Perfetti Van Melle India : Essere all Avanguardia

The distributed technology environment was putting pressure on costs for

PVM's IT operations. They needed to scale up infrastructure to match growing

business needs. Since its inception in India, PVM India has been selling

products in the sub Re 1 category (despite inflationary trends and price rise of

other products in the market). Hence, increased pressure on IT to contribute on

the bottom line, especially with a spiralling food inflation (like sugar price

increase), rather than asking for money to expand business. Outdated techniques,

both in terms of hardware as well as software, were adding to the costs incurred

by the company apart from them being harsh on the environment. PVM took a green

step towards ensuring that they cut down their costs using the latest

technological advancements to their benefit. Some of the salient changes are:

replacing tower servers with chassis based blade servers and SAN storage, server

virtualization, Citrix's XenAPP and XenDesktop virtualization technology for

desktop environment and extended secure remote access enabled anytime anywhere

access for business applications. Communication & collaboration costs reduced

via implementation of Unified Communications for internal customers and WebEx

for external clients. Bandwidth optimization and QoS resulted in higher

performance and productivity. This also resulted in savings of Rs 1.5 million by

alleviating the need for additional bandwidth