2012 Company Name:
Reliance Capital Industry:
BFSI
Sandeep Phanasgaonkar Reliance Capital
Headquarters:
Mumbai Employees:
When most organizations in the BFSI sector moved away from the cloud, citing security concerns, Reliance Capital swam against the tide. Sandeep Phanasgaonkar, president and group CTO, Reliance Capital, has moved the company’s native e-mail, collaboration solutions, and some business applications to Google Apps. With the cloud, the company can improve sales efficiency and employee productivity by providing access to real-time data from anywhere, anytime, and any device. The company can also create learning centers on the cloud, for example, and build departmental Intranet sites—without writing a single line of
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Over 15,000 code—and share sites between teams, or even a customer or partner. More importantly, the cloud provides employees the ability to create and edit files simultaneously with their teams and exchange ideas and feedback. Phanasgaonkar has ensured that security is taken care of with features like: Control over who shares data and how, 24/7 access to data, real-time back-up, and strong authentication and encryption. By moving to the cloud, Reliance Capital has provided its employees with freedom from cubicles, created an atmosphere that fosters collaboration, reduced TCO, and has shrank employees’ overall dependence on IT.
IT Team Internal:
Over 100 Group CEO:
Sam Ghosh
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