JINDAL STEEL & POWER LIMITED is among the leading steel players in the country. Vipul Anand, Group CIO, Jindal Steel & Power Limited shares his company's digital strategy and gives valuable insights on how technology is creating value in the organization
With an annual turnover of over US$ 2.3 billion ( 11,091 crore), Jindal Steel & Power Limited (JSPL) forms a part of the about US$ 12 billion O P Jindal Group. The company is a leading player in steel, power, mining, oil and gas and infrastructure with expanding presence across Asia (Oman, Indonesia, Mongolia and China), Africa (Mozambique, South Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo and Madagascar), South America (Bolivia & Brazil), Australia and Georgia. JSPL has consistently tapped new opportunities by increasing production capacity, diversifying investments and leveraging its core capabilities to venture into new businesses. Highlighting the relevance of IT in the core business of the group, Vipul Anand, Group CIO, Jindal Steel & Power says, “We have a strong inclination towards IT and allied technologies, and have come up with our digital transformation roadmap. Our digital strategy has key components like social, mobile, cloud, analytics and IoT. It is not only driven by IT experts, but also has the understanding of business management people.”
He informs that most mills in the manufacturing units at the Odisha plant are IoT enabled. They have got their own cloud infrastructure hosted out of their data center which is a single integrated platform available for the group across all locations.
A huge focus on analytics
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