Mr. Sankaranarayanan Raghavan (Director IT, Aegon Religare Life Insurance) speaks about improving collaboration and productivity with Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). He starts with posing a question about how an organisation can make use of the current situation where a growing multitude has Smartphones, Laptops, Tablets, etc. He explains the challenges that organisations face in terms of increasing need for secured working environment, Y-O-Y dwindling budgets and an external environment that is rapidly changing. And outlines how Aegon Religare is leveraging the use of new devices while managing the risks by instilling discipline and control in the use of these devices at work systemically.

1. BYOD – Collaboration for
Efficiency
Mithi Software Technologies Pvt. Ltd
on Sep 28, 2012
Presentation By
Mr. Sankaranarayanan Raghavan,
Director IT,
Aegon Religare Life Insurance Co. Ltd.

2. Current Scenario
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More users with Smartphone, Tablets
5% of Indians are actively using the social sites
2% are Smartphone users
Every alternate user has got a Laptop
3 in 10 Laptop users have got either Smartphone or Tablet
How can organizations make use of both?

3. BYOD – Some thoughts
• Is more than a buzzword, necessity in a few years
• Asian study shows, India adapting faster than the rest of
the world
• More time spent on the unknowns
• No specific path for adaption (one size fits all)
• No regulatory guidance
• Extension of VDI, Thin Client

4. Challenges (Transforming agents) for Organizations
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Personally owned applications are on the rise
‘Raring to go’ young employees
Dynamics of the external environment
Legacy architecture
Year on year, dwindling budgets
Security can’t take a back seat
No stable/adaptable MDM solution
Still a no, no for SI’s/SP’s

5. Our Approach
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Staggered roll-out of mails for various roles
Evaluation of an application for BYOD roll-out
Roll-out of BYOD for various roles
Training around Do’s and Don’ts with Social sites
Monitoring of Social site usage by employees
Tightening of log monitoring and reviews
Making available critical/core application with
increased security
• Working from anywhere, thereby cutting branch cost

6. Other Collaboration initiatives
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Integration of Social media inputs, with our service center
Integration of Service center inputs with our Knowledge
management portal

7. Thank you
Mail id
sankar.narayanan@aegonreligare.com