Ballarpur Industries Limited

Ballarpur Industries Limited moved to

Google Workspace


Ballarpur Industries Limited (BILT) is a subsidiary of Avantha Group, and India's largest manufacturer of writing and printing paper.

What they wanted to do

  • Improve access to emails for staff, even in areas of low Network connectivity and without using VPN’s
  • Reduce downtime, Redundancy, and occurrences of lost emails.
  • Eliminate the issue of spam and server breakdowns.
  • Reduce IT maintenance costs
  • Management wanted to do more with email
  • Eliminate the unnecessary expenditure on Office perpetual licenses.

What they did

    Switched to Google Workspace (G Suite Basic) for better communication and collaboration across locations.

What they achieved

  • Increased higher storage and mobile accessibility.
  • Zero downtime since moving to Gsuite
  • Stable email system that allows easy access even in areas of low Network connectivity without configuring VPN’s
  • Increased cost savings due to the use of Google Workspace features.
  • Reduces email client support by 80%
  • Remote Meetings

Business

  • Headquarters: Delhi
  • Industry: Manufacture
  • Old Email Service: Office 365
  • Number of Employees: 1200

Challenges

Using Microsoft services the client was fully adaptive on Microsoft applications. Syncing user with active directory was the first requirement to start with. There was a vast amount of user for whom data migration was must, coordinating with all at one time was a big challenge.

Solution

With the recommendation and support of Shivaami Cloud Services Pvt.Ltd made BILT switch to Google Workspace

Shivaami guided BILT through a comprehensive migration process via exchange.

Shivaami project management team conducted meetings on an execution of the project.

The deployment services consisted of

  • Provisioning Google Workspace Account.
  • Migrating legacy email from their email clients and email server data to Google Workspace.
  • Mail Routing.
  • Device Management.
  • Document Collaboration using Google Docs and Drive.
  • File storage and File share using Google Drive.
  • Change Management and online training.
  • Onedrive to G drive Migration.

The process led the business to deploy a range of Google Cloud products and services.

Result

BILT was good Adaptive on Google Workspace to use G drive forms and docs to collaborate with their employee.

Google Workspace Reports alerts and reporting helped IT guys to manage the domain security.

Enabling device management policy allowed the internal IT team to control Gmail setup accounts.

The IT team now has more time to focus on business continuity and other compliance. They believe any problems can be resolved efficiently.

The challenges with their expectation were fulfilled with Google Workspace