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Night of glory for solution providers

Team Computers adjudged the 'Most Successful Solution Provider' during the DQ Channels Excellence awards held in Port Blair

Vinita Bhatia, DQChannels

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

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PORT BLAIR, INDIA: It was an evening that accorded due recognition to the endeavors of solution providers across the country.

The third DQ Channels Excellence awards were given away during the Solution Providers Summit held at Port Blair, Andaman on January 19, 2008.

The event saw partners from across the country getting felicitated for various initiatives undertaken during the last fiscal. The event began with Princy Bhatnagar, director - New Office Group of Xerox India making a presentation about his company, underlining that Xerox is not a copier company anymore.

Given Xerox's huge product portfolio, he urged partners to take the opportunity to grow with Xerox.

The first set of awards, Special Jury's Prize, was bagged by Hyderabad-based Locuz Enterprise Solutions for its Incois tsunami prediction project, which will ensure that the moment a storm builds up on Indian coasts an alert will reach all coastal agencies and they get a good half hour to launch evacuation procedures.

While accepting his award from Bhatnagar, Durganadh K Venkata, VP - Business Development and Operations of Locuz, thanked the Indian government and his team for the recognition.

The runner up for the 'Fastest Growing SP' trophy was Bangalore-based Valuepoint Systems, which has registered a growth of 30 per cent and has been maintaining a three-digit growth rate for the past two fiscals.

Accepting the award from Sandeep Nair, MD, Emerson Network Power India, the usually reticent RS Shanbhag, Director of Valuepoint Systems said that his attendance at the SP Summit had become mandatory and was part of his annual calendar.

The winner in the category was Visesh Infotechnics, which posted revenues of Rs 110. 33 crore in the last fiscal, up from Rs 79 crore in 2005-06 making it the natural claimant for this trophy. Sanjiv Bhavnani, CEO of Visesh Infotechnics received the award.

The next category of awards was given to those solution partners having a widespread service network in the country.

The runner up for the 'Best Service Provider' category was PC Solutions whose CEO Devendra Taneja, while receiving the award, said he was actually taking the trophy on behalf of his staff.

The winner in this category was Accel Frontline, which has continued to engage itself in providing comprehensive IT services for enterprises, which included IT infrastructure management, software services, infrastructure solutions and IT outsourcing.

TO Asokan received the award from Mukesh Gupta, Director of AOC, and said that winning this award has instilled the fire within Accel to keep bagging it every year. The next set of awards for the 'Best Deployment' was given to partners who have implemented complex and unique solutions.

The runner up in this category was Ontrack Solutions, which did a complex 20 Tivoli implementation and G Balakrishnan received the award from Sudhir Nayar, Director-Partner Sales of Sun Microsystems.

The winner in this category was New Delhi-based Team Computers, whose analytical project has been deployed at Fullerton and Citibank. This same data analytics and reporting tool also helped Reliance Life Insurance analyze a vast data and penetrate into the profitable sources.

Receiving his award, Ranjan Chopra of Team Computers, said, "On this occasion I wish to say that the SP Summit has brought us partners closer to each other. I have a couple of suggestions for the next year's event which I will share with the people in the magazine."

The runner up for the 'Most Comprehensive Solution Provider' was Ashtech Infotech which has added every leading IT brand in its portfolio and has managed to offer vast spectrum of solutions, be it computing, which includes mobile computing, storage, security, back-up/recovery, enterprise systems management, and services, which include infrastructure management and technology consulting.

Accepting his trophy from Shyam Malhotra, editor-in-chief, DQ Channels, Saurin Shah remarked that he himself did not know that his company had so many business divisions!

The winner in this category was Bangalore-based Frontier Business Systems which added new offerings like security consulting and certification and started a new services division, while successfully launching the ITIL training and certification both in Bangalore as well as in Chennai. Ravi Verdes received the award.

The most coveted set of awards was the 'Most Successful Solution Provider' and the runner up was Allied Digital Services which had some new tie ups last fiscal with some vendors like Echelon for intelligent building management system, Epicor for enterprise resource planning and Verint for IP video surveillance and video analytics solutions for physical security.

Bimal Raj, CEO of Allied received the award from Pradeep Gupta, CMD, CyberMedia India. "This award is truly precious because it adds a lot of value and credibility to solutions providers like us when we go out to the market," said Raj.

The maharaja of the evening was Ranjan Chopra of Team Computers, which bagged the crowning glory of the 'Most Successful Solution Provider'.

Chopra thanked all those who made this possible and vowed to keep bagging this trophy year on year.

© CyberMedia News

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