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Durgesh Mankar

Manager-IT

Sodexo SVC India

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Company Profile and its IT Policies

Sodexo SVC is into Meal Pass & Meal Card business. Nature is
business support services. We are no. 1 company in this segment in
India. Our current strategy is to enable IT to provide customer and
affiliation satisfaction by reducing logistic time.

Perspective on Innovative Technologies like Cloud and Virtualization

We are already on virtualization since last year, we are one step behind cloud.

Keeping Pace with Latest Technologies

From magazines, vendors, seminars, etc.
Team Size
We have a team of 10 people. Our team is divided into Application development and infrastructure.

Biggest Obstacle

To deliver IT application/services requested on short notice by business.

Technology as a Rescue Act

Requirements are originated by variations in market conditions, hence can’t really comment.

Contemplate Ways to Prevent Security Breach

No foreseen challenges. We have worked enough on security.

Importance of Cloud in the Organization

We are using our mailboxes from HO in Europe. Soon we will use AD
authentication too remotely. Still our cloud usage scope is limited
compared to other big players.

Increment in IT Budget

It happens due to inflation in services, products & our ongoing new requirements

IT Leader must be Manger or Techonologist First

Technologist first and then manager.

Welcoming New technologies

We were on Oracle for years, now moving to Microsoft on development and databases.

Bond between CEO and a CIO

One of being complete partner to achieve common goals.

Outlook

Build good team. Follow the plan. Relax.