“We are much more aware of the products we have and use them more effectively.”

Simit Sarayı, which has been an important name in the food industry in Turkey for 22 years and has made this name known to the whole world, is our national pride and maintains its competitive advantage in digital transformation. Simit Sarayı, which wants to implement flexible working models that have become more of a reality in our lives with remote working, makes this possible thanks to Microsoft 365 technologies. While managing all their services through MyAdmin, they achieve cost optimization, benefit from funds and use the licenses they have in the most efficient way through workshops. They get the opportunity to experience Microsoft's latest products early.

Flexible working model is created.

Simit Sarayı Information Technology Director Kadir Tophan answered the questions of our Marketing Executive Mert Tüfekçioğlu in our Microsoft Teams interview. Simit Sarayı, which took steps to implement the hybrid working model during the pandemic, fully experienced the difficulty of starting from scratch. “The flexible working style that the new normal has engraved in our lives has resulted in the need to review our entire infrastructure. Although we tried to provide a flexible working model with Microsoft services to a certain extent, we were always 1-0 behind in terms of training, cost, operation management, management of cyber security threats, low employee communication and the ability to manage all of them remotely," said Kadir Tophan, talking about the difficulties of the flexible working model.

Simit Sarayı, which has a more agile infrastructure with Microsoft 365, wants to further its success here. With this goal, the team participating in different programs can better experience the products they have and better establish the remote working model. “We are much more aware of the products we have and use them more effectively,” he says, underlining the benefits of the new model.

Managed security is provided.

Expressing the importance they attach to security as a company operating in many countries, the team stated that white and blue-collar teams working in all locations face cyber security threats. Kadir Tophan and his team, who took actions to prevent this, stated that they were satisfied with the security solutions they had, saying, "With DLP and Intune solutions, we made sure of the security of our white and blue-collar employees in all locations."

They also did not neglect to benefit from the programs offered by Microsoft in terms of manageability and cost. The team participated in different workshops through our technical teams and Customer Development Manager, was introduced to new services and funds, and examined different scenarios on cost optimization and manageability. “Thanks to Makronet technical teams, they immediately introduced us to different Microsoft programs, workshops, and some funds with which we could obtain cost optimization. Thanks to the FastTrack program, we experienced how we can achieve a more flexible working environment with Microsoft's other services, with the expertise of Makronet," said Tophan, talking about the advantages of these programs.

Copilot projects are started.

We can say that Simit Sarayı started to have a more secure, more productive, and more manageable infrastructure, and moved all of this to a sustainable position with MyAdmin. By becoming Makronet customers and accessing the MyAdmin service free of charge, the team started to view Microsoft workshops and other programs dedicated to their company. “I wish I had met this digital management portal much earlier, because companies like us that work abroad may need to take very rapid actions in a very short time,” said Kadir Tophan and continued with the following words: “We were invited to workshops called MCI via MyAdmin. From here we were able to follow the titles and contents of all studies. We were also able to examine their output. As a result of these, we decided to acquire the licenses I have already mentioned," he said.

Thanks to MyAdmin, customers also have the chance to be introduced to the latest Microsoft technologies early. In this way, secure productivity becomes possible for companies. The newest example in this regard is Microsoft Copilot, your artificial intelligence assistant, which is the most important service of the recent days. “MyAdmin also gave us suggestions on purchasing Copilot and stated that there was a workshop on this. I would like to talk to you about this,” said Tophan, and concluded his words as follows: “In short, we have solved all the needs of our flexible working model with Microsoft services via MyAdmin and we are very excited to develop new projects!”