Case Studies

Dinesh Kumar Bajaj Power Division

How Bajaj Power Curbed Travel Expenses and Saved Revenue with Telepresence

Dinesh Kumar, CIO, Bajaj Power Division, reduced the company's travel costs by 70 percent by turning to telepresence.

Mario Leone Ingram Micro CIO

How Ingram Micro Made BYOD Work for Them

The global distributor of technology products with 16,000 employees abruptly stopped issuing corporate BlackBerry devices, essentially transforming BYOD from a voluntary program to a mandated one. Employees were told to dip into their pockets and get a phone for both personal and business use.

Glenda Crisp CIO, TD Bank Group

TD Bank Gets Social to Cash-in on IT-business Teamwork

Five years ago, TD Bank Group recognized that social media was on the brink of becoming big. The question was how to go about it.

Sebastian Joseph President-technology and FM, DDB Mudra Group

How DDB Mudra Introduced VC-on-mobile

Video-conferencing is yesterday’s news. VC-on-mobile is the tech of the future. But the CIO of DDB Mudra Group is doing it here and now

Pawan Nijhawan VP-IT, Hindustan Zinc

Vedanta Unleashes Technology with Telepresence

In a world which asks telepresence to pipe down, Vedanta has unleashed the technology and taken it to new heights. Why? 

Ranjit Goraksha GM-IT, Rajasthani Sammelan

Rajasthani Sammelan: The Future of IT-enabled Education in India

Parameswar Menon VP And Head – Customer and Partner Channel Systems, SBI Life

SBI Life’s New CRM, a Model for other Insurance Companies

While most Indian insurers are busy re-architecting their IT to be compliant with the new and improved norms specified by Insurance Regulatory and Development Agency, SBI Life’s getting ahead of competition and future-proofing their success with a new CRM solution.

Falgun Shukla Sr. GM-IT, Hikal

Hikal Profits from a Technology that Failed in 2008

Dennis Newman CIO, City of Winston-Salem

Why We Chose Exchange Online, Not Google Apps

With tighter budgets than most corporations, government agencies have been the first wave of cloud adopters, setting off a war for Uncle Sam's business between Google (Google Apps) and Microsoft (Office 365).

N. Jayantha Prabhu CTO, Essar Group

BYOD: The Essar Way

Say BYOD, and CIOs cringe. They complain of security, supporting a flood of devices and losing control. But the CIO of Essar Group just proved his peers wrong. Here’s how.

Chandra Gupta Head-IT, Barclays Corporate, India

How the Mobile Platform Lowered Banking Costs at Barclays

A mobile platform using short codes was Barclay’s best bet to increase its reach in India. But could IT ensure that cost didn’t break the strategy?

S N Krishan Kumar IS-manager, AztraZeneca

AstraZeneca Empowers its Sales Force with 800 Netbooks

With 3G enabled-Lenovo netbooks, the company’s 800-strong salesforce in India can now send sales reports on the go.

K. C. Kapoor State Election Commissioner, Gujarat

K. C. Kapoor Gives India its First-Ever Online Voting Platform

How Gujarat's State Election Commission gave India its first-ever online voting platform and increased voter turnout by almost 20 percent.

Anjan Deb CIO, Great Eastern Shipping

Great Eastern Shipping Effectively Monitors its Ships with an In-house Application

Lost at sea: That was almost true for corporate executives at Great Eastern Shipping, who didn’t have a way to effectively monitor their 40-odd ships, which spend months on the move. IT changed that.

Tradus.In Ibibo

E-mail Solution with BI Smarts Improves CRM at E-commerce Player

For only-online players, the customer care support team is the only real connect between customers and a company. One company figured that out and switched to a customized CRM integrated e-mail solution that significantly improved the shopping experience for its customers.