Landmark Group

Landmark Group moved to

Google Workspace


Landmark Group have been successful in carving a niche for themselves and integrate into a brand to quantify with when it comes to automobile dealerships. Their phenomenal mix of team members bring in new set of ideas for continued growth.

Landmark Group has grown from one showroom in 1998 to becoming one of the largest luxury and premium car dealerships in the country over the decades. This was only possible due to their trustworthy nature of doing business and going the extra mile to fulfill the requirements of their customers.

What they wanted to do

  • In a single panel, client wanted to improve access & security control to emails and data storage for their employees.
  • Collect Advance Drive Audit Reports.
  • Company Management intended to do more with the company's data security compliance policy.
  • Minimum server downtime.

What they did

    Switched to Google Workspace (formerly known as G Suite) Basic Plan for better communication and collaboration across locations.

What they achieved

  • Increased User security, Admin control, and Device management.
  • Use of Google workspace features has resulted in increased cost savings.
  • Reduces email client support by 80% & system dependency.
  • 99.9% Google uptime SLA

Business

  • Industry: Automotive
  • Old Email Service: Rediff
  • Number of Employees: 2260

Challenges

Prior to migration, the client was using the Rediff email service. An IT professional will have a difficult time dealing with the problem caused by the local host email service. Rediff does not have MDM, Drive, or other compliance settings.

Solution

With the recommendation and support of Shivaami Cloud Services Pvt.Ltd, Landmark Group made the switch to Google Workspace Basic Plan on January 07, 2021.

Shivaami guided the Landmark Group through a comprehensive migration process. The Shivaami project management team organized planning meetings, established success criteria, chose the initial set of Google Workspace (G suite) products and features, and handled any problems that occurred.

The deployment services consisted of

  • Provisioning to Google Workspace Account.
  • Migrated Email through DMS.
  • Mail Routing.
  • Device Management.
  • Document Collaboration using Google Docs and Drive.
  • Google Workspace Security checklist discussed.
  • File storage and File share using Google Drive.
  • Change Management and online training.

The project was kicked off. Changes to the DNS settings were made, network access to Google Workspace was tested, the desired settings were implemented, the user accounts were provisioned and the users data was migrated into Google Workspace using various methods.

Result

Made customer live on Google in 3 days and completed the migration in 15 days for 2260 users.