India`s leading English newspaper reports efficiency gains with CA`s Unicenter

Computer Associates International, Inc (CA) today announced that Hindustan Times Limited, India`s leading English daily, has significantly enhanced the effectiveness of its IT operations by deploying CA`s award-winning Unicenter management solutions.

By leveraging Unicenter, the company has optimised service levels to 40 office facilities across the country while simultaneously reducing the manpower required to support its extensive networked infrastructure.

The Hindustan Times Limited has been a major force in India`s print media for more than seven decades - maintaining its status in an extremely competitive industry by focusing on quality and technological innovation. As a media organisation with operations in 32 cities across India, Hindustan Times Limited must be able to instantaneously deliver information. It is therefore essential for the company to ensure the reliability and performance of its extensive and continuously growing enterprise network.

Hindustan Times Limited is using Unicenter to closely monitor the status of its entire computing and communications environment, so that IT staff can quickly respond to potential problems before they impact services. Unicenter is also streamlining the complex tasks associated with distributing client software across such a large and complex organization.

Effective centralised management is particularly critical for Hindustan Times Limited since the company does not have IT staff at its remote locations. This approach significantly reduces costs since without centralised management, those locations would each require three employees to support the company`s around-the-clock operations.

"CA offered us both the advanced technology and the strong working partnership we needed to meet our network and systems management challenges," said Dinesh Chandna, CIO at Hindustan Times Limited. "In addition to strengthening our IT operations, CA and Unicenter are contributing directly to the health of our business by ensuring our ability to distribute information instantly anywhere across the organisation."

The company`s network encompasses several thousand desktops, most of which are connected to the company`s meshed leased-line wide area network (WAN). Hindustan Times Limited re-evaluated its enterprise management strategy as part of its implementation of both SAP R/3 and PPI, which is a specialised media software that automates the newspaper production, organising an end-to-end workflow. After an extensive assessment of its evolving requirements and available enterprise management solutions, Hindustan Times Limited chose Unicenter to replace its existing, well-known management software.

Key factors in the decision of Hindustan Times Limited to deploy Unicenter included its scalability, ease of use, and unmatched range and depth of functionality, along with the expert support that CA provided locally.

"The ability of Hindustan Times to effectively manage such an extensive network environment from one centralised location is a tremendous testimony to the power of Unicenter," said Ninad Karpe, India and SAARC Region Managing Director for CA. "Thanks to Unicenter, Hindustan Times has achieved a remarkable level of cost-efficiency in the administration of its IT environment, while ensuring the smooth operation of its publishing business across the country."