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CRM solution at IOCL reduces cycle time by
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KPIT shrinks 120 servers to 20 – reduces cost and cuts energy usage with virtualizationShrikant Kulkarni shares the benefits of the new virtualized environment
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IT company cuts helpdesk costs by 20%
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To improve the quality of services provided by its IT team, HCL Comnet decided to deploy Systems Management Server deployment tool. With a standardised infrastructure, HCL Comnet now knows exactly what software is deployed and in use across the organization at any time.
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Rationalising IT software assets
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HDO wanted to comply with software licensing agreements and also wanted to implement a transparent process to acquire software at lower costs. With a complete Software Asset Management exercise, HDO was able to reclaim many licenses, retire old ones, and now has a clear policy.
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Simplified IT management and lower costs
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Rapid growth made it difficult for Voltas to maintain control over its software inventory and to determine license compliance. Voltas decided to implement a Software Asset Management program to conduct an inventory of software assets and to review licensing policies and procedures. With SAM in place, the company has not only improved compliance, but also reduced costs of infrastructure projects, and saved money by identifying over-licensed software.
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Improved IT management with systems management solution
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Known for its commitment to technology and innovation, MphasiS wanted to enhance the management of its computing environment and deliver greater IT service levels. To achieve these goals, MphasiS deployed System Center Configuration Manager to manage all systems through a single console.
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India’s largest oil company reduces total cost of ownership by 30 percent
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IOCL deployed an integrated stack of business applications to improve customer management. With the new platform, IOCL now have a robust, scalable web-based solution to manage customer transactions.
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Aircel decreases average call handling time by 15%, increases profitability
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The disparate IT network at Aircel made it difficult for call center executives to efficiently handle customers requests. Aircel implemented Customer Care Accelerator for Dynamics CRM, an innovative solution that provides all information in a single framework. The company has since cut average handling time by 15%, reduced sales overhead.
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Cera optimises operations in real-time with ERP
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Cera uses Dynamics NAV to get access to consolidated, company-wide business information in real-time, helping them make better decisions and focus on customer needs. Managing data on a real-time basis gives the company greater control on budgeting, planning and costing for all operations.
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Global engineering services unit improves business operations
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Integrated Engineering Services, a strategic business unit of Larsen & Toubro, is a relatively young and small business group with approximately 3,000 employees. With projects pouring in from across the globe, an efficient process management tool was necessary. The company partnered with Systems Advisers Group to deploy Dynamics AX.
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Pharmaceutical firm bolsters mission-critical SAP platform
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When the performance of Ranbaxy Laboratories, SAP ERP system was facing challenges under the limits of a 32-bit platform, Ranbaxy decided to take advantage of the Microsoft Application Platform. The new solution, based on 64-bit versions of Microsoft SQL Server and Windows Server, provides much higher computing performance, with response times on common SAP activities improved by 80% or more, plus high scalability and availability to support continued corporate growth.
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Increase revenus for mobile services provider
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Virgin Mobile India wanted to check the potential of unmanned kiosks to save costs and attract subscribers to interact with their mobile applications, and download freebies such as wallpapers and ring tones. Virgin Mobile India decided to pilot the Customer Care Framework to address its issues. The solution provided a graphical interactive user interface for managing kiosks and intent to improve revenues from value added services.
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Gaining competitive edge with streamlined processes
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This grooming products company needed a business management system that would improve the financial and operational efficiency of its business processes and keep pace with its rapid growth. With the deployment of their new flexible ERP solution, Dynamics NAV, employees are empowered by with real-time access to accurate, current, and relevant data, when and where it is needed most.
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Cybage improves sales efficiency by 33% and increases lead generation by 40%
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Cybage opted for Dynamics CRM, an automated solution to effectively manage all its sales and marketing operations, enhance productivity and increase visibility into company performance.
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BI solution facilitates data consolidation and analysis, 3600 view of data
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Hexaware needed timely, detailed reports, which were currently costing too much in IT time and maintenance. The Microsoft BI solution, features dashboards, brings all data into a single source system and communicates up-to-date information to the financial staff and executives.
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Enhanced employee productivity with BI solution
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Reliance General Insurance (RGIL) wanted to improve the policy issuance and claim processing functions for its over 250,000 fresh policies issued every month. To solve this problem, RGIL deployed a Business Intelligence (BI) solution along with a Data Warehousing solution. This has resulted in significant savings in cost, faster reporting with reports that took 3 days being generated immediately, and improved customer service.
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Improved operational efficiency with ready data access
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In absence of structured way of storing and analyzing the data, there was considerable manual activity which resulted in inaccuracies in data, and challenges of extraction and storing data. A proposed Project Know-it-All (KIA) was designed to eliminate these challenges.
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Faster decisions throigh efficient reporting
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For its business operations, SerWizSol utilizes several specialized applications. However, generating reports (for operational decision-making) from these applications was a manual task involving multiple Excel sheets. To overcome these challenges, and introduce new collaboration practices, it consolidated all information and introduced reporting systems that provided single-point access to all reports based on the role of the employees.
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National chain moves to hosted solution, reduces TCO by 25 to 30%
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Infiniti Retail moved to a cloud solution with Microsoft Exchange Online. The national chain is now benefiting from simplified data backup and recovery, along with improved mobile access to email. The move to the new solution has also resulted in improved communication, collaboration, and productivity; reduced IT effort; and a 25 to 30 percent reduction in TCO.
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Meritrac saves 30% on Cloud solution, implements robust managerial platform
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MeritTrac chose Windows Azure platform to deploy CertiTrac, India’s first technology-led solution for secure digital distribution and verification of convocation certificates. The new cloud service platoform, ensures high levels of security, concurrency, and 24 x 7 x 365 availability of data.
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FMCG firm deploys Microsoft Online Services in 9 countries and reduces expenses
by 80%
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Dabur wanted a cloud platform to consolidate email for its entire geographical footprint. They chose Microsoft Online Services, delivering all the scalability, security, and functionality needs for desktop and mobile e-mail, at just 5% of the cost of a traditional solution
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Running business in real-time across remote locations
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Working with the Microsoft Technology Center, the organization has created an IT blueprint using Microsoft Windows Server and Microsoft SQL Server. The upgraded application will take advantage of several new features in these products to consolidate servers, rationalize IT infrastructure, enhance security and improve the performance and user experience for 400+ concurrent users.
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HCL looks to save 30% of its costs by moving its application to the Cloud
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HCL Technologies developed manageCarbon, an on-premises software application, to help businesses aggregate, analyze, and manage carbon emissions data. HCL wanted to lower cost barriers to customer adoption of the technology and shorten its lengthy deployment time. Migrating manageCarbon to the Windows Azure platform helped lower its TCO and capital investment, trimmed deployment time to one-quarter, simplified the development and maintenance of the application.
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Improved inventory service in the cloud for Auto Dealers
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Infosys wanted to design a solution to let automobile dealers share information on inventories and other resources. A cloud-based solution would be simple to deploy, easy to scale, and require zero maintenance. Infosys thus used a cloud-based database, Microsoft SQL Data Services to create a solution for auto dealers, which it can easily replicate to meet similar integration needs for healthcare, hospitality, insurance, and other industry verticals.
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Portfolio of governance applications offers enriched service delivery
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Persistent Systems migrated its on-premises eGovernance portfolio to the Windows Azure platform, providing broad access to a scalable software-as-a-service solution. City governments can now use eGovernance to deliver services and provide citizens and businesses with direct access to government agencies through the Web. With Windows Azure and Microsoft SQL Azure, eGovernance provides enriched service delivery while reducing administrative costs and integrating with other applications and Web services.
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E-Governance solution built on the Azure platform reduces cost
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Persistent Systems needed a way to deliver its e-governance solution to local governments without requiring them to invest heavily in new IT infrastructure and personnel. They used the Windows Azure platform to develop a solution that would host its e-governance applications on the Internet through a Microsoft data center.
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Wipro reduces costs and expands opportunities on the cloud
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Wipro wanted to offer its customers highly scalable, high-performance business services solutions while reducing development, maintenance, and infrastructure costs. The firm is building solutions for the Windows Azure platform, to take advantage of its scalability, broad service platform, versatile storage, and easy integration with on-premises solutions.
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Bank reduces services time by 30% with improved reporting
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Lakshmi Vilas Bank needed to make decisions that impacted customers, sales and profitability, growth and new opportunities. The Bank needed to leverage the voluminous data in the core banking system and convert them to intelligent information to help decision making. The bank chose a MIS solution that offered consolidation, accuracy and real time information for internal use as well as compliance related reports.
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23,000 user accounts integrated for one-point management
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With a disparate IT infrastructure, IOCL network administration was decentralized. It wanted to migrate to a single software environment and bring in uniformity in IT functions. With the Active Directory Services in Microsoft Windows Server operating system, the company simplified IT management, created a more stable and secure network, and increased employee productivity through better access to network resources.
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Reduced power consumption and costs with upgraded PC environment
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As a technology-driven company, TTSL wanted to adopt the latest technology to enhance the performance and productivity of its PC environment in order to improve services while reducing operational costs. TTSL migrated more than 10,000 PCs to Windows 7 Enterprise. Now TTSL uses the enhanced features in Windows 7 Enterprise to reduce management costs and power consumption, bolster data security, and improve the company’s operational performance.
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Significant cost savings with optimised IT
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Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) wanted to ensure its students work on the latest, most professional technologies but in a secure environment, and therefore decided to move to Windows 7. With over 3,000 users migrated to the newer operating system, calls to the IT helpdesk have reduced drastically, data sharing is simpler and users report of a better all-round experience.
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Automated data entry solution increases productivity by 60%
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SCB’s key business objective was to circumvent the existing limitations and identify a solution that could provide online data and reduce manual interventions. Mindgate proposed a smart client based solution on its Windows 7 platform for the service provider premises, which supported offline data entry and synchronizes with the SCB server whenever synchronization process is initiated.
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Offline VAS solution enhances customer experience
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With the launch of Windows 7, 3i Infotech CSL built a new offline version of the application, specifically for Windows 7. Built and verified by Chartered Accountants who have a deep understanding of Indian Income tax laws, users can now rest assured that the tax calculations are accurate.
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Upgraded operating system results in better user experience
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With a strong presence across various financial services verticals, the Aditya Birla Financial Services Group prides itself on its ability to quickly gain expertise with new technologies. With the power of the Windows 7 operating system, the Group will be able to offer an enhanced user experience and also significantly boost productivity.
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Relevant information access points helps better decision-making and drives 15% higher
usage in rural India
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A new user-friendly touch-screen interface, customised in local languages, is now available to farmers in Wardha district in Maharashtra. This Decision Support System built by Riskraft Consulting Ltd. is powered by the Windows 7 platform and will guide features to make better decisions.
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Global consulting leader enhances security and reduces costs with OS upgrade
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Upgrading to a newer operating system has helped Infosys reduce IT resources with lower employee calls to the helpdesk and lower licensing costs on third-party software
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University upgrades browser to optimize security and application management
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Manipal University wanted simpler management yet retain secure access to its browser-based LOB applications. By deploying Internet Explorer 7 on 9,000 computers,it ensured that users could work faster with featured like tabbed browsing to access multiple applications. IT administrators could also save time with features like Active Directory helping to enforce browser settings and enhance security.
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20% efficiency gains in desktop management expected with new operating system
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Wipro is one of the world’s leading IT services and outsourcing firms. One of the early adopters of Windows 7 in India, Wipro has deployed its Beta version on more than 200 client computers to enhance employee productivity and better manage computers across the globe. Its cost-effective features will also help provide additional revenue to Wipro through customer sales.
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IT firm upgrades 41,000 PCs to Windows 7
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After the successful pilot of the Windows 7 Enterprise OS on 500 PCs, Infosys saw improved performance and management benefits, leading to its rollout on 41,000 PCs. It will upgrade a majority of its computers by June 2011. With Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, Infosys deployed Windows 7 and has migrated many of its web applications to Windows Internet Explorer 8. Microsoft Application Virtualization helped to virtualize its training materials. The company expects to benefit from improved IT management, greater employee productivity, power-saving capabilities, and more efficient training processes.
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ICICIdIrect uses Silverlight to offer users a rich user experience
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ICICIdirect wanted a rich and intuitive online trading application that would give online investors and traders a personalized, intuitive and immersive end-user experience. With the adoption of Silverlight, online traders now have a more productive and rich online environment.
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Improved customer experience with reduced response time
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The Linux and MySQL based billing solution could not cope with the growth of the company. Net4 required a scalable and reliable solution to manage its operations.
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Technology services provider improves return on investment by quickly deploying
right resources
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To standardize its training methodology, Satyam implemented an industry enterprise readiness initiative, called EDGE, which is aimed at training and certifying Satyam’s engineering work force on Microsoft technologies. The EDGE initiative has helped the organization to quickly deploy resources, thus improving return on investment. Not just that, better skills have led to a reduction in deployment time, increasing customer satisfaction manifold.
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Right resource deployment leads to increase ROI
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Microsoft came into the picture, while the team was planning an upgrade to an Oracle technology platform and suggested the yet to be launched products from the company. Microsoft suggested that Kotak Mahindra Bank creates a secure authentication and authorization framework using Windows Server and Microsoft .NET 3.5.
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Maintaining consistency in management of source code
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Tech Mahindra decided to deploy a centralized and global source code management strategy that would enable the company to reduce the time developers spent locating, retrieving, and managing source code. The solution should not only minimize software and training costs but also consolidate servers in order to reduce hardware, administration, and maintenance costs.
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Asia’s largest rail system improves operations with control office application
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RIS upgraded the COA application using Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 and its components which reduced charting time from 20 seconds to sub second.
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Large engineering conglomerate improves business insight and speeds up decision
making by deploying reporting solution based on Microsoft Office System
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An elegant solution was created using Microsoft Office System 2007, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and Visual Basic 6.0. It helped Kirloskar with improved accuracy by automation and provided rapid solution deployment & adoption.
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Leading financial house increases developer productivity with new development environment
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India Infoline needed a technology platform that would help it to be more agile in the face of competition, and support a low cost of ownership with fast development process. Keeping this in mind India Infoline opted for .Net framework with Visual Studio System. This has helped reduce the number of lines of code, improved developer productivity by nearly 50 percent, and helps India Infoline handle nearly 1.5 million trade transactions a day.
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Mobile users boost productivity with wireless connectivity
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Microsoft Internet Authentication Service was used to provide seamless security interface, through the RADIUS protocol, while the Active Directory group policy ensured controlled, authorized access it also provided higher employee satisfaction And more operational efficiency.
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System integrator enhances performance testing
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Hexaware was involved in creating PeopleSoft test benches that would need to create faster test scenarios even with peak usage. Hexaware, therefore, used Visual Studio Team System for developing test scripts and simulating loads. With VSTS, Hexaware was able to simulate 1,000 users with just one license thereby saving more than 100K, and at the same time reducing the performance test cycle time by 40 percent.
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Keane optimizes performance of a mission critical healthcare system with VSTS 2008
test edition
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Keane wanted a testing solution for its healthcare application that would realistically load the server application which enforces a stable and consistent load and allows its team to instrument the application in real time and locate performance bottlenecks including system level bottlenecks such as, memory, and CPU utilization. For this, Keane relied on Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) Test Edition, and were able to quickly setup the load test environment. Thus, Keane was able to save a lot on license costs, and got a rich set of features with an easy to use UI.
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Technology services provider increases productivity, enhances service with new development
tools
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With help from Canarys Automations, a Microsoft Solution Partner, Satyam implemented the new solution built using Visual Studio Team System, Satyam was able to improve collaboration, increase developer and manage better productivity.
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IT services firm unifies development processes
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The company deployed the Visual Studio Team System, and discovered a raft of benefits for their development teams like better integration and code quality.
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Consulting firm achieves increased productivity with new development tools
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The company deployed a new solution based on Microsoft Visual Studio Team System development system which improved collaboration, developed better development process and integrated team efforts to deliver quality.
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Technology services provider increases productivity by unified development processes
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The Wipro Performance Engineering Lab decided to implement Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Test Edition and improved quality and processes. This has since made the development process more transparent and controlled.
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Cognizant accelerates enterprise application development cycle-time by 10 percent
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Building an ALM solution called SPECTA on Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation Server, Cognizant improved its ability to successfully follow agile methodologies even in a distributed delivery model. Features like a shared team portal, integrated change management and a common data repository boost collaboration among developers, cutting the time and cost of application lifecycle management.
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Infosys expects integration of project management with IT to over 25,000 developers
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Infosys saw the need to build an enhanced platform to improve the integration between Team System and the company’s established quality process tools. Having successfully integrated Team System with the company’s project management system, Infosys realized improved developer productivity, more efficient data capture, improved software quality, enhanced metrics collection, improved process compliance, and improved adherence to quantitative project metrics standards.
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Patni delivers business value faster with Developer support
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Patni Computer Systems delivers IT services and business solutions to organizations around the world. When the company wanted to build a new global portal for managing customer projects with Microsoft SharePoint Server, it turned to Microsoft Services and the Premier Support for Developers offering. By using proactive services and expertise straight from Microsoft, the corporate IT team at Patni completed the portal project quickly and without major incident. The team continues to rely on Premier Support for the latest news and expert guidance on how to make use of Microsoft products and technologies. So far, the team built roughly half a dozen business applications that have streamlined processes for the company, sped time-to-market for new applications, and reduced development risk.
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Polaris Software Lab triples developer productivity
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At Polaris Software Lab, long development and customization cycles and scalability issues were major concerns impacting the company’s competitiveness. To gain an edge over its competitors, Polaris had to develop cost-effective customized solutions in a shorter time frame. Turned to Microsoft Visual Studio and Microsoft SQL Server systems to develop a debt collection and recovery solution, Polaris increased developer productivity three-fold and can now offer superior and scalable solutions at a lower cost.
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Insurance company deploys integration solution and eliminates paper movement and
delays in ad-hoc document requests
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As part of Sahara Pariwar’s foray into the field of Life Insurance, the Sahara India Life Insurance Company Ltd. invested in Life Asia, an application for core policy administration. But the application was restricted in scenarios where ad-hoc duplicate documents (premium statement, duplicate receipt and unit statements) were required. With help from Microsoft, Life Asia created a web based application using ASP.NET, which integrated with other applications using BizTalk Server. This allows the servicing of ad-hoc document requests from the Life Asia production server, helping to service customers better.
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Insurance firm deploys BizTalk middleware to integrate disparate processes, benefits
with 90% productivity gain
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Star Union Dai-ichi Life Insurance deployed a comprehensive technology solution based on Microsoft BizTalk Server to easily connect disparate systems and offer highly effective internal and external collaboration.
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Global IT services major supports rapid business growth by implementing Active Directory
for its 80,000 users with 6 people
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To ensure that TCS remains well-poised to achieve its vision of being a top 10 global IT Services organization by 2010, the company has been investing heavily into IT. A key decision to this extent was to partner with Microsoft to build a world-class IT infrastructure based on the Microsoft Windows Server. The transition period to a centralised management with Active Directory - usually the most painful period for the enterprise - was not even realized by 80,000 TCSers.
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India’s no.1 cable TV network improves security with network access protection
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In the process of implementing next generation digital television viewing through a satellite and cable based HITS (Head end-in-the-sky) technology for the first time in India, it was critical for WWIL to choose an IT solution that would help it resolve the security and management concerns. With Windows Server, their IT administrators have a new server solution with easy IT management, solid security, federation capabilities and Network Access Protection (NAP).
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Telecom major unifies communications, decreases vulnerability and secures IT infrastructure
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With high end Microsoft Messaging Solution offered to Bharti Telesoft, the company decided to standardize its IT Data center on Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003. The messaging solution as well as a platform for collaboration helped the organization comply with information and process integrity and corporate and legal governance. The additional benefits of integration with Microsoft Office as well as user-friendly user interface have improved employee productivity.
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Outsourcing partner simplifies infrastructure to increase network security, lower
sosts and ease management
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Nipuna is a strategic outsourcing partner that ensures outsourcing investments are aligned with its client’s business imperatives. Wanting to replace its aging technologies with a new IT infrastructure, Nipuna decided to standardize on the Microsoft Windows Server operating system. With technologies like the Active Directory service and Group Policy, Nipuna can more easily manage its rapidly growing server infrastructure. It has also been able to simplify security authorizations and improve server availability.
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Wipro develops HPC solutions to aid customers and expand market opportunity
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Wipro, a Global System Integrator, works with Microsoft to develop industry-specific solutions for parallel computing and other technologies such as the Windows Azure technology platform. By doing so, the company is adding value for its existing customers and attracting new customers with solutions that help streamline business operations, accelerate business processes, and shorten time-to-market.
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Global CPM provider increases data storage and speed of Business Intelligence solution
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As a global provider of solutions and services for business decision makers, Ramco Systems was finding it a challenge to leverage its corporate performance management software to store and process large volumes of historical data. In 5 months, the company ported its Ramco DecisionWorks software to run on Microsoft Windows Server Enterprise x64 Edition and to use Microsoft SQL Server as the core database. Customers now have increased data storage for their historical data and increased performance of the software, resulting in more timely and accurate decision making.
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Integrated solutions and not just technology for collaboration, productivity and security
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Sapient was keen on solution offerings that not only complement its existing infrastructure platforms and investments, but also have the capabilities to solve its current and latent needs.
Sapient leverages Microsoft solutions for virtualization, unified communication and collaboration, infrastructure management, security and productivity enhancement.
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Intranet's radically improved search, superior performance, reduces time by 50%
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Sapient upgraded their internal portal to SharePoint 2010, producing a far more intuitive and user-friendly intranet system. Employees now save significant time each day with easy access to information and documents.
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WNS boosts collaboration and efficiency coupled with reduced costs
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WNS employees needed to collaborate across locations and departments on common documents. Sharepoint Foundation integrates and streamlines business processes, is faster and allows on-the-fly changes. Streamlined workflows reduces cost of coordinating common business processes, such as project approval or document review.
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Comprehensive portal solution improves communications and boosts productivity
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To ensure standardization across G&B’s various divisional portals and provide a smooth flow of information across its widely distributed business partners, customers, and employees, the organization embarked on the implementation of Microsoft Content Management Server with the help of Godrej Infotech Limited. The enterprise Web content management system enables a consistent appearance across G&B, it subsidiaries and affiliates’ portals. The solution also provides easy access, navigation, and improved communications.
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Software exporter deploys a centralized source code management strategy with new
development tools
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To reduce the time its developers spent locating, retrieving, and managing source code, Tech Mahindra decided to deploy a centralized and global source code management strategy. After careful evaluation, Tech Mahindra implemented a solution based on Microsoft Visual Studio Team System, which extends the Visual Studio integrated development experience from the individual developer to the entire development team by delivering powerful new role-based tools for all development-related users, along with a centralized repository for project data.
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New Enterprise solution enables easy collaboration and increases knowledge sharing
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iGATE required a knowledge management solution that would be available easily to everyone in the company, had rich, collaborative features, and was easy to set up and run. After discussing possible solutions, iGATE decided on Microsoft SharePoint Server (MOSS). The benefits were immediate: From only 5% of users accessing the system, the usage grew to 30%; with the search feature information was available in seconds, and collaboration became much simpler.
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Portal solution boosts employee productivity, strengthens core value system and
reduces costs
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With 12,000 employees in 60 cities, collaboration and knowledge sharing for Tata Teleservices (TTSL) was critical. After evaluating available intranet options, the company decided to implement a solution based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. TTSL lowered development costs by as much as three-fold through a huge jump in developer productivity. The intuitive interface helped employees immediately use features to search, browse, and share information, increasing productivity by 4 times.
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Wipro Knet solution transcends teams, delivers process efficiencies and saves costs
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Over the last decade, the workforce ast Wipro grew 10-fold from 10,000 to 100,000. To meet the demands of the employees and build a next-generation communication infrastructure, Wipro wanted to create a knowledge management system with social computing tools applications like Wikis support. Choosing Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server, Wipro built Knet, streamlining its knowledge process. A more usable interface and relevant search have since doubled document usage in 12 months.
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India's first planned hill city deploys portal solution to empower employees and
increase collaboration
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Lavasa found itself manually managing a vast amount of information that was difficult to search and expensive to maintain. The company implemented an intranet based on Office SharePoint Server. Now, Lavasa is providing employees with a single, central place to get information, helping users increase productivity, and enhance collaboration. With a successful information platform, the company has greater transparency into business processes and has significantly streamlined everyday tasks, improving productivity by 30% and minimising paper costs.
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Infosys enhances its corporate website with Web CMS and boosts people productivity
by over 30%
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Infosys had outgrown its existing website, which was built on .NET technology. Without a full-blown CMS, the online marketing team at Infosys wanted to improve the consistency and efficiency of its website design and management acoss its thousands of webpages, downloadable documents and microsites. The content management framework with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server helped Infosys improve operational efficiencies, create engaging user experience and standardize its brand image online.
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Infosys Technologies, a global IT firm, needed to make it easier for its geographically dispersed team members to share information. The company chose Microsoft SharePoint Server as the foundation for its enterprise wide collaboration platform. With it, Infosys expects to improve productivity and customer service, simplify IT management, and reduce costs.
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Internal business networking: Going beyond just ‘good for business’
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Lavasa found itself manually managing a ton of information that was difficult to search and expensive to maintain. Therefore, it implemented an intranet based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Consequently, the company has greater transparency into business processes, has significantly streamlined everyday tasks, improved productivity by 30% and minimized paper costs.
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Global IT solutions company improves employee utilization reporting with real-time
performance dashboard
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Generating and distributing employee utilization reports across the business units was a one-dimensional, cumbersome, and time consuming activity for MindTree’s Business Finance Group. The utilization dashboard developed with Microsoft Office Visio Professional and Microsoft SharePoint helped provide senior management and other business users with the ability to gather, review, and drill down on business unit utilization data, eliminating the need for manually created performance reports.
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Wipro connects people for faster solution delivery in just 2 months
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As a global IT services giant with 100,000 employees, Wipro knows a lot; but, finding internal experts was often difficult. Wipro used Microsoft SharePoint Server to enhance Konnect, an existing people-finding tool with enriched metadata and better search. Wipro employees can now find experts to help resolve problems faster. The development time was reduced by half with the existing features of SharePoint Server 2010 that enabled them to provide almost all the desired functionality at rollout.
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Employee performance review time decreased by 50%
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With staff members across 18 countries and growth topping 40% annually, Zenzar wanted to streamline its employee review process, which took up to 2 months per employee and impaired the company’s ability to retain talent. Zensar used Microsoft SharePoint to create a web-based assessment portal with built-in workflow and document storage. Employees and managers now have greater control over their reviews and have shortened the review process by up to 50%.
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Unified Communication solution reduces travel costs by 40-50%
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Persistent has a 6,400+ global workforce. Wanting to provide better communication and collaboration tools, they implemented Microsoft Office Communication Server to provide for instant messaging, presence, VoIP and video conferencing facilities.
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Market leader in communications software improves collaboration and boosts productivity
with new messaging system
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When Aricent's Lotus Notes solution couldn't keep pace with its changing communications needs, it decided to build a more advanced integrated messaging platform to support its daily operations. To benefit from richer communications, Aricent selected Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Office Communications Server to increase user productivity, security, and reliability.
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Textile giant improves productivity and efficiency with messaging solution
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With over 2000 employees across 15 locations, Raymond's Linux-based messaging architecture was inadequate to effectively serve the remote locations needs. Recognising the importance of effective communication and collaboration and the need to rapidly integrate the infrastructure with new acquisitions, it implemented Microsoft Exchange Server. This resulted in lower management, administration, and maintenance costs for the e-mail environment.
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Moser Baer streamlines messaging and boosts efficiencies with new messaging system
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With a large mobile workforce, the messaging platform at Moser Baer was not adequate. With help from Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS), Moser Baer upgraded to Microsoft Exchange Server. Employees now have universal access to email from any location. The uprade has also resulted in gains in collaboration, manageability, performance, security, and employee productivity.
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World’s largest tower company boosts productivity by 20%
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Indus Towers wanted to build a secure and reliable infrastructure, providing policy compliance in addition to enhanced efficiency. Implementing a unified communications solution using Microsoft Exchange Server and a portal solution using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, it created better knowledge management with applications available to employees through the portal. The company estimates a 110% ROI.
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Retail chain consolidates IT infrastructure on Microsoft Server Technologies
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When one of India’s leading retail chains was looking to reduce TCO, its IT team drew up a strategic outline wIth Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS). It migrated its workgroups to Microsoft Windows Server and replace its messaging server with Microsoft Exchange Server. It also deployed Systems Management Server, Live Communication Server and Office SharePoint Portal. This new architecture has not only enhanced user functionality for the retail chain’s growing mobile workforce but has also reduced operational overheads.
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Technology major consolidates infrastructure and improves enterprise IT security
and business performance
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To improve efficiency and enhance service delivery, HCL needed to optimize internal communications and improve dialogue with the public. Integrating its communication systems and simplifying its management, HCL deployed an infrastructure solution based on Microsoft Windows Server, Exchange Server and Identity Integration Server. This resulted in improved customer acquisition and retention, improved reliability and integration across systems.
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Leading Indian manufacturer increases operational efficiency by 30%
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Godrej Industries Limited, faced with increased business requirements and cost efficiency demands, needed to restructure its mailing and messaging environment. Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS) for the Enterprise assisted the company to upgrade to Microsoft Exchange Server, leading to increased savings and improved efficiency by 30 percent. The new 64-bit architecture and user-friendly software also ensures higher scalability, consolidation of messaging infrastructure and lower TCO as the organization continues to grow.
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Technology service provider reduces spam threat with hosted filtering solution and
saves U.S.$150,000 annually.
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Sifting through spam email messages was resulting in lost time and productivity at Cybage, an India-based offshore software services company. To address this growing problem of filtering email messages, it implemented Microsoft Forefront Online Protection for Exchange. Since the implementation, the company has eliminated all instances of foreign language spam messages and reduced the administrative burden of managing and filtering spam. As a result, employee productivity and security have increased with Cybage also seeing cost savings of approximately U.S.$150,000 per year.
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Integrated solutions and not just technology for collaboration, productivity and security
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Sapient was keen on solution offerings that not only complement its existing infrastructure platforms and investments, but also have the capabilities to solve its current and latent needs.
Sapient leverages Microsoft solutions for virtualization, unified communication and collaboration, infrastructure management, security and productivity enhancement.
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Technology upgrade helps Wipro streamline business, gain potential savings
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With the upgrade of Office and Sharepoint, Wipro provides its employees with a faster, more intuitive access to documents without sacrificing speed. The upgraded solution has simplified communications and boosted overall productivity.
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Ashok Leyland improves data collection, reduces cycle time by 70%
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The IT team wished to streamline IT Services requests from employees across the country. By developing an integrated solution using Office InfoPath 2010 and other Microsoft technologies, Ashok Leyland has brought in efficiencies and accelerated request times.
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IT services firm improves productivity, collaborates smarter
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MindTree wanted to increase the productivity of its business teams, give employees access to multiple programs quickly and simultaneously, that would help make collaboration and communication more streamlined. MindTree deployed Microsoft Office 2010 to take advantage of email management, collaboration, and presentation capabilities.
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Financial company switches to Microsoft solution to improve productivity and boost
communication and collaboration
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Until recently, the Aditya Birla Financial Services Group used the Lotus Domino platform for both collaboration and email messaging. They wanted to create a high-performance work environment by improving internal communications and enabling employees to collaborate effectively. The deployment of Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft SharePoint has helped boost employee efficiency and teamwork with a tremendous increase in productivity.
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HCL speeds application design by 40% and debugging by 30%
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Software developers at HCL wanted to perform better against its competition by speeding time-to-market for customer applications while ensuring high quality. Using Microsoft patterns & practices, HCL developers created applications based on the .NET Framework to take advantage of a structured application environment to build complex, loosely coupled customer applications.
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Office 2010 improves business strategy decisions
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A 28 member Corporate Planning and Business Assurance team at Infosys, provide strategic and operational advice to the board of directors, by aggregating large data. However, team members spent too many hours wading through e-mail messages and needed tools for collaborating and reporting data in a visually rich way. With the new Microsoft Office the team now develops more compelling presentations, work more productively together, deliver better research, and save time.
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Improved employee utilization reporting with real-time performance dashboard
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Generating and distributing employee utilization reports across the business units was one-dimensional, cumbersome, and time consuming activity for MindTree’s Business Finance Group, limiting the value of reports for executives. MindTree developed a utilization dashboard to provide Senior Management and other business users with the ability to gather, review, and drill down on business unit utilization data using Visio Professional and SharePoint, eliminating the need for manually created performance reports.
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Enhancing productivity and accruing maximum benefits
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Enhancing productivity and accruing maximum benefits.
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Global IT service provider upgrades Operating System to enhance user experience
and boost performance
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After a successful pilot of the Windows 7 Enterprise OS on 500 PCs, Infosys rolled out the new OS on 41,000 computers. It plans to upgrade most of its PCs. With the help of Microsoft, it has rectified 40 web applications for compatibility and migrated them to Internet Explorer 8. Reduced power consumption, enhanced security and simplified IT management are some of its other benefits for Infosys.
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Integrated solutions and not just technology for collaboration, productivity and security
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Sapient was keen on solution offerings that not only complement its existing infrastructure platforms and investments, but also have the capabilities to solve its current and latent needs.
Sapient leverages Microsoft solutions for virtualization, unified communication and collaboration, infrastructure management, security and productivity enhancement.
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BPO company implements solution for improved security and increased productivity
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Zenta Group (Zenta), rated one of the top 10 business process outsourcing (BPO) companies by India’s National Association of Software and Service Companies, must maintain 99.9 percent uptime, serving customers with virtually no circuit breakdown. To increase network security, provide faster Internet access, and improve IT administration, Zenta replaced its Linux-based proxy server with Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server. This has reduced workload by as much as 80 percent and improved Internet access by 30%.
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IT company claims 100% secure and clean network and cuts IT staff by 20%
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KPIT Cummins desired a solution that can provide fast and effective detection of malware and spam. From an on-premises solution, it migrated to a Cloud Services solution from Microsoft with Forefront Online Security for Exchange. Since then, users at KPIT have not received even a single spam mail or detected even a single virus. Considerable amount of bandwidth has also been saved and administrative burden and overheads reduced by 20%.
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Services company reduces helpdesk costs by US$ 1 Million
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MphasiS, a global outsourcing service provider, has over 34,000 employees across 23 locations. Its rapid growth and the attrition rate was making it difficult to keep users, computers and other directory objects in sync and reduce overhead costs. Building on its existing Microsoft Server products, MphasiS chose Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manger (ILM) 2007 to provides access and automatic updates, helping mitigate IT risks.
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Telecom leader reduces costs by US$ 2 million with a business-ready security solution
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With a goal to reach 100 million subscribers by 2011, Tata Teleservices Limited (TTSL) wanted to improve remote access and extend information securely to employees and partners alike. To protect its sensitive data and improve compliance with internal security policies, TTSL implemented an end-to-end business-ready security solution with Microsoft, including Microsoft Intelligent Application Gateway, Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server, backed by Windows Server Rights Management Services.
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Integrated solutions and not just technology for collaboration, productivity and security
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Sapient was keen on solution offerings that not only complement its existing infrastructure platforms and investments, but also have the capabilities to solve its current and latent needs.
Sapient leverages Microsoft solutions for virtualization, unified communication and collaboration, infrastructure management, security and productivity enhancement.
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National chain moves to hosted solution, reduces TCO by 25 to 30%
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Infiniti Retail moved to a cloud solution with Microsoft Exchange Online. The national chain is now benefiting from simplified data backup and recovery, along with improved mobile access to email. The move to the new solution has also resulted in improved communication, collaboration, and productivity; reduced IT effort; and a 25 to 30 percent reduction in TCO.
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Employees gain the advantage of an integrated communications environment
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ABFSG shifts from a Lotus Domino platform to Exchange Server and Sharepoint Server to boost communication and colloboration among its geographically dispersed employees, channel partners and customers.
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FMCG firm deploys Microsoft Online Services in 9 countries and reduces expenses
by 80%
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Dabur wanted a cloud platform to consolidate email for its entire geographical footprint. They chose Microsoft Online Services, delivering all the scalability, security, and functionality needs for desktop and mobile e-mail, at just 5% of the cost of a traditional solution
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IT services company improves productivity by 20% with Unified Communications
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UST Global provides end-to-end IT services and solutions for Global 2000 companiesm, with 7,000 employees across North America, Europe, and Asia. With employees relying on a mix of services to connect with colleagues and customers, UST Global implemented Microsoft Unified Communications to provide capabilities like presence, instant messaging, voice, and conferencing. It now provides a widely accessible communications network so its employees can connect to customers anywhere, anytime.
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64-Bit architecture increases reliability of Project Management solution
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To improve the overall performance of the system and to prepare for future growth, the Wipro Technologies E-Cube team decided to upgrade its database servers to a pure 64-bit computing platform that runs on the Microsoft Windows Server Enterprise X64 Edition operating system and the Microsoft SQL Server database. Reducing the CPU utilization by 75% also ensures scaling capacity to handle more transactions or new services.
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Tata Teleservices reduces costs by Rs. 10 crore annually
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With 10,000 employees across 70 locations, Tata Teleservices wanted to ensure cost-effective communication and collaboration. Opting for Microsoft Office Communications Server, employees now have a singe interface to connect throug IM, audio or video conferencing. A recent All Hands Meet connected 6,000 employees across 60+ locations.
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Domestic airline enhances communication and boosts efficiency with new messaging
solution
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Due to its vast set up and the high mobility of its workforce across the continent, messaging is a critical function for IndiGo. With help from Microsoft, IndiGo designed and deployed a unified communications solution, integrating voice, Instant Messaging (IM) and presence features in a highly secure unified communications environment.
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NIIT improves customer service and enhances security with Virtualization
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With over 100 locations in 4 years, NIIT had not standardized on a single, uniform solution as a firewall. To implement uniform policies and protect its infrastructure, it chose Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server for Security and Internet Performance as its primary firewall to connect all its locations on a wide area network.
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IT solution providers cuts communication costs by 25% with Unified Communications
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With over 6000+ employees spread across Pune, Bangalore and 14 offices worldwide, KPIT Cummins stood to bring down costs and enhance communication by providing its employees, customers and partners a unified collaborated platform. After integrating Office Communications Server and Exchange Server with the existing Microsoft Outlook platform, communication costs have been lowered by about 25% with audio-conferencing alone counting for a 10% drop in telecom costs.
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Global IT services provider creates custom solutions with Unified Communications
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Wipro is creating new collaboration solutions with Office Communications Server that improve productivity for service-oriented organizations. For instance, Wipro customers can use a custom, easy-to-deploy helpdesk application to solve problems faster and streamline business processes. Offering an enterprise-wide solution that handles multiple communication needs is thus helping Wipro grow its business.
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Integrated solutions and not just technology for collaboration, productivity and security
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Sapient was keen on solution offerings that not only complement its existing infrastructure platforms and investments, but also have the capabilities to solve its current and latent needs.
Sapient leverages Microsoft solutions for virtualization, unified communication and collaboration, infrastructure management, security and productivity enhancement.
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India’s largest oil company reduces total cost of ownership by 30 percent
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IOCL deployed an integrated stack of business applications to improve customer management. With the new platform, IOCL now have a robust, scalable web-based solution to manage customer transactions.
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Firm shrinks 120 Servers to 20, reduces cost and cuts energy usage with Virtualization
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To help meet the needs of more than 5000 users across the globe, KPIT Cummins used to manage more than 200 servers, storage area networks and business applications. With the goal to reduce capex and opex by at least 15% and improve asset utilization, their IT team opted for Windows Server with Hyper-V. It has now managed to reduce its server holdings from 120 to 20 and expenses on server boxes have dropped by 40%. Utilization has also improved by 70% and the time to provision servers has reduced from several months to just 4 hours.
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FMCG firm consolidates servers and reduces energy costs by 25% with Virtualization
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With a growing business, Godrej Sara Lee (GSLL) was finding it difficult to manage the hardware and software environment for 32 physical servers. To reduce its server footprint, GSLL migrated to Windows Server with its Hyper-V virtualization capability to cut operating costs and save about 72 hours in provisioning time.
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Leading BPO targets savings of $1400 per agent per year through Application Virtualization
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Siemens Information Processing Services (SIPS) wanted to manage its PC fleet, and tackle two core issues - underutilization of desktops and high maintenance costs. To reduce its cost of operations and drive efficiencies in its desktop environment, SIPS decided to opt for a virtualized desktop environment. With SoftGrid Application Virtualization, it now delivers applications to desktops without installing them.
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Premier BPO firm speeds deployment and reduces desktop imaging time by 96%
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Inspite of being a being a leading BPO provider with services to Fortune 1000 companies, Sutherland faced challenges in deploying, updating, and supporting applications for users. To accelerate application deployment and establish a cost-effective way to manage its IT infrastructure, it decided to deploy Softgrid Application Virtualization for faster application deployment, enhanced security, and business agility.
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Automotive service business improves customer interactions and tightens inventory
management
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MyTVS is a chain of multi-brand auto servicing and repair workshops from India’s largest automobile distribution and services company TV Sundram Iyengar and Sons Ltd. The company wanted to provide outstanding service to its franchisee network and their end customers. With a combination of Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Internet Information System (IIS) and Active Directory, MyTVS ensures that all its data from individual franchisees is virtualised yet secure.
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