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JG Summit to Upgrade Employee Experience Through Microsoft Office 365 and the Cloud Platform

The conglomerate is partnering with Microsoft to Power its Digital Transformation Journey
by JG Summit Team | Oct 3, 2018
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JG Summit Holdings’ Carlos Santos, group chief information officer, and Lance Y. Gokongwei, president and CEO, with Microsoft Asia Pacific’s Andrea Della Mattea, president; Alberto Granados, vice president; and Ricky Kapur, general manager, Enterprise & Partner Group. 

On its quest to become the leading digital conglomerate in the Philippines, JG Summit Holdings, Inc. has partnered with tech titan Microsoft on its digital transformation journey. The partnership is expected to embed digitalization in the conglomerate’s core business strategies to meet the evolving needs and lifestyle not just of its customers, but also of its employees.

“Our vision is to be the leading digital conglomerate in the Philippines. To achieve that goal, multiple groups within the JG Summit Business Units, Subsidiaries, and Affiliates have been working behind the scenes to bring about this transformation,” said JG Summit President and CEO Lance Y. Gokongwei. 

To transform the employee experience across the entire conglomerate, JGSHI will be upgrading from its current e-mail platform and putting everyone up onto the Microsoft cloud platform—accessible from anywhere in the world—to enable collaboration on any device. In addition, the conglomerate will also transition from the current on-premise systems to Microsoft’s cloud services.

Office 365 is a set of Microsoft applications that allows users belonging to the same network to store files and share information. Compared to earlier versions of Microsoft applications, Office 365 uses the cloud platform, which offers agility, greater efficiency, and security benefits.

JG Summit’s move to the cloud platform will further enable its employees to transform their environment into a digital workplace. With this project, the conglomerate envisions a “New Culture of Work,” where employees will be introduced to the modern digital workplace, empowering people across the organization to achieve more by enabling better communication, collaboration, and sharing of information from computers to mobile phones in a single cohesive platform.

Ricky Kapur, general manager for Microsoft Asia Pacific’s Enterprise & Partner Group, reiterated how JG Summit’s initiatives closely align with Microsoft’s mission. “At Microsoft, we empower every person and every organization to do more. The fourth industrial revolution is here, and organizations must digitally transform not just to optimize operations, but to enable their people. We’re very excited to work with JG Summit and be part of their digital transformation journey.”

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