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Probir Mitra
GM, IT, Tata Motors |
CHAMPION CIO AWARD
Large Enterprise Category |
| "This award is for team
achievement of the entire IT team of Tata Motors and Tata Technologies to
whom our IT services are outsourced. We feel proud to have our efforts
recognized by the IT industry. This recognition will make us aware of the
higher expectations from us and motivate us to strive for new
heights." |
| Being one of India's
largest and oldest business houses has not stopped this automotive giant
to automate most of its critical business processes. Tata Motors has
pioneered the implementation of digital manufacturing in India by using
Delmia to integrate CAD and ERP systems. The company has also reaped the
benefits of Knowledge Based Engineering (KBE). Tata Motors has integrated
some of the critical business processes with TATA Daewoo and has also
implemented a B2B/B2C Internet based system. Having operations worldwide
and the backing of top management, the IT department has brought business
value to help achieve the global aspirations of the company. |
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Ashish kumar Chauhan
President & CIO, Reliance Industries |
GOLD AWARD
Large Enterprise Category |
| "I am happy to receive
this award on behalf of the 75,000 employees of the Reliance Group. It is
an honor and a privilege to be recognized by your peers" |
| Reliance
Industries Limited (RIL) has automated all key processes of its business
resulting in optimal resource utilization. The company introduced mobile
wireless point of sale (PoS) in petrol and retail outlets to effectively
reduce billing time. The B2B e-commerce portal addresses key concerns of
customers while the introduction of the GIS-based truck tracking system
has reduced delays and pilferages. Recently, the Reliance Group-wide
Knowledge Management Portal was launched to provide state-of-the-art
internal communications and knowledge management framework. |
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Subrato Das
CIO, CESC |
SILVER AWARD
Large Enterprise Category |
| "Receiving the
prestigious 'CIOL-Dataquest' award, recognized by all the top
corporate participants of India Inc, brings glory to our
organization/group. We get further motivated to continue extending more
customer-intimate offerings to our valued customers with a single
touch-point for a pleasant experience" |
| ESC Limited
(Calcutta Electric Supply), an RPG Group company, is a hundred-year-old
company engaged in generating and distributing electricity in and around
Kolkata. The company has introduced IT-enabled services such as
supervisory control and data acquisition, GIS and computerized billing to
improve its profitability. CESC has undertaken data mining for knowledge
discovery to identify target segments and has reduced losses by 16%, a
benchmark for the Indian utility services. IT has enabled the organization
to reduce Transmission & Distribution losses, the cost on personnel,
and to enhance operational efficiency. |
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Subhash S Patil
CIO, Kalyan Dombivli Municipal Corporation |
CHAMPION AWARD
Mid-sized Enterprise Category |
| "This award shall serve
as a great motivation to the IT team at KDMC in its continuous effort to
enhance the corporation functioning by effective use of ICT" |
| This local,
self-government body has implemented some key e-Governance initiatives
such as automating registrations and certificates of births/deaths, water
connections, business licenses and building permission-streamlining an
otherwise cumbersome process. By doing so, it has brought about
transparency, accountability and reduced corruption at various levels. The
citizen-centric projects have resulted in effective file management and
transparent tender processing of the city's development projects, in
turn increasing its tax revenue. The corporation has kept a step ahead of
many privately-owned companies by implementing a disaster recovery server. |
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Ravikiran Mankikar
CIO, Shamrao Vithal Co-operative Bank |
GOLD AWARD
Mid-sized Enterprise Category |
| "It is gratifying that
our IT implementation was considered and acknowledged to be on par with
the best in the industry. It also supports our philosophy that one need
not have big budgets and big implementations to be recognized." |
|
VC Bank has added on
various modules such as online data mining, cache token and other
process-oriented enhancements to its core banking System. Apart from
streamlining processes such as clearing operations, financial accounting
and tax planning, the enhancements have helped the bank in making faster
business decisions and rolling out new products quickly. Its innovative
Cache Token module, which facilitated retail cash payments across ATMs has
been effectively used to encourage senior citizens to use ATMs. It has
also implemented a data replication solution for business continuity.
The enhancements not only improved
customer service and experience, but also resulted in the bank achieving a
business growth of Rs 830 crore, the highest in the Bank's 100-year
history. |
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KT Rajan
CIO, Allergan India |
SILVER AWARD
Mid-sized Enterprise Category |
| "From time to time we
receive accolades from various stake-holders, but I consider it a
tremendous honor to be recognized by fellow professionals and the
Industry" |
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This Rs 200-crore
specialty pharmaceutical company spends Rs 2 crore on IT implementation. A
market leader in the Indian Ophthalmology business, the company has a
real-time supply chain management system in place with the help of a
PDA/Internet-based sales force automation solution. Computerization of
some of the critical areas has helped the company adhere to compliance and
regulatory policies. By quick adaptation of new technology, the company
looks to improving the efficiency of its employees and reducing their
unproductive time. |
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M Thyagaraj, CIO, ONGC |
| Pioneer AWARD |
| Mr Srinivas of SAP presents
the Pioneer Award trophy to Mr M Thyagaraj, CIO, Oil and Natural Gas
Corporation (ONGC) |
| With an IT spend
of Rs 200 crore, the Rs 48,000-crore Oil and Natural Gas Corporation has
deployed a 3-D model visualization to help reduce the cost of drilling.
The virtual reality center helps the teams to collaborate from different
locations. Some of the IT solution implemented by the corporation helps to
bring synergy among the teams. ONGC has been pioneering a lot of IT
initiatives and is constantly engaged in standardization of processes
across the company. |
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JB Bhaskar, Bajaj Allianz
Life Insurance Company |
| Extended Manager Award |
| Mr Shyam Malhotra, Director
& Chief Editor, CyberMedia hands over the Extended Award trophy to Mr
Sam Ghosh, CEO, and Mr JB Bhaskar, CIO, Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance |
| In order to meet
the challenge of providing standardized training to over 120,000 agents
spread across the country, the Rs 3,250 crore Life & General Insurance
company deployed a learning management portal called Project Bimal Jyoti.
The project has enabled all its agents to get certified through the
Internet at their own convenience. The IT implementation has helped the
company introduce new products and achieve operational excellence. |
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Venkata Ramanan P
Deputy CIO, WeP Peripherals |
| Innovator Award |
| Mr P Anirudh of 3i Infotech
hands over the Innovator Award trophy in the individual category awards to
Mr Thomas Suresh Anand, Chief Strategy Officer, WeP Peripherals |
| WeP Peripherals is
one of the largest employee owned company in the country, providing IT
peripherals products, solutions and printing services. The company
integrated with a large private bank to reduce the payments cycle time for
its tier-2 partners. BizTalk is one of the major initiatives taken up by
the company covering dealer operations, authorized service partners,
vendors, and employees on multiple portals, and was the backbone for data
integration. |
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Syed Shahabuddin
CGM (IT), State Bank of India |
| Advocate AWARD |
| Mr P Anirudh of 3i Infotech
hands over the Advocate Award trophy in the individual category awards to
Mr Ravi Kaul, General Manager, State Bank of India |
| SBI has used
technology to catch up with its nimble multinational counterparts and
brought about process efficiency, enhanced customer service and rolled out
new products. With a Core Banking Solution in place, it has networked
8,000 branches, and rolled out 5,571 ATMs. Considering its vast employee
base, the transition to automation required a lot of evangelizing as the
staff had to adjust to new work processes, adopt new skills and bear with
teething troubles of transitioning from a branch database to a centralized
one. One of the largest deployments of CBS in the country, it has resulted
in customer accounts increasing to over 85 mn, with peak transaction load
of over one mn a day in SBI alone. |
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Arindam
Sinha, GM (IT),
Rajasthan Spinning & Weaving Mills |
| Process AWARD |
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| It is among the
few companies that have implemented an extensive ERP in the textile
industry segment. The company has integrated its manufacturing, business
planning and management information system by using SOA. A satellite-
based communication system reaching remote areas has reduced cost on voice
communication by 30%. It has also implemented an e-procurement solution
and achieved cost reduction of 20%. RSWM has replicated its ERP in two
acquired plants in a process-oriented manner, having undergone a change
management exercise to overcome stiff resistance from the users. This has
enhanced its productivity from 89% to 96%. |
The evening also served as an occasion for CyberMedia India Online Limited
(CIOL), to celebrate its tenth anniversary. CyberMedia's Shyam Malhotra traced
the history of CIOL and elaborated on how the technology portal continued to
break new grounds. “CIOL is one of the very few Internet ventures to have
survived the boom and the bust that followed. We spanned the whole spectrum from
irrational exuberance to irrational pessimism,” he said.
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