SP Summit concludes on a high note

The Channel Excellence Awards saw more

than 100 companies gathering in Thailand's capital, Bangkok for a

three-day event from Jan 29 to 31. The sponsors for this event were

Kaseya, Sify, Toshiba, LG, Digilink, D-Link, Eaton, Siemens and GoIP.

The awards were hosted on a river

cruise, which was immensely enjoyed by the solution providers

present. The 'Most Successful Solution Provider' in the Gold category

was given away to Allied Digital Services whereas Frontier Business

Systems and Team Computers bagged the Silver award. Omnitech

Solutions and Allied Digital Services were recognized as the 'Fastest

Growing Solution Providers' in both Gold and Silver categories

respectively. Frontier Business Systems in the Gold category and

Orient Technologies in the Silver category walked away with the 'Most

Comprehensive Solution Provider' award. Allied Digital Services and

PC Solution were acknowledged as 'Best Service Providers' in volume

and value business categories respectively. 'The 'Best Deployment'

award was given to PC Solutions in Gold and Wysetek in Silver

category.

The three-day event was marked with

interactive sessions, where partners, vendors and speakers expressed

their views on the upcoming opportunities in the solution providing

business. The CIOs present at the event interacted with partners

about the challenges they face in IT infrastructure and the role that

SPs can play in revolutionizing IT implementation. Arun Gupta, Group

Chief Technology Officer, Shoppers Stop and Sumit Roy, VP and

Head-Business Applications, MPS Limited held a session entitled

'What a CIO Wants'. The session acted as a bridge to fill the gap

between SPs and CIOs. Keeping the recession in mind, Sanjeev Singhal,

EVP-Finance and Accounts, Religare Enterprises shared his thoughts

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Hemant Mishra, MD, Neeti Brand Solutions spoke to partners

about marketing their companies in a way that attracts customers and

gives them higher credibility in the competitive market. Prof Wong

Poh Kam, Chairman-Business Angel Network, SE Asia conducted a

knowledge session for partners and shared his views about how to make

a company a viable prospect for investors.Shyam Malhotra, Executive

Director,

Cybermedia India spoke about the ways and methods in which solution

providers should acknowledge potential of manpower and how to retain

them in every company.

Girish Krishnamurthy, MD, Kaseya

Software;
Deepak Jhaveri, Magnamious Systems; Sivakumar N, Head-PC Division,

Toshiba; R Manikandan , LG; Michael ANG, Manager-Channel Business

Development, Asia Pacific, Hitachi Data Systems; Deepak Sharma, GM-SE

Asia, Eaton; Shiv Nath Ghosh, Senior VP and Head-Enterprise

Application Services, Sify India and Satheesh Kurup, Director-Volume

Business, Siemens and Anand C Mehta, Associate VP-Marketing and Technical Assistance Center,Digilink gave detailed presentation on products and services

their respective companies offer to the customers and benefits that

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India, Ranjan Chopra from Team Computers and Ajay Sawant from

Orient Technologies elaborated on a wide variety of subjects in the

solution providing businesses and exchanged their views with

partners.

The event concluded with a presentation

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Management and Marketing, D-Link India.