Case Study: Surya Roshni Limited

Company Background : 

Surya Roshni Limited has come a long way from being just another steel tube making company since its inception in 1973. Surya’s lighting division was initiated in 1984. Three decades down the line, it has turned into a mammoth of over Rs. 5,900 Crore according to the Financial Report for 2018-19 and is known as one of the leading brands in the Lighting industry. Surya exports products to over 50 countries across the world. They are one of the capable market leaders in the Steel Tube industry in India. Surya Roshni manufactures steel pipes products for oil & gas, agriculture and construction sectors, out of which the products for oil & gas sector are approved by API (American Petroleum Institute). Surya Roshni Limited is driven by their mission to be a global leader by upgrading technology, making quality products, consistently exceeding consumer demands,  building long-term relationships with all customers, partners, associates, and employees.

Challenges in the Legacy Server : 

Previously, Surya Roshni Limited used WebMail as their mailing solution for 1000+ users. Faced several issues which included downtime, lack of collaborative tools as well as not so user-friendly interface. Due to frequent downtimes, email transactions were getting hampered. Also, an increase in employee size meant they needed to be properly monitored which was not possible through legacy webmail.  As a result data security became a concern for them. Lack of proper Admin console features including Mobile Device Management and Reports also posed  huge challenges for them. Other than that, investing separately on Office tools was not an economically viable option. 

Consequently, they had to make a choice whether to continue with WebMail or to move on to a different solution which can solve all their issues at the same time being economical. Group organizations often face crossroads like this, which is where organizations like Infiflex Technologies can step in to help plan migrations from webmail to the cloud.

Solution : 

Infiflex Technologies came to the picture when Surya needed them the most. After competing against several other bidders, Infiflex Technologies was chosen to execute the process.

“During our due-diligence process, Infiflex Technologies and Google helped us fully understand all the advantages that cloud technology could provide to us,” says Amit Sharma, Infrastructure Manager of Surya Roshni Limited.

Our team proposed G Suite Basic (now Google Workspace) as a complete business solution to meet Surya’s exact requirements. Gmail in comparison to other solutions is way more simple, agile, flexible and user-friendly which helped a lot. Guaranteed uptime from Google-enabled smooth mail transaction for the employees. G Suite Admin console included different features which enabled the admin set up different compliances, strengthen security, bring out reports and effectively secure overall company data. Free inclusion of collaborative tools in G Suite solved their issue of spending extra on other Office tools. Also, Group of Employees for a particular project could work simultaneously on the same project documents thereby improving time-management.

Benefits :

Google is the leading brand today when it comes to technology and innovations. Therefore shifting to G Suite from WebMail automatically benefited the users from Surya Roshni Limited. Increased security over data, extremely user-friendly interface, added Collaborative tool (Drive and Docs) helped in overall user satisfaction. Moreover, G Suite’s reliability and functionality lessened the workload as they found the solution easily manageable and little to no support issues. Surya Roshni Limited has experienced other benefits as well. 

“Equipping a server in an on-premises data center is far more difficult than employing a server in the cloud. This switch to cloud has saved us time as well as costs which has been taken over by Infiflex Technologies. Now our department can concentrate on other essential services and innovations.” says Sharma.