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L&T, Eveready take top honors at CIO Oscars

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BANGALORE, INDIA: India's leading industry conglomerates - Larsen & Toubro, TVS Motors and Hindalco Industries Ltd -- bagged the Champion, Gold and Silver CIO awards in the Above Rs. 1,000 crore category for IT implementations at the CIOL-Dataquest EnterpriseConnect Awards 2007 that is regarded as CIO Oscars in the realms of technology. The awards event was held on August 24 at the J.W. Marriot Hotel in Mumbai.

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In the Below Rs. 1,000 crore category, manufacturing companies continued the good show with Eveready Industries India Ltd, Roots Industries Ltd and Hikal Ltd winning the top three honours - as the Champion, Gold and Silver CIOs, respectively.

In the Individual categories, there was an interesting mix of winners, with insurance and financial services companies bagging the majority of the awards.

Recipients of CIOL- Dataquest EnterpriseConnect Awards 2007Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services Ltd won the Pioneer award, and SRL Ranbaxy took home the Innovator award. The BFSI segment's growing strength was evident in the other individual categories as The Oriental Insurance Co Ltd won the Extended Manager award, SBI Life Insurance took the honors as the Advocate, and Bank of India grabbed the Process award.

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At the EnterpriseConnect Awards 2007 Jury meet, which was held in Bangalore on August 4, the jury members, chaired by Vivek Kulkarni, former Karnataka IT Secretary and CEO of Brickwork India, and six other members selected the 11 winners among the seven categories.

Commenting on the winners, Kulkarni said: "The winners have all implemented complicated IT solutions and it has been a tough decision to choose the winners. However, ultimately, the jury came to a consensus decision and elected the top slots." He added that the manufacturing companies implemented most of the latest IT solutions and hence, they emerged as the winners.

The other jury members were: Alok Shende, vice-president of Frost & Sullivan, Rahul De, HP chair professor of IIM-Bangalore, Probir Mitra, Senior General Manager (IT) of Tata Motors, Subhash Patil, System Manager of Kalyan Dombivli Municipal Corporation, Shyam Malhotra, director and editor-in-chief of Cybermedia India Ltd, and Prasanto K. Roy, president of Business Magazines Group at Cybermedia.