Business Challenge: Evolve corporate communications to support growth

Starting up operations in a new market, AAPT India wisely kept initial costs to a minimum using Google email and free business productivity applications. Al Ansari Power Technologies (AAPT) built market share quickly, providing turnkey design, engineering and installation services to government agencies and businesses across India

Solution Concept: Connect employees, vendors and customers while keeping costs to a minimum

AAPT India looked to IOTAP to evaluate their business requirements and find a solution within their budget. The first step was gaining a clear understanding of AAPT’s collaboration needs, which included:

• Lead and proposal management
• Customer and team project update communication platform,
• Shared customer and project data,
• Shared team calendars.

Solution Design: Enterprise level productivity tools at a fraction of the expected cost

AAPT needed a platform to build and infrastructure solutiosn that would help grow with the business. IOTAP proposed Business Productivity Online Solutions (BPOS) from Microsoft. Since BPOS is a subscriptions service, there was no capital outlay required for hardware or installation services. User licenses are paid monthly.

BPOS fulfills all of AAPT’s collaboration requirements, including:

• Web and video conferencing through Live Meeting
• Document management and portals through SharePoint,
• Instant messaging and peer to peer calls through Office Communications,
• Day to day business productivity with Outlook email and calendars.

Solution Benefits: Reduced travel costs and increased productivity

As AAPT India delivers a new level of project management to their customers, collaboration within their project teams is critical. With BPOS, time wasted looking for documents and document version issues have been eliminated. The AAPT India project teams use BPOS to:

• Answer field questions immediately with instant messaging,
• Track document versioning through SharePoint portals,
• Find content stored in lists, documents and document libraries through powerful search capabilities.

Contact IOTAP today @ sales@iotap.com to find out how we can help you improve collaboration.