Security is a major challenge to manage and maintain applications on the cloud

Chitranjan Kesari
CIO, Ahuja Hive 

Remote work – Key trends & challenges
As per our company prospective, we also adopted work from home culture during lock down and we have recently started working from the office. The adoption of remote work had been already growing at a fast pace in the last few years and the Covid pandemic lockdown restrictions worldwide ended up accelerating its adoption with work from home policies set in record time across companies of all types and industries all over the world. As being industry leaders in real estate and construction we started looking for cloud adoption and during this period we moved some of our apps on cloud and SaaS based. After all, we found that security is a major challenge to manage and maintain applications on the cloud.

Delivering paperless systems
We are using our own developed apps for paperless concepts. All approvals done on that app and we successfully say that we adopted during lock down and this good work continues till date. Somehow we   say that the internal office is paperless, only we print Govt. related papers and all. Due to this our productivity increased and reduced printing cost and all.

Strategies for business profitability
We also grow during this period. We have done daily, weekly and monthly meetings during this period on our app. We are closely involved and meet with our users to understand their pain points and all. We have created our own apps for health related issues and everybody working on that app for their daily health status and all. During this period we have implemented SaaS based applications. So our monitoring and involving all users is tremendous.   Even during this period we have done the award function and all users are quite happy for the same.

Future of work and workforce
Work from home is going to continue, this is given an opportunity to reduce running costs and reduce some traveling time and pollution and all. This is going to help employees and employers both. This is possible due to tech initiatives done for companies. We can say, this is the future look of the office, some are at home and some are in the office.