Intercontinental Consultants and Technocrats

Intercontinental Consultants & Technocrats Pvt. Ltd. moved to

Google Workspace (G Suite) Basic Plan


Intercontinental Consultants and Technocrats Pvt. Ltd. (ICT) is a leading international consulting firm specialising in highways, structures, airports, urban and regional infrastructure growth, water supply, water resources development and management, traffic and transportation, ports, institutional strengthening and capacity building, and socio-economic development.

What they wanted to do

  • In a single panel, enhance access and security control to emails and data storage for employees.
  • Collect Advance Drive Audit Reports.
  • Management intended to do more with the company's data security compliance policy.
  • Minimum server downtime.

What they did

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

What they achieved

  • Increased User security, Admin control, and Device management.
  • There was an increase in cost savings with the use of Google Workspace features.
  • Reduces email client support by 80% & system dependency.
  • 99.9% Google uptime SLA.

Business

  • Industry: Consultants and Technocrats
  • Old Email Service: Microsoft Exchange 2010
  • Number of Employees: 700

Challenges

The client was using Microsoft Exchange 2010 for email. An IT specialist might have a challenging time dealing with the problem caused by the local host email service. MS Exchange 2010 does not support MDM, Drive, or other compliance features.

Solution

With the recommendation and support of Shivaami Cloud Services Pvt.Ltd, Intercontinental Consultants & Technocrats Pvt. Ltd. made the switch to Google Workspace Basic Plan on September 25, 2020.

Intercontinental Consultants & Technocrats Pvt. Ltd. was led through a systematic migration process by Shivaami. The Shivaami project management team arranged planning meetings, set performance metrics, selected the initial set of Google Workspace (G suite) products and features, and dealt with any issues that arose.

The deployment services consisted of

  • Provisioning of Google Workspace Account.
  • Migrated Email through DMS.
  • Mail Routing.
  • Device Management.
  • Document Collaboration using Google Docs and Drive.
  • Google vault implemented.
  • File storage and File share using Google Drive.
  • Change Management and online training.

The project was kicked off. Changes to the DNS settings were made, network access to Google workspace was tested, the desired settings were implemented, the user accounts were provisioned and the users data was migrated into the new Google Workspace plan using various methods.

Result

Intercontinental Consultants & Technocrats Pvt. Ltd. completed the data migration process for all of its users in the Google Workspace (G suite) platform in 15-20 days, and the stakeholders/employees were extremely satisfied, according to the feedback received. Using familiar emails, contacts, calendars, and Drive appointments helped users get the most out of Google Workspace.

Spam is now held to a minimum with Google Workspace (G suite) due to spam filters.

The internal IT team was able to monitor Gmail account setup by enabling device management policy, Drive, and Compliance settings.

The IT team can now focus more of their time to business continuity and other important regulatory compliance. They believe that every issue that arises can now be resolved efficiently.

Google's cloud-based communication and collaboration tools have replaced the problems and frustrations created by its old system, with ease of use and stability.