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“ Key to my success here is having great people managing the data ”
– Jim Dionisio , CIO , NAES
believer in surrounding yourself with the brightest people you can find .”
With his team in place , he set about shifting platforms such as MS Office , Email , SharePoint and Storage onto the cloud . His vision was to add hyper-convergence across NAES ’ s subsidiary firms to ensure that all the back-end systems would be easy to manage as resources expanded . To help achieve better tracking of incidents , tasks and changes , he brought in cloud computing specialist ServiceNow .
Dionisio took a moment to enthuse about the current cloud-based Office suite . “ Microsoft has done an excellent job on the cloud services side , and we consider them a strong partner ,” he says . “ We love tools like Skype for Business , which is great for videoconferencing and IM ’ ing . I can be on a call at my desk , transfer to mobile and continue it on a train if I have to .” The bread-and-butter business for NAES is still its work in the energy sector , in which it operates and maintains some 160 power plants . Because these facilities are spread across the United States , Mexico and Canada , robust communications is a key enabler for the enterprise and its 4,200 employees .
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