(L to R): Jackie Buenviaje, Account Executive, Microsoft
Philippines, Carlos Santos, Group Chief Information Officer, JGSHI, Lance Y.
Gokongwei, President and Chief Executive Officer of JGSHI, Andrea Della Mattea,
President, Microsoft Asia Pacific, Alberto Granados, Vice President, Microsoft
Asia Pacific, Ricky Kapur, General Manager, Enterprise Operations Unit,
Microsoft Asia Pacific, Tanya Aguila – Loo, Specialist Technology Unit Lead,
Microsoft Philippines
With a vision to become the leading digital conglomerate in
the Philippines, JG Summit Holdings Inc. aims to achieve this goal through a
digital transformation journey that will embed digitalization in its 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.
Among the initiatives will be to upgrade the employee
experience across the entire conglomerate through the use of Microsoft Office
365 and the cloud platform. JG Summit is transitioning from 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 which will empower 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.
The first step is to migrate everyone away from current
e-mail platform and put everyone up unto the cloud platform accessible from
anywhere in the world and enable collaboration on any device.
Ricky Kapur, General Manager, Enterprise Operating Unit,
Microsoft Asia Pacific, reiterated how JG Summit’s initiatives closely aligns
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.”
JG Summit is one of the largest and most diversified
Filipino conglomerates, engaged primarily in businesses that serve a growing
middle class with rising disposable incomes in the Philippines, Southeast Asia,
and Australasia. These businesses
include branded snack foods and beverages, commodities, agro-industrial
businesses, air transportation, banking, real estate, and petrochemicals.
