CIO100 2011 Winner

Sunil Mehta

Senior VP & Area Systems Director, Central Asia, JWT

" The cloud has improved our collaboration system and has saved Rs 1.5 crore during the year. "

As a leading advertising agency, JWT'But the company's existing mailing system wasn't efficient and leading to a high volume of help-desk calls with usability problems, compatibility issues, app slowdowns, frequent crashes, and poor Web-mail service. On top of that, the business required uptime, demanded anytime, anywhere access, and the ability to quickly respond to dynamic needs. To keep pace with technology and provide a future-ready platform, Mehta transformed JWT from the distributed Domino Lotus Notes mailing system to cloud-based services being hosted and managed by Microsoft. The cloud-based communication solution offers better integration with smartphones, enhanced anywhere-access to e-mails, and dramatically increased mailbox size. It also improved manageability, enhanced security, agility and availability, and quantifiable cost savings. The cloud also helped JWT reduce several man-hours on server maintenance and backup. With infrastructure refresh, upgrade, and consolidation saved about 96 man-months and Rs 1.5 crore during the year.

Sunil Mehta

JWT
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Sunil Mehta is also a winner of the CIO100 Networking Pioneer Award
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