Information Technology Driven Business
Being a century old PSE, Company now are in track of IT driven business operations & focused on excellence towards transparency and efficiency through Information technology(IT) advancement after maintaining information security guidelines. Company has adopted various significant digital transformation initiatives towards IT driven business operations.
The major landscape of IT initiative towards digital adoption and digital transformation started decades ago by deploying world class Oracle EBS ERP System for Controlling Finance and Human Resource Management functions to a large extent across the company. Recently it enhanced it’s IT infrastructure setup by deploying high end Server, SAN storage, DR Server, Tape Library etc in own data center and as well as in multi cloud setup. Oracle EBS ERP Systems are in final stage of migration to latest & higher Application versions of 12.2 with Business Intelligence (BI) ECC module in Oracle 21c Database platform. It is leading to company to cater with wide information availability, transparency and has enabled faster decision making. This BI based reporting tool fetches real-time data from ERP and helps in preparation of different Financial & MIS Statements. Company has taken a significant steps on digital transformation to automate the payment by Host-To-Host (H2H) methodology to all of it’s stake holders by directly connecting the Company’s ERP Server with different dedicated Bank Server reducing the possibilities of human error and also reducing huge business efforts. This ERP has integrated with HRMS :EIS - A single window portal of the company where all the employees are directly getting access their digital service book along with paperless self service HRMS activities covering Leave, Pay slip, PF Slip, Form 16 ,Appraisal, Circular, Suggestion Box etc.
In the direction of paperless office, company has introduced eFile-eOffice system with in-house sophisticated design using latest tools of software technology & OTP based Digital Signature authentication having features of Block Chain Technology for approval and movement of files, note sheets and official documents within the organization enabling procedural efficiency. Towards movement of paperless office initiative from Government of India, Company also introduced e-PMS System for digitization of design & drawing approval process in between Project, Consultant & Client. Also Central Payment Processing System (CPPS) is a move to digitize & expedite the total payment approval process. Company Introduced Biometric Attendance Systems with a dedicated Server for all the Offices and the Project Sites and Integrated Bio-Metric Server with HRMS:EIS interface for dynamic Leave Management System. To focus on effective , dynamic project planning & monitoring of the company’s different project, IT has introduced online portal where the weekly / fortnightly project progress are reflected with progress data and progress picture vis-a-vis planning along with miscellaneous graphical reflection. Company introduced it’s own e-Docs System towards control and management of company’s important documents. Company also introduced Surveillance System, Visitor Management System (VMS) / e-Gate Pass System for its Corporate Office and other Offices. For effective utilization of the Assets deployed at various Project Sites ‘Asset Tracking’ portal are in operational. All the Online portals are deployed in Meity empanelled Multi-Cloud environment.
Most of the procurement of the company are done through Government eProcurement system of NIC GePNIC offering as a token of full transparency in public procurement domain and also through GeM portal and Company’s own E-Tendering portal marinating transparency at all stage. To automate functions such as purchase requisitions & purchasing with system generated indent and order with work flow mechanism adapting block chain technology and also to facilitate & control of inventory management in all project sites company introduced Engineering Material Management System through dedicated portal.
To run all the IT operations smoothly IT Department conducts extensive training programs through VC covering more than 1000 man-hours for the employees as well as organized 60 man-hour training by external expert on CSS, Java Script, Php, MySQL, Laravel & Bootstrap framework for it’s own IT team.
Company introduced dedicated Video Conferencing facility by hardware as well as on Software mode (CISCO - Webex ) for seamless meetings for review of the projects, meetings with bidders etc. Company’s E-mail Service is now with National Informatics Center (NIC), Govt. of India with 60 MBPS ILL backbone and backup line and ensured with high end security by introducing KAVACH.
Cyber Security initiatives are led by GM(IT) as a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) through the Information Security Cell of IT Department.. Information Security Cell of IT Department prepared elaborate manual for ‘IT policies & Procedures’ and Manual for ‘Cyber Crisis Management Plan’ and also deployed security components like Cisco Firewall, Fortigate Firewall and Honey pod devices etc in the network circuit of Data Center. Two years back Company received certification of Information Security Management System ISO 27001:2022 and completed the subsequent audit covering scope of Multidisciplinary Services in Design, Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Management of Construction Projects including project Management Consultancy in the fields of Infrastructure ,Industrial and other Construction Projects including Workshop to secure the Information per Statement of Applicability. The Company works closely with designated statutory bodies: Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) and the National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Center (NCIIPC). Company follows the recommendations issued by these agencies via MHI,GOI from time to time. Company also conducts extensive training programs for employees and simulations participated in programs organized by CERT-In and NCIIPC. Official Website of Company has been tested & audited and observed to be compliant with requirements relating to security as per Cert-IN (Indian Computer Emergency Response Team) guidelines and received ‘Web Security Audit Certificate’. It is also complied with GIGW 3.0 norms as per Cert-IN guideline.
IT Department with all it’s technical expertise coordinate, cooperate & extend help to Project Division to complete different IT Infrastructure Job / IT Infrastructure activities of the main project. Recently such IT infrastructure & automation job of ₹20 Crs completed for industry sector who complied Industry 4.0 Norms for their setup and also completed job of 3 Crs for Educational Institutions towards their networking & surveillance solutions.
Moreover, special IT initiatives has taken to focus more on corporate branding for enhancing company’s visibility through various social media platforms and Co’s websites.
Recently Company received prestigious award for it’s IT excellence in the category of Enterprise Application in PSE Summit organized by Indian Express Group.