HDFC bags PCQuest award

NEW DELHI, INDIA: PCQuest, IT publication from the CyberMedia group, has announced that HDFC Standard Life won the PCQuest Overall Best IT implementation award.

Among others who won the Best IT implementation awards are Punjab National Bank, West Bengal State Electricity Distribution Company, North Delhi Power Supply, AIIMS and Thiagarajar College of Engineering has won PCQuest Best IT implementation awards.

PCQuest honoured six projects as the winners in special categories and gave 15 others special recognition. Punjab National Bank was recognized for maximum business impact. Thiagarajar College of Engineering’s ERP project called TCENet; and West Bengal State Electricity Distribution’s Remote Meter Reading project were assessed as being the most innovative.

PCQuest, editor-in-chief, Shyam Malhotra said, “We saw an amazing range in the projects submitted, and the winners reflect that, from cutting-edge remote meter reading over wireless, video-based tele-medicine, to a college’s home-grown enterprise software application!

“The editors interacted with nearly a 100 top IT implementers to gauge how successful and effective these projects were,” he added.

Another utility company, North Delhi Power Supply was awarded the most challenging project award, and All India Institute for Medical Sciences’ (AIIMS) Tele-Medicine project was chosen as the project with the maximum social impact.

The winners of the 4th PCQuest Best IT Implementation Awards were chosen from 250 nominations across 22 industries ranging from the mega-IT spenders like government, banking finance and insurance, manufacturing, petroleum, and IT/ITES to niche ones like poultry, travel and tourism, real estate, construction, power and utilitities. There were 23 projects types spread across IT infrastructure and ERP deployments to projects like controlling appliances over the Internet, e-learning, mobility and security, PCQuest statement said.

The jury for the award was a blend of past year’s winners, IT users, IT industry, and the media. This year the six jurors were Dr N. Vijayaditya, controller of Certifying Authorities for the Govt. of India, who chaired the group, RB Das, group GM, Center for Railway Information System also last year’s winner, C R Narayanan, vice president(IT), D S Constructions, Ranjan Chopra, CMD Team Computers and Ravi Aggarwal, president, Imaging and Printing Group, HP India, and Prasanto K Roy, president (ICT Publishing) Cyber Media.