Recognition time for CIOs

India's largest IT portal CIOL has joined hands with Dataquest to bring
Enterprise Connect Awards. The awards ceremony will be held on Friday, August
27, 2004 at the Leela Kempinski in Mumbai from 7 pm onwards. It's a bid to
recognize and reward cases of exemplary work in informa-tion technology carried
out among the CIOs.

"This award is built around a frame-work that recognizes a CIO's
leadership qualities, business-technology under-standing, people orientation and
performance through pioneering and innovative efforts," said E Abraham
Mat-hew, President, CIOL.

"CIOL Enterprise Connect Award is to honor and high-light CIOs who have
brought out 'Excellence in Implemen-ting IT' and bringing about business
benefits for their organizations. Through inno-vative and pioneering efforts
these CIOs have silently chan-ged the business climate wor-king in the
background to ensure their organizations get the best advantage out of
technology investments," said Anil Kumar, Associate Vice President, CIOL.

The nominations for the award, which began from the 5 th of May onwards, has
so far received an overwhelming response, numbering around 120. Some of the
leading com-panies who have responded include ONGC Ltd, Federal Bank, TVS
Motors, IDBI Bank, UTI Bank, TAFE, etc.

The panel of judges consists of prominent consultants and academicians,
headed by jury chairman Ashok Soota, Chair-man, MindTree Consulting. Others in
the jury are Ravi Uppal, MD, ABB; D Ashok, Independent Consultant and Prof. S
Bhatnagar, IMM-A.

Among the nominations received, there was a good res-ponse from the
manufacturing companies, which is expected considering the fact they were the
early adopters of techno-logy and already had a tech architecture in place. Most
of the companies who responded have scaled to the next stage - ERP II and many
of them, have deployed emerging technolo-gies in the area of Knowledge
Management, Portal techno-logy and Enterprise Infor-mation Portal. The
manufactur-ing sector is closely followed by the banking sector including
co-operative banks, which imp-lies that the banking sector is in the fore-front
of technology adoption and is ready to take risks in experimenting new ideas.
Many of them have imp-lemented Core Banking Solu-tions and agree that it has
hel-ped them achieve a paradigm shift in the way they do business.

The other sectors include processmanufacturing com-panies in the area of
petro-che-micals, chemicals, petro-leum, etc. Besides, it includes
phar-maceutical companies like Novaritis, Orchid, Glaxo, Smit-hkline Beecham and
Wockhardt Ltd.

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