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NIC examination result system wins CSI award

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IT is there to stay and is transforming rapi-dly, but we should endeavor to

ensure that it is moving the right way. For IT to succeed in India language

barrier has to be breached as only five percent of the Indian population knows

English," stated Prof MGK Menon, former Minister for Science and Technology

while giving away the Computer Society of India (CSI) National IT awards for the

year 2003-04. He also called upon the industry to collecti-vely work towards

breaking this language barrier and build a truly global economy.

An annual affair, the National IT Awards is an important milestone in the

field of IT in India that acknowledges origi-nal and outstanding develop-ment

work in various technical fields. CyberMedia India along with other industry

majors-Infosys, KPIT Cummins, QAI, TCS and Wipro-has been ass-ociated with

it for a number of years.

The Best IT usage award was bagged by NIC for its highly visible

implementation of the examination result system, the runners up in this category

were Online Integrated System from SUMUL Dairy, Surat and E Chaupal from ITC,

Kolkata. Power Grid Corporation's Load Despatch System and NIC's AGMarket

System also got special mention for their efforts.

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The Best Packaged Applica-tion Award was presented to Opus Software Solutions

for successfully installing and implementing Electra EFT Switch, allowing

transactions within Multi-bank ATM net-works. The runners up in this award

category were Neat IXS from NSEIT Mumbai and SARAS from Excelsoft Tech Pvt Ltd,

Mysore. Special mention was given to Softcorder from Pace Soft Silicon Pvt Ltd

and Ensure Synchronization Server from Persistent Systems Pvt Ltd.

Modular Info Tech bagged the Best Shrink-Wrapped Appli-cation Award for its

paperless office automation product Ankur. The runners up in this category were

Third Dream from Nihilent Technologies, Pune and Endorser from NSEIT, Mumbai.

Special mention was given to RAP CTI from Servion Global Solutions, Chennai and

Enquire from Persistent Sys-tems Pvt Ltd, Pune.

Vinod Gulati of NHPC won the Best CIO Award sponsored by KPIT-Cummins.

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Amrita Gangotra of Bharti Televentures jointly shared the first runner up

awards with Anil Vaidya of Philips, while the second runners up award was bagged

was VVR Babu of ITC, Kolkata. Special mention was given to AG Tawde of Mahen-dra

and Mahendra.

Outlining the methodo-logy of selection, Cyber-Media Group managing director

Pradeep Gupta said that an eminent panel of nine IT experts screened the

projects and shortlisted the outstan-ding projects for the final presentations.

Giving details, he said that the IT solutions and projects were judged based on

criticality of IT usage, improvement in customer service, impact on quality and

productivity, impact on society and innovation.

In all there were 71 entries for the five categories of awards, of which 20

were shortlisted for the award. The the keynote address was delivered by HCL

Infosystems chairman and CEO Ajai Chowdhry.

CyberMedia News


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