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications and manufacturing execution systems (MES) to its subsidiaries. However, with workloads becoming increasingly demanding, XTC encountered problems with the infrastructure supporting the core and non-core applications.