Issue 9 2021

Jul21668 Jul21596 ChampioningWorldwide Automation L&T Technology Services Limited, the ‘Best International Engineering and R&D Services Company’ for 2021, is a company offering high quality manufacturing automation services. Working for a myriad of clients across a spectrum of different industries from industrial products and transportation to media and entertainment, it has been spearheading the global movement to implement better, smarter automated solutions into everyday life. The company calling for unconventional shifts in manufacturing, L&T Technology Services Limited is ahead of an emerging trend in its industry. Fundamentally, this company wishes to drive home the importance of embracing a new normal, of manufacturers delivering services remotely through data and cloud-based platforms, and doing more with less; more production input, with lessened design timelines and hassle. LTTS has made itself the herald of this new era, basing each of its services off of business growth, continuity, and sustainability. In essence, it wishes to help its clients achieve more sophisticated manufacturing by implementing the innovations and ingenuity that it has to offer, helping them to muscle through any challenges that may be thrown their way by ensuring that the manufacturing can take care of itself. Therefore, its core foundation has been built on an ethos of encouraging its clients towards greater business growth, continuity, and sustainability, helping them to engineer the best possible future. This has been incredibly pivotal during the last 18 months. With so many unprecedented challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic, LTTS stepped up to the plate to be able to secure its reputation as a global leader in engineering, research, and development services, with over 719 patents filed for 57 of the Global top 100 ER&D spending companies. LRRS, in essence, lives and breathes engineering. When it comes to the innovations it has developed, they can in this manner speak for themselves, able to show a client with the spectacular depth and breadth of knowledge that has gone into the design just how serious LTTS is about delivering the best services, every single time. In the past, it has developed the world’s first autonomous welding robot, solar connectivity drone, and the smartest campus in the world, as a few examples of the past developments that have thrust it and its outstanding staff further into the spotlight. With expertise in everything from engineering design, to product development, smart manufacturing, and digitization, it seeks to help its clients better every element of life. From the smallest creations to the biggest projects, its automation implementation seeks to streamline what can be streamlined in order to cut the money and time ordinarily sunk into various tasks when handled manually. Essentially, this is made possible by the 69 R&D centres that it has set up all around the globe, allowing it to accomplish such things. Every staff member who works in these sites is a leading mind in their field. Being a publicly listed subsidiary of Larsen and Toubro Limited, it benefits from partnership with the $21 billion Indian conglomerate that spans 30 different countries, and works hard to offer excellence in everything it does. Whether it is delivering VLSI and integrated design validation, virtual manufacturing, digital factory simulations, supply chain MGMT, sourcing and procurement, robotic process automation, or any other of its comprehensive list of services, a client can always rest assured that LTTS will be working to the greatest heights of industry standards in order to shape the brave new world of automation. Company: L&T Technology Services Limited Contact: Aniruddha Basu Website: LTTS.com Issue 9 2021 17 In Perfect Harmony Symphony Solutions, this year’s winner of Most Outstanding Agile Transformation Specialists - the Netherlands, has seen momentous change over the last year. Valentina Synenka, CMO at Symphony Solutions, tells us more following the firm’s success. Founded in 2008, Symphony Solutions is a leading Cloud and Agile Transformation company, based in Amsterdam and operating across six international offices to serve more than 35 international clients to date. A multifaceted company with the expertise required to work with a myriad of industries on an extensive portfolio of cases, Symphony Solutions`s specialist emphasis is on its cloud transformation services. Alongside, Symphony Solutions is able to offer support in custom software development, design, omnichannel orchestration, agile transformation, and more. In order to manage each client’s varied projects to the highest standard, Symphony Solutions puts together dedicated teams, employing the professionals with the best skills and experience for each case. “As practice shows, our clients oftentimes discover more value in what we can offer than what they initially requested,” says Valentina Synenka, CMO of Symphony. “In the case with HPE GreenLake,” she elaborates, “we started with maintenance of the exciting solution and a small team of just three engineers. The team’s excellent performance and contribution led the client to the realization that they want a complete overhaul of the architecture and to work exclusively with our team and with time we expanded to over 30 cloud experts operating in self- managed Scrum teams. “You could say, we take up a personal approach and strive for excellence. Sure, we can deliver a great solution but while we’re already at it, why not make it ‘the best’?” Similarly, in a project carried out with Vivino, an online wine retail platform, Symphony Solutions was able to construct a team that created a powerful cloud infrastructure to accommodate a heavy load application that is continuously growing and expanding. With Symphony Solutions’s support, Vivino went from a quirky idea to a platform with over 50 million users and the world’s largest online wine marketplace. “We share our clients’ vision to create something revolutionary, to change the way we experience life itself,” Valentina explains. As such, Symphony Solutions considers people to be the very heart of the business, all driven by a company philosophy built on a foundation of trust and comprising a set of core values that consist of integrity, initiative, innovation, inspirational, and intimacy. These govern each team member – or ‘Symphonian’ – in both their professional and personal lives and ambitions. “Each Symphonian is a strong individual with unique insights, sense of personal responsibility, passion and creativity,” states Valentina. “When Symphonians come together, they build even stronger teams and can create something exceptional.” When growing this team, recruitment follows a process of ‘colleagues choosing colleagues’. This is a practice that ensures an outcome everyone in the team is satisfied with and that sees Symphonians successfully collaborating and supporting one another. “This constitutes our Agile philosophy that we apply in everyday work. We nurture the Agile “growth mindset” in every one of our Symphonians and teach teams to ‘be agile’,” Valentina explains. The agile nature of Symphony Solutions allowed the company to quickly adapt and switch to remote mode seemingly overnight when the Covid-19 pandemic struck. “One of the challenges was when, due to the lockdown restrictions, one of our iGaming clients was basically left stranded because their main focus were outdoor events which had to be cancelled,” recounts Valentina. “Sadly, such situations are bound to happen, more so while the entire global community goes haywire. You can’t always plan around it or know the future outcomes. You lose some, you win some. COVID-19 is something that we couldn’t have predicted and, all things considered, we are very lucky to be able to count our losses, shake off, and continue the ‘grind’.” Symphony Solutions introduced Symphony Anywhere, a virtual office which enabled recruitment of new Symphonians from across the world and the Workation benefit, which presented a way for employees to combine travel with work. For many, these changes may have taken a toll on business, but not for Symphony. “We are looking at a surge in productivity that even the clients have commented on. We are as flexible as ever and ready to take on new challenges.” The operational structure of Symphony Solutions will continue to become more virtual in order to offer people greater freedom to enjoy their preferred lifestyle. Meanwhile, its focus in industry and technology will centre on healthcare and cloud transformation, as Symphony Solutions maintains its ethos to excel at everything it does. “As we like to say, ‘Do it with passion or not at all’,” concludes Valentina. “As for goals for the future, we would like to continue growing and expanding business, strengthen the bonds with our clients and see them succeed.” Contact: Valentina Synenka Company: Symphony Solutions Web Address: https://symphony-solutions.com/