Southern Winners Shine At Chennai

The rain and traffic clogged roads of Chennai did not deter almost 300
channel partners from across South India who gathered to cheer the award winners
at The 11th Annual DQ Week Awards night.

The awards night was held in association with Sify. Other vendors who also
associated with the awards included D-Link and DigiLink, K7 Computing, Supertron
Electronics and Delta. While Sybase was the Business Intelligence Partner for
the event, EMC partnered for a unique Information Infrastructure Award and Royal
Challenge was the Beverage Partner. Supporting the awards was Tamil Nadu's
umbrella channel association Confed-ITA.

The evening kicked off with Anil Pant, VP-Channel Sales, Sify and Shiv Nath
Ghosh, VP-Enterprise Application Services, Sify talking about the benefits that
channel partners can derive by selling services.

In his trademark style of not banking on presentation to drive home the point
Pant remarked, “I as usual do not have a presentation. I believe that partners
should listen to people from their own community whether our services have
yielded any benefits for them or not. My saying it alone will not help at all.”
With that Pant invited one of Sify's premium partners to come on stage and share
his experiences and tell the gathering about the positives that his business has
seen since tying up with Sify.

After the presentation it was time for the awards ceremony to start. The
awards, each year are decided by an independent jury which comprises of eminent
people from IT industry, who are closely aligned with the channels. The jury
deliberates on a given set of parameters to come to the final conclusion and
decide winners.

For the first time this year The DQ Week and Confed-ITA also came together to
institute an award for the channel partners of Tamil Nadu. The first ever DQ
Week-Confed ITA Upcoming Entrepreneur was bagged by Universys. PN Prasad,
President, Confed-ITA gave away the trophy to a jubilant Arangswamy and Karthik.

A GANG OF WINNERS: All the award winners from South India, get together and display their trophies

Rakesh Jain of Supreme Computers receiving the Gold award for Best Sub-distributor, Chennai from Pradeep Gupta, MD, Cybermedia. This was Supreme Computers eighth win in the category	Anil Pant, VP-Channel Sales, Sify enumerating the advantages that the partners get when they tie-up with Sify

Vijay Baid of Vijex and Company accepting the award for Best Media Reseller, Chennai from Pradeep Gupta, MD, Cybermedia

The DQ Week South Awardees

Tamil Nadu

Chennai

Best Sub-distributor

Gold: Supreme Computers

Silver: Pelikan Office Automation

Best Reseller

Gold: Vajawat Computers

Silver: Acme Business Solution

Best SI

Gold: Precision Group

Silver: Mukesh Infoserve

Best Retailer

Gold: Modern Computers

Silver: Dotcom

Best Software Reseller: Veeras Infotek

Best Media Reseller: Vijex & Company

The DQ Week-EMC Best Information Infrastructure Partner: Fourth
Dimension Technologies

The DQ Week-Confed ITA Upcoming Entrepreneur: Universys

Other Cities: Best Channel Partner

Coimbatore

Gold: Bloom Electronics

Silver: Quadra Systems

Madurai

Gold: Premier Systems & Peripherals

Silver: Vijay Trading Corporation

Trichy: Fusion Systems

Pondicherry: Indica Computers & Web Square

Erode: Zigma Computer Links

Tirunelveli: Avalon Data Products

Vellore: Vasavi Computer

Salem: Vashini System Solutions

Andhra Pradesh

Hyderabad

Best Sub-distributor

Gold: Shwetha Computers & Peripherals

Silver: Vishal Peripherals

Best Reseller

Gold: K Computers

Silver: Brahmand Computers

Best SI

Gold: Cache Peripherals

Silver: Microcare Computers

Best Retailer

Gold: Compaq World

Silver: RS Computer World

Best Software Reseller: Alliance Prosys

Best Media Reseller: Premier Data Products

The DQ Week-EMC Best Information Infrastructure Partner: Locuz
Enterprises Solutions

Other Cities:

Best Channel Partner:

Visakhapatnam: Kolla Innovative Infotech

Vijayawada: Digital World

Kerala

Cochin

Best Sub-distributor

Gold: Aldous Glare Trade & Exports (AGTE)

Silver: Positive Systems

Best Reseller: Noveon Systems

Best SI: Nortech Infonet

Best Retailer: Online IT Shoppe India

Best Software Reseller: Neural Networks

Other Cities:

Best Channel Partner

Thiruvananthapuram: Logtech Infoway

Kohzikode: Onezero Info Solutions

Thrissur: Southern Associates

Kollam: Hypertech Systems

Karnataka

Bengaluru

Best Sub-distributor

Gold: Sogo Group

Silver: Matrix Technologies

Best Reseller

Gold: Geeta Electronics

Silver: New Tekno Computers

Best SI

Gold: Value Point Systems

Silver: Vertex Trading And Service

Best Retailer

Gold: Karthik Business Machines

Silver: Computer Planet

Best Software Reseller: Kinfotech

Best Media Reseller: Alpha Consumables

The DQ Week-EMC Best Information Infrastructure Partner: Central Data
Systems

Other Cities

Best Channel Partner

Belgaum: Compu Aid

Hubli: RT Computers

Mangalore: GS Distributors

Mysore: System Needs

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