Dataquest : 25th Anniversary : And the Award Goes to

And the Award Goes to

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Monday, December 24, 2007

Corporate Awards
HP bagged the Top PC Vendor Award as it shipped 744,686 PCs in 2006. HP was also the unchallenged leader in the printing and imaging segment, with greater market share than all other companies put together.

Ingram Micro bagged the Top Distributor Award with revenues of over Rs 6,800 crore. This was Ingram Micros first financial year after its merger with Tech Pacific when it added new lines of business. NIIT was honored as the Top IT Training Company as it offers education across the globe and posted net revenues of Rs 795 crore last fiscal.

In the networking segment, Cisco maintained its monopoly as the Top Networking Vendor, with 81% router market share and 73% of the switches market. IBM India, too, maintained its position as the Top Server Company in India with a market share of 34% across the x86 and non-x86 range.

With acquisitions, large deals and new markets, TCS posted a growth of 33% in revenues to cross Rs 18,000 crore, and registering an impressive 87% growth. TCS, thus, emerged as Indias biggest software exporter. The company also bagged the Best Employer Award for 2007 and, thus, becoming a great place to work, as per the Dataquest-IDC survey.


VK Malhotra of TCS receiving the Best IT Employer Award from Sanjiv Bikhchandani of Naukri.com	Navin Joshua and Sohit Brahmawar of vCustomer receiving the Best BPO Employer Award from Alok Bhardwaj of Canon India

Dr BK Mathur of IIT Kharagpur receiving the Top TSchool Award from Alok Bhardwaj of Canon India

In the IT and ITeS sector, vCustomer was ranked #1 and bagged the Best BPO Employer Award, and IIT-Kharagpur was adjudged as numero uno, becoming Indias top technology institute that provides future leaders to Indian and global IT industry. Dataquest-IDC survey found that IIT-Karaghpur had posted a significant improvement in infrastructure and industry interface.

The winners were chosen by an eminent panel of experts comprising Nandan M Nilekani, co-chairman of Infosys; Alok Ohrie, CEO and MD of AMD; Dr Ganesh Natarajan, deputy chairman and MD of Zensar Technologies; Dr Jai Menon, director (IT and Innovation), Bharti Airtel; Revathi Kasturi, the then MD of Novell West Asia; Rahul Bhasin, senior partner, Barings Private Equity Partners; and Sanjeev Bikhchandani, CEO of Naukri.com. Pradeep Gupta, chairman of CyberMedia and Shyam Malhotra, editor-in-chief of CyberMedia, were also part of the selection panel.


Vijay K Thadani of NIIT receiving the Top Training Company Award from Ganesh Natarajan of Zensar	Sameer Mathur of HP receiving the Top PC Vendor Award from Alok Ohrie of AMD


VK Malhotra of TCS receiving the Top IT Company and Top Software Exporter Award from Rahul Bhasin of Barings Private Equity Partners International	Shashi Mal of IBM India receiving the Top Server Company Award from Alok Ohrie of AMD


Ranajoy Punja of Cisco India receiving the Top Networking Vendor Award from Dr Jai Menon of Bharti Airtel	V Krishnan of HP receiving the Top Printing and Imaging Company Award from Dr Jai Menon of Bharti Airtel