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Graduated in chemical engineering from IIT Kharagpur, Vineet Thakur, Executive Director and Group CIO, Dalmia Group, headed the automotive leader Mahindra and Mahindra and went on to work with companies like Wartsila Industries, Marico, etc. At Dalmia, he has directed and mapped the group's technology architecture in a scalable manner that would support Dalmia's leadership ambitions in each of its lines of businesses. Recently, the company moved some of its apps to cloud. In an exclusive chat with Dataquest, he talks about what all planning the group did for this and how the transition came out. Excerpts
The Dalmia group has moved some of its business applications to cloud. What propelled you to make this transition?
The transition to cloud was a part of a sequenced journey that would build a technology superstructure. Over the past five years, we have grown manifolds and inorganic growth has been the key element of our growth strategy. The cloud initiative has to be, therefore, understood in this context as standardizing our business operations is a part of our 'One Dalmia' vision. In fact, our first step was to Power One Dalmia on Cloud platforms but very quickly we moved into refined strategic vision of 'One Dalmia-Digital Dalmia'. Certainly, cloud is an integral part of the same.
Secondly, the group has to be contemporary and meets the customer and employee needs in an ever evolving ecosystem. We are among the early adopters of the cloud technology. As a part of realizing our digital dream and creating an enabling environment that would ease access and let us focus on our core priorities. We started out with the refractory business which is widely...