Channel Felicitated At Excellence Awards

The fifth DQ Channels Excellence Award were announced during the fourth
Solution Providers Summit held at Kathmandu, Nepal, on Jan 10, 2009.

The event 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. 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 Technologists. While receiving the award
from Sudhir Nayar of 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.

Awardees: Venkatesh Pai of Wysetek System Technologists, Ajay Sawant of Orient Technologies, Nitin Shah of Allied Digital, Pradeep Gupta, Publisher, DQ Channels, Devendra Taneja of PC Solutions and Kaushik Sonawala of Digital Waves

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.

A traditional folk dance in progress to entertain the audience

The next set of awards for Best Deployment was given to the SPs who had
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.

Mandeep Gupta of Emerson giving the first presentation of the event	Gopal Krishna of LG Electronics presenting Amit Vira of ITISL System & Networking Solutions (L) with an LG LCD during the lucky draw

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.

Mahesh Khatri of Kaytech (L) also won an LG LCD monitor during the luck draw

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,
Publisher, DQ Channels.

“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.

Amrita Tejasvi

amritat@cybermedia.co.in