Indian aircraft manufacturer Hindustan Aeronautics launches TrueConf Enterprise-based VKS cloud

2023: TrueConf Platform Rollout

Technology company and one of the aviation facilities in AsiaHindustan Aeronautics Limited has digitalized corporate communications and collaboration. TrueConf (Trukonf) announced this on June 23, 2023. The "cloud" of the VKS based on the TrueConf platform united the company's structures and research centers in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Visakhapatnam, London and Moscow. With the help of a VKS platform and a messenger, the company plans to speed up decision-making processes in departments and reduce the number of local meetings, business trips, negotiations and training of 30 thousand specialists.

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) is an aircraft manufacturer in India that operates under the Ministry of Defence. The main areas of activity are the design and production of aircraft and their components. As of June 2023, HAL has over 30 thousand employees who work in 11 research centers and in 21 production units both in India and in other countries - including Russia.

To improve the quality of remote interaction between specialists, HAL management decided to create an updated VKS infrastructure that would allow transferring communications and collaboration to a secure online mode, taking into account the number of branches and the scale of production of the enterprise.

At HAL facilities, there is a special protocol enterprise data protection and ensuring the stability of internal services, which is due to the specifics of the defense to industries which the enterprise belongs. Its compliance was one of the most important requirements in deployment. " private "cloud video conferencings In addition, it was required to exclude on data storage any outside servers the HAL infrastructure, as well as minimize the risks associated with technological interlocks or restrictions on the part of suppliers. ON

TrueConf Enterprise, a specialized unified communications platform developed for companies with large numbers of branches and employees, was deployed in the company's contour. Based on the solution, a private "video conferencing cloud" was launched with a corporate messenger and collaboration tools, which brought together company employees from different cities and countries.

Workplaces, meeting rooms and personal devices of employees - computers, smartphones and tablets - were connected to the "cloud." VKS TrueConf, implemented at HAL enterprises, is used to solve urgent production issues, regular meetings between branch management with partners and customers, to improve the level of security by quickly responding to emergency situations.

In addition to video conferencing, the company's employees use a corporate messenger that allows you to support communications in asynchronous mode, as well as collaboration tools integrated into client applications. Among the most popular are displaying content, remote desktop management, and recording video conferencing for later training. HAL employees are in a single address space - this allows specialists from branches in different countries to see the status of the availability of colleagues for communication and calling, schedule or launch instant video meetings, interact in work and personal chats, and much more.

VKS-Cloud became part of the global IT infrastructure of HAL enterprises, the creation of which took into account the peculiarities of the geographical distribution of branches: internal workflows were optimized for hybrid communications, taking into account the requirements of the information security department.

TrueConf solutions have dramatically changed the process of holding meetings, conferences and interviews in the company. By working together in hybrid mode, the company saves a lot of resources that were previously spent on work trips and meetings. The risk of postponing and canceling meetings due to unforeseen situations on the way is also reduced. TrueConf software flexibly integrates into the IT infrastructure of HAL, which allows you to hold online meetings quite often. This system provides the same level of efficiency as face-to-face meetings and serves both internal and external communications of the company, HAL representatives commented.