Wipro: Most admired Indian IT vendor

BANGALORE: PCQuest, India’s leading infotech magazine, today announced the results of the PCQuest Users Choice Awards 2003 at a ceremony attended by top management of different industries including the IT industry as well as the IT user industries. This was the fifteenth edition of the prestigious PCQuest users Choice Awards.

Indian CIOs chose Microsoft as the most admired IT vendor even as open source software makes inroads into Indian enterprises, while Wipro was voted the most admired Indian IT vendor.

While open source software has not yet won any awards, Linux, OpenNMS and My SQL figure in the list of the top five software used by Indian enterprises in their respective categories (web server and office suites did not figure in the surveyed categories).

The awards are divided into two categories : Personal and Enterprise. The survey covered the major IT user cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Pune, Chennai, Hyderabad, and Ahmedabad.

For the enterprise category, CIOs of companies with an annual IT spend of Rs 25 lacs or more were interviewed. All the major verticals of manufacturing, banking and finance, government, PSUs, services, BPO, telecom and consultants were covered in the survey. For the personal segment, the respondents were users with a monthly household income of Rs 25,000 or more and who had a personal computer or notebook at home and/or office.

The survey, interestingly, also revealed that the average Indian enterprise still has a long way to go when it comes to IT implementation. Only 56% of the companies surveyed had an internet security solution in place and only 24% plan to implement one in the immediate future. Again, only 60% of the corporates surveyed had large volume data backup systems in place and only 34% plan to implement oen in the coming months. Given the concerns with data security and business continuity that have dominated IT discussions and even RBI policy, this is both a cause for concern and a huge opportunity for tech vendors in the country.

Personal Category Winners

Enterprise Category Winner

CATEGORY

WINNERS

CATEGORY

WINNER

Anti virus software

Trend Micro

Accounting software

Tally

Graphics Software

Adobe

MFDs

HP

Inkjet printer

HP

Dot matrix printer

Epson

Web camera

Logitech

Laser printer

HP

Scanner

HP

LCD Monitor

Samsung

DVD drive

Samsung

Enterprise Power Conditioning

APC

Ups

APC

Switch and Roluter

Cisco

Motherboard

Intel

RDBMS

Oracle

Hard disk

Samsung

Internet security

Cisco

PC speaker

Kobian

Server Operating System

Microsoft

Web portal

Yahoo.com

Application server

Oracle

News site

Timesofindia.com

Corporate messaging s/w

Microsoft

Chat client

MSN Messenger

Network management s/w

HP

 



 



Web development s/w



Macromedia





 



 



Wireless networking



Cisco





 



 



Internet connectivity



VSNL





 



 



Enterprise backup



HP





 



 



Enterprise storage



HP





 



 



Intel architecture server



HP





 



 



RISC server



IBM





 



 



ERP software



SAP





 



 



Software development tool



Microsoft





 



 



Notebook



IBM





 



 



Office PC



HP





 



 



Product of the year



Windows Server 2003





 



 



MNC brand of the year



Microsoft





 



 



Indian brand of the year



Wipro

(CNS)