Solutions provider Team Computers helped the Punj Lloyd Group, a diversified international conglomerate offering EPC services in Energy and Infrastructure along with engineering and manufacturing capabilities in the defense sector, to move its existing on premise Lotus messaging system to the Google Cloud.
The Punj Lloyd group has a growing workforce of 27,000 workers spread across different geographies. Business expansion had led to an incremental increase in costs. “While evaluating Cloud service providers, we were primarily concerned with finding an archiving and managing solution. The cost of maintaining an email database and AMC was constantly going up. The existing messaging system was an expensive proposition and required lots of backend management efforts across global locations,” said Atul Kumar, Group CIO, Punj Lloyd Group.
The key features of this project included existing Lotus data migration, training and change management as well as integration with DLP for compliance reasons. Team Computers implemented the Google Apps e-mail and collaboration platform for 4,500 employees scattered across India and abroad with a three phase deployment approach
Navdeep Singh Ahluwalia, DGM- IT, Punj Lloyd, said, “Team Computers has successfully provided a working solution to our concerns ranging from migration of the current mailing system to Google Apps. This solution empowers our employees to stay connected with the company’s e-mail system across the globe, even through a data card.”
A Rajendran, Director, Team Computers, commented, “The stagewise transition of all users from Lotus Notes to Google Apps needed a complex sequencing of steps. Team and Google consultants worked closely with the Punj team to successfully handle every element.”
Upgrading the e-mail system to the Cloud has given ease of access and centralized administrative control as well as facilitated server management and AMC. The mailbox size rose to 25 GB, whereas maintenance and backup went to Google, ensuring 99.99% uptime and availability from anywhere in the world, giving Punj Lloyd complete scalability with a focus on increasing employee productivity.