- Top Growth Company: SAP India
SAPs global headquarters declared the India operation its Jewel in the
Crown, for being the fastest growing subsidiarygrowing 84% in the last
year to over $800 mn.
- Top IT Company & Top Exporter: TCS
TCS topped this category again, growing 22% to over $5 bn in revenues,
and growing beyond one lakh employees. It also diversified, with 45%
business coming from outside North America. It also struck a $1.5 bn deal
with Nielsen, the largest in offshoring history.
- Top Services Company (India Market) Award: IBM India
IBM increased the gap between itself and the #2 in strategic outsourcing,
winning Vodafone as a customer, after Airtel and Idea. It also built up
momentum on its SMB strategy, doubling its customers to 27.
Genpact continued its strategy of focusing on large clients and growing
these accounts, and managed to nearly double its non-GE business. It also
got listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2007.
- Top Distribution Company: Ingram Micro
Ingram Micro grew well, crossing $2 bn in India, and adding new
principals such as VMWare, Business Objects, and Hitachi; it also managed to
grow its PC business by 30%.
- Top Software Company
Award: Microsoft
Microsoft led this category and grew 25%, despite pressure from piracy
and open source, helped by Vista, which crossed 2 mn unit sales. During the
year, 35 mobile phone models in India adopted the Windows mobile platform.
- Top T-School Award: IIT Kharagpur
IIT-Kharagpur drew the maximum IT and BPO companies as recruiters, and
was clearly ahead of other institutes including IITS, in the average salary
drawn through campus placements.
- Top Imaging and Printing: Hewlett-Packard
HP remained the market leader in imaging and printing, with the fight on
for the number two slot. It topped the inkjet market with over 67% revenue
share, and laser printers with over 76% share.
iGATE was the best employer as per the DQ-IDC Best Employer Survey 2008,
continuing its run from last year, where it jumped 36 places to reach the
3rd position. It scored high on company image, culture, content, and
training.
- Top BPO Employer: vCustomer
vCustomer emerged as the top BPO company in the BPO-Employee Satisfaction
2008 survey, because of its employee empowerment agenda and sharp drop in
attrition. It focused on bringing behavioral changes and skills enhancement
through training, and took performance management completely online. |
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