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Follow UsKathmandu: The fourth DQ Channels Excellence Award were announced
during the fourth Solution Providers Summit held at Kathmandu, Nepal, on Jan 10,
2009. The evening was marked with the enthusiastic participation of a hundred
leading SPs from across the country.
The event was kick started with a presentation by Mandeep Gupta of Emerson
Power Networks, who threw light on the technology that Emerson has embedded in
its products to increase the adaptation of green IT solutions.
The first category of the award was for the Fastest Growing SP. The runner up
for this award was Apara Enterprise Solution. The company had posted a turnover
of Rs 196 crore in 2007-08, registering a growth of 54 percent over the previous
year. Apara had set up NOC for remote management and monitoring services and a
lab for training besides a proof of concept center. Accepting the award from
Rakesh Khajanji of Xerox, Satinder Sharma of Apara Enterprises thanked the jury
member for recognizing his efforts in taking new initiatives in solution
business.
The winner in the category was Allied Digital Services, that posted revenues
of Rs 297 crore in 2007-08 up from Rs 156 crore in 2006-07. The company has been
growing by around 100 percent for the last two fiscals.
The next category of awards was given to the solution partners who have a
widespread service network in the country. The runner up for the 'Best Service
Provider' category was Wysetek System Technologies. While receiving the award
from Sudhir Nayar from Sun Microsystems, Venkatesh Pai, CEO of Wysetek thanked
his entire team for cooperating and executing better services. Besides offering
warranty services and AMCs, the company has created a technology solution
division that offers services like project consultancy, solution design,
implementation and documentation of ongoing project.
The winner in this category was Team Computers. Team had even bagged the
'Most Reliable Vendor' award from Reliance for a project it had executed for the
company. However, Ranjan Chopra, CEO of Team Computers, was not able to attend
the event.
The next set of awards for the 'Best Deployment' was given to the SPs who
have implemented complex and unique solutions.
The runner up in this category was Digital Waves. Kaushik Sonawala of Digital
collected the award from Sudhir Nayar of Sun. "I would like to thank the entire
team of Cybermedia who have put so much effort into organizing such an event and
getting partners together," said Sonawal while receiving the award.
The company undertook a project for Reliance Big's animation studio where it
set up an entire production pipeline from workstations to networking.
The winner in this category was Transline India. The project was to network
schools in the state of Rajasthan, that was accompanied with lot of challenges
in itself.
The next set of award was the 'Most Comprehensive Solution Provider'. The
runner up of the award in this category was Orient Technologies. Girsih
Krishnamurthy from Kaseya handed over the award to Ajay Sawant, CEO of Orient.
Orient had added several IT brands in its portfolio last fiscal has managed to
offer vast spectrum of solutions like third party maintenance, facilities
management, disaster recover services and several others.
The winner in this category was Delhi-based PC Solutions. Devendra Taneja,
CEO of the company thanked his entire team and all the employees for
contributing efforts and hard work that has managed to provide him success in
all aspects.
The final and the most awaited set of awards was for 'Most Successful
Solution Provider' and the runner up for this category was Delhi-based PC
Solutions. PC Solutions had a revenue of Rs 173 crore in 2007-08, while it stood
at Rs 141 crore the year before. It has a total technical staff of 790, that
comprises of 82 percent of the total manpower for 930 in services.
Devendra Taneja from PC Solutions received the award from Pradeep Gupta, CMD,
CyberMedia India.
"The award is of great importance and such recognition in the industry is not
achieved over a year or two but it is the effort for several years. We will
continue to make such efforts in the future also," said Taneja.
And the winner of the Most Successful Solution Provider award went to Ranjan
Chopra of Team Computers. It is worth mentioning that Chopra has been winning at
least one trophy at the DQ Channels Excellence Award since the awards were
instituted four years back.