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The crowning glory of the film world has been the annual Academy Awards,
popularly known as the Oscars. Closer home, Bollywood has its Filmfare awards
night. And notwithstanding several clones that have cropped up over the years,
these awards still symbolize the epitome of excellence in their respective
fields. Ditto is the case with the Dataquest IT Person of the Year award.
Now in the sixteenth year of its highly celebrated existence, the Dataquest
IT Person of the Year has become the benchmark for excellence in IT. It has
elicited tremendous response and participation from the IT fraternity (and even
associated domains) and the awards ceremony has always been awash well attended
by the whos who of the industry. The scenario was no different in this years
function held recently in a plush South Delhi hotel.
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| The Winners Gallery: The only event in the Indian IT
fraternity that boasts of so many luminaries at once on the stage |
The Best e-Governed State of India award went to the NCT of Delhi. Chief
Minister Sheila Dikshit received the award from Wajahat Habibullah, chief
information commissioner and Dataquest publisher and CyberMedia group chairman
Pradeep Gupta. Delhi got the award for setting up a series of citizen centric
services.
Delhites were the most satisfied with e-governance initiatives as Delhi
topped nine of the fourteen parameters in this category, according to a survey
conducted by IDC India for Dataquest. Delhi spent Rs 10,982 for every citizen on
building its IT infrastructure and maintaining citizen-centric IT applications.
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| Jab We Met: The luminaries of the evening exchange
pleasantries, while being welcomed by the hosts |
Lighting the Lamp: Delhi CM Sheila Dikshit and chief
information commissioner Wajahat Habibullah complete the honors |
Lakshmi Narayanan, vice chairman of Cognizant Technology Solutions was
presented with corporate Indias prestigious Dataquest IT Person of the Year
award 2008, for his stellar role in leading and growing Cognizant Technologies.
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| Cant Stop Laughing: Dataquest group editor Ibrahim Ahmed
chatting up with some guests |
No More Stiff Upper Lip: British High Commissioner Sir
Richard Stagg believes IT has brought India and UK even closer |
In a glittering ceremony in the presence of leaders from all sections of the
IT industry, AjaiChowdhry, chairman and CEO of HCL Infosystems (winner of last
years Dataquest IT Person of the Year award) and Pradeep Gupta, presented the
award to Lakshmi Narayanan.
The coveted Lifetime Achievement Award was bequeathed on to Dr DB Phatak,
the Subharao M Nilekani chair professor and head of IIT Bombay-based Kanwal
Rekhi School of Information Technology (KReSIT) for making an indelible mark on
the Indian IT industry. He inspired a whole generation of young students, who
have in turn transformed into big thought leaders.
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| ITs a Habit: Vijay Thadani of NIIT accepts the best IT
trainer award, again, from Pradeep Gupta |
I am the Best: Genpact chief Pramod Bhasin accepts the newly
constituted best BPO award from Nasscoms Som Mittal |
The awards jury also acknowledged the leadership provided by Narayanan to
Nasscom, Indias largest IT industry body. He was the chairman of Nasscom in
2007 where he played an important role in bridging the gap between industry and
academia, and worked towards forging closer ties between them.
| Roster of
Champions |
- Top Systems Company
Award: Hewlett-Packard
HP emerged as the clear leader in almost all categories of computer
systems: desktops, commercial as well as consumer; notebooks; and servers,
both x86 and non x-86 categories.
- Top Networking Company
Award: Cisco Systems
Cisco dominates the networking equipment market in India, with 80% share.
It retained lead in the key segments of routers and switches, with over 75%
share in each, and also WLAN products.
- Top Training Company
Award: NIIT
NIIT has been the training leader from the beginning, retaining 35% share
of a rather fragmented marketwith training revenues of over Rs 900 crore,
growing at 27%. It also completed a decade in China, where it is growing
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