It was painful to embrace new IT solutions - CIOL Interviews

It was painful to embrace new IT solutions - CIOL Interviews
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'It was painful to embrace new IT solutions'
Electrotherm (India) Limited, a major player in the engineering metal melting
industry, has scrapped the older software solutions to implement the latest to
accelerate its growth
CMN Correspondent
Thursday, January 12, 2012
BANGALORE, INDIA: Companies have now started putting
behind the traditional IT solutions to embrace newer
technologies in order to improve their business. They are
now realizing that they cannot lag behind other companies
in adopting the best technologies to be competitive in the
market.
For Electrotherm (India) Limited, too, a change was
inevitable. It was, in fact, a painful experience for them
from coming out of the traditional IT solutions.
In an interview with CIOL, on the sidelines of the C-Change
programme, Electrotherm's chief information officer, Vishad
Rahangdale, talks on how painful it was for him to scrap the
old IT solutions for the newer ones and take people on board in crucial IT decision
making.
CIOL: What are the major technology investments at your enterprise?
Rahangdale: For us, 2011 was the year of IT implementations and deployments. We
implemented various SAP solutions across all the business verticals in our firm. We
also consolidated data centre services for the entire group and collaborated using
Sharepoint.
We also went live with McAfee DLP for Security Policy enforcement.
CIOL: Could you explain some of the overhauls of significant scale or value at
your company last year?
Rahangdale: It a 180 degree IT transformation from traditional IT during last year, as
far as Electrotherm is concerned. It has helped us improve our productivity and scale
the business. IT was more aligned to the business.
CIOL: What are your future plans?
Rahangdale: In the first half of this year, we are expecting business consolidation
due to the market scenario. Aligning IT accordingly would be our priority during this
period. In the second half, we are anticipating IT investments in the areas such as BI
(Business Intelligence), and CRM (Customer Relationship Management), preferably in
private/public cloud solutions.
CIOL: What are your areas of interest from the recent tech-breakthroughs?
Rahangdale: We think that the emergence of cloud solutions is a major breakthrough
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Bhupesh Badwaik said on 1/14/2012 10:11:47 AM:
Vismay Rahangdale said on 1/13/2012 9:18:09 PM:
of the year gone by. We are planning to make the most of it in the coming years
CIOL: What is your advice to peers in terms of lessons, mistakes or challenges you
experienced last year?
Rahangdale: While aligning IT with your business, major challenges lie in how you
deal with a plethora of expectations. Setting your expectations right is of paramount
importance. The key is to make them party to the IT roadmap.
CIOL: How IT is a competitive differentiator/innovator/business value centre at
your organization? How?
Rahangdale: Migrating from traditional IT to the most structured IT set-up is a major
breakthrough at our company. We feel that this has changed the rules of the game.
The business has become more responsive and accountable.
IT has enabled businesses in reducing redundancies and trivialities at micro and
macro levels. Accuracy of information flow and transparency were a few other
dimensions which made the businesses more competitive.
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This is very motivative and encouraging.We would also like
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