PCQuest Best IT Implementation Awards 2010

The 2010 edition of PCQuest awards was held amidst fanfare on the 28th of

July 2010 in Mumbai. Awards were given out in 13 different categories and the

representatives were out in numbers.

Airtel outranked the others and was, by the jury, unanimously awarded the Best

Overall IT project. Airtel's unified GIS has created a virtual map of all the

road and rail networks in India. It has also processed the topography of the

country and created its own reference bank.

Irving Berling might have been orchestrating a version of his memorable,

“Anything you can do, I can do better,” in Intercontinental Lalit's ballroom,

when the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) was called on to accept their

award. Dinesh Kumar, Executive Director-IT, claimed the award for the most

innovative project in this year. The video compiled by PCQuestshowed how NTPC

used a collaborative framework to speed up development of its 40+ power

projectsKumar's brainchild integrated 40+ projects and kept them on track by

resolving critical issues on time. Eko Microfinance was recognized for its

social impact for their application-SimpliBank. Matteo Chiampo, COO, Eko

Financial Services, in the video, described his journey and his idea. The

application caters to a largely illiterate/semi-literate population who are

uncomfortable operating a bank account. SimpliBank is core banking solution

deployed in the cloud and operated by consumers from their mobile phone and

banks shy away from them because their transaction volumes are very low.. Along

lines very similar to Eko Financial Services, one of India's most popular banks,

Bank of Punjab, snagged the Best Automation Project. PNB had sponsored six

regional rural banks in turn empowering 1400 branches to implement core banking

solutions. Ajay Misra, General Manager (CTO), said, the implementation in RRBs

had started reaping the benefits in terms of improved customer services,

improved housekeeping and centralized generation of MIS reports.

Over 150 key IT decision makers from large Indian enterprises attended the event.

Infosys were recognized for the most complex project-Proactive Performance Risk

Analysis and Remediation Governance Model. Ramesh G, Head-Technology,

represented Infosys and described how Infosys had dealt with challenges in

scaling-up projects.

Prasanto K Roy, Chief Editor and President Publishing, ICT group, CyberMedia talks on Green IT.	Ashank Desai, Founder and former chairman, Mascot Systems, delivering the keynote address

ICICI is no stranger to PCQuest's IT implementation with its third in a row. The

Pre Delinquency Management system was awarded the largest scale project. The

project developed by ICICI monitors over thirty million customers and identifies

which customer is likely to default or become delinquent, and take pre-emptive

action to salvage the situation. Mahindra & Mahindra's team trooped up on stage

to pick up the Maximum Business Impact for Project Harmony. 19 key processes

from HR, 14 from procurement and 11 key processes from finance were harmonized

across the group and brought onto a single instance of SAP. Reliance

Infrastructure was the called up next to be awarded the Best Automation project.

Reliance manages the biggest generation, transmission, distribution, and trading

of electricity in Mumbai. Though the Green-It solutions at Reliance were

admirable, SBI had beaten everyone for their Best Green IT Project award. SBI

had been making efforts for the last two years to introduce a greener solution

to their banking They have been successful in deploying 10,000 green ATMs across

the country.. SBI was not the only company recognized for its green methods.

Aircel's world class Tier-III compliant green data center turned heads as well.

The project was designed and implemented by Wipro Eco Energy, the clean energy

division of Wipro.

Ramamurthy Kolluri (center), VP-OSS and J Ramakrishna Reddy (right) receiving the award for Airtel's Unified GIS, Overall Best IT Implementation project of 2010 from Ashank Desai.

Ramesh G of Infosys receives the award for their most complex project-Proactive Performance Monitoring and Risk Mitigation Governance Model from K B Singh, CIO, BSES.

Dr. T Srinivas Kumar (center) receiving the award for the Indian Tsunami Early Warning System, the Best e-Gov project (special mention) from Prasanto K Roy.

Aircel's CIO, Ravinder Jain, receiving the award for Implementing Aircel's Green Data Center, the Best Green IT Project from Prasanto K Roy.

Ajay Misra, GM-CTO, Punjab National Bank, receives the award for Best Automation Project-CBS deployment at PNB's Regional Rural Banks from K B Singh, CIO, BSES.

Pravin Hundiwale, VP O & M, Reliance Infrastructure receiving the award for the Best Automation Project, from K B Singh.

PCQuest then proceeded to give out three E-governance awards. School Education

Dept, Govt of MP: MP State Education Portal was announced the winners,

Government of India in collaboration with Wipro were the runner ups for the

Automation of Central Excise & Service Tax . INCOIS: Indian Tsunami Early

Warning System was given a special mention for its very accurate warning system.

The system sounds out tsunami related warnings, prevent damage and save cost of

evacuation in case of a false alarm.

Dinesh Kumar (right), Exec Director-IT, NTPC receives the award for Move Innovative Project, RFID and Collaborative Framework from Sunil Rawlani, CIO, HDFC Standard Life .

V.S. Parthasarthy (2nd left), Group CIO at Mahindra & Mahindra, with team, receiving the award for the project Harmony for Maximum Business Impact.

The team from Eko Financial Services receives the award for SimpliBank, project with the Maximum Social Impact, from Sunil Rawlani.

Mohan Jayaraman (center), JGM and Ashish Singhal, DGM, ICICI Bank receiving the award for Pre-Delinquency Mgmt, from Sunil Rawlani.

SBI's S K Magoo receiving the award for deploying 10,000 Green ATMs, the Best Green IT Project, from Prasanto K Roy.

Ranbir Singh, Head-Govt Wipro, receiving the award for Best Runner-up e-Gov project, the Automation of Central Excise and Service Tax, from Ashank Desai.

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