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DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION FOR COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Umesh Moolchandani, Group IT Head of Bin Dasmal group elaborates on the digital transformation journey need to enable digital operating model. — By Arya Devi
Elaborate your journey in Bin Dasmal as the group head of IT.
What is the most recent technology implementation done in Bin Dasmal?
I’ve been associated with Bin Dasmal Group for almost 3.5 years. I’m working as Group IT Head, heading the ICT function of the Group at Head Office in Dubai and its subsidiaries globally. My responsibility is to ensure maximum value creation for business by aligning IT capabilities and priorities with strategic and operational business priorities, ensuring resource optimization and maximizing the IT cost efficiency, ensuring optimal level of IT support services and IT service delivery among the different LOBs in the group. Bin Dasmal Group has always been keen and proactive in adopting modern and innovative technology to get competitive advantage in the market. This can be established with the fact that the group is one of the early adopters of cloud computing environment. My initiatives after joining the group have been to provide a strategic direction and clear roadmap for Digital Transformation for the organization, consolidation and integration of IT Infrastructure, Business Applications and various other IT resources, explore and implement innovative technologies in the areas including but not limited to IT operations, information security, governance based on cloud and AI for sustainable future growth.
Bin Dasmal Group recently upgraded the legacy ERP application to a more agile, modern and cutting-edge web-based application in a cost efficient and secure manner. The main objective of ERP upgrade project was to shift from legacy client-server-based architecture to modern web and mobile enabled application to help the organization in tracking its supply chain activities from inventory purchase to production to processing and final shipment to customers.
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The infrastructure for ERP
Umesh Moolchandani
Group IT Head, Bin Dasmal Group
