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Atul Mohan
Atul Mohan
Sr GM-IT,MGRM Net
Insight of My Company and its IT Strategies
MGRM NET (an acronym for “Multi-Domain Global Relationship Management through a Network of Exclusive Technologies) specializes in recognizing the physical, psychological and social needs of a person at every stage of the Human Life Cycle and addressing these through a variety of applications, tools and services. Leveraging the existing technologies together with our domain expertise, our E-Governance Solutions serve multiple domains namely, Education, Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, Insurance and Automobiles amongst others.

MGRM is gearing up to enable our applications for the cloud delivery..

Views on new technologies

Virtualization is not a new technology at MGRM as I have already consolidated our systems in year 2009/2010 and currently we have all our users access either via VDI or Apps Publishing engine.

Resources to Keep Updated with Latest Technologies

I keep myself updated by
taking online courses, attending seminars and industry friends.

Team Size
Team of 7 people.

Biggest Pain Point

Migration of users to new environment was pain point. Current pain point is convincing management to migrate our applications to newer technology.

Technology to Address Pain Points
It’s the mindset and vision which is required, technology is available to enable. But, clearing identifying right technology with respect to business is equally important.

Slowdown Impact on IT Innovation

YES, bringing efficiency using technology does play a major role both way revenue generation as well as savings. Planning the same is important.

Challenges Faced
Having customized logical access control and monitoring tools play a very important role, doing it manually is not possible. It is ever evolving and I have still not come across single tool which can suffice our business requirement, we need to use multiple tools to monitor.

Adoption of Cloud Policy

Being an application driven company, cloud is the way forward.

Role of Cloud
One important feature of cloud security is that we are reducing security gates to guard.

IT Leader – Manager First or Technologist First

If it is IT, it always good to have technology understanding first and then you can be good manages, sales, pre-sales person as one feel like.

ROI on the Technology

After adaptation of virtualization- Year-1 – 15%, Year-2 -  40%, this year it might be less as we have expansion plans.

Latest Technology

De-duplication technologies and cloud security products.


Relationship Between CIOs and CEOs
Marriage – to be successful both have to compromise and move forward.

Advice/ Suggestion

Like for any software, CIO do need to have continuous new technology patches, update and upgrades to be keep abrupt  otherwise anyday a virus will attack, erase and reboot our life.

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