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Aniruddha Sinha
Aniruddha Sinha
GM-IT,Air India
Insight of My Company and its IT Strategies
Air India is an international Air Transport Company carrying passenger & Cargo.

AI IT strategy is to align the business requirement with the latest Information Technology to achieve best IS.  IT strategy is also aligned with the Corporate mission and  vision to improve Passenger/Cargo Service.  

IT strategy is a continuously evolving process to improve  services.  AI had upgraded its core passenger services systems such as passenger services, departure control, e-ticketing, e-commerce and baggage services to the latest state-of-the-art solution on a hosted platform.  Cargo services of AI customers has recently been migrated from in-house solution to a internationally recognized hosted solution.   AI has  introduced an Integrated Operations Control system, hub control system for the operations users in a hosted platform. AI is  in the process of replacing the existing ERP, MRO system through a well known SAP platform.  AI has  implemented a corporate document management system  with the existing corporate mailing platform.

Views on new technologies
Vitalization would help the IT infrastructure consolidation and thereby ease of maintenance, increased utilization, reduced wastages, etc. would bring down TCO.  Depending upon application criticality, sensitiveness, volume, cost benefit analysis, AI can evaluate private or public cloud.
Resources to Keep Updated with Latest Technologies
Reading technology, aviation review magazines, attending conferences and the product presentations, demonstrations etc.

Team Size: 100 +

Biggest Pain Point
Keeping pace with passenger demand with technological changes and to meet the users requirements.

Challenges Faced
Continuously changing  users environment at multiple locations ( cities, airports etc) across the globe are  major challenges for information / database security.
Adoption of Cloud Policy
Evaluating private vs public cloud options.

IT Leader – Manager First or Technologist First
A visionary manager first with the latest technological knowledge to fulfill the corporate vision/mission.
ROI on the Technology
ROI on technological investment is intangible and generally takes longer gestation period.

Latest Technology
Virtualization ,Cloud computing and data security management.
Relationship Between CIOs and CEOs
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Advice/ Suggestion
To align an integrated IT systems at all levels in the company to improve the services under business requirement.

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