Greenply Industries Limited is a leader in the plywood, laminate, decorative veneers and particle board industry. It is an ISO-9001 and ISO-14001 certified company. Its popular brands include Greenply Plywood, Green Club Premium Ply, Greenlam etc. Greenlam, the flagship brand from Greenply is exported to more than 50 countries and is GREENGUARD certified. Greenply Industries Limited trusts the brand Microsoft and Microsoft products are its core products. Hence when it learned about Windows® 7 operating system, the company became one of its early adopters. After a successful pilot run on close to 10 desktops and laptops, Greenply Industries Limited will soon have all the 500 desktops and laptops with Windows 7 Enterprise as the operating system. The company expects to benefit from cost reduction by 5 to 15 percent due to lower support and power costs. It also expects an increase in productivity across the organization.

1. Windows 7
Customer Solution Case Study
Manufacturing Company Improves
Security, Saves Power, Expects to
Reduce Costs by 5 to 15 Percent

2. Overview “We believe that Windows 7 will be an
Country or Region: India
Industry: Manufacturing effective tool to increase productivity,
reduce costs, while growing our green IT
Customer Profile
Incorporated in 1984, footprint.”
Greenply Industries Limited is Greenply Industries Limited is a leader in the
India’s leading interior
infrastructure company with plywood, laminate, decorative veneers and
annual sales revenue of U.S. particle board industry. It is an ISO-9001 and
$190.
ISO-14001 certified company. Its popular brands
Business Situation include Greenply Plywood, Green Club Premium
Greenply is the market leader
in its industry in India, and is Ply, Greenlam etc. Greenlam, the flagship brand
one of the fastest growing, from Greenply is exported to more than 50
Globally. It is looked upon as a
pioneer of using Information countries and is GREENGUARD certified.
Technology to enable the Greenply Industries Limited trusts the brand
business and to improve user
productivity along with Microsoft and Microsoft products are its core
optimizing cost spends. products. Hence when it learned about Windows®
Solution 7 operating system, the company became one of
Greenply Industries Limited its early adopters. After a successful pilot run on
has become one of the early
adopters of Windows® 7 close to 10 desktops and laptops, Greenply
operating system. After the Industries Limited will soon have all the 500
successful pilot testing, the
company is planning for full desktops and laptops with Windows 7 Enterprise
deployment in close to 500 as the operating system. The company expects to
computers by the end of year
2009. benefit from cost reduction by 5 to 15 percent due
to lower support and power costs. It also expects
Benefits
• Reduces overall cost an increase in productivity across the
• Enhances power organization.
management
• Enhances security
measures
• Simplifies daily tasks
• Improves network
accessibility

3. “Upgrading to Situation Solution
Founded in 1984, Greenply Greenply Indus tries Limited
Windows 7 helps in Industries Limited is India's uses close to 500 computers
largest Interior Infrastructure with Windows XP and Windows
reducing the time Company, engaged in Vista as the operating system.
to resolve, efforts manufacturing, marketing, The company learned about
distribution and branding Windows 7 operating system
and helps in various types of plywood, flush through Microsoft‘s Technical
doors, block boards, laminates, Solution Specialist and through
isolating the issue decorative veneers and particle routine system administrator
faster. It improves boards. benefit updates. Straight away
the company decided to have
users’ satisfaction With 6 modern production units, hands on experience on the
over 3000 employees and same and go for a proof of
through a faster export to more than 50 concept (POC) on few
resolution countries, Greenply Industries desktops/ laptops. The
Limited became aware of the company observed an
engagement.” fact that it has to continuously immediate improvement in
find means to accelerate its speed of certain applications
routine practices, expedite such as SAP, and also used a
processes, and improve time number of new features of
management. Anshul Dureja, Windows 7.
Vice President – Information
Technology, believes in After the POC, the company
constantly upgrading and giving rolled out a Voluntary
access to latest technology to Technology Adoption scheme
enhance processes and for users who wanted to use
productivity. He identifies Win 7 prior to the product
features-rich platform that deployment. This allows
would offer better control over Greenply Industries Limited to
the interface, is reliable as well get a number of users’
as flexible and would reduce feedback as well as resolve any
the expenditure on third party issues with Microsoft’s help,
security applications by before it goes for full
“Windows 7 providing maximum security deployment.
and offer reliable backup
trouble shooting feature. Testers or voluntary users
platform could reported enhanced user
Anshul foresaw that if the experience. “Internal
reduce the support simple processes like booting, navigation is much simpler and
resuming and navigation can be faster. HomeGroup feature has
cost by 5-10 sped up by some means that eased the sharing of resources,
percent." would greatly affect the overall reducing system
efficiency. administrator’s workload
Anshul Dureja ,Vice President - considerably,” says Sankar
IT, Greenply Industries Limited Banerjee, Assistant Manager,
Greenply Industries Limited.

4. “Moreover we are impressed
“Very soon, with with the neat look of Windows 7 Action Center is the powerful
interface and desktop. troubleshooter in Windows 7
the help of Cluttering of icons is a thing of and helps users to resolve
past.” issues themselves. This
Windows Server reduces the call to system
2008 R2, and the Anshul Dureja, Vice President – administrator. “Windows 7
Information Technology, trouble shooting platform could
power Greenply Industries Limited, laid reduce the support cost by 5-10
special emphasis on Problem percent,” states Anshul.
management Steps Recorder, very much akin
features of to an airplanes ‘black box Enhances Power Management, Decreases
recorder’. He says, “It’s a Power Consumption
Windows 7, we great tool for infrastructure “Windows® 7 definitely
administrators, particularly improves power management.
shall effectively useful for remote monitoring It enables laptop battery to last
reduce energy and troubleshooting as it longer. At the same time, it
enables to record a series of helps us keep our commitment
usage by at least actions.” Greenply Industries of going green.” Anshul adds,
Limited plans to deploy “Very soon, with the help of
Windows 7 Enterprise to all its Windows Server 2008 R2, and
computers and laptops by the power management
December 2009. features of Windows 7, we shall
effectively reduce energy
usage by at least 10 percent.”
Benefits
Anshul remarks,” “Improving Increased Security for Removable
employee productivity has Storage Devices
always been at the core of our With BitLocker and BitLocker to
IT-Business alignment, and Go, Greenply Industries Limited
Windows 7 helps achieve it. is believes its security will be
Reduces Support Cost by 5 – 10 Percent greatly enhanced. This is
Windows 7 very efficiently runs because the company can now
of old hardware and doesn’t better secure everything from
need any expensive upgrade, documents to passwords by
thus hardware cost is encrypting the entire drive.
minimized. Also, minimum “Windows 7 protects data on
investment is needed to for PCs, laptops, and removable
software upgrade as Greenply drives. With so many remote
has an Enterprise Agreement users on our network, the
with Microsoft. Anshul, explains, critical information is often
“Upgrading to Windows 7 helps stored in various drives and
reduce the time to resolve laptops. With Windows 7
issues by isolating the issue enhanced encryption
quickly. It improves users’ technology we are confident
satisfaction through a faster that our data will remain safe.”
resolution engagement.”

5. For More Information Simplifies Daily Tasks tool to increase the comfort for user
For more information about The early adopter employees acceptance of IT Systems”.
Microsoft products and believe that Windows 7 much Windows 7
services, call the Microsoft faster than previous versions. Works the Way you Want:
Sales Information Center at Mahabir Agarwal, Vice Windows 7 will help your
(800) 426-9400. In Canada, President – Corporate Finance, organization use information
call the Microsoft Canada a part of the voluntary testing technology to gain a
Information Centre at (877) says, “Windows 7 boots, competitive advantage in
568-2495. Customers who sleeps and resumes, and today’s new world of work.
are deaf or hard-of-hearing reconnects to the wireless Your people will be able to be
can reach Microsoft text network more quickly.” In more productive anyway. You
telephone (TTY/TDD) services addition, Direct Access, a new will be able to support your
at (800) 892-5234 in the feature has been greatly mobile work force with better
United States or (905) appreciated by the large mobile access to shared data and
568-9641 in Canada. Outside workforce. collaboration tools. And your IT
the 50 United States and staff will have better tools and
Canada, please contact your Improves Network Accessibility and technologies to enhance
local Microsoft subsidiary. To Management corporate IT security, data
access information using the “The tools and features such protection, and more efficient
World Wide Web, go to: as Branch Cache in Windows 7 deployment and management.
www.microsoft.com have enabled us to improve
network capabilities along with
For more information about security. This is a big plus for For more information about
Greenply Industries Ltd. our large geographically Windows 7, go to:
products and services, call dispersed organization with www.microsoft.com/windows/
(91) (11) (42791300) or visit multiple branch offices & windows-7
the Web site at: factories,” explains Anish
www.greenply.com Sinha, Assistant Manager -
Information Technology,
Greenply Industries Limited.
Anshul concludes that, “Windows 7 will
be an effective tool in helping realize the
motto of enabling business through
increase in Productivity while reducing
Software and Services
• Windows 7 Enterprise
Operating Costs; and can become a great
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Document published September 2009