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Our
Convergence Bureau
26 April 2002 |
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 Pune:
City-based Persistent Systems Pvt Ltd and the Visakhapatnam
Municipal Corporation (VMC) were awarded the national IT awards by
the Computer Society of India (CSI) for the year 2000-01.
Former
Alfa Laval India Ltd managing director Lila Poonawala gave
away the awards. CSI president C R Muthukrishnan presided
over the function. A panel of judges, headed by Reliance
group vice-president Lalit Sawhney, had selected the
winners.
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Persistent Systems
Pvt Ltd director and COO Dr Shridhar Shukla (right) and
associate technical manager Shyamsundar Gopale receive the
CSI-Infosys Best Shrink-Wrapped Application Award for the
year 2000-01 from former Alpha Laval managing director
Lila Poonawala (centre) at the Computer Society of India
Awards held in Pune recently
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The CSI-TCS Best IT Usage Award was given to VMC for Saukaryam
The Facility, an e-governance software product that brings
online most civic services in a user-friendly format, ensuring
transparency, accountability and speed of delivery. VMC municipal
commissioner Sanjay Jaju received the award.
The CSI-Infosys Best Shrink-Wrapped Application
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Award went to the
city-based Persistent Systems. The companys product, Persistent
System Pvt Ltd Enlist Report Server 3.50, is an interoperable
standard-based product, which helps to look into the security
profiles of people in any organisations in-house directories.
Persistent Systems director and COO Dr Shridhar Shukla while
receiving the award said his company found a niche that couldnt
be spotted by the big players like Microsoft and Novell and that
has helped it to remain in business. "The product has till
date fetched us 2.5 million dollars in revenue."
The judges couldnt identify any product in the CSI Wipro Best
Packaged Application category. However, a Cummins India Software
Patron Award was given to Vitalstatistix 2.04 software, developed
by the city-based Soft Corner. This software helps design and
generates any kind of form, collects the data, makes an analysis
and creates a presentation easily understandable by a novice-user.
The product has been well received in the US and Scandinavian
markets, said Soft Corner CEO Arun Kadekodi, who received the
award.
Awards for significant contribution to the IT field were given to
Shaila Kagal (head, Symbiosis Centre of Information Technology and
Sunil Bakshi (IT department, Kirloskar Pneumatic).
Deepak Shikarpur, chairman of CSIs software division, said in
his opening remarks that the Indian software sector can no longer
depend on supply of cheap manpower as a competitive advantage.
"Productisation and componentisation of software solutions
will be the only differentiating factors in the days to
come."
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K Pathak, convener of the awards, stressed the importance of IT to
make life easy for common Indians. "From a time when IT was
considered just a tool for the scientist or the researcher, we are
now considering a role for IT across all segments of the society.
CSI will expand and extend the categories for the national awards
and will endeavour to recognise the talent of Indian software
professionals."
Muthukrishnan highlighted the need for the technology developed in
India to serve its own people rather than people elsewhere in the
world. "IT should become affordable and unobtrusive, as it
plays a big role in our lives."
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