Category: Infrastructure Solutions

Walking along with the pace of technology is not a trend but a means to survive this tech-driven world today! But the success of this new vision of industries is only possible if the users are satisfied, both customers and employees. Creating a personalized experience for users is more than a nice-to-have in today’s digitally empowered industries.

Ideas now are the new capital! And following this path, Saint Gobain launched its new Intranet Portal with Liferay for both employees and customers.

Saint Gobain, one of the largest industry groups in the world with over 200,000 employees across 64 countries work to co-create and bring innovation to businesses in varied fields.

But a quarter of Saint Gobain’s products didn’t exist five years back, they had to sustain their key source of growth, that was Innovation. They required a quality information system and this need was closely fulfilled with Liferay’s Intranet Portal. The Portal immediately solved all the challenges that the company was facing.

• Outdated System – The existing information portal accessed by 12,000 users every day, had become outdated and lacked flexibility
• Slow response time – Employees used to log in anonymously or by their user details but the response time was extremely slow. Hence, they wanted their user journey to be improvised.
• Poor content management -The content management was very poor, they wanted their users to manage content and create web pages themselves as per their roles.
• Servers – they wanted to reduce the number of their servers.

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Why Liferay?

Liferay ‘s Intranet Portal was the best solution to Saint Gobain since Liferay is known for its user-friendliness and easy adaptability. Secondly, it reflected the mindset of the users, It was very easy for the employees to use the new digital tool in the company and get used to its features and many benefits. They picked up the tech-tool instantly. And lastly, Liferay allows easy integration with the existing third-party applications.

How the intranet portal enhances user journey across their website?

 

 

• Easy access to Data – The company wanted to equip its departments better. All the important information regarding business processes, employees and target customers were under one Intranet connected database that allowed better understanding and quick access to information at the time of need.
• Unified user experience – The portal integrated all the enterprise systems into one interface for end-users. But the employee could choose from the entire page as per needs. This allowed the employees to have a dynamic and very responsive web experience by loading only that part of the page which they need rather than loading the entire page.
• Localization and multi-linguism – Saint Gobain is working in 64 countries across the globe, but it had to have a unique experience for its users from region to region maintaining the authenticity of the website. The Intranet portal made it localized as per region, by creating different websites in different languages, maintaining the same look and feel of the Saint Gobain theme.
• Content management as per roles – The users could now manage their website according to their personal choice, in the way they see fit. They could create their own pages and content and keep a check on their members. The portal allowed multiple users to access a single URL and see a unique page view or content based on their role.
• Mobile ready – The portal made the website responsive to multiple devices from mobile to tablet to desktop maintaining the Saint Gobain theme, and the same look and feel of the website with faster load time.

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How did the Liferay’s Intranet portal improve productivity and increased efficiency of the business?

 

 

Audience targeting for customized campaigns – This allowed the employees from different franchises’ locations to log into their intranet, and know about promotions, new products and other significant information of their location. This provided them with the information that was relevant to them and not get them confused, increasing the individual productivity of that user.

Individual Customized Dashboards – Each user had a custom dashboard based on the applications used daily. Using the drag-and-drop design, the employees could optimize their dashboards as per their needs.

Robust, scalable and flexible – In less than an hour the Digital Solutions Team had the website created with the Saint Gobain theme and had trained users. There was no particular model used but due consistency was maintained in navigation. The portal allows quick and easy access, changes can be made in no time as per the present and past requirements of the user. Using the portal was very flexible.

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The Liferay Intranet Portal helped employees to come back on track, where co-creation and creativity was the lifeblood for the business

 

 

#challenge1
I cannot find what I want!
The employees were not able to get the right content in time for their specific requirements as per their roles and campaigns which led their innovation base to reduce relatively. The company was able to come up with no new products. Where in Intranet combined out-of-the-box knowledge bases, forums and tagging with a powerful search engine. Knowledge bases and forums help to find relevant information and tagging helps to organize that data found. Thus, Intranet provided a full proof solution to employee’s search challenges

#challenge2
Our search technology does not work!
Effective information retrieval and knowledge management can never be achieved with outdated technology. The company was lacking effectively governed processes and trained employees to carry out those processes. This was resolved with Intranet. The portal comes with in-built governance and content management tools ensuring that the employees are able to adapt it easily and ensure a higher success rate.

#challenge3
I need to fix top-down communication!
Saint Gobain was struggling to keep the right teams informed about important information such as new products launch, company announcements, policies, etc.
Therefore, the intranet portal unified all the interfaces as a unique page, so that all the employees get to know the relevant information as per requirements from time to time and communication amongst the employees and the business is not hampered.

Thus, Liferay’s Intranet Portal fully met all the expectations of Saint Gobain. It just transformed the entire working pattern at the company. The user journey improvised, servers reduced and portal traffic doubled. Getting back at its strength of innovation and creativity Saint Gobain with Liferay’s Intranet Portal is a huge success!

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CUSTOMER – THE HEART OF BUSINESS

For any business to be successful today the ability to reach audiences touchpoints is imperative. All the hype for improving user experience isn’t for nothing. Once the businesses get it right, the payoff is phenomenal.

Saint Gobain is just one out of several others who have reached this milestone of an extraordinary digital experience for its customers with Liferay, but there are many more who are sailing in the same boat and have made a mark for themselves.

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Read more about other success stories with Liferay DXP:

https://www.teamcomputers.com/team-blog/liferay-airbus/

https://www.teamcomputers.com/team-blog/liferay-west-bend

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Disclaimer: The information within this case study is based on facts, research, and recent achievements of Airbus and Liferay solely. This is in no relation to any work done by Team Computers Pvt. Ltd.

VOLVO CARS

A secured and luxury Drive

The Volvo Car group was established as a separate entity in 1999 and since then has been renowned for its high-quality standards, safety and luxury. Today the main aim of the company is to accomplish absolute human safety with a strategy of technology and services designed around the driver and passengers. Now, keeping in mind the goals to achieve and the ease that they wish to provide to their drivers; Volvo leaves no loop in technology trends that can be taken up. And there enters IoT!

Like all other competitors of the automotive industry, Volvo is working to secure high-quality connected- vehicle services. It wants to leverage data from its cars to make driving safer and improve customer experience. Lex Kerssemakers, Senior Vice President Product Strategy and Vehicle Line Management at Volvo Cars says, “We clearly see that cars in the near future will integrate the same level of digital services that consumers today are used to having in their homes or at work. This is a strategically important part of Volvo‘s investments for the future where we intend to take a leading position.”
Keeping the Mission in mind, Volvo decided to bring connected car services to the market. Volvo will be able to provide its car owners and drivers with its latest developments in connected car digital services such as automation, telematics, and navigation.

Drivers and passengers will be able to access applications for information and navigation on a screen in the car. Simultaneously Volvo Cars will be able to transmit this information to the other players in the ecosystem of the automotive industry. Volvo Cars are on its way to achieving the aim of having zero serious injuries and deaths in new Volvo cars by 2020. Volvo considers bespoke services for its customers, and IoT is assisting it to create the next generation safety features like Road Friction Indication. For example, the vehicle can detect if a road is slippery via its wheel sensors. It will send an alert to the driver and then send the alert to the cloud. And then further to every vehicle entering that area and to transportation authorities.

The technology used in a human-centric way has always been important to Volvo Cars and the prime concern to roll out new services for its customers. Its collective ambition is to develop industry-leading solutions in line with a networked society, where driving is not a need but a secured luxury!

KINSA

Making Healthcare ‘Smart’
IoT is the master key to the simplification and advancement of each and every industry and has the potential to reach every human being on the Planet once in a lifetime. Initiating from the manufacturing industries and reaching to tech-driven hospitals and medical facilities in such a short span of time, it is already on its way to make a mark in the development of Healthcare IT. It will continue to grow since the technology will continue to get more advanced with each passing day. One great example of this collateral of Healthcare and IT is KINSA.

KINSA’smission is to detect illness in real-time, helping individuals, communities and the disease centers to respond before it spreads. Kinsa has developed a communication network that is at the service of people the moment they are ill. Its greatest innovation of all times is the ‘Smart’ thermometer Kinsa brings thermometer that is connected to the Kinsa Health App to track temperature, symptoms and other issues regarding the illness of people individually and as an aggregate so that people can make informed decisions in real time. The granular illness signal provides highly accurate estimates and forecasts, enabling better state-level public health surveillance. Further, this data about public level illness, its symptoms, the number of days it lasts and its frequency is transmitted to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention as per age groups and regions. The Kinsa app not only tracks the important symptoms, but it also follows up with important and specific information. Next, the app uses this data to update a live health map that tracks the progression of illness throughout the country. This provides a county-by-county perspective on community health. Kinsa uses Artificial Intelligence to track illness based on severity, duration, and contagiousness. It assists the ill to get the right medical guidance in real time that will help them get better.

Contagious illness such as flu is highly unpredictable in every region and needs a way out. Kinsa, with the help of connectedness and artificial intelligence, has taken the healthcare industry and its aid to great heights. And gradually there are several other Healthcare IT sectors that are starting to show readiness in IoT and taking a step ahead in means of technology and medical care together.

HITACHI

Think Beyond Things
Hitachi is delivering value-based outcomes with IoT solutions by bringing devices, people, infrastructure, and the entire cycle of processes together as a Unique Unit. The Japanese company stands out from other industrial companies in terms of its integration and experience across IT. It follows one simple strategy of ‘Think Beyond Things’, and is rigorously working in the direction of bringing social innovation in the physical and digital world.

Hitachi is an independent company, rather than partnering with other firms it keeps bringing in new innovations according to the demand and trends of the world. It offers an IoT platform by the name of ‘LUMADA’, it is a combination of data management and advanced analytics that enables customers to easily develop and deploy IoT solutions. Lamuda collects real-time data from highly heterogeneous shop floor environments and thus reduces the unplanned downtime through artificial intelligence, traceability, and real-time fault detection. Next, it detects quality issues and the machine’s health issues early in the process. The Maintenance Team is informed well in advance about a machine’s abnormal behavior, thus avoiding breakdowns. Hitachi makes a factory responsive by streamlining operations. It has also developed an IoT-enhanced production model that has slashed production lead times by half within its Omika Works division, that creates infrastructure for steel manufacturing, electricity, and other industries. Data-driven analytics let users analyze and visualize data that in turn boosts the effectiveness and efficiency of the factory.

The success story of Hitachi not only includes building and implementation of the sensors but the entire infrastructure; the turbines, trains, robotics and the entire Urban environmentin which sensors are applicable and devices are connected to collect and transmit data. Hitachi adds value to businesses and enables smart citiesto meet their sustainability goals with its capabilities and expertise in IoT solutions. It exhibits the power of intelligent innovation!

*IIoT (industrial internet of things) has opened plenty of opportunities in optimization, automation, asset management, intelligent manufacturing, industry control and what not.
The estimates today state that the Internet of Things will include 26 Billion units installed by 2020, and will generate a revenue of over $300 Billion. IoT is the next level of automation of every object in our life and Industries have already started their run to the Industrial Revolution. We see an absolutely different Era coming up, which is Smart and connected and ready to bring in industrialization like never before! *

SAP — at the core of your enterprise — faces several potential threats that can paralyze your business. Only a good contingency plan can save the day.

Do your business-critical applications, say ERP or CRM, run on SAP? That’s a good choice right there. And to maintain continuous SAP availability in an increasingly complex interconnected application environment is no joke. We applaud you for keeping that up as efficiently as you have. So, you’d already know that there are potential risks all around — shared technology risks, cyber-attack, natural calamities and so on. Since an ERP is integrated across critical business processes, impacting every area of the enterprise, any disruption could bring your business to a halt. At times, data loss and downtime are so long and severe that it can cause irretrievable loss to the company’s reputation. To safeguard against these risks and more, you need a comprehensive disaster recovery strategy. Do you have one? A full-proof disaster recovery (DR) strategy takes care of many potential threats to the SAP environment and acts as a survival mechanism for businesses at scale.

DR, like insurance, is an investment towards business continuity.

The purpose of disaster recovery is not to directly save cost, but to save opportunity cost in times of disaster — protecting the business from potential losses and irrecoverable damage.

Disaster Recovery is at a site level. It is appropriate for cases when the whole of the primary site is down, either due to natural or man-made calamity and would require days if not weeks to recover. It brings out two key aspects. One, it will be idealistic to assume that all applications and features will be available on the same scale and detail during DR. Two, it will be equally idealistic to zero impact on the business.

 

Let’s check out the benefits

1. Cloud DR requires no onsite hardware building costs, it merely needs data-sync sized instances for normal time, is scalable on par with the growth of your business with practically no physical capacity issues, more flexible with pay-per-use models, easy connectivity from anywhere, anytime, using any device, smooth and quick backup with minimal configurations in a matter of minutes.

2. All in all, lower cost of operations and faster recovery times, assuring your business keeps functioning during and after any type of disaster by virtualizing each location where your data resides.

3. Cloud takes into account your existing business facilities, the level of security required and budget and accommodates future growth. It provides thorough coverage, better control and flexibility, tested and proven to meet and deliver upon accepted RTO and RPO for SAP.

Today, managed disaster recovery has become an increasingly cost-effective solution for businesses, given favorable cost, risk and service attributes of the cloud.
So what are you waiting for?

Switch to the cloud now!

Usage drives RoI – We’ve known this along, but this has been an age long challenge to address. Well, not anymore!

Qlik has found a probable answer – a chatbot so that your users do not have to log in, look at dashboards or have the ability to infer them. They can now do what they do best, simply ask questions in natural language and get responses!

Questions such as

• What are my sales this quarter?
• Which of my branches have a negative net?
• Who is my highest performing salesperson?

Qlik has lately introduced the Qlik Insight Bot, delivering AI power conversational analytics to any and every user of the organisation.

The Qlik insight bot can be accessed directly from the qlik sense environment or through popular collaboration such as Skype or slack, making it easy for people to access analytics wherever they work!

Users can now ask questions and get a variety of answers making it easier for more people to make a data-driven decision – to put it simply- “If you can chat you can engage with your data”.The Insight Bot is readily available at the lower right corner- a simple click brings up information of the interface ready to accept commands and questions and alongside interacting with the qlik sense business apps.I’d like to quickly make you understand what Qlik Insight Bot has to offer- Kickstarting the story with an example: So simply type “show apps” notice that as I start to type, it suggests me various comments that are available, that it has already learnt from my previous needs, therefore making those suggestions. The comment “show apps” displays those qlik sense apps configured from the bot.

For example: clicking one of these such as retail convenience, sets the context of the app and provides a generalized overview and summary of the KPI’s. This keeps me engaged with the data. At this point, I wish to see what measures are available so I type, “show measures and now I see list of all the apps, now I am interested in the cost of goods sold, clicking that not only displays the value but also presents the chart showing all my measures overtime along with links to actual Qlik sense web page for deeper analysis, Bot continues the conversation by further suggesting other reviews encouraging me to ask that next question. Now I want to see some visualizations and a list of governed KPI’s visuals that are available in the app displays. At this point, I hope you are seeing the power of simple conversational analytics To stay competitive, organizations must enable their entire workforce to make better decisions using data. Qlik Insight Bot offers a powerful new way to make data and analytics more accessible to everyone by letting people use their innate communication skills to get the information they need. That helps organizations:

• Reach more users with the right data, wherever and however they work.
• Enhance data literacy and data-driven decision-making at all levels.
• Get more value from data and analytics investments.

Insight Bot is a perfect compliment to your existing qlik sense enterprise solution.

For conversational analytics, make analytics available to everyone, let’s get started with Qlik today!

APIs came more and more to the forefront of tech-thinking in 2012 and there was some great thinking about API trends and the Web more generally.

When it comes to the application programming interfaces (APIs) and the API  economy, the question that gets asked most frequently is “What is an API?”. Thanks to the wider-spread attention that APIs are getting from the mainstream media, “What is an API?” is, in fact, the million dollar question because, for those who understand the potential of APIs, there could be millions of more dollars to be made, or saved.

Example:

Imagine a waiter at the restaurant, You the customer are sitting at the table with a menu to order from, and the kitchen is the provider who will fulfill your orders.

You need a link to communicate your order to the kitchen and then to deliver it back to the table. It can be the chef as he’s cooking in the kitchen. You need something to connect to the customers who are ordering food and the chef who is preparing the food. That’s where the waiter – or the API – enters the picture.

The waiter takes your order, delivers it to the kitchen, telling the kitchen what to do, it then delivers the response. In this case, the food back to you. Moreover, if it’s designed correctly, hopefully, the order won’t crash.

Google has been launching APIs open to the work to use.

With the introduction to  what is an API, let’s talk about Top 5 APIs launched at Google Next, 2019

1. Video intelligence API-bundled enhancement

Video Intelligence API, is a pre-trained machine learning models that have a tendency to automatically recognize a vast number of objects, places, and actions in stored and streaming video. This has proved to be one of the most efficient resources for common use cases and improves over time as new concepts are introduced.

2. Cloud vision API

Cloud vision allows developers to easily integrate vision detection features within applications, including image labeling, face, and landmark detection, optical character recognition and tagging of explicit content. The use cases included are label detection, face detection, text recognition.

3. Document understanding API

This is an extremely innovative launch as with this if your business requires any manual paperwork processing, document understanding API can be used effortlessly, this will enable the task to classify documents, extract crucial information from scanned images. the following use cases are included: document and content management, digital transaction management, system integration, robotic process automation, procure to pay automation.

4. Recommendation API

Do you have a retail-oriented business? Wow, recommendation  API is the solution as this will help you deliver highly personalized product recommendation to the customers at scale. A fully managed service, this API puts all of the data to work to deliver high quality, relevant recommended products.

5. Visual Product Search

Looking to deliver relevant products to the customers?

Visual product search helps you match the customer-generated images from the product catalog. These results tend to reduce the purchasing friction for the customers by promoting them with product based on their interests.Wow! That was a lot, there are constant updates to the API system, this is being done for better support developers and there are new solutions being launched to meet the ever-growing breadth of business and industry needs.

1. Database Services

The new SAP HANA gives you a chance to process information at the time by utilizing in-memory database administrations to process rapid exchanges and investigation. This sees no difference amongst the database layer and the applications layer. Along these lines, it takes into consideration an a lot speedier preparing execution.

2. Advanced Analytics Processing

Addition of new bits of knowledge from cutting edge investigation preparing by utilizing in-memory information handling abilities – content, prescient, spatial, chart, gushing, and time arrangement. In the event that your association has a requirement for up-to-the-minute data or procedures reports that set aside a long effort to create, SAP HANA can without a doubt help you.

3. App Development

Develop next-generation applications that combine analytics and transactions, and deploy them on any device. This gives your organization a cutting edge advantage over others with new custom applications to have great growth for the organization.

4. Data Access

Increase a total and precise perspective on your business by getting to information from any source – inward or outer. Access information where it’s found, incorporate or reproduce pertinent information into SAP HANA, and guarantee information quality to build trust in basic leadership.

5. Administration

Improve framework organization and IT tasks with instruments that assistance you screen forms, guarantee information and application security, and accomplish nonstop accessibility. Keep your business running easily and viably – from any gadget or area.

5. Security

Keep your interchanges, information stockpiling, and application administrations secure with strong character and access the executives controls. Depend on top tier programming security, fixing, and encryption – and utilize a dashboard to screen all KPIs identified with security.

Get in touch with us at Team Computers for further assistance.

Contact: Deepak Leekha/8708971332

Are you looking for one of the most feature rich and user-friendly solution on the web that combines email, collaboration, conferencing, calendars and more? Do you hear people talking about how great they think google products are and find yourself wondering what G SUITE is?

G SUITE is Google’s answer to a number of different productivity problems facing most organizations. In one suite of tools it offers, solution for emails, word processing, and spreadsheets, presentation decks, shared calendars, cloud storage and more.

Keeping the focus on innovation in G Suite intact, Google Next, 2019 covered a host of new features introduced. Let’s have a look at the top 5:

1. New and Improved Hangouts

Google Hangouts provide a smarter way for communication, with live captioning, increase in the number of participants allowed per hangout and public live streaming being new add-on’s. Google is transitioning the classical hangout chat and meet to match next generation team communication policies.

2. Google’s new Currents app

Now that google plus is history, today Google unveiled what will be offered to
G suite users in its place: Currents. The new app “enables people to have meaningful discussions and interactions across your organization, helping keep everyone in the know and giving leaders the opportunity to connect with their employees”.

3. Work with Google Voice

A simple, smart, scalable solution- newest of all innovation, with this, Voice can be customized to fit your day to day workflow. Integration with hangout meets and calendar keeps the focus on what’s important.

4. Streamline work through Drive Metadata

Find files in drive faster and easily while maintaining more granular and effective content. Applying metadata strengthens search by making content discoverable based on contexts, content or status- and enables easy curation based on granular details.

5. Let’s be transparent through G Suite

With new enhancements from Google Next’ 19, another added feature is to manage transparency with access to approvals and justifications and also the benefit to access locations on G Suite, with this it’s easier to expand visibility and there’s an easy movement towards the cloud.

Google Next, 2019, also unveiled some cool announcements on the cloud front. The largest was clearly Anthos, Google’s multi-cloud management tool. With Google providing more options to users of GCP with APIs, Google is living up to its vision of “APIs for everyone”.

With this discussion on new Google cloud innovations, share your views and ask questions below

This month we caught up with Roopam Sharma, Design head at Team Computers. Team is a leading IT infrastructure and Information solution provider, dealing with well-known names in the corporate industry. About the day-to-day challenges, she faces at her work, her vision and strategies to overcome those challenges – our design head gives us an overall insight…

Tell us about your background as a designer, & what does your regular day include?

I was fond of sketching and drawing since I was young. At school, I would take part in drawing competitions and adored winning. Ended up studying Bachelors in Fashion communication from NIFT, Delhi. The course gave me lots of exposure in visual merchandising, fashion styling and photography.  Helped me gain proficiency in the fundamentals in each field.

Yet, what got my advantage was Graphic designing. The joy of converting your ideas and thoughts into a digital format,  and playing around with fonts & typography is my motivation bait since I started working in this field.

Which creative products could you not work without?

My iPhone and iMac – I cannot imagine using any other products.  I recall that I acquired my first iPhone 6 years ago and not long after, a MacBook for my college assignments. Have been a faithful Apple client from then on. At work, I use a 27″ iMac which gets my day across, easily.  I started using Wacom soon after I got a MacBook Pro as it only seemed logical replacing the pencil with a stylus as a design student. From ideating on notes in my phone to transferring and converting these ideas into final designed deliverables on my Mac – results into a seamless transition from idea/concept to a final design.

 

You must be keeping yourself updated with the latest technologies?

We live and breathe in a technology-driven world. From the morning alarm to ordering food or just going out for coffee. We need innovation all the time. We would have been stuck in the stone ages if we hadn’t learned to evolve and adapt to the new things. Enthusiasm to adapt more and more is of key importance.

The creative community needs to keep themselves updated with the latest versions of technology to meet the demands of the client. This is indispensable.

 

What are the biggest challenges professional creative people face today?

The biggest challenge I feel has always been to be able to strike a balance between what the client briefs and your creative interpretation of it. To reach a point where the brief is in sync with your creative freedom and the other way round. You won’t always be able to crack that brief or decipher what the job demands exactly, but hang on and be patient. Give it your 100 percent, it’ll work out.

Any productivity tips or tools that you’d recommend to other design creatives?

Start the project with an empty head and don’t go digital straight. Keep a notebook handy with you at all times and make it a habit to put your thoughts on paper first. It might seem old-school, but it saves all that extra time (sitting idle in front of the blank screen). Helps you get your ideas together. And be open to constructive criticism. Switch from the mouse to the stylus and use Apple products for better productivity, as the color selection is the most critical part in the graphic designing field and Apple products won’t let you down. My work process got 10 times faster, with an increased satisfaction level. Let your imagination run wild and ideas flow – you never know at what point you’ll be able to hit the right note on that brief.

There has always been a debate around which one’s better for the company – keeping your data on premise or moving it to the Cloud.

While both have their own use cases, what are the major parameters that one should consider while deciding on whether to move on stay put?

Here are 3 major parameters to consider, why and how.

1. Customizable vs Scalable

A company running its own data center has control over a lot of things like the location of the data center, hardware, security, management and much more.
But, one must not forget that a data center has limited capacity. In the era where companies target exponential growth, the resources required to grow at that speed also grow exponentially.

Cloud, on the other hand, gives you the opportunity to scale with almost unlimited capacity. All this at jet speed.

2. Security

In a traditional data center, security has to be managed by the company itself. There are multiple aspects that one needs to take care of in this scenario – On Site Guards, Video Surveillance, Access Control, Security Personnel, DDoS Monitoring & Protection, Firewall, etc.

While if a company decides to move to the Cloud, security has two aspects – Security of the Cloud and Security in the Cloud.

Security of the Cloud is taken care of by the Cloud Service Provider which includes Physical security, Firewalls, Compliances, Video Surveillance, Access Control, etc.

A company who is using Cloud then is left with taking care of the Security in the Cloud. For example, if they have an Application hosted in the Cloud, they need to ensure Application level security.

3. Cost

Obviously, if your company builds a data center from the ground up, this will take a lot of time, and your company will be responsible for the system’s maintenance and administration. Operating a large data center can cost a company millions of dollars every year.

A cloud service is by far more cost-effective, especially for small companies. It does not require anywhere as much time or money to set up and run. The cloud service is available for your company’s use almost immediately upon registration.

Did you know that as per Industry reports, 30-35% of the Cloud spend goes wasted (Source: TechBeacon).

Switching to a Pay-as-you-go model is the right beginning. You get rid of capex and can address your growth uncertainty to an extent. But it’s quite likely that you’re paying more by not having the right sizing on the cloud.

Managing your Cloud expenditure is easier said than done. In this blog, we’ll take a deeper insight into challenges faced in Managing Cloud spendings and how one can overcome them.

1. Tap on Utilization

As you evolve in your Cloud journey, it gets more and more difficult to keep a tap of the numerous Cloud services you’re using. You do get to know your Billing at the end of the month, but do you monitor how much utilization has actually happened at the server level.

2. Shadow IT

In organizations, apart from IT, there are a lot of other departments that use Cloud services which go largely unchecked. The most common concern across organizations is that they use the services for a while that they have provisioned and then leave them idle only adding up to the charges without utilizing them.

3. Rightsizing & Automation

The biggest advantage of using Cloud is to Semi-Dynamic and Dynamic applications since they are unpredictable in nature and can be scaled up and down depending on usage.

In such a scenario, you cannot follow a set it and forget it approach.

How to overcome such challenges?

Proactively keeping a tab on utilization is one the keys to optimizing your Cloud. But what all do you need to monitor?

Well, here’s a checklist to begin with –

• Utilization of unused and underutilized resources
• The timing of resources utilized, especially development resources to ensure they’re switched off while not in use
• Resource utilization by departments, especially idle resources
• Pricing structure of the Cloud Solution Provider

While you monitor all these parameters to begin with, necessary and corrective action of terminating resources needs to be taken timely to ensure you’re actually paying for only resources you’re using.

These activities will also help Forecast your usage and plan better.

Think you need to optimize your Cloud? Get in touch with us

at cloud.sales@teamcomputers.com or give us a quick call at +91-8860716613