DQ Week Mumbai honors top partners of western region

In an effort to promote excellence in the channel community, DQ Week Mumbai
honored outstanding channel partners in different categories. Now in its second
year, the DQ Week Mumbai channel awards are among the most prestigious and
keenly sought accolades in the Western region channel community.

In consultation with leading resellers, end users and industry consultants, a
panel of judges including Mumbai based channel industry representatives also,
selected top channel partners. The selection criteria was based on the increased
business opportunities and profitability of a reseller.

Announcing the second DQ Week Mumbai awards, CyberMedia MD, Pradeep Gupta
said, "Gone are the days when the growth in the channel community was based
on the services it was offering. A mix of services and solutions could be a good
idea to promote, but by next year, there would be no survival without solutions.
People would ask for solutions more than services".

Apart from Mumbai, DQ Week Mumbai also awarded the best channel partners from
the adjoining areas. The best channel partner award in Amravati and Aurangabad
went to Golden Systems and Cyber Peripherals respectively, while Rhythm
Electronics bagged the best channel for Baroda. Navjeen Computers and Veetrag
Computers were awarded as best channel partners for Jalgaon and Kolhapur regions
respectively.

Saurin Shah of Ashtech Infotech accepting the Joint Best Systems Integrator Award for Mumbai from Pradeep Gupta, Publisher and MD, CyberMedia. Bimal Raj of Allied Digital Services accepting the Joint Best Systems Integrator Award for Mumbai from Pradeep Gupta, Publisher and MD, CyberMedia. Ketan Barai of Kaybee Infotech receiving the Runner-Up System Integrator Award for Mumbai. Pradeep Gupta, Publisher and MD, CyberMedia, gave away the award.  Ujwal Andhari of Softcell Technologies receiving the Best Software Solution Provider Award for Mumbai. Pradeep Gupta, Publisher and MD, CyberMedia, gave away the award. Kirit Joshi of Sai Infosystem receiving Best System Integrator Award for Ahmedabad. Sandeep Nair, MD, Emerson India gave away the award.

For Gujarat up country, the best channel partner award went to Advance
Computers and Compu Garage, while Amay Computers and Datatronics Systems walked
away with best channel partner award from Mazgaon and Nagpur respectively. Omega
Infocom received the best channel partner award for Nashik.

The other winners in the best channel award category include Apex Computers
and Engineering Services of Panjim, Netlink Infocom of Rajkot, Valson's
Computer of Surat, Keshav Computers of Thane and Gujral Infotech of Vashi.

The best retailer and best System Integrator (SI) award for Ahmedabad went to
Care office Equipments and Sai Infosystems respectively while Damson
Technologies got the best reseller award. Shani Peripherals and Silverline
Infocom won the best sub-distributor award .

From Pune region, the best retailer award went to Comp-ucity while best SI
and best reseller award went to CITPL and GV Sales respectively. The joint
winners for best sub-distributor award were Data-care Corporation and Karan
Solutions.

In the Mumbai region, Vijay Sales won the most promising retailer award and
the runner-up in this category was Gigahertz. The best retailer awards went to
Infocity, while Softcell Technologies received the best software solution
provider award. The best retailer runner-up SI was Kaybee Infotech. Allied
Digital Services and Ashtech Infotech were jointly named as best SI. The best
reseller award went to Radiant Technologies while the runner-up in this category
was Ortel Computers.

The most promising sub-distributor was Active Infocom and the runner-up was
Best IT World. The award for the best sub distributor went to Arihant Computers.

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