Leading that effort is Stephan Dusold , who has served as GFT ’ s CIO since 2014 . He began his career at Accenture as a consultant in their Technical Architecture practice before joining the smart car division of Daimler AG and eventually moving to MOSOLF , one of Europe ’ s leading automotive logistics companies . At GFT , he is using his breadth of experience to finalise GFT ’ s cloud journey with the decommissioning of its data centres this year .

Data is the fuel of modern business , and we are very vigilant to protect it .

As part of that journey , Dusold and GFT adopted Salesforce in 2022 as its Customer Relationship Management ( CRM ) platform . Recognising its potential to streamline sales processes , manage pipelines and provide a stellar customer experience , GFT knew its Salesforce data would be critical to the business .

“ Data is the fuel of modern business , and we are very vigilant to protect it ,” Dusold explains .

German-based GFT is prioritising data protection with Own Company ’ s backup and recovery solution , ensuring robust data security and peace of mind for its day-to-day operations .

GFT quickly realised , however , that to protect its data it needed capabilities beyond what native Salesforce tools could provide . Pawel Kozdrowicz , GFT ’ s SaaS Technical Specialist , understood that when it came to backup and recovery , you can ’ t have one without the other .

“ We were using the standard Salesforce functionality , which provided copies of the data we needed ,” Kozdrowicz explains . But it was going to be hard to use in case we needed to compare or restore our database .”

The team knew that to continue growing the company , it needed a reliable solution – one independent of Salesforce .

“ We were looking into several backup and recovery solutions and had demos with solution providers . Own Company was our first choice as it is a robust and reliable solution ,” said Dusold . “ The most valuable part of Own is that it ’ s straightforward

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