CIO CHOICE YEAR BOOK 2016 Creating Excellence Business Values Volume IV
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Information Security CIO Analytics Services
Infrastructure Sustenance Services Business Intelligence
Laptop Cloud Security
Infrastructure Transformation Solutions Business Technology Research And Consulting Choice Integrated Datacentre Solutions Cloud Storage
IT Advisory Content Delivery Network
Logistics Supply Chain Cloud Solution Converged Infrastructure
Managed IT Services Customer Relationship Management
Managed Network Services Data Centre Consultant
Managed Security Services DRaaS
Network Security Data Centre Infrastructure Management
Networking –Active Data Centre Managed Services 2016 W Print & Cartridge Solutions
Data Centre Transformation Services Private Cloud
Desktop Virtualisation Quality Testing Services
Virtual Workforce Solutions Public Cloud
Document Management Reverse Inventory Logistics
Enterprise Infrastructure Automation Services Server Virtualization
E Procurement
Telecom Carrier (Leased Lines) inners
Endpoint Compression Travel & Expense Management
Enterprise Email Realtime Automatic Resource Adjustment
HR & Global Payroll Telecom Carrier (Mobile Access)
Enterprise Mobility Servers
Hybrid Cloud System Integrator
Hyper Convergence Storage – Hardware Produced by C RE Centre of Recognition & Excellence
www.core-mediagroup.com Contents Presidents Note 01
Introduction 02
Selection & Voting Methodology 03
Advisory Panel 04
Knowledge Partner 05
Analytics Services 9A Business Connect 06
Business Intelligence Datamatics Global Services 08
Business Technology Research And Consulting Forrester Research Inc. 10
Cloud Security InstaSafe Technologies 12
Cloud Storage Netmagic Solutions 14
Content Delivery Network CtrlS Datacentres 16
Converged Infrastructure Dell India 18
CRM Nihilent Technologies 20
Data Centre Consultant Dell India 22
Data Centre Infrastructure Management Schneider Electric IT Business 24
Data Centre Managed Services Provider Netmagic Solutions 26
Data Centre Transformation Services Sify Technologies 28
Desktop Virtualisation Dell India 30
Document Management Datamatics Global Services 32
DRaaS Netmagic Solutions 34
E Procurement MAVENVISTA Technologies 36
Endpoint Compression AdStringO Software 38
Enterprise Email Rediff.Com India 40
Enterprise Infrastructure Automation Services Wipro 42
Enterprise Mobility GoDB Tech 44
HR & Global Payroll Ramco Systems 46
Hybrid Cloud Netmagic Solutions 48
Hyper Convergence NxtGen Datacenter & Cloud Tech. 50 Information Security Dell India 52
Infrastructure Sustenance Services Wipro 54
Infrastructure Transformation Solutions Wipro 56
Integrated Data Centre Solution Sify Technologies 58
IT Advisory International Data Corporation 60
Laptop Dell India 62
Logistics Supply Chain Cloud Solution LogiNext Solutions 64
Managed IT Services HCL Technologies 66
Managed Network Services Sify Technologies 68
Managed Security Services Wipro 70
Network Security Dell India 72
Networking –Active Dell India 74
Print & Cartridge Solutions Refeel Cartridge Engineering 76
Private Cloud Netmagic Solutions 78
Public Cloud Netmagic Solutions 80
Quality Testing Services Nihilent Technologies 82
Realtime Automatic Resource Adjustment ESDS Software Solution 84
Reverse Inventory Logistics Blubirch 86
Server Virtualization Dell India 88
Server Dell India 90
Storage – Hardware Dell India 92
System Integrator Wipro 94
Telecom Carrier (Leased Lines) Vodafone India 96
Telecom Carrier (Mobile Access) Vodafone India 98
Travel & Expense Management Solution Concur Technologies 100
Virtual Workforce Solutions Perpetuuiti Technosoft Services 102
Advisory panel speak’s 104
Recognised Brands Contact 106 Presidents Note
Anoop Mathur Founder & President CORE Media
Dear Friends,
Over the years, the Centre of Recognition & Excellence (CORE) has worked vigorously to garner an in-depth understanding of the needs of India's ICT industry as well as build trusted relationships within the CIO community.
In the last five years, we've built innovative marketing and branding platforms—like CIO Choice, CIO Crown, CIO POWER LIST, HOT100, B2B1K Ventures, CIO Angel Network (CAN) and Bonne Vie—that have met with great success. Each of these are unique brand engagements that are focused on ICT Enterprises, the CIO community and technology start-ups.
All technology companies irrespective of their scale and size—Large, Medium or Small—have to work with ICT brands to ensure their products, services and/or solutions are up-to-date and of the best quality. So it's a strategic move for technology companies to build the ICT brand in the minds of the CIOs to unlock brand investment advantages to scale their business.
A trusted relationship with a CIO is therefore the most valuable asset for any ICT brand. It is one they strive hard to build as a CIO and his/her good opinion far exceeds any single transactional benefit. The brand is the one that drives the profits at the end of the day. A brand is one that has developed a personality beyond the product, one that CIOs would pay a premium for and look at no other alternative.
You know a B2B ICT brand is truly successful when CIOs request for it by its 'brand name', and when they refer to the brand while talking about a product, then the brand's reputation becomes more than just the sum of its products. Building this brand cachet is crucial to a company's survival and their relationship with CIOs is an important part of the formula.
This is where CORE comes in, to help you develop your B2B technology brand's position in its current marketplaces, while designing flexibility for its future growth. CORE works with ICT companies to promote, market and engage the brand in a way that satisfies the requirements CIOs have. We work with your team to identify, analyse and select your brand's target CIOs, competitive frame of reference and key CIO benefits (functional, emotional, experiential and self-expressive). CIO Choice gives ICT vendors an opportunity to further enhance their relationship with the CIO community so as to better promote their brands. We build the bridge of trust between CIOs and ICT vendors so both derive value from the relationship.
I would like to congratulate all the ICT vendors recognised at CIO Choice 2016, and thank all our CIO friends and ICT vendors for their good wishes and supporting us in our initiatives.
Regards
Anoop Mathur Founder & President CORE Media
CIO Choice 2016 01 Introduction
“CIO CHOICE” is a very powerful branding and marketing tool for organisations in the Information & Communications Technology space to promote and market their products, services & solutions.”
Our Mission CIOs and ICT decision makers and to help “Successful branding programs are based on the marketers create a positive brand positioning for concept of singularity. The objective is to create their products, services and/or solutions by being in the mind of the prospect the perception that the CIOs preferred choice. there is no other product on the market quite like your product.” General Information Al Ries & Laura Ries - 22 Immutable Laws of Branding is identifying or creating, and then Branding exploiting to create a sustainable competitive advantage. CIO Choice offers this to ICT vendors Overview to build their brand reputation within the CIO Centre of Recognition & Excellence is an community, thereby increasing market share for organisation engaged in building brand the brand. reputation, offering a recognition platform in honouring products/services/solutions in the ICT For the first time, CIOs have enjoyed the vote of space. confidence of fellow CIOs to help them select the best products, solutions and/or services from ICT Description companies. The products, solutions and/or This B2B platform is uniquely positioned to services will inadvertently enjoy the advantage recognise and honour products, services and and benefits of high awareness and visibility, solutions on the back of stated preferences of thereby leading to leveraged business potential. 02 CIO Choice 2016 Selection & Voting Methodology: Three Stage Process 1. Call for Vendor Applications by ICT Category 2. CIO Voting Survey (Pan-India) 3. Advisory Panel Validation Selection Process for the Leading ICT Vendors across 49 Categories: A key seal of trust among the country’s leading CIOs; selected through a pan-India survey of leading CIOs.
This recognition reflects the recipient’s capability to meet customer CIOs’ evolving needs in today’s dynamic business environment. It commenced with inviting leading ICT players to nominate and participate on this platform. The recognitions were decided basis a pan-India voting survey of leading CIOs to recommend their choice of preferred vendors.
To earn the CIO CHOICE recognition, participating vendors had to undergo the CIO voting survey conducted by the Centre of Recognition & Excellence to prove their level of technology expertise. CIO and ICT professionals then designated them to one or more unique category competency, ensuring a certain level of satisfaction with vendor product, solution and services. Participating vendors also had to get preferred as CIO CHOICE 2016 with customer references that demonstrated customer satisfaction and met delivery commitments.
The CIOs responses and choices in each category determined the list of companies that were bestowed with the CIO CHOICE honour and recognition title. For a period of one calendar year, honoured ICT companies can use the “CIO CHOICE” title logo for the year on their packaging, promotions, advertising and marketing campaigns.
CIO Choice 2016 03 CIO Choice 2016 Advisory Panel
Anil Garg Anil Jaggia Avinash Velhal Head – IT, Dabur India Ex-CIO, HDFC Bank Group CIO, Atos India
Girish Rao Kersi Tavadia Pankaj Bhargava Head IT & Business Analytics, CIO, BSE CIO, Pidilite Industries Marico
Ramandeep Virdi Shailesh Joshi VP- Group IT, Sanjay Narkar CTO, Godrej Industries Inter Globe Enterprises CTO, IDFC Bank
04 CIO Choice 2016 CIO Choice 2016 Knowledge Partner
Kunal Pande Partner, IT Advisory, Management Consulting KPMG India
It has been an eventful association as knowledge partner with CIO Choice over the past three years, being involved right from the conceptualisation of the theme to the present day. Along the way it has been a pleasure to deliberate, interact and associate with a number of representatives from both the CIO community and technology vendors. The format itself has been a very strong enabler in the sharing of ideas, practices and trends, which has been beneficial to all. I strongly believe that as technology increasingly plays an important role in our lives and businesses, CIO Choice will continue to grow stronger in the years to come.
CIO Choice 2016 05 Mr. Apurva Boradia, CEO, and Mr. Nagin Kothari, CFO, 9A Business Connect Pvt. Ltd., receiving the recognition trophy From Mr. Girish Kulkarni, Board Member, HIMSS Asia Pacific India Chapter, and Mr. Ajay Bakshi, Senior Vice President, Business Transformation, Aegis Ltd.
Analytics Services (Small Medium Enterprise)
06 CIO Choice 2016 “At CIO Choice 2016, 9A Business Connect Pvt. Ltd. won the recognition amongst tough contenders in the space of Business Analytics Services. In this unique forum CIOs vote for innovative solution providers who are their preferred choice of vendors and technology providers across multiple categories, that help their organisations in business transformation.The Red Carpet Night is the most powerful networking ICT event in the country. This evening is a holistic effort to strengthen the relationships between CIOs and ICT vendors within India.”
Mr. Apurva Boradia, CEO, 9A Business Connect Pvt. Ltd.
We provide innovative and inspiring IT solutions by unlocking the power of Analytics, Social Media, 9A Approach and Solution Mobility and IT Infrastructure, which enable our Our enriched expertise helps customers solve their critical customers to achieve the 4Ps: business challenges and achieve the following: Productivity Profitability Ÿ Create value from volume, variety and velocity of data EmPowerment Performance Ÿ Bring transformation and agility Ÿ Decision-making and actionable Insight at the right time As customers are moving towards enterprise-wide BI Ÿ Optimise, predict and prescribe from niche or departmental analytics, it becomes Ÿ Unify customers, channels, products and operations imperative to consider BI as an inclusive and integral Ÿ Enhance productivity, turnaround time and performance part of strategic business instead of as another IT Ÿ Optimise processes and systems for responsive analysis Initiative. Ÿ Integrate departments, functions and discrete data points Ÿ Self service and collaboration Possible Customer 9A Success Story Challenges 9A has successfully deployed BI and Analytics solutions for some With diversified business portfolio and unpredictable leading enterprise customers from diverse industry segments like: customer behaviour, it’s critical for organisations to Ÿ Tours and Travel Hospitality create value rather than just volume and market share. Ÿ Automobile Manufacturing The current MIS system or Excel-based reporting do Ÿ Logistics BFSI not provide answers to the following challenges: Ÿ Chemical and Paints Pharma and Healthcare Ÿ How to get deep Business Insight for fast growing Ÿ IT and ITeS Education big data Ÿ How to expand revenue stream from existing services and offerings Ÿ How to forecast demands and meet dynamic customer expectations Ÿ How to deploy new business models for new revenue streams Ÿ How to get real time analysis of Sales, Operation and Financial performance Ÿ How to unify functional, departmental and customer data points Ÿ How to anticipate disruption of services and supply Ÿ How to empower end users and create self service Ÿ Intuitive visualisation and mobility Ÿ Exception handling with alerts and notifications Ÿ Automated reports instead of manual MIS CIO Choice 2016 07 Mr. Vikram Kole, Vice President, Sales, Datamatics Global Services Ltd, receiving the recognition trophy from Mr. Kishore Daryanani, CIO, Alfa Laval, and Mr. Milind Khamkar, Group CIO, Super Max.
Business Intelligence (Large Enterprise)
08 CIO Choice 2016 Datamatics, a trusted partner to several Fortune 500 Companies, is a global provider of Information BI - Business Benefits Technology and Business Process Outsourcing and Ad-Hoc Analysis and Interactive Reporting Consulting Services. Datamatics specialises in Provide business users with ad-hoc query and analysis providing enterprise data and information capabilities at their finger tips. management solutions. The company leverages innovations in technology, knowledge of business Anytime Anywhere Access processes, and domain expertise to provide business Build your reports once and access them anywhere, anytime. aligned next generation solutions. These solutions provide support through the entire life cycle of Make Any Device Your Business Canvas 'Data to Intelligence' and helps transform data into Work on any device of your choice and get the same result. business insights. Link in a Blink Datamatics’ offerings span varied business processes Connect with a single click with no dependence on that transcend Enterprise Document Management, IT support. Enterprise Content Management Solutions, Collaboration and Portal Solutions, Managed Services, Be Your Own Content Author BI and Analytics and Mobility space. Build reports choosing the elements you prefer.
Spatial Analytics Slice and dice to analyse your sales data across geographies. Key BI Modules View Cube BI Solution Touch dashboard Static Reporter Datamatics' nSights is an award winning BI platform ý Ticker Scheduler that provides business insights through self-service and analysis ready data-visualisation framework. nSights built on In-Memory computing enables organisations Interactive DIY Analytical to deploy an effective 'Enterprise-Wide' BI strategy with an easy-to-deploy Hybrid Architecture. Features nSights with its multiple business user interfaces helps Ÿ Contribution Analysis Pareto Top/Bottom Analysis discover hidden patterns in data through centralised Ÿ What-If Analysis Percentile Analysis data governance, data security, flexible data Ÿ Trend Analysis exploration and DIY 'slice and dice' analytics. Users can perform swift analysis of their data– anywhere, anytime.
“Underlying every business insight is data and this data is growing exponentially. This is forcing enterprises to integrate new technologies while finding new ways to use data and insights as a competitive advantage. We help our enterprise customers enhance their business productivity through smart automation of data driven processes. The Datamatics team has the expertise and experience to walk its clients through their Data-to-Intelligence journey; from Data Collation to Data Management; Analytics to extracting Intelligence from Enterprise Data. Datamatics' nSights suite is designed to help enterprise customers discover actionable business insights from obscure data.”
Mr. Rahul L. Kanodia,Vice Chairman and CEO, Datamatics Global Services Ltd. CIO Choice 2016 09 Mr. Mukesh Jain, Country Manager, Forrester Research Inc, receiving the recognition trophy from Mr. Nilesh Khanolkar, Vice President - IT, IL&FS, and Mr. Prasad Pudipeddi, National Manager IT, Hafele India Pvt. Ltd.
Business Technology Research And Consulting (Small Medium Enterprise)
10 CIO Choice 2016 “2016 will be a critical year for companies to improve their ability to serve digitally savvy, empowered customers. To thrive in the age of the customer, CIOs need to embrace the BT agenda – systems, processes, and technologies to win, serve, and retain customers. We are honoured to receive this recognition from the CIO community in India as it validates the value Forrester provides to business and technology leaders in leading the BT agenda for customer-obsession transformation.”
Mr. Mukesh Jain, Country Manager, Forrester Research Inc.
Forrester is one of the most influential research and advisory firms in the world. We work with business and technology leaders to develop customer-obsessed strategies that drive growth. Forrester’s unique insights and frameworks are grounded in annual surveys of more than 500,000 consumers and business leaders worldwide, rigorous and objective methodologies, and the shared wisdom of our most innovative clients. Through proprietary research, data, consulting, events, and exclusive executive networks and programs, the Forrester experience is about a singular and powerful purpose: to challenge the thinking of our clients to help them lead change in their organisations. Given the trends in technology, business models, and customer market power, Forrester believes that all enterprises must undertake a business technology (BT) agenda that applies technology, systems, and processes to win, serve, and retain customers.
CIO Choice 2016 11 Mr. Sandip Kumar Panda, CEO and Co-Founder, and Mr. Prashanth Guruswamy, Head - Sales, InstaSafe Technologies Pvt. Ltd., receiving the recognition trophy from Mr. Thomson Thomas, Senior Vice President - IT (CIO), HDFC Standard Life Insurance, and Mr. Rajiv Rajda, Vice President Information Systems, Kodak India Pvt. Ltd.
Cloud Security (Small Medium Enterprise)
12 CIO Choice 2016 InstaSafe Technologies (www.instasafe.com) is a InstaSafe Web Security (IWS) offers a hardware free, leading cloud based Security-as-a-Service solution cloud-based security solution that is easy to deploy provider delivering comprehensive and and manage, is scalable and helps you control your uncompromising protection to mobile and remote bandwidth consumption while protecting your workers enabling them to safely and securely access organisation from Web threats. With IWS you get enterprise apps, email and Web from anywhere on instant deployment and zero maintenance with any network. predictable costs.
InstaSafe’s flagship product, InstaSafe Secure Access Instasafe is deployed in over 20+ Indian (ISA), offers a hardware free, zero configuration, self- organisation with over 5,000+ end points in service style, fully redundant, Security-as-a-Service customers such as Asian Paints, Pidilite Industries, solution that can be deployed in minutes and scaled Salarpuria Sattva, DTDC, SpotOn Logistics, instantly as per customer requirement. ISA removes Koovs.com and many more. the need for expensive hardware, skilled manpower and constant updates to deliver enterprise level security in a subscription based annual pay-as-you- grow licensing model.
“We are elated to receive the 2016 CIO Choice Award and humbled by the CIOs’ recognition for the second time in a row! This award is a reiteration of our strength and focus on cloud security, and validates the need for a simple and flexible solution to address the security needs of clients by harnessing the power of the cloud.”
Mr. Sandip Kumar Panda CEO and Co- founder, InstaSafe
CIO Choice 2016 13 Mr. Harvinderjit Bhatia, Chief Financial Officer and Director, Mr. Shriranga Mulay, Senior Vice President - IT Engineering, and Mr. Rajesh Tapadia, Senior Vice President and Head – Solutions Engineering and Bids, Netmagic Solutions Pvt. Ltd., receiving the recognition trophy from Mr. Rajendra Prabhakar Deshpande, CIO, Serco Global Services, and Mr. Umesh Mittal, Group Head-IT, Alchemy Capital Management Pvt. Ltd.
Cloud Storage (Small Medium Enterprise)
14 CIO Choice 2016 “Firstly, I’d like to thank the CIO community for their trust and support. As one of the pioneering cloud service providers in India, we’ve worked hard to bring the latest global technologies to our customers. Our Cloud Storage service is a manifestation of this approach as we deliver a durable, scalable and available solution that is tailored to enterprise needs.”
Mr. Karan Kirpalani, Associate Vice-President, Netmagic Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
With Netmagic’s SimpliDrive, enterprises can benefit from a highly redundant, massively About Netmagic scalable, widely distributed and secured object Netmagic, an NTT Communications company, is India’s leading storage solution. The service delivered using Managed Hosting and Cloud Service Provider, with 9 carrier- known Web browsers allows enterprises the neutral, state-of-the-art data centres and serving more than 1500 freedom to download, move or upload data from enterprises globally. A pioneer in the Indian IT Infrastructure end point devices to secured containers. services space–it was the first to launch services such as Cloud Architected using Open Stack Swift, SimpliDrive is Computing, Managed Security, Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service built using Enterprise Grade hardware to ensure and Software-Defined Storage. Netmagic also delivers Remote quality service. It doesn’t end there, as the Infrastructure Management services to NTT Communications solution includes competitive assurance on data customers across the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific region. durability and data availability. Netmagic is India’s only IT Infrastructure services provider to be PCI DSS certified for its entire suite of services. It is also the What makes Netmagic’s first cloud service provider in India and in the world to receive the CSA STAR certification for Cloud Capability Maturity Model Cloud Storage, (CCM) version 3.0.1, an industry benchmark for the specific security requirements of multi-tenant service providers. Besides SimpliDrive the CIOs’ this, Netmagic is also empanelled as an IT Security Auditing Organisation with CERT-In (Indian Computer Emergency Choice? Response Team).
Ÿ Full role-based access control and About NTT Communications authentication for your users. Ÿ Standard https protocol, upload, download, Corporation copy, move, rename or delete objects, and NTT Communications provides consultancy, architecture, sizing anything from 1 KB to 5 GB over the security and cloud services to optimise the information and Internet. communications technology (ICT) environments of enterprises. Ÿ Upload, move or download any amount of These offerings are backed by the company’s worldwide data. infrastructure, including the leading global tier-1 IP network, the Ÿ Container level Access Control Lists (ACL). Arcstar Universal One™ VPN network reaching 196 Ÿ 99.99999% data durability SLA. countries/regions, and 140 secure data centres worldwide. NTT Ÿ 99.99% service availability in a calendar month. Communications’ solutions leverage the global resources of NTT Group companies including Dimension Data, NTT DOCOMO and NTT DATA.
CIO Choice 2016 15 Mr. Vijay Sharma, Vice President CDN Sales, CtrlS Datacenters Ltd., receiving the recognition trophy from Mr. Rajendra Prabhakar Deshpande, CIO, Serco Global Services, and Mr. Umesh Mittal, Group Head - IT, Alchemy Capital Management Pvt. Ltd.
Content Delivery Network (Large Enterprise)
16 CIO Choice 2016 “We are deeply honoured and proud to be receiving the CIO Choice recognition for the fourth year in a row. At CtrlS we have always believed in innovations to address the most critical challenges faced by customers–our CDN product is one such innovation. I am absolutely delighted to note that our Made-in- India offering CtrlS Content Delivery Network (CDN) has been bestowed the recognition. We would like to extend our sincere thanks to all the CIOs and customers who have rendered constant support, without which this recognition wouldn’t have been possible. This recognition also stands as a testimony to our R&D team’s effort, diligence and patience with which they worked towards building India’s first Content Delivery Network (CDN). We thank the CIO Choice management and jury for the honours.”
Mr. Sridhar Pinnapureddy, Founder and CEO, CtrlS Datacenters Ltd.
CtrlS CDN is an indigenously developed Make In Ÿ Real-time traffic analytics India Content Delivery Network with over 170 PoPs Ÿ Stream prioritisation (Edge Servers) across the globe. CtrlS CDN is a well Ÿ Mobile delivery multi-device support connected system of server through the Internet that Ÿ Universal URL formatting helps deliver Web content rapidly to numerous end Ÿ Mobile ad insertion users across worldwide geographies by duplicating Ÿ Content management (caching) the content on multiple servers and directing Ÿ Content control the content to users based on proximity to the users. Ÿ Dynamic page publishing CtrlS CDN ensures high levels of user experience Ÿ Digital rights management through faster delivery of content without compromising quality–this is achieved by reducing latency and the ‘jitter’ or buffering that is seen when CtrlS CDN Benefits streaming audio or video, thereby enhancing the user Ÿ Faster acceleration experience, besides providing redundancy. Ÿ Anytime deployment Ÿ Highly secure CDN network Ÿ Robust fault tolerant network The CtrlS CDN Highlights Ÿ 24X7 Support Ÿ 170 Points of Presence (PoPs) across the globe Ÿ Customised pricing Ÿ 18 Domestic PoPs in India Ÿ Large concentration of edge servers Ÿ Key locations with high Internet traffic Ÿ High computing and caching at each PoP Ÿ Intelligent storage, load balancing, caching, routing technology CtrlS CDN Salient Features Ÿ HTTP object delivery Ÿ Large file delivery (software and game downloads) Ÿ Reporting and analytics Ÿ Website and application acceleration Ÿ Front end optimisation Ÿ Dynamic content Ÿ Live event streaming Ÿ Multicast support CIO Choice 2016 17 Mr. Manish Gupta, Director, Enterprise Solutions, Dell India, receiving the recognition trophy from Mr. K.R.C. Murty, Vice President - Chief Technology Office, Deutsche Bank, and Mr. Muralidharan Ramachandran, Vice President and Head - Quality Assurance, Syntel Ltd.
Converged Infrastructure (Large Enterprise)
18 CIO Choice 2016 “IT teams are under constant pressure to roll out services in the time required by the business, enable business growth and motivate innovation. Dell’s strategy is to deliver the value of an integrated system by eliminating third-party dependencies to drive customer outcomes by reducing complexity to help IT deliver more efficient and agile applications.”
Mr. Manish Gupta, Director Enterprise Solutions Group India, Dell India
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CIO Choice 2016 19 Mr. B. Ravi Teja, Vice President, Global Consulting Businesses, Nihilent Technologies Ltd., receiving the recognition trophy from Mr. Pankaj Bhargava, CIO, Pidilite Industries Ltd., and Mr. Meheriar Patel, Chief Technology Officer, The MobileStore Ltd., Essar Retail.
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) (Large Enterprise)
20 CIO Choice 2016 Ÿ ITIL compliant services Nihilents CRM Service Ÿ Expertise across various industry verticals and horizontals The following further bolsters Nihilent’s capabilities: Centres of Offering Excellence, Innovation Labs, Strategic Partner Network, Solution Nihilent CRM vision enables businesses to achieve Platforms and Solution Accelerators. Integrating the strategic one of their toughest goals - “To Know the Customer”. transformation of processes, capabilities and technologies, our Realising this fact, Nihilent has designed its Microsoft methodology ensures the optimum mix of enhanced agility, CRM strategy to adopt innovative customer reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and maximum Return management processes to reduce costs and increase on Investment (ROI) profitability. Integration with various touch points helps consolidate the information from all touch points The benefits of Nihilent’s CRM strategy implementation: within an organisation as well as social feeds to give a Ÿ Better customer management 720-degree view of customers in real-time. This allows Ÿ Accelerated customer acquisition process businesses to define their strategy based on various Ÿ Identification of cross-selling opportunities parameters captured in CRM, and make quick, yet Ÿ Creation and tracking of multiple customer touch points informed decisions on everything from cross-selling Ÿ Enabled mobile access and Web portals for customer self and up-selling opportunities to marketing strategies to service competitive positioning tactics. Ÿ 720 degree view of the customer Ÿ Customer segmentation and analytics Ÿ Automated business processes to reduce manual intervention What Nihilent Offers Ÿ Streamlined customer-centric processes Nihilent offers a comprehensive range of tailored Ÿ One master system to deal with all customer aspects services, beginning with an advisory role in helping define innovative customer management processes, identifying the best CRM for the business for Building intelligence into CRM leveraging out of box functionalities in line with Applying machine learning to prospect and customer data, business models. Nihilent helps organisations predict prospect and customer behaviour for more focussed, effective marketing and sales. Our Core Nihilent offerings innovative ML models build intelligence into Microsoft Ÿ CRM strategy and roadmap consulting Dynamics CRM providing: Ÿ CRM implementation and production rollouts Ÿ Continuous improvement in marketing and sales with data- Ÿ CRM marketing, sales and service automation based predictions of customer behaviour. Ÿ Implementation of CRM on mobile Ÿ Enriched prospect and customer profiles, combining relevant Ÿ Social CRM Implementation and roadmap internal and external data sources to improve buying consulting decision predictions. Ÿ Cloud-based CRM solution Ÿ Improved effectiveness for both marketing and sales by Ÿ Full-fledged template driven data migration services offering the right product to the right prospect at the right Ÿ 24x7 application support and maintenance time.
“The CIO Choice recognition is indeed a very valuable acknowledgment of Nihilent’s strong capabilities in the CRM space. In the digital world, where having a 720 degree view of the customer is imperative, it is all the more important to go beyond traditional CRM. While we continue to implement Siebel, MS CRM, Salesforce.com among other CRM products, we have gone a step further in the area of customer centricity. Nihilent has launched two key patents, one, a framework for customer loyalty evaluation, called 14Signals, and another related to digital strategy creation and execution. A digital approach to customer relationship management is the order of the day, and I’m confident this prestigious award will help us get into a dialogue with more users.”
Mr. Ravi Teja, Vice President, Global Consulting Businesses, Nihilent Technologies Ltd. CIO Choice 2016 21 Mr. Indrajit Belgundi, Latitude PLM –APJ, Dell India, receiving the recognition trophy from Mr. Rajesh Saboo, Head - IT Services, Future Group, and Mr. Jayant Magar, CIO, AMW Motors.
Data Centre Consultant (Large Enterprise)
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CIO Choice 2016 23 Mr. Swarup Das, General Manager - Telecom, Co-location, Banking and Finance, and Mr. Anuj Kudesia, General Manager - IT Business Unit, Schneider Electric IT Business India Pvt. Ltd., receiving the recognition trophy from Mr. Rajesh Saboo, Head - IT Services, Future Group, and Mr. Jayant Magar, CIO, AMW Motors.
Data Centre Infrastructure Management (Small Medium Enterprise)
24 CIO Choice 2016 “This is a very prestigious recognition for Schneider Electric’s effort in the DCIM space. We acknowledge this award as symbol of customers trust on Schneider Electric Solutions”.
Mr. Nikhil Pathak, Vice President and Country General Manager - IT Business India and SAARC, Schneider Electric India
Schneider Electric DCIM solutions through customisable Web Services and StruxureWare for Data Centres makes it possible for the mechanical, IT, and electrical spaces to communicate with devices. Because of this, independent business units can easily share relevant data across the DCIM suite, allowing them to gain intelligent and decision-making by allowing stakeholders to actionable data on their specific domain. And because the Web manage data centre assets, operational costs, services also allow StruxureWare for Data Centres to communicate with and capital costs. It removes historical other StruxureWare suites and portals, as well as third party IT, BMS, management silos and helps to create energy and management systems, StruxureWare for Data Centres can always awareness across the entire data centre physical access and use the data you need. infrastructure. The DCIM solution helps manage complex IT to cutting enterprise- wide energy and operating costs, the solution helps customer address This visibility enables informed decision-making data centre challenges and simplify operations with StruxureWare™ for from a ‘building-to-server’ perspective, which Data Centres software. StruxureWare is an advanced data centre can be enhanced by product modules and infrastructure management (DCIM) suite that gives end-to-end visibility enhancement options to scale to specific user to optimise, operate, and manage data centre from rack to row to room requirements and flexibly meet business needs. to building. StruxureWare for Data Centres software provides a simple, integrated Analysis, optimisation experience for many users and groups who manage both the facility and IT infrastructure environments, as well as executives who depend and operations on their company’s data centre to provide business value. Not only Data Centre Operation enables vendor-agnostic does the software suite streamline operational efficiencies, it enables inventory management with real-time device intelligent energy management for real OpEx savings. StruxureWare for failures and data shown within your data centre Data Centres software applications are unified across three levels to physical layout, as well as recommendations on give the right information to the right users at the right time: With its how to resolve issues. capability of communicating with building, enterprise and network management systems, DCIM optimises energy and cost efficiencies > Extends the life cycle of the data centre and aids in short - and long-term planning and provisioning of data through optimisation of power, cooling, centre equipment and resources. network and space capacities. > Provides dynamic cooling optimisation and Make informed data centre intelligent control. > Reduces IT system energy usage through in- decisions depth optimisation of server utilisation for increased data centre performance. With the ability to integrate with both Schneider Electric and third- > Easily track and execute moves, adds, and party equipment throughout the data centre physical infrastructure, changes of equipment in the data centre Data Centre Operation bridges the gap between IT and facilities by through the workflow management tool. providing complete visibility for proactive monitoring, streamlined > Software only server access and power management, and system control down to the server level. cycling for remote management. > Rack-level power capping for an optimised Supports business planning performance of server applications. > Intelligent PUE/DCiE analytics at subsystem This application supports data centre business processes and strategic level. CIO Choice 2016 25 Mr. Shriranga Mulay, Senior Vice President - IT Engineering, Mr. Karan Kirpalani, Associate Vice President - Product Management, and Dr. Deepak Deshpande, Senior Vice President and Head - Human Resources, Netmagic Solutions Pvt. Ltd., receiving the recognition trophy from Mr. Prasad Parab, Manager - Infrastructure Services, SIRO Clinpharm Pvt. Ltd., and Mr. Shreesh Patwardhan, CIO and VP (IT), Dynamic Logistics.
Data Centre Managed Services Provider (Large Enterprise)
26 CIO Choice 2016 Data Centre Managed Services have remained a critical part of Netmagic’s service suite since its What makes Netmagic’s inception. It has amassed a rich experience of catering to the unique technological requirements of the Indian Managed Services the enterprise, helping enrich and refine the Managed Services portfolio. Netmagic has consistently helped CIOs’ choice? enterprises ensure availability, performance and compliance of their IT environment. At any given time, Ÿ Focussed on Core Competency of Data Centre our experts are monitoring your IT infrastructure, using Infrastructure Support. enterprise grade tools, proactively identifying and Ÿ Nimble organisation with sound financial backing fixing faults before they impact your business. The of NTT. entire range of Managed Services spans elements of Ÿ Access to senior leadership at Netmagic. Servers, Virtualisation, Network, Security, Database, Ÿ Unparalleled reach through NTT affiliates globally Storage and Backup, Applications, and Middleware. Ÿ Strong capabilities in engineering and product innovation.
“We’re humbled and equally delighted to receive this recognition. Data Centre Managed Services is a category where we've worked very hard to bring high quality services to our customers. And now with our parent organisation, NTT Communications, we've brought in premium data centre services under the NexCentre brand. I take this recognition as an acceptance of the path we’ve taken as one of the pioneers in data centres in India. We thank the CIOs for voting for us and hope that they will continue to support us as we strive to deliver greater value through our services.”
Mr. Sharad Sanghi, MD and CEO, Netmagic
CIO Choice 2016 27 Mr. Roopesh Kumar, General Manager – Data Centre Build, and Mr. Sreejith Gopalakrishnan, General Manager – Data Centre Operations, Sify Technologies Ltd., receiving the recognition trophy from Mr. Prasad Parab, Manager - Infrastructure Services, SIRO Clinpharm Pvt. Ltd., and Mr. Shreesh Patwardhan, CIO and VP (IT), Dynamic Logistics.
Data Centre Transformation Services (Large Enterprise)
28 CIO Choice 2016 “These recognitions for Sify’s Managed Network Solutions, Data Centre Transformation Services and Integrated Data Centre Services are testimony to the individual strengths of Sify’s ICT offerings. Coming from our peers, it is a huge vindication of the Sify 3.0 success stories”
Mr. Kamal Nath, CEO, Sify Technologies Ltd.
Sify is among the largest integrated ICT Solutions and Services companies in India, offering end-to-end solutions Data Centre Transformation with a comprehensive range of products delivered over a common telecom data network infrastructure reaching Services more than 1,300 cities and towns in India. This telecom network today connects 38 data centres across India Sify’s Data Centre Transformation Services is a bouquet including Sify’s 6 Tier 3 data centres across the cities of of services for clients who are in an optimisation mode Chennai, Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore. from technology, cost and efficiency perspective across Data Centre Assets. A significant part of the company’s revenue is derived from Enterprise Services, comprised of telecom services, While the larger endeavour is to migrate them to our data centre services, cloud and managed services, cloud platform or co-locate them to our data centres, the applications integration services and technology granular components would be a seamless migration of integration services. Sify also provides services that cater the entire compute-storage-network-security apparatus to the burgeoning demands of the SMB community, much with next to no downtime. The world class service of it on its cloud services platform. rendered by our experts across all areas, transforms our customers’ existing operating model absolving them of Sify has an expanding base of Managed Services non ICT multi-vendor management and SLA based customers, both in India and overseas, and is India’s first ICT infrastructure management. This helps to mitigate enterprise managed services provider to launch a Security multi-point deficiencies in skills and resources and Operations Centre (SOC) to deliver managed security technology obsolescence. services. The software team develops applications and offers services to improve business efficiencies of its Given the pan-India network infrastructure in place, current and prospective client bases. Sify also offers clients get the additional benefit of migrating to services in the specialised domains of eLearning, both in a cohesive network and DC infrastructure, topped India and globally. with the benefit industry-leading application and security services.
CIO Choice 2016 29 Mr. Indrajit Belgundi, Latitude PLM- APJ, Dell India, receiving the recognition trophy from Mr. Girish Rao, Head - IT and Business Analytics, Marico Ltd., and Mr. Sabyasachi Chakraborty Thakur - Head IT, Century Plyboards India Ltd.
Desktop Virtualisation (Large Enterprise)
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“The complexities of virtualisation often overshadows its virtues. In my opinion, for a (VDI) solution to be successful and well accepted, customisability and adaptability to suit existing infrastructure, application and performance requirements is a must, and Dell truly offers it.”
Mr. Santosh Pandey, Country Manager, Dell Cloud Client Computing, Dell India
CIO Choice 2016 31 Mr.Vikram Kole, Vice President, Sales, Datamatics, receiving the recognition trophy from Mr. Girish Rao, Head - IT and Business Analytics, Marico Ltd., and Mr. Sabyasachi Chakraborty Thakur, Head IT, Century Plyboards India Ltd.
Document Management (Large Enterprise)
32 CIO Choice 2016 “Document Management Solutions (DMS) are used by companies of all sizes to effectively manage ever growing repositories of data and documents. Datamatics has developed several proprietary products to help enterprises take charge of their knowledge assets including both structured and unstructured data, while reducing the manual efforts and increasing efficiency. Datamatics’ workflow based smart document automation solution is easily customisable with many more components like indexation, archival, retrieval and tracking, etc. And all these are designed to work smoothly with other systems. Datamatics’ smart document processing solutions have helped several leading organisations across the world to enhance the efficiency of their document-intensive processes by leveraging intelligent automation technologies to derive business benefits such as cost savings, improved quality, scalability and faster TAT. ”
Mr. Rahul L. Kanodia,Vice Chairman and CEO, Datamatics Global Services Ltd.
Datamatics, a trusted partner to several Fortune 500 redact blocks of information from documents. It is specifically Companies, is a global provider of Information designed to mask sensitive data while processing or outsourcing Technology and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and both structured and unstructured documents. Consulting services. Datamatics specialises in providing enterprise data and information management solutions. The company leverages innovations in technology, DMS Business Benefits knowledge of business processes, and domain expertise Ÿ Enhanced accuracy of over 99.9% to provide business aligned next generation solutions. Ÿ Improvement in turn around time by up to 50% These solutions provide support to global clients through Ÿ 70% reduction in manual effort the entire lifecycle of Data to Intelligence and help them Ÿ 60% reduction in operating costs transform data into business insights. Ÿ Easy scalability to meet growing business needs Ÿ Seamless integration with ERPs, databases and workflow Ÿ Improved regulatory compliance About Datamatics IP Assets Ÿ Easier retrieval iQ is an intelligent document processing platform that Ÿ Better collaboration leverages artificial intelligence, image topography Ÿ Better backup and disaster recovery analytics, fuzzy logic, pattern recognition and business algorithms to intuitively identify and efficiently digitise Datamatics’ offerings span varied business processes that any form or type of document in a fraction of the time transcend Enterprise Document Management, Enterprise with little or no manual intervention. Content Management Solutions, Collaboration and Portal Solutions, Managed Services, BI, Analytics, and Mobility space. ePM Enterprise process management platform is a flexible workflow management system that enables information auto-routing, real-time information access through secure profile-based authentication and SaaS- based document submission and tracking. iDART is an intelligent archival management tool to efficiently consolidate, archive, retrieve, index, version and track a wide variety of digitised business documents. It seamlessly manages both structured and unstructured business documents with options to host on Cloud/SaaS/intranet. iMASK is a comprehensive and powerful data masking DMS Architecture solution that uses intelligence to identify, assess and CIO Choice 2016 33 Mr. Sunil Gupta, Executive Director and President, and Mr. Shriranga Mulay, Senior Vice President - IT Engineering, Netmagic Solutions Pvt. Ltd. receiving the recognition trophy from Mr. Bhavesh Lakhani, Chief Technology Officer, DSP Black Rock Investment Managers, and Mr. Dhandapani Ganapathy, Chief Information Officer, TVS Motors.
Disaster Recovery As A Service (DRaaS) (Large Enterprise)
34 CIO Choice 2016 Disasters always arrive unannounced. Any CIO would like nothing more than to be prepared for What makes Netmagic’s each and every circumstance. But investing in a comprehensive disaster recovery solution can DR-as-a-Service the CIOs’ choice? put Ÿ Reduces the time and expertise required to provision new DR a huge strain on already thin resources. That’s solutions; out-of-the-box DR signatures enable reliability and DR where Netmagic’s DR-as-a-Service comes into best practices. play. It helps in aligning DR infrastructure with Ÿ Deploys and manages DR solutions for a heterogeneous the organisation’s recovery time and recovery environment. point objectives. Ÿ Provides customers with the ability to offer high-value services that require stringent SLAs. Enterprises can deploy DR on Physical, Private Ÿ Reduces time and operator error, making application recovery Cloud or Public Cloud. Netmagic’s DR-as-a- more predictable. Service has multi-tenancy capabilities and Ÿ Dramatically reduces time and resources required to conduct DR comprehensively covers the DR lifecycle making drills, resulting in scalability in the number of drills, with lesser it the leading management solution to enable resources. hybrid DR deployments. Ÿ Manages DR services for multiple subscribers using a single window management console. Ÿ Allows enterprises to offer pay-per-use DR functions to their businesses.
“This CIO Choice recognition is a tremendous endorsement of Netmagic’s DR-as-a-Service and of the hard work, commitment and innovative thought that has gone into building this service. The pursuit of innovation spurred us to become the first to launch DR on Cloud in India. We will continue to deliver solutions that will help enterprises prepare for disaster recovery, in a more efficient and cost effective manner.”
Mr. Rajesh Tapadia, Senior Vice President, Head – Solutions Engineering and Bids, Netmagic
CIO Choice 2016 35 Mr. Suhrid Shah, CEO, Maven Vista, receiving the recognition trophy from Mr. Shailesh Joshi, Head Corporate IT and CIO, Godrej Group, and Mr. Kunal Pande, Partner, KPMG India.
E Procurement (Small Medium Enterprise)
36 CIO Choice 2016 “E-procurement is very critical for efficient supply chain management considering the fact that it brings visibility on the major spends of an organisation and optimises the process for superior buying decisions, leading to significant reduction in cost. Receiving the CIO Choice recognition for 2016 in this category is a big honour for our organisation and our product VENDX. I would like to thank the IT fraternity of India to whom I attribute this award.”
Mr. Suhrid Shah, CEO, MavenVista Techologies Pvt. Ltd.
MavenVista thrives on technology innovation and procurement domain experts to consistently enhance How do we ensure seamless value delivery for the procurement fraternity. This culture and attitude of the organisation has resulted in implementation? MavenVista being awarded for its e-procurement Backed by a highly proficient and committed project platform VENDX at CIO Choice 2016. This was management team and procurement domain experts, preceded by an earlier recognition as the Most MavenVista ensures timely implementation and hassle-free Innovative SME in the Supply Chain domain for the change management for its customers. year 2013. Our solution Experience our support VENDX, the e-procurement platform from MavenVista, MavenVista believes this is the beginning of our journey is offered on SaaS (Software as a Service); it needs no with customers. To provide consistent delight MavenVista IT infrastructure for the software at the customer’s end. has one of the best standards of customer support backed This is backed by best in breed security standards and by passionate professionals who thrive to ensure the guarantees uptime of 99.9% to customers who highest level of customer satisfaction on a consistent basis. comprise leading Indian companies from pharma, chemical, engineering, FMCG and textile industries.
VENDX- The Only all ERP compatible solution Key USP of VENDX Unique Features of VENDX
• Effortless Sourcing of all Categories • Integrated PR to PO Landscape
• Quick Adoption & Instant ROI • Most User Friendly User Interface
• Integrity of Data • Seamless Integration with ERP
• Superior Strategies • Synchronised Business Intelligence
• Timely Negotiations • Consolidation and Track of PR
• Optimum Decisions • Techno-Commercial Comparison
• Huge Time Savings • Automatic Calculations of Landed Cost
• Excellent Compliance • One Click Access to Historical Decisions CIO Choice 2016 37 Mr. Mohan Chandrasekaran, Founder & CEO, AdStringO receiving the recognition trophy from Mr. Shailesh Joshi,Head Corporate IT and CIO, Godrej Group, and Mr. Kunal Pande, Partner, KPMG India.
Endpoint Compression (Small Medium Enterprise)
38 CIO Choice 2016 “adStringO’s vision is to provide easy transmission of the Last Mile Image/audio/video/PDF Capture files either through mobile or Web scanner to the enterprise server at point of capture even on low connected networks like 1G/2G. Our mission is to grow together with employees, customers and partners to become the World’s Fastest End Point Mobile and Web Capture Compression Technology Partner for small and large companies for high quality files with lowest file size, thus helping easy transmission on low connected networks.”
Mr. Mohan Chandrasekaran, Founder and CEO, adStringO
adStringO Software Pvt Ltd is dedicated to compression coming in, this has reduced the turn endpoint compression helping enterprises in file around time for the exact same process to four hours, (image/PDF/audio-video) compression up to 96% and even a few minutes in some cases. Thus, with no loss in visual quality, in native format. adStringO helps enterprises save on branch set-ups We help you onboard customers with ease, even and up to 90% on storage and bandwidth on every if you operate in areas with low latency, like 2G. single file transaction. Now, you no longer require a physical branch, even at rural areas, to service customers. A mobile equipped with adStringO software helps your sales/field guy to easily scan customer documents and upload them directly to headquarters, within minutes, from anywhere.
With adStringO endpoint compression, sales/field representatives or customers themselves can capture documents using scanners and mobiles, then compress to 1/20th We offer endpoint mobile/Web capture compression the file size, i.e., up to 96% before uploading it, technology on any given device (mobile/PC) on any for faster transmission. bandwidth (even 2G/3G). Our solution easily integrates in to existing enterprises BPM, DMS or portal, etc, with no upgrades required.
adStringO is looking to expand its limits and venture into B2C services soon. We will soon be providing consumer applications that can run on low bandwidths across all mobile platforms in India. Post this venture, we are planning to expand our services to other countries, where connectivity is a challenge for managing data.
Focusing on the digital India vision, adStringO wants to empower rural India to become digital and join the mainstream, to avail the true benefits of the services offered by various enterprises. Thus, with this future vision we are targeting our services to BRICS nations. Usually, to activate an account/loan-passing/etc, it takes one to two weeks or sometimes even more than two weeks. With adStringO endpoint
CIO Choice 2016 39 Mr. Vivek Sharma, Senior Vice President, e-Commerce and Subscription Business, and Mr. Sumit Rajwade, Vice President, Technology, Rediff.Com India Ltd., receiving the recognition trophy from Mr. K.R.C. Murty, Vice President, Chief Technology Office, Deutsche Bank, and Mr. Muralidharan Ramachandran, Vice President and Head - Quality Assurance, Syntel Ltd.
Enterprise Email (Small Medium Enterprise)
40 CIO Choice 2016 Rediff’s secure Internet platform provides an enterprise class communication suite to businesses Advanced spam protection of all sizes. The suite comprises email, rich presence, An advanced spam protection mechanism keeps the inbox instant group messaging and CRM tool enabling clutter free as only genuine mails can pass the virus checks, IP effective and faster accomplishment of tasks. check, reverse DNS, DKIM check, content filtering, user Rediffmail Enterprise is a secure cloud-based email behaviour patterns, etc. before landing in the inbox. solution for corporate clients. Data leak protection Data security Administrators can restrict certain users from accessing mails Given the importance of email data, all email outside the company network or allow them to access mails only transactions are secured and the data is stored at on secure channels. a secure location. Hybrid setup with on premise Robust infrastructure with mailing systems 99.9% uptime A hybrid solution combines best of both on-premise and cloud Components in the network architecture have mailing solution. Users can now host some mailboxes on on- counterparts and an automatic switchover ensures premise and rest of the mailboxes on Rediffmail Enterprise that the enterprise service is up and running even if platform using the same domain. one of the components fails. Customer support Access mails anywhere A dedicated account manager is assigned to every client along A mobile app provides access to enterprise emails with technical customer support available on phone and email. and is available for all popular mobile operating systems across device types. Collaboration The enterprise solution provides an intra-domain chat, file Complete synchronisation sharing and newsletter system thus facilitating easy across devices communication between employees. With Internet access on multiple devices becoming a norm, users can sync mails across all devices and Conversations applications using complete mail sync. Conversations is a real-time messaging platform, making it easy and secure for users to converse on topics of common interest. Users can create Conversations on the fly and invite others to Backup and restore contribute. The service addresses the issue of users having to Rediff’s email backup solution ensures emails are manage multiple communication threads. Conversations makes it backed up as soon as they are sent or received by easier for members to use the platform as multiple discussions the user, eliminating the need for manual backups. are available for their reference in chronological order.
“Winning the CIO Choice recognition for the third consecutive year is an reaffirmation of consumers trust in our secure Internet platform in its two decades of service. We are delighted that our continued investment in our technology platform has created a best-in-class offering for our enterprise customers and are proud that our brand has again been recognised as a global player.”
Mr. Ajit Balarkishnan, Chairman and CEO, Rediff.com India Ltd. CIO Choice 2016 41 Mr. Ramkumar Balasubramanian, Ramkumar Balasubramanian, Fellow, DMTS, Wipro Ltd., and Mr. Apurv Mehta, Practice Manager, Wipro Ltd., receiving the recognition trophy from Mr. Rahul Mahajan, Vice President - IT, K. Raheja Corp, and Mr. Sudesh Agarwal, CIO, Holiday Resorts Ltd.
Enterprise Infrastructure Automation Services (Large Enterprise)
42 CIO Choice 2016 Wipro is a market leader in providing Enterprise framework. Wipro considers a Heuristic Knowledge Automation Services. Wipro’s strategy remains and Analytics driven Approach for IT Automation aligned to the market’s evolution and key trends and that includes learning through experience, applying continued to vest its interests and investments in patterns and improving to solve certain types of automation to create a significant differentiator in problems. In short it is a type of system that can the competition in IT Managed Services that has make decisions similar to human administrators. always been human capital centric. Wipro has built an automation framework and an IP set of tools The FixOmatic Framework provides IT infrastructure under the trademark FixOmatic ™. automation solutions spanning data centre, end user computing and customised engineering of FixOmatic ™ Automation framework is not about automation products and services for customers’ being tools centric or about selling licence. highly specific needs. The transformational Leveraging on the vast experience in IT solutions help achieve effort reduction by Management Services implements the automation repositioning skilled resources, by reducing mean platform and runs the automation operations as a time to resolve, through process standardisation, service that enables measurable, quantifiable compliance and lower cost per resolution. benefits to the customer. The objective of Heuristics and self-healing In continuation of the belief in future ready approach is to allow a machine to respond as technology investments, Wipro has invested to create adaptively and flexibly as a trained expert, but a platform on knowledge driven AI platform called operate and document as quickly as a machine. Heuristics platform under FixOmatic Automation
“Automation and analytics are the weapons in a CIO’s arsenal that can trigger a shift to the future state of IT infrastructure services transforming the data centre into a strategic business asset.”
Mr. Ramkumar Balasubramanian, Fellow, Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff (DMTS), Wipro Ltd.
CIO Choice 2016 43 Mr. Aalok Mehta, Regional Sales Manager - West (India), GoDB Tech Pvt. Ltd., receiving the recognition trophy from Mr. Nilesh Khanolkar, Vice President - IT, IL & FS, and Mr. Prasad Pudipeddi, National Manager IT, Hafele India Pvt. Ltd.
Enterprise Mobility (Small Medium Enterprise)
44 CIO Choice 2016 GoDB Tech
A Person is as fast as An Enterprise is as fast as their Feet can move. their Fleet can move!
At GoDB Tech, our unwavering focus to digitise GoDB Tech’s solutions work even in the remotest of areas and last mile business processes helps our enterprise enable organisations to increase reach. With over 500,000 clients on their growth path. Our clients become enterprise deployments and growing, we connect several competitive with unprecedented levels of co- Enterprise last miles seamlessly to their core systems. ordination and agility, when empowered in front of their customers! In fact we named our company to identify what we do–”Go” representing Mobility and “DB” represents Database that stores Revisiting our 16-year journey–we have worked with business information–that is, intelligence on the move. a few Fortune 500 enterprises and leaders; partnered with a few passionate teams; failed many Customers recall us as the “specialists in digitising business products to create a few successful ones; won a few processes outside enterprise walls”! awards for consistency; had a few successful category innovations…and in all made several lasting relationships in the industry. About our Product(s) GoDB is the flagship product of GoDB Tech (www.go-db.com), We are what our team is–and that includes our which is an industry standard Mobile Backend As A Service employees, our partner network and our esteemed (MBaaS) that enables enterprise processes to be seamlessly customers. With over 150+ business partners, we digitised towards their internal and external ecosystems. The sometimes align even with our competitors with an GoDB platform gives organisations a 60% jumpstart towards the aim towards providing the best solution. Having overall solution, while the remaining 40% is the actual business worked with over 350 customers in Banking, process that is being extended. Financial Services, Insurance and Consumer Goods verticals, we understand the nitty-gritty details of A recent award winning product is XLApp (www.xlapp.io), extending their core as well as non-core business which enables business teams that use Microsoft Excel for their processes. We provide practically workable solutions last mile processes to directly generate mobile app for their for a range of mobility issues starting from the Excel! growing device fragmentation up to seamless integration with core systems like ERP, CRM, etc. We are still learning each day and are passionate to solve anything related to last mile digitisation especially using mobility and cloud.
“GoDB has always been in the business of connecting the enterprise to its last mile. We started synchronising ERPs with thousands of PC ecosystem users, which has now transitioned into millions of mobile users. In the coming years we expect business processes to be linked to billions of IOT sensors. We are thankful to our client CXOs for their continued trust in our brand.”
Mr. Sai Lakshmidhar, Vice President, GoDB
CIO Choice 2016 45 Mr. Raghvendra Tripathi, Chief Performance Officer, Ramco Systems Ltd., receiving the recognition trophy from Mr. Thomson Thomas, Senior Vice President - IT (CIO), HDFC Standard Life Insurance, and Mr. Rajiv Rajda, Vice President Information Systems, Kodak India Pvt. Ltd.
HR & Global Payroll (Large Enterprise)
46 CIO Choice 2016 “It is a great pride that CIOs and end-users have voted in favour of our brand and recognised us against global players. Our belief in simplicity has led us to stamp our Indian product footprint in the global market. It is truly exciting to be recognised on our home ground for our innovations. This award certainly underscores Ramco’s ability to provide a unified system for a globally diversified workforce.”
Mr. Virender Aggarwal, CEO, Ramco Systems
Part of the USD 1 billion Ramco Group, Ramco Ramco has been focusing on moving towards Cognitive and Systems focuses on innovation and culture to Robotic ERP with features such as Mail It–a feature that enables differentiate itself in the marketplace. We, at Ramco, users to transact with the application by just sending an email; are simplifying HR strategy and empowering 400+ HUB It–a one-screen-does-it-all concept built to address all global multinationals worldwide to automate HR activities of a user; and Thumb It–mobility where the system transactions and drive business benefits across presents users with the option to choose rather than functions. type values.
Ramco HCM is the most complete, yet refreshingly simple software covering the 360⁰ lifecycle of an 2016 has had a good start with Ramco Systems winning the employee from hire to retirement. We offer Core HR, CIO Choice honour and recognition in the HR and Global Time and Attendance, Global Payroll, Talent Payroll software category. We would like to take this opportunity Management, Recruitment, Planning and Analytics. to thank our customers for their continuous support and for With payroll compliance across 108 countries, vouching for us. Ramco Payroll has the capability to address 88% of the world’s working population on a Unified Payroll platform. Ramco HCM has been evolving at a rapid pace recording growth of 109% YoY adding two new customers every week globally.
Why are we different from the rest? Ÿ Completely organic solution designed with refreshing simplicity Ÿ Intelligent; understands the user/purpose/situation context enabling actionable insights Ÿ Offered on Cloud and Mobile, aligning your employees to your organisation’s goals Ÿ Integrates seamlessly with existing enterprise business applications
CIO Choice 2016 47 Mr. Sunil Gupta, Executive Director and President, Mr. Karan Kirpalani, Associate Vice President - Products Management, and Mr. Shriranga Mulay, Senior Vice President - IT Engineering, Netmagic Solutions Pvt. Ltd., receiving the recognition trophy from Mr.Kersi Tavadia, CIO, Bombay Stock Exchange Ltd., and Mr. Hemal Shah, Vice President - Core Products, WhatsOn India.
Hybrid Cloud (Large Enterprise)
48 CIO Choice 2016 “We’re delighted to receive this recognition and grateful to the CIO community for their support of our Hybrid Cloud services. As Cloud deployments penetrate deeper into enterprise IT infrastructures, we’ve seen the Hybrid model emerge as the most popular choice. We’ve been working closely with our customers and technology partners on many deployments, each with its own custom challenges and unique opportunities. I can say with some pride that we've largely succeeded in delivering to each challenge thrown our way.”
Mr. Shriranga Mulay, Senior Vice-President, Head - Engineering, Netmagic
Hyrbid Cloud has emerged as a preferred mode of Cloud adoption for enterprises pursuing digital What makes Netmagic’s transformation initiatives. With Netmagic’s Hybrid Cloud: Hybrid Cloud Services the Ÿ Enterprises can retain their data and applications in the cloud while maintaining control over CIOs’ choice? organisational network topology and policies. Ÿ Organisations can also retain existing in-house Ÿ Secure and compliant environment: Ensures a secure physical infrastructure while borrowing environment through physical and network separation. additional resources as and when needed using Ÿ Deploy resources on-the-fly: Get the capacity to deploy new the cloud. blocks of computing power without capital investment in physical infrastructure. Ÿ Industry leading SLAs In fact, customers subscribing to our collocation or Ÿ Live support dedicated hosting services have been able to augment existing physical infrastructure by securely provisioning additional capacity from our public cloud and pay as per usage.
CIO Choice 2016 49 Mr. A. S. Raj Gopal, MD and CEO, NxtGen DataCenter and Cloud Technologies Pvt. Ltd., receiving the recognition trophy from Mr. Kersi Tavadia, CIO, Bombay Stock Exchange Ltd., and Mr. Hemal Shah, Vice President - Core Products, WhatsOn India. About US adStringO Software Pvt Ltd is dedicated to endpoint for faster transmission. c o mp re s s i o n h e l p i n g e n te r p r i s e s i n fi l e Usually, to activate an account/loan-passing/etc., it takes 1-2 weeks (image/PDF/audio-video) compression up to 96% with or sometimes even more than 2 weeks. With adStringO endpoint no loss in visual quality, in native format. We help you compression coming in, this has reduced the Turn Around Time for on board customers with ease, even if you operate in the exact same process to 4 hours, and even few minutes in some areas with low latency, like 2G. Now, yHyperou no longer Concases. vThus,er helpinggence enterprises save on branch set-ups and up to 90% require a physical branch, even at rural areas, to service on storage & bandwidth on every single file transaction. customers. A mobile equipped with adStringO(Lar softwargee EnterWe offer endpointprise) mobile/web capture compression technology on helps your sales/field guy to easily scan customer any given device (mobile/PC) on any bandwidth (even 2G/3G). Our documents and upload it directly to the headquarters, solution easily integrates to existing enterprises BPM, DMS or portal, within minutes from anywhere. etc., with no upgrades required. With adStringO endpoint compression, sales/field adStringO is looking to expand its limits and venture into B2C representatives or customers themselves can capture services soon. We will soon be providing consumer applications that documents using scanners & mobile, then compress to can run on low bandwidths across all mobile platforms in India. Post 1/20th the file size, i.e., up to 96% before uploading it, this venture, we are planning to expand our services to other
50 CIO Choice 2016 NxtGen is an emerging leader in data centre and Data Centre, by building a digital enterprise without owning IT cloud-based services that help in powering businesses infrastructure. Our approach considers customer’s existing to grow by cutting through complexity and saving investments in IT infrastructure, specific requirements such as on cost. compliance, and enabling elasticity (grow and shrink) in IT infrastructure to work in tandem with dynamic business Our advanced solutions can be provided both from requirements. our own High Density Data Centre (HDDC™) facilities or deployed at On-Premise Data Centres (OPDC™) With the support and trust of Intel Capital, Axon Partners and that are managed centrally. International Finance Corporation (IFC), NxtGen continues to push the boundaries of the IT infrastructure domain with its Our Enterprise Cloud Services™ (ECS) provide private unique and cost effective solutions. and public clouds or hybrid cloud infrastructure hosted on OPDC™ or HDDC™. NxtGen’s advanced infrastructure enables companies to simplify IT infrastructure, reduce running costs, and enable business growth by creating additional capacity from existing infrastructure. By providing the right public or private infrastructure, NxtGen helps companies meet dynamic business demands.
NxtGen works with customers in their journey into the hyper-converged hybrid compute infrastructure–Infinite
“It is an endorsement from our customers, who are grooming us to lead the hyper-convergence space. Team NxtGen’s customer commitment and hand work has been recognised by CIO Choice 2016.”
Mr. A. S. Rajgopal, CEO, MD and CEO, NxtGen DataCenter and Cloud Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
CIO Choice 2016 51 Mr. Indrajit Belgundi, Latitude PLM - APJ, Dell India, receiving the recognition trophy from Mr. Ramandeep Singh Virdi, Vice President - Group IT, InterGlobe Enterprises, and Mr. Ramesh Janarthanam, Global IT Head, Crompton Greaves.
Information Security (Large Enterprise)
52 CIO Choice 2016 “Information security is of strategic importance to any business. Poorly designed security products and protocols expose the vulnerabilities encouraging exploitation, compliance violations, low productivity and stifled innovation. Dell’s approach to security is based on simplicity, efficiency, and connectivity that tie together the splintered aspects of IT security into one integrated solution, capable of sharing insights across the organisation. It makes security simpler, so that business users can manage the rules and policies, and end users can easily comply.”
Mr. Sudharsan R.,Commercial Marketing Director, Dell India
Protect, detect and respond to an ever-changing threat landscape
There’s more to enterprise security than defending perimeters. We believe that an IT security strategy aligned to the needs of your business is essential to future growth and innovation. Our solutions help you:
• Protect your whole enterprise, inside and out, efficiently and proactively. • Comply with internal governance policies and external regulations. • Enable the adoption of new applications and technology.
We help you create and maintain a strong security foundation with interconnected solutions that span the enterprise. From the endpoint to the data centre to the cloud, Dell solutions mitigate risk and reduce complexity so you can move your business forward.
CIO Choice 2016 53 Mr. Kiran Shinde,Head- Service Delivery, Maintenance Services, SIMS, Mr. Prakash Ratnakar Mardikar, Head - Project Delivery and PMO, SI Services, SIMS, and Yogesh Balankhe, Delivery Head, SIMS, Wipro Ltd., receiving the recognition trophy from Mr. Ramandeep Singh Virdi, Vice President - Group IT, Inter Globe Enterprises. and Mr. Ramesh Janarthanam, Global IT Head, Crompton Greaves.
Infrastructure Sustenance Services (Large Enterprise)
54 CIO Choice 2016 “Sustenance of IT infrastructure has increasingly become an important priority for businesses worldwide driven by the global emphasis on sustainability. Our Infrastructure Sustenance Services have helped our customers run their businesses with the highest levels of service quality and availability. This award is an endorsement of the high customer satisfaction that we have earned through our hard work and flawless delivery.”
Mr. Anuj Bhalla, VP and Business Head- Global SI, Maintenance Services and Products, Wipro Ltd.
CIO Choice 2016 55 Mr. Kiran Shinde,Head- Service Delivery, Maintenance Services, SIMS, Mr. Prakash Ratnakar Mardikar, Head - Project Delivery and PMO, SI Services, SIMS, and Yogesh Balankhe, Delivery Head, SIMS, Wipro Ltd, receiving the recognition trophy from Mr. Sunil Mehta, Senior Vice President and Area Systems Director, J. Walter Thompson, Mr. Pankaj Mittal, CTO, Vodafone India Ltd., and Mr. Anoop Mathur, Founder and President, CORE Media.
Infrastructure Transformation Solutions (Large Enterprise)
56 CIO Choice 2016 “Infrastructure Transformation is one of the key ways in which companies are innovating and achieving differentiation in today’s hypercompetitive world. At Wipro, we have always been at the forefront of providing cutting edge Transformation Solutions to help our customers in their journey. We are proud to receive this award and it has strengthened our resolve to push ourselves further into new frontiers.”
Mr. Anuj Bhalla, VP and Business Head- Global SI, Maintenance Services and Products, Wipro Ltd.
CIO Choice 2016 57 Mr. Praveen Krishna, Head, Corporate Communications and Mr. Roopesh Kumar, Head, Data Centre Operations, Sify Technologies Ltd., receiving the recognition trophy from Mr.Sayed Peerzade, CIO, Reliance Entertainment–Digital, and Mr. Prakash Dharmani, Global CIO, Essel Propack Ltd.
Integrated Data Centre Solution (Large Enterprise)
58 CIO Choice 2016 Integrated Data Centre Services
Typically, the decision to house a data centre for any organisation revolves around two parameters. Where will it be housed? What is the application layer required on it? In the case of an IT organisation, that is a given, that the organisation will house the data centre on its own premises (if it’s a large organisation) or will co-locate to a non-competing partner specialising in DCs. In both cases, the demand for services does not stop with just ‘space’. Organisations will require an unique set of services to overlay their data and a security cover to encompass it.
Integrated Data Centre services from Sify encompass the whole gamut of services like co-location, hosting, white labelling, even a green filed DC build. The managed services layer consists of Managed DC, Security and Network services, apart from offering Infra, Software and Platform as services.
Sify’s extensive data centre capabilities are complemented by its infrastructure and expertise in connectivity and security to give enterprises and carriers a competitive edge.
CIO Choice 2016 59 Mr. Jaideep Mehta, MD - India and South Asia, International Data Corporation, receiving the recognition trophy from Mr. Sayed Peerzade, CIO, Reliance Entertainment–Digital, and Mr. Prakash Dharmani, Global CIO, Essel Propack Ltd.
IT Advisory (Small Medium Enterprise)
60 CIO Choice 2016 “We are delighted to receive the CIO Choice 2016 recognition and are humbled by the CIOs’ stamp of approval for the third time in a row. IDC brings a differentiated, quantitative and structured approach to its research and advisory services. This recognition is a strong validation of this approach by the CIO community and encourages us to deepen our capabilities and continuously build capacity.”
Mr. Jaideep Mehta, Managing Director, IDC South Asia
been the pioneer in developing these valuable tools and is the unmistakable leader in the industry for a rigorous, fact-based approach to facilitating IT decision making. Our mission is to turn your IT expenditures into sound investments.
The IT executive programs offered by IDC consists of a family of Advisory and Consulting programs intended to help today’s time-constrained technology professionals and influencers make more effective technology decisions. The program offers actionable and timely fact- based research that will assist technology professionals IDC India has been felicitated with the prestigious and influencers in mitigating technology risks, CIO Choice recognition for the third time in a row maximising the effectiveness of IT investments, for best IT Advisory Services. The premier global identifying, and capitalising on new opportunities and provider of market intelligence, advisory services, creating solutions that are aligned with the organisation’s and events for the information technology, business objectives. telecommunications, and consumer technology markets, IDC delivers dependable, high-impact In the IT ecosystem, IDC tracks end users and vendors intelligence and advice on the future of technology, and helps them through various phases of forming their and industry adoption of technology, to help market strategy, market entry and competitive sustenance. vendors, technology professionals and IT buyers IDC’s comprehensive qualitative and quantitative analysis make fact-based technology decisions. through its tracker programs provides accurate and timely market size, vendor shares and forecast. With more than 1,100 analysts covering trends in more than 110 countries IDC provides global, Publishing 5,000 reports annually and influencing more regional, and local expertise on technology and than 10,000 CIOs through its events IDC has more than industries. With over 50% of Fortune 500 companies 20,00,000 end users impressions through GMS and using IDC’s research, IDC assists IT professionals White Papers. Our comprehensive portfolio is skillfully and influencers in making more effective technology curated and promptly delivered to meet each individual decisions for business transformation, sourcing client’s customised needs. IDC believes in the inherent strategies and vendor management and governance. value of advisory focused on the “how to” of IT, which separates hype and reality and ensures delivery of true IDC’s IT advisory services are designed to ensure business value to our clients. that IT buyer’s technology purchasing and deployment decisions are optimised. IDC has
CIO Choice 2016 61 Mr. Indrajit Belgundi, Latitude PLM - APJ, Dell India, receiving the recognition trophy from Mr. Jagdish Lomte, Vice President IT and CIO – BTG, Thermax Ltd., and Mr. Jayantha Prabhu, Group CIO, Essar Information Technology Ltd.
Laptop (Large Enterprise)
62 CIO Choice 2016 “It’s needs and employee desires have always been at odds with each other. The former wanting secure and manageable devices while the latter want something sleek and lightweight to travel with. Dell Latitude 7000 Series laptop will fit the bill perfectly by delivering on everything that the IT and employee want.”
Mr. Indrajit Belgundi, Director and General Manager - Client Solutions Group, Dell India
while the latter want something sleek and lightweight to The future ready laptop travel with. The problem is that it’s hard to find something that looks it that delivers on everything. The balancing act And so a delicate balancing act to please both sides begins. Finding this balance is more important than ever as 86 per cent of senior executives say that the quality of tech available would influence their decision to accept a new position, while 50 per cent say they would leave their current position. With more employees on the move thanks to technology, IT needs to be able to keep up more than ever, armed with the necessary tools to update and fix problems wherever their employees may be. IT also knows all too well that the biggest cause of breaches is from employee mistakes (sending an email without encrypting it, logging on in an Meet the Dell Latitude 7000 Series laptop. unsecure coffee shop, opening a file from an unknown sender). So they’ll need cutting edge security to protect their Beauty and brains–yes, you can have it all. data from outside threats but even more from the unwitting inside ones. Let’s face it–in life we seem to always want it all. Is that really so bad? Is it too much to ask? Historically speaking, when it comes to technology in the work Have it all world, it is. You see, IT’s needs and employee Fortunately, with the advances in today’s technology the desires have always been at odds with each other. balancing act is over. The former wanting secure and manageable devices
CIO Choice 2016 63 Mr. Dhruvil Sanghvi, Co-Founder, LogiNext Solutions, receiving the recognition trophy from Mr. Jagdish Lomte, Vice President IT and CIO, Thermax Ltd., and Mr. Jayantha Prabhu, Group CIO, Essar Information Technology Ltd.
Logistics Supply Chain Cloud Solution (Small Medium Enterprise)
64 CIO Choice 2016 3PL service providers, Courier, Express and Parcel, E-commerce Why does LogiNext exist? and hyper local businesses swear by our real time shipment India ranks 54 out of 160 countries in the World data that helps them minimise losses occurring due to high Bank’s Logistics Performance Index of 2014, quite logistics cost and operational uncertainties. behind Chile, Panama, Vietnam and Indonesia. LogiNext is ambitiously striving to improve that ranking by simplifying decision making in logistics Clientele which in turn optimises on ground operations for our We serve more than 65 clients across 18 cities and are clients. expanding our reach to 30 cities by March end. Stalwarts like Paytm, Mahindra Logistics, Myntra and Amazon form part of Loginext’s optimisation solutions have gone through our ever growing client base. For some of our e-commerce a steep learning curve by solving many client clients, our solutions increased the number of deliveries per problems and leveraging their historical data. This delivery boy by 10% due to efficient allocation, routing and learning enables our solutions to efficiently allocate reporting. We offer enterprise level logistics capabilities to delivery boys for daily deliveries, reduce delivery time SMEs, Startups and Mid-Size companies, which were earlier and fuel costs by allocating best routes, reduce missed accessible only to the likes of FedEx and UPS globally. deliveries and ETAs. What do we do? Our solutions help our clients with the following benefits: Ÿ Location Clustering Ÿ Route Optimisation Ÿ Automated Delivery Scheduling Ÿ Real Time ETA Prediction Ÿ Real Time Delay Prediction, Alerts and Trend Analysis With these solutions, we process nearly 50,000 shipments on a daily basis. Leveraging on big data analysis and our state of the art optimisation solutions, we add immense informative value across the board–be it First Mile, Long Haul, Last Mile or Reverse Logistics.
“It’s a proud moment for us and every employee of LogiNext to receive this recognition from the CIO community, which includes our customers, prospects and well-wishers. 2015 has been very strong for us with almost 500% growth in our revenues, from raising angel round of funding from Indian Angel Network to closing A series investment from Paytm of around USD10 million. We are hoping for an even bigger and better 2016 with the launch of a couple of new products that are going to revolutionise and surprise the logistics and supply chain industry.”
Mr. Dhruvil Sanghvi, Co-Founder and CEO, LogiNext
CIO Choice 2016 65 Mr. Roy Pereira, India Business Head - Managed Services, and Mr. Rajesh Jhonsa, Operations Director, HCL Technologies Ltd., receiving the recognition trophy from Mr. Sunil Kolambkar, Head SAP and IT, Indofil Industries Ltd., and Mr. C. N. Ram, Advisor, Warburg Pincus India Pvt. Ltd.
Managed IT Services (Large Enterprise)
66 CIO Choice 2016 At the dawn of the new millennium, a unique offerings. We believe that our deeply ingrained value system has information technology company was born: HCL helped us win multiple awards, establishing us as a leading IT Technologies. HCL Technologies has demonstrated provider among Indian peers. remarkable growth through the recent economic downturn, emerging as one of only eight 21st century listed technology companies in the world to cross Quick Facts $1bn in net profit, $6bn in revenue and $15bn in Ÿ Revenue: USD 6.0bn as on June 30, 2015 (on LTM basis) market capitalisation. Latest Annual Report Ÿ Geographies: Operating in 32 countries across the Americas, This was possible because we believe that real value Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa lies in the relationship between customer and Ÿ Employees:103,696 provider, which is built on three value systems: Ÿ Diversity and Inclusion: Ÿ 100 nationalities Ÿ We put employees first, empowering them to Ÿ Percentage of senior hires/local hires outside India: believe in everyday ideas that create value for our 79% in the Americas, 86% in Europe, 83% in APAC/MEA customers, making HCL Technologies the world’s Ÿ 24% women in the global workforce largest Ideapreneurship™. Ÿ Affinity Networks by gender, ability, nationality, and more Ÿ Our fixation on Value Centricity is dedicated to Ÿ Working across borders through multi-cultural orientation delivering value that goes beyond the contract. Ÿ Work life continuity by supporting employee well-being Ÿ Our belief in trust, transparency and flexibility through inclusive policies, support systems and employee drives us to step into our customers’ business assistance programs reality, guaranteeing outcomes with enthusiasm. Ÿ Positive work environment through awareness forums and channels While we pride our eye for detail in constructing Ÿ Advocacy through champions promoting diverse talent robust contracts with clients, we realise that only a relationship beyond the contract can capture what will RTB FRAMEWORK: MaScot-MANAGED SERVICES change tomorrow. The management’s role at HCL Technologies is to empower employees to believe in the power of ideas–a culture we call Ideapreneurship. Helping clients from all spheres through innovative technology solutions, Ideapreneurs are transforming global businesses–one relationship at a time.
Over the years, we have seen these values manifest in the form of platforms such as the Value Portal, where front line employees have generated and implemented ideas that have unlocked close to $600mn of unforeseen business value for our customers. Or MAD JAM, a celebration of employee-seeded ideas that are nurtured by leaders and harvested into business
“We understand that our employees are the foremost vital factor for our achievement and that flexibility on the job makes people feel valued and much happier. The CIO Choice honour reflects our organisation-wide commitment to provide our employees with the ability to balance schedules and workloads so that they are able to maintain a positive work-life balance now and in the future. We believe using flexibility and innovation as a workplace strategy increases the success of our individual employees, our collective team, our clients and, ultimately, our business.”
Mr. Rajesh Thakur, VP – India Business Head, HCL Technologies CIO Choice 2016 67 Mr. Daniel Alex, President - Telecom Business, and Mr. Harsha Ram, AVP and Head of Product, Data and Managed Network Services Business, Sify Technologies Ltd., receiving the recognition trophy from Mr. Sunil Kolambkar, Head SAP and IT, Indofil Industries Ltd., and Mr. C. N. Ram, Advisor, Warburg Pincus India Pvt. Ltd.
Managed Network Services (Large Enterprise)
68 CIO Choice 2016 Managed Network Solutions
Driven by ITIL based best practices, Sify’s Proactive Network Monitoring and Management Services provide a comprehensive service offering to its customers.
Services offered and monitored from Network Operations Centre (MS-NOC) include Performance Reporting, End- to-End Management including third party (other BSO) links, Device Management and Application Management.
CIO Choice 2016 69 Gopinathan K, Practice Head – Managed Security Services, IMS, Mr. Samrat Chaudhuri, GM, and Jayeshkumar Harimadhavan Warier, Senior Consultant Wipro Ltd., receiving the recognition trophy from Mr. Arun Gupta, Managing Partner and Director, Ingenium Advisory, and Mr. Pradeep Saha, Head - IT, Max Healthcare.
Managed Security Services (Large Enterprise)
70 CIO Choice 2016 “We are honoured and re-energised by CIO Choice 2016 recognition in Managed Security Services Category for the third consecutive year. We thank our clients, OEM partners for their support and contributions in this success journey. Wipro is investing heavily in Cybersecurity research, Cyber Risk Management, Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Framework, Security Analytics, CoE, innovation and automation initiatives. Wipro’s focused initiatives and investments in the security domain are to reassure our commitment to protect customer businesses from cyber threats and to produce business value to our customers on their security investments through our Cybersecurity and Risk Services (CRC)”
Mr. Gopinathan K, Practice Head – Managed Security Services, IMS, Wipro Ltd. The traditional focus of security is fast changing. ServiceNXT Managed Security Operations offer: It is moving from mitigation to improving the • ServiceNXT™ Security Intelligence Center compliant bottom line. A comprehensive strategy should with SAS70, ISO 20000 and ISO 27001 etc., address security demands, such as securely • Compliance based reporting – SOX, PCI DSS, HIPAA, embracing new technologies, mitigating cyber GLBA, FISM, SANS, NIST, Banking, IRDA, TRA, etc. threats and compliance to regulations while • Integrated Alert and Advisory Services demonstrating business value. • Early detection and prevention of emerging threats
Wipro’s ServiceNXT is the framework to move our clients to a more How Wipro Helps resilient, business aligned and cost efficient security operations Wipro’s ServiceNXT enables this by leveraging a delivery. gamut of security services such as Unified Threat Management, Security Operations, Security ServiceNXT can be deployed through a combination of on-premise, Monitoring, Security Analytics, Compliance onsite, offshore or on cloud models. Reporting and Management, Identity and Access Management Operations, Managed ServiceNXT focuses on standardisation and automation by leveraging Authentication Services and Managed PKI Wipro’s IP and best-in-class industry standard tools. Operations, Security as a Service, Fraud and Forensic Analysis and Advanced Security ServiceNXT is a framework that has distilled Wipro’s experience in Services. Managed Services gained over a number of years. Key Tenets of Wipro’s Managed Security Services
CIO Choice 2016 71 Mr. Indrajit Belgundi, Latitude PLM - APJ, Dell India, receiving the recognition trophy from Mr. Arun Gupta, Managing Partner and Director, Ingenium Advisory, and Mr. Pradeep Saha, Head - IT, Max Healthcare.
Network Security (Large Enterprise)
72 CIO Choice 2016 Protect your perimeter without compromising performance
Secure your network while sustaining performance and simplifying management. Dell SonicWALL next- generation firewalls and unified threat management firewalls deliver intrusion prevention, malware protection, application intelligence and control, real-time traffic visualisation, and inspection for Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)–encrypted sessions at the gateway.
You can also manage, visualise, analyse, audit and report across numerous appliances deployed all around the world from a single, centralised console, using Dell’s management and reporting solutions. Our network security solutions provide:
• Better security effectiveness • Higher performance • Disruptively low total cost of ownership (TCO)
“Dell security solutions can help you create and maintain a strong security foundation with interconnected solutions across the enterprise. From endpoints and users to networks, data and identity, Dell security solutions mitigate risk and reduce complexity so you can drive your business forward.”
Mr. Amit Singh, Country Head – Dell Security Solutions, Dell India
CIO Choice 2016 73 Mr. Indrajit Belgundi, Latitude PLM - APJ, Dell India receiving the recognition trophy from Mr. Sunil Mehta, Senior Vice President and Area Systems Director, J Walter Thompson, Mr. Pankaj Mittal, CTO, Vodafone India Ltd., and Mr. Anoop Mathur, Founder and President, CORE Media.
Networking - Active (Large Enterprise)
74 CIO Choice 2016 Your network. Your vision. Your terms.
Today’s applications call for new thinking about network architecture. Based on open standards, Dell networking solutions free you from outdated, proprietary approaches. Our future- ready networking solutions help you:
• Improve network performance. • Lower data centre costs. • Remain flexible to adopt new innovations.
Take control of your network’s future and learn how Dell’s strategy for open networking can dramatically transform your business.
“Today’s IT leaders feel the pressure of delivering exceptional agility, scalability and manageability to their data centre networks. We believe only an open ecosystem can stimulate rapid innovation to accommodate the flexibility and efficiency demands–which is essentially Dell’s vision of the new data centre networking model.”
Mr. Amandeep Singh Dang, Country Manager – Dell Networking, Dell India
CIO Choice 2016 75 Mr. Amit Barmecha, Co-Founder and Director, and Mr. Alkesh Agarwal, Co-Founder and CEO, Re-Feel Cartridge Engineering Pvt. Ltd., receiving the recognition trophy from Ms. Ritu Madhbhavi, Senior Vice President - IT, Draft FCB Ulka Adverting, and Ms. Kalpana Maniar, Head Business Solutions and IT, Edelweiss Capital Ltd.
Print & Cartridge Solution (Small Medium Enterprise)
76 CIO Choice 2016 “Re-Feel aims to simplify and optimise large printer fleets by deploying scientific processes and cutting edge technology. The presence at over 100 stores across India makes Re-Feel the first choice for medium and large corporates having establishments at multiple locations. Uniform quality and pricing is ensured at all locations pan-India. At Re-Feel we strive to provide quality print solutions to consumers and corporates, helping them save huge money and in process. Over two lakh consumers and 500 corporates trust us for their high quality, low cost print solution.”
Mr. Amit Barmecha, Co-founder and COO, Re-Feel
Re-Feel is India’s largest printer cartridge refilling and remanufacturing network with a presence at over 100 locations across 85 cities. Started in 2007 after an extensive research on the printer cartridge remanufacturing industry, Re-Feel now serves over 500 enterprises across India for their day to day print requirements. At Re-Feel we thrive to be technically inspired, economically sound and environmentally safe.
Re-Feel can be the single point of contact for proactively managing existing large printer environment and reducing operating cost. The company’s USP lies in customising print solutions Re-Feel is an ISO 9001:2008 and 14001:2004 certified best suited to specific organisations, ensuring company and our commitment towards quality and support quality end to end managed print solutions. has helped us get recognised many times as industry leaders.
CIO Choice 2016 77 Mr. Sunil Gupta, Executive Director and President, Mr. Prasenjit Roy, Senior Vice President - Marketing, and Mr. Rajesh Tapadia, Senior Vice President and Head - Solutions Engineering and Bids, Netmagic Solutions Pvt. Ltd., receiving the recognition rophy from Mr. Pankaj Bhargava, CIO, Pidilite Industries Ltd., and Mr. Jagadish Belwal, CIO, Tata Motors.
Private Cloud (Large Enterprise)
78 CIO Choice 2016 With its Private Cloud Services, Netmagic was able to help enterprises looking to exploit the benefits of cloud, while maintaining customised levels of control, performance and security. In essence, a dedicated private environment that is fast and flexible enough to run everything from search intensive websites to ERP solutions.
What makes Netmagic’s Private Cloud Services the CIOs’ choice?
Ÿ Control via Web console: A complete consolidated layer of control over every aspect of your IT. Ÿ Secure and compliant environment: Ensures a secure environment through physical and network separation. Ÿ Enterprise Grade Offering: Built on enterprise grade hardware from the best OEMs like Dell, HP and Intel. Ÿ Deploy resources on-the-fly: Get the capacity to deploy new blocks of computing power without capital investment in physical infrastructure. Ÿ Industry leading SLAs Ÿ Live Support Ÿ 1st to get CSA (Cloud Security Alliance) STAR certified Ÿ PCI DSS Version 3.0 certification
“For enterprises in need of higher levels of control, performance and stringent compliance regulations, Private Cloud has emerged as a preferred deployment model. Netmagic has been successful in delivering deployments with significant levels of customisation, delivering higher levels of efficiency, performance and ultimately business value. I would like to thank the CIO community for their continued patronage and support, as we remain committed to delivering to their expectations and delighting them with innovation.”
Mr. Nitin Mishra, Senior Vice President and Head - Products and Services, Netmagic
CIO Choice 2016 79 Mr. Sunil Gupta, Executive Director and President, Mr. Shriranga Mulay, Senior Vice President - IT Engineering, Mr. Rajesh Tapadia, Senior Vice President and Head - Solutions Engineering and Bids, and Mr. Prasenjit Roy, Senior Vice President - Marketing, Netmagic Solutions Pvt. Ltd., receiving the recognition trophy from Mr. Rahul Mahajan, Vice President - Information Technology, K. Raheja Corp., and Mr. Sudesh Agarwal, Vice President - IT, Landmark Group.
Public Cloud (Large Enterprise)
80 CIO Choice 2016 “I am humbled by the faith reposed in our services by the CIO community by awarding us this recognition for a second year running. As the first service provider in India to launch Public Cloud services, Netmagic has been pursuing a process of constant innovation in various aspects of public cloud services. These innovations are the result of working closely with our customers, whose requirements have spurred us to deliver to their needs. This recognition is as much theirs as it is ours.”
Mr. Sunil Gupta, Executive Director and President, Netmagic
Netmagic was the first service provider to launch Public Cloud Services in India under the brand, What makes Netmagic’s Public SimpliCloud--an Enterprise grade IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) Cloud platform built on the latest Cloud Services the CIOs’ virtualisation techniques. Choice? SimpliCloud Services include Ÿ Complete control: Using the Netmagic Service Orchestrator Ÿ On-demand virtual machines and compute enterprises can provision, upgrade, downgrade or de- resources provision your virtual infrastructure Ÿ Virtual Load Balancers and Firewalls without the Ÿ Enterprise Grade Offering: Built on enterprise grade complex setup hardware from the best OEMs like Dell, HP and Intel Ÿ Virtual Storage with SimpliSAN, SimpliNAS and Ÿ No worry of upfront CAPEX for physical hardware SimpliDrive Ÿ Handle flash loads without manual configuration headaches with SimpliScale Ÿ Industry leading SLAs Ÿ Live Support Ÿ 1st to get CSA (Cloud Security Alliance) STAR certified Ÿ PCI DSS Version 3.0 certification
CIO Choice 2016 81 Mr. Abhay Y. Ghate, Vice President - Centre of Excellence for Technology and CTO, Nihilent Technologies Ltd., receiving the recognition trophy from Mr. V. Subramaniam, Director IT (Transformation), United Technologies - Building and Industrial Systems, and Mr. Ajay Kumar Meher, Senior Vice President and Head - IT and Post Production, Sony Pictures Networks India.
Quality Testing Services (Large Enterprise)
82 CIO Choice 2016 Testing of systems and solutions represents 30-50% of the total cost of development. Even after making Nihilent’s Testing Philosophy such investments most companies are not sure Ÿ Metrics Based Approach whether the application/product is indeed tested ¢ Effective usage of metrics like Defect fully. Testing is an expertise that requires developing Density, Error Injection, Leakage, etc for a strategy, building a detailed testing process and quality (e.g. Minimum Residual Errors) plan along with execution, and making it efficient • Risk assessment and repeatable using appropriate tools and • Predictive modelling and risk assessment techniques. Ÿ Root Cause Analysis for Correction ¢ Identification of weak spots in SDLC “Quality is never an ¢ Proper corrective action ¢ Alignment to business objectives accident; it is always the Ÿ Testing as Risk Assessment and Management Nihilent believes the objective of testing should be to deliver a result of intelligent effort.” product or solution that has been completely exercised and proved. It is impossible to test software to 100% accuracy, with the exception Nihilent’s testing offering is not only a cost cutting of small transactions. This is because new data profiles occur, which measure but also value added service in analysing did not exist during testing or were not thought of in the planning. test results to identify the root cause of problems/ It’s therefore the aim of testing to ensure that the software installed errors and assist in sorting the problem. In addition, does not cause any business disruption and works to an acceptable Nihilent offers assistance in ensuring high reliability level. of the software by using reliability modelling techniques. At the same time, outsourcing of a In the classical development life cycle, there is a stepwise critical but non-core function like testing enables decomposition of requirements, specifications, functions, and code organisations to maintain an up-to-date technology during the build process, and the associated testing. infrastructure and focus on their core competency. In reality, it’s expected that some degree of change will occur, as In the current environment it is important for constraints of the new environment may impose these. However, the organisations to implement any system solution policy should be that this change be limited in scope and nature, within the minimum possible time and react nimbly requiring only modest, if any, changes to the test. to changes in business conditions. Nihilent’s testing services enables organisations to deliver a high Nihilent’s Testing Service Offerings quality product with maximum value at minimum Software Testing as a Managed Service cost. Nihilent offers the following benefits: Setting up Testing Centre of Excellence (CoE) Ÿ Value added services in identifying the root Strategy driven mobile testing–manual, automation and performance cause of errors and assistance in resolving them Optimised test tool utilisation Ÿ Ensures the quality and reliability of the product Our unique offerings include Ÿ Low infrastructure and manpower costs Business centric testing Ÿ Frees up key resources to concentrate on core Business tree map technique–test analysis functions Predictive risk modelling Ÿ Results in minimum time to market Nihilent Automation Framework for Testing (NAFT) Ÿ Minimises testing cycle and time Professional testing training
“We are pleased to have won the CIO Choice honour and recognition for testing. Our company has, right from inception, focused on a holistic approach to problem solving, and our quality testing services offerings stand testimony to this fact. At Nihilent, we offer business-centric testing services wherein we understand the impact of test cases to the business, and based on our assessment we prioritise the specific offerings to our customers.”
Mr. Abhay Y. Ghate, Vice President and CTO, Nihilent
CIO Choice 2016 83 Mr. Piyush Somani, MD and CEO, ESDS Software Solution Pvt. Ltd., receiving the recognition trophy from Mr. V. Subramaniam, Director IT (Transformation), United Technologies - Building and Industrial Systems, and Mr. Ajay Kumar Meher, Senior Vice President and Head - IT and Post Production, Sony Pictures Networks India.
Realtime Automatic Resource Adjustment (Small Medium Enterprise)
84 CIO Choice 2016 “We are delighted to have received this recognition for our patent wining innovation on eNlight cloud. We are committed to partner with customers of all scale and sectors to empower them to adopt the Cloud First approach and transform their IT strategy. This award is a testimony to our efforts and we are focused in ensuring that we continue to set industry benchmarks on breakthrough innovations.”
Mr. Piyush Somani, Founder, MD, CEO, ESDS Software Solution Pvt. Ltd.
ESDS started operations in the year 2005, and has ESDS has consistently been honoured by government since then made rapid strides as an established group bodies, media, OEMs, etc and appreciated by clients for its of Web Hosting companies and Fully Managed Data innovative products and services. Centres based in India, UK and USA. The company specialises in provisioning of high quality Managed Hosting, Managed Servers, Server Racks and Cages, About eNlight Co-location and System Security, Cloud Hosting, eNlight Cloud is India’s First Cloud Computing Platform DataCentre Management System, SAP Hosting (HANA, patented from USPTO (No. 9176788) for “Method and Non HANA, B1), Disaster Recovery Hosting (including system for real-time detection of resource requirement and Cross Platform), E-Commerce Hosting, Hosted Core automatic adjustments”. It is a state-of-the-art cloud hosting Banking Solution, etc. solution with a built-in ability to automatically scale CPU and RAM on-demand. The Auto-Scalable feature of eNlight Today, 10 years down the line, we have more than has succeeded in eliminating the downtime that occurred as 35,000 customers worldwide, a significant number of a result of volatile Internet traffic. This Auto-scaling feature them being corporate entities that have their businesses makes eNlight an unsurpassed proposition for Disaster dependent on their Internet presence. Our eNlight Recovery Hosting that cuts down Disaster Recovery Hosting Cloud (Patent: US 9176788) is a state-of-the-art cloud cost by 70%. With greatest transparency in the Pay Per hosting solution with a built-in ability to automatically Consume billing model, users get to eliminate costs of scale CPU and RAM on-demand. ESDS is an Uptime unused resources. Certified Tier 3 Data Centre, CMMI Level 3 company, NASSCOM Member and SAP Certified Data Centre and Cloud Hosting Provider.
CIO Choice 2016 85 Mr. Amit Goel, Co-Founder and Enterprise Sales Head at Blubirch, receiving the recognition trophy from Mr. Rahul Mahajan, Vice President - IT, K. Raheja Corp., and Mr. Sudesh Agarwal, Vice President - IT, Landmark Group.
Reverse Inventory Logistics (Small Medium Enterprise)
86 CIO Choice 2016 “ Blubirch is a young startup in the Reverse Inventory Logistics space. We are very excited to win this recognition in just the second year of operations and to be recognised by such an eminent set of CIOs is a testimony that we are on the right track. With a focus on helping our clients using technology in the Reverse Logistics space and with our own refurbishment centres coupled with some key solutions being rolled out in next couple of months, we are looking at rapid growth in 2016.”
Mr. Amit Goel, Co-Founder and Enterprise Sales Head, Blubirch
Blubirch is a VC funded startup offering End-To-End tablets, servers and other IT equipment through Reverse Supply chain Solutions that helps Retailers, outright sale or a rental model. Multiple startups, Enterprises, OEMs and Individuals in maximising mid-size companies and big enterprises are value from unutilised, decommissioned and benefitting from these cost effective offerings. customer returned inventory in a transparent, trustful Various startups and enterprises have taken entire and compliant way. Blubirch’s solution encompasses infrastructure including servers, desktops, mobiles diagnosing the returned items, refurbishing/ and laptops from Blubirch to reduce their capital repairing where required and enabling clients to expenditure. Some of the marquee clients include redeploy or sell these items through its Amazon, Barclays, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Gati along online/offline channels. Blubirch’s technology-based with 200+ other corporate clients and 3,000+ solution ensures cost effective and speedy handling reseller network across the globe. of returns along with insightful analytics.
Further, Blubirch also worked with businesses of all sizes and help them with high quality refurbished/ open box inventory of mobiles, laptops, desktops,
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Excess Recycle Experienced Extensive Team Resellers’ Network CIO Choice 2016 87 Mr. Manish Gupta, Director Enterprise Solutions, Dell India, receiving the recognition trophy from Ms. Puneet Kaur Kohli, Group CTO and EVP IT, Bajaj Capital Ltd.
Server Virtualisation (Large Enterprise)
88 CIO Choice 2016 “It is high time organisations moved away from the one-server, one-workload paradigm that results in underutilised resources, complex operations, and rigid infrastructure. x86 server virtualisation technologies enable the separation of the operating system and applications from the physical hardware through the presentation of virtualised hardware resulting in maximised efficiency, simplified operations and increased agility.”
Mr. Manish Gupta, Director Enterprise Solutions Group, Dell India
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CIO Choice 2016 89 Mr. Manish Gupta, Director and GM - Enterprise Solutions, Dell India, receiving the recognition trophy from Mr. Kishore Daryanani, CIO, Alfa Laval, and Mr. Milind Khamkar, Group CIO, Super Max.
Servers (Large Enterprise)
90 CIO Choice 2016 “Data centres built around predictable, one-dimensional applications are evolving into dynamic environments tasked with complex and infrastructure-taxing workloads adding up the operational and capital costs. Dell has built an end-to-end selection of enterprise solutions with unique technologies and exclusive capabilities to deliver a scalable IT infrastructure for the future based on standardised technologies. Our solutions are scalable and flexible with efficient compute architecture for streamlined and intuitive management.”
Mr. Sudharsan R, Commercial Marketing Director, Dell India
Be future ready right now
A company is only as innovative as its IT. With Dell future-ready enterprise solutions, you can be ready with a data centre that bridges traditional and new IT, so you can:
• Scale and adapt with tailored solutions. • Speed innovation with simplified management. • Save on total cost of ownership with efficient technology.
PowerEdge rack, tower and blade servers are customer-inspired, feature-rich platforms designed to deliver the performance and versatility you need to meet all challenges in almost any setting, from small businesses to enterprise hyper-scale environments.
CIO Choice 2016 91 Mr. Manish Gupta, Director - Enterprise Solutions, Dell India, receiving the recognition trophy from Mr. Girish Kulkarni, Board Member, HIMSS Asia Pacific India Chapter, and Mr. Ajay Bakshi, Senior Vice President - Business Transformation, Aegis Ltd.
Storage - Hardware (Large Enterprise)
92 CIO Choice 2016 “Enterprises are looking for efficiency/agility in storing and managing massive data to stay ahead of today’s always-on world, rapid technology change, omnipresent mobile devices and super-connected consumers. The storage solution portfolio of Dell that includes performance-optimised flash technologies, ultra-dense storage enclosures and software-defined storage (SDS) solutions can address all the storage needs of an organisation and ensure best business outcome.”
Mr. Sudharsan R, Commercial Marketing Director, Dell India
Storage Solutions
Redefining the economics of enterprise storage Achieve faster response times and lower your total cost of ownership (TCO) with data centre and virtualisation strategies designed to match your workloads. From storage, networking and servers to software and beyond, our flexible modern architectures span a broad technology portfolio, delivering a distinct advantage over siloed vendors who work inside only a single domain.
Meet your specific storage needs from our wide range of solutions: • Modern hardware architectures • Innovative software tools • End-to-end services
Whether you need performance-optimised flash technologies, ultra-dense storage enclosures, traditional or software-defined storage (SDS) solutions, we can help you choose the right options for your organisation’s needs.
CIO Choice 2016 93 Mr. Kiran Shinde, Head- Service Delivery, Maintenance Services, SIMS and Mr. Prakash Mardikar, Head - Project Delivery and PMO, SI Services, SIMS, Wipro Ltd. receiving the recognition trophy from Mr. Pankaj Bhargava, CIO, Pidilite Industries Ltd., and Mr. Meheriar Patel, Chief Technology Officer, The MobileStore Ltd..
System Integrator (Large Enterprise)
94 CIO Choice 2016 “Winning the System Integrator of the Year recognition for the second year in a row is a testament to the trust that we have earned from the CIO community. This award is a recognition of our commitment towards excellence and our technical expertise.”
Mr. Anuj Bhalla, VP and Business Head - Global SI, Maintenance Services and Products, Wipro Ltd.
CIO Choice 2016 95 Mr. Satish Mittal, CTO, Vodafone India Ltd., receiving the recognition trophy from Mr. Girish Rao, Head - IT and Business Analytics, Marico Ltd., and Mr. Sabyasachi Chakraborty Thakur, Head IT, Century Plyboards India Ltd.
Telecom Carrier (Leased Lines) (Large Enterprise)
96 CIO Choice 2016 Vodafone Business Services (VBS), the enterprise arm of Vodafone India is committed to being the most trusted and valued total communications partner.
VBS’ portfolio of total communications solutions for global and national businesses comprises Mobile, Wireline, Internet of Things (IoT), and Cloud services. These are delivered to businesses through four verticals-- Vodafone Global Enterprise (VGE), National Corporate (NC), Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) and a dedicated vertical for government customers. VBS also has a dedicated sales team for telecom carriers and wholesale.
Vodafone Business Services leverages the Vodafone Group’s global expertise in product and solution development, account and service management and Enterprise and Telecom Carrier (Mobile Access) – other best practices. This gives them an edge over the Large Enterprise. competition in providing cutting-edge tailored solutions that address customer needs while also developing go- to-market strategies for relevant new products and Telecom Carrier services, across mobile, wireline, IoT and cloud services. (Leased Lines)
Through a dedicated team of Account Managers and Service Managers, VBS offers a varied range of Vodafone’s Internet Leased Line Service connects you to products and services to help enterprises (big and the outside world and gives your organisation secure small) enhance their productivity and efficiency. data connectivity. Ÿ IoT Solutions Ÿ Wireline Data Solutions (MPLS-VPN, Internet Leased Ÿ Your business maintains faster data output at low Lines, Domestic and International Leased Circuits) latencies. Ÿ Office Wireline Voice (E1-DID) Ÿ Guaranteed bandwidth ranging from 1Mbps to Ÿ Toll Free Services, Conferencing and Collaboration, 1 Gbps and more. Application Mobility Ÿ Stringent performance SLAs, giving you quality Ÿ Mobile Email and Connectivity Solutions assurance and peace of mind. Ÿ Ideal for hosting corporate Web portals, email servers, We are proud to be recognised as CIO Choice 2016 in video conferencing, VOIP or accessing the Internet. the categories Telecom Carrier (Leased Lines) – Large
“Our aim is to be the leading total communications provider for enterprises by helping Indian businesses across segments achieve their ambitions. We are constantly working on keeping our customers ready for challenges and the future. We are delighted to receive the CIO Choice 2016 recognition for two core categories. We will continue to be at the forefront of building future-ready enterprises by empowering businesses with total communications solutions.”
Mr. Satish Mittal, CTO and New Product Development Head, Vodafone Business Services
CIO Choice 2016 97 Mr. Nick Gliddon, Director, Vodafone India Ltd., receiving the recognition trophy from Mr. Pankaj Bhargava, CIO, Pidilite Industries Ltd., and Mr. Jagadish Belwal, CIO, Tata Motors.
Telecom Carrier (Mobile Access) (Large Enterprise)
98 CIO Choice 2016 Telecom Carrier (Mobile Access)
Vodafone’s Enterprise Mobility Solutions help you address the challenges your business faces–today and in the future.
Ÿ It helps you simplify your communications, control costs and drive productivity of your workforce. Ÿ Securely connect with customers, colleagues and employees when they are on the move, between meetings or even at home. Ÿ Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) helps manage and maintain the use of mobile devices within an organisation. Ÿ Customised solutions to suit your business needs, backed by our global expertise in the machine-to- machine arena.
CIO Choice 2016 99 Mr. Darshan Watve, Director - Enterprise, and Mr. Lalit Parchani, Director - Solutions Consulting, Concur Technologies India Pvt. Ltd., receiving the recognition trophy from Mr.Sayed Peerzade, CIO, Reliance Entertainment - Digital, and Mr. Prakash Dharmani, Global CIO, Essel Propack Ltd.
Travel & Expense Management Solution (Small Medium Enterprise)
100 CIO Choice 2016 “Concur aims to enable the perfect trip for a business traveller – one that is smooth, hassle-free, with some wow moments thrown in–all made possible through technology. We are delighted to receive this recognition and extend our appreciation to our partners, associates and clients. The award is a true testament to the trust Concur’s customers place in the company, and we feel privileged and humbled. Voted for by CIOs, this recognition showcases our expertise in specific technology areas as well as our strength and leadership in the travel and expense management industry.”
Mr. Ramesh Iyer, Managing Director - India, Concur Technologies
Concur, an SAP company, is a leading provider of T&E ecosystem, that brings together customer, integrated travel and expense management supplier and developer, but also adapts to the solutions. The company’s cloud-based and mobile altering situations to stay ahead of the curve in its solutions ensure that corporate travel is booked domain by taking advantage of various channels, within policy and reconciles expenses after travel are such as: completed. By capturing and reporting on T&E spend, Concur provides data to increase visibility control spend and manage compliance. Social Ÿ Connect employees and cut costs by sharing trip details Solution Highlights Ÿ Connect travellers and avoid mishaps by giving Ÿ End-to-end cloud-based travel and expense out information management solution Ÿ Advanced reporting with insight into travel and expense trends Mobility Ÿ Robust and reliable Cloud Computing Ÿ Aam Aadmi is now App Aadmi infrastructure Ÿ Claim, approve, access reports anywhere anytime Ÿ Web and mobile solutions for anytime, anywhere in a click access Cloud Concur Stats Ÿ Asset-light model effectively lowers operating Ÿ Concur processes more than 55 million T&E costs and risks transactions, worth over $50 billion in a year Ÿ Minimal infrastructure investment assures Ÿ Concur employs approximately 4,800 people companies of cost reduction worldwide Ÿ On-demand model: Pay as you use structure Ÿ Concur boasts of a 30,000+ client base located ensures solutions are made available as and in over 150 countries when needed Ÿ Over 70% of BTN’s Corporate Travel 100 companies are Concur’s clients Ÿ More than half (305) of the Fortune 500 Analytics companies are Concur’s clients Ÿ Gain visibility and insights into budget versus spends As the world’s leading provider of integrated travel Ÿ Identify frequent suppliers; Negotiate harder to and expense management solutions and services, gain cost saving benefits Concur understands the changing dynamics of Ÿ Identify defaulters; Fix compliance issues for businesses and the prerequisites for user adoption. more productive functioning It not only helps companies with its transformational
CIO Choice 2016 101 Mr. Abhay Bagde, Vice President (Strategic Products and Sales), Perpetuuiti Technosoft Services Pvt.Ltd., receiving the recognition trophy from Ms. Ritu Madhbhavi, Senior Vice President - IT, Draft FCB Ulka Adverting, and Ms. Kalpana Maniar, Head Business Solutions and IT, at Edelweiss Capital Ltd.
Virtual Workforce Solutions (Small Medium Enterprise)
102 CIO Choice 2016 “Being recognised at CIO Choice for two consecutive years from amongst so many companies is a great accomplishment for us. The recognition becomes even more special as the jury consists of an independent panel of eminent CIOs and IT decision makers. This is a huge validation of our efforts and proves our commitment towards the evolving demands of IT customers. Furthermore, one of the world’s biggest stock exchanges uses our Virtual Workforce Solution to automate their rotes tasks for enhanced productivity and greater efficiency. This further validates our innovation, and the trust of CIOs.”
Mr. Rohil Sharma, Co-Founder and CEO, PerpetuuitiTechnosoft Services Pvt. Ltd.
Perpetuuiti, a Global Enterprise Software Products company that helps organisations increase productivity and efficiency through Automation for On-Premises or Cloud Deployments, has been awarded with the CIO Choice 2016 Honour and workload related jobs to enable simpler and automated Business Recognition for its Virtual Workforce Solution Processes. Ops-Central™ RSA does not require the prior delivered through its flagship product, knowledge of clients’ processes and can automate these Ops-Central™. processes on the fly, which makes Perpetuuiti Ops-Central™ unique in the Business Process Automation market. Ops- Perpetuuiti’s integrated and modular product family Central™ RSA eliminates the labor-intensive manual interactions, supports a combination of technologies enabling providing an instinctive and comprehensive automation platform solutions (built in accordance with ISO 22301 that automates and orchestrates key processes, such as system, standards) for Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive network, application and user tasks. It has a unified graphical Computing, Machine Learning, Robotic Software command centre dashboard that enhances business experience Automation (RSA), Intelligent Process Automation through increased real-time visibility and centralised (IPA), Business Process Automation (BPA), management across heterogeneous IT platforms, which can be Organisational BCP Automation, IT Service leveraged in order to reduce the time, cost and logistics Continuity and Availability Management, Recovery associated with more traditional IT workload exercising. Assurance, Real-Time Auto Discovery of Application Allowing IT personnel to maintain full control over automated IT infrastructure and Application Interdependency tasks, Ops-Central frees up time to focus on key issues that Mapping, and Migration/Replication to Cloud. improve service levels through centralised activities across physical, virtual and cloud systems. Ops-Central™, a flagship gem from Perpetuuiti’s basket of offerings, provides a comprehensive Virtual Workforce Solution using Robotic Software Automation (RSA). Ops-Central™ RSA has the capability of applying specific technologies to easily and rapidly automate the standardised, day-to-day IT
CIO Choice 2016 103 Advisory Panel 2016 Speaks
Mr. Anil Garg Head Global Operations - IT, Dabur India Ltd. “CIO Choice is a great initiative. Vendors have now started giving it lot of weightage and they are very keen to get this recognition as it gives them a starting point with CIOs. Till now there was no recognition like this. Anoop Mathur has been doing great work in bringing together the IT community and making people aware of the good work being done by members of the IT fraternity.”
Mr. Anil Jaggia Ex-CIO, HDFC Bank “CIO Choice is an awesome forum connecting over a thousand senior IT professionals. It is definitely unparalleled in the Indian landscape. Anoop Mathur has built an outstanding brand in a very short time span.”
Mr. Avinash Velhal Group CIO for India, Middle East and Africa, ATOS India “CIO Choice is a unique B2B platform that enables CIOs to endorse our preferred vendors. It’s one of those star events and all vendors strive to be recognised at CIO Choice. Anoop Mathur’s continuous effort has made CIO Choice into a grand red carpet event.”
Mr. Girish Rao Head IT and BA , MARICO Ltd. “I think CIO Choice is an excellent platform that gives CIOs an opportunity to voice who their preferred vendors are, as well as give a feedback to the vendors in terms of their work. It a platform where vendors are recognised for all the hard work they do in delivering solutions as part of their service.”
104 CIO Choice 2016 Mr. Kersi Tavadia CIO, BSE Ltd “CIO Choice is a very good platform for encouraging vendors and shows the trust placed in the CIO community. The entire initiative, started by Anoop Mathur, is an excellent way of bringing together the vendors and users. It’s a great confidence building activity; the biggest plus point is that people will trust each other before using the product. Anoop has been doing a fantastic job of bringing in a lot of innovation in the IT field.”
Mr. Pankaj Bhargava, CIO, Pidilite Industries “CIO Choice is a very unique platform; it is like a proxy for the voice of the customers. It is also a platform for the discovery of potential partners, and provides credibility to both CIOs and vendors.”
Mr. Ramandeep Singh Virdi Vice President – Group IT, Inter Globe Enterprises “CIO Choice is a one of its kind platform in India. It’s a great place for the CIOs to recognise their partners, the vendors, who help them grow their business. And to be able to share our views with other CIOs is important for us.”
Mr. Sanjay Narkar CTO, IDFC Bank “This is a great platform for all CIOs and CTOs, where we are brought together for a purpose that actually helps us get into technology more objectively. CIO Choice provides CIOs with a lot of ideas and a chance for networking, which is a must.”
Mr. Shailesh Joshi CIO, Godrej Industries “The CIO Choice verdict is the most efficient or effective recognition for product and service providers. Since these are the CIOs’ choice of preferred brands, it makes the recognition unbiased. The entire credit of this program goes to Anoop Mathur and his team.”
CIO Choice 2016 105 CIO Choice 2016 Recognised Brands Contact
AdStringO Software Pvt. Ltd. ESDS Software Solution Pvt. Ltd. Address: Haware's Fantasia Business Park, S/188, Plot No. B- 24 & 25, NICE Industrial Area, Second Floor, Plot No. 47, Sector - 30A, Satpur MIDC, Opp. Vashi Railway Station, Nashik 422 007. Navi Mumbai - 400703 Phone : +91- 253 -6636500, +91- 253 - 711 2233 Phone :+ 91 - 22 - 2781 0231 Fax : +91-9595247247 web : www.adStringO.in web : www.esds.co.in
Blubirch-A unit of Green Enabled IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Forrester Reserch Inc. 2/1, 27th Cross, Unit No 301 to 310 3rd Floor Behind Krishna Grand Hotel, Splendour forum Banashankari 2nd Stage, Jasola District Centre Bengaluru - 560070. New Delhi Delhi , 110025. Phone : +91 - 80 - 26711673 / 4 / 6 Phone : (011) 42840000 / (011) 42840002 Web : www.blubirch.com Web : www.forrester.com
Concur Technologies India Pvt. Ltd. GoDB Tech Pvt. Ltd. # 1002 – Regus, Trade Centre, II Floor, TVH Agnitio Park, Bandra Kurla Complex, Bandra (East), No. 141, Old Mahabalipuram Road, Mumbai - 400051. Kandanchavadi, Chennai - 96, India. Phone : +91 - 22 - 30476341 Phone : 91- 44 - 43997744 Web : www.concur.com Web : www.godbtech.com
CtrlS DataCentres Ltd. HCL Technologies Ltd. 16, Software Units Layout, A-9/10, Madhapur (Hitech-City), Sector 3 Hyderabad – 500081, Telangana, India Noida, Phone : +91 - 40 - 42030700 Uttar Pradesh - 201301 India. Fax: + 91 40 23116055 Web : www.hcl.in web : www.ctrls.in
Datamatics Global Services Ltd. Instasafe Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Knowledge Centre, Street No. 17 Global Incubation Services, MIDC, Andheri (East) CA Site No.1, Behind Hotel Leela Mumbai – 400 093 Palace Kempinski, HAL 3rd Stage, Phone : +91 (22) 6102 0000-09 Kodihalli, Bengaluru - 560008. Fax : +91 (22) 2834 3669 Phone : +91- 8880220044 Web : www.datamatics.com web : www.instasafe.com
Dell India Pvt. Ltd. International Data Corporation (IDC) #12/1,12/2A,13/1A,Challaghatta Village, 304, Solitaire Plaza Varthur Hobli, MG Road, Bangalore South, Near Guru Drona Metro Station Bangalore-560071 Gurgaon 122002 Phone : +91- 080 - 25357311 Delhi, India Fax : +91- 080 - 25357309 Phone : +91 - 124 476 2300 Web : www.dell.co.in web : www.in.idc.com
106 CIO Choice 2016 LogiNext Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Ramco Systems Ltd. Unit No. 901, A Wing, 9th Floor, Supreme Business Park, 64, Sardar Patel Road, Supreme City, Powai, Hiranandani Gardens, Taramani, Chennai - 600 113. Powai, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400076. Phone : + 91 - 44 2235 4510 Phone : + 91 - 22 - 61526300 + 91 - 44 3090 4000 web : www.loginextsolutions.com Web : www.ramco.com
MAVENVISTA Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Rediff.com India Ltd. S-1, First Floor Norquest House, Mahalaxmi Engineering Estate, Near Lions Hall, Mithakali Six Roads , L.J. Road # 1, Mahim (West) Ellisbridge, Ahmedabad - 380006, Gujarat. Mumbai 400 016. India Phone : +91 - 79 - 26463910/11 Phone : +91 - 22 - 61820000 Fax : +91 - 79 - 26460055 Fax : +91 - 22 - 24455346 Web : www.mavenvista.com Web : www.investor.rediff.com
Netmagic Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Refeel Cartridge Engineering Pvt. Ltd. 2nd Floor, North Side, Block B-2, 711, Lake Town, Phase - I, Nirlon Knowledge Park, Block-A, Goregaon East, Mumbai, Kolkata-700089. Maharashtra 400063 Phone : +91 - 33 - 4006 8808 Phone : +91 - 022 - 4009 9099 +91 - 33 - 4008 4007 / 4008 4445. Web : www.netmagicsolutions.com Web : www.re-feel.in
Nihilent Technologies Ltd. Schneider Electric India Pvt. Ltd. 'D' Block, 4th Floor, Marwah House, 2nd floor, Weikfield IT Citi Infopark, krishna lal marwah marg, Nagar Road, Pune 411 014. Andher east, Mumbai, Phone : +91- 20 - 39846100 Maharashtra 400072 Fax : +91- 20 - 39846498 Phone :022 3940 4000 Web : www.nihilent.com Web : www.schneider-electric.co.in
Nine A Business Connect Pvt. Ltd. Sify Technologies Ltd. B-711, 7th Floor, II Floor, Tidel Park, No.4, Sagar Tech Plaza, Canal Bank Road, Taramani, Sakinaka Junction, Chennai, Andheri-East Mumbai-400072, India Tamil Nadu 600113. Phone : +91 - 22 - 28599696 Phone : +91- 44 - 2254 0770 - 77 Fax : +91 - 22 - 28598859 Fax : +91- 44 - 2254 0771 Web : www.9abusiness.com web : www.corporate.sify.com
NxtGen Data Center & Cloud Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Vodafone India Ltd. #12/1,12/2A,13/1A, Peninsula Corporate Park Challaghatta Village, Ganpatrao Kadam Marg Varthur Hobli, Lower Parel, Mumbai - 400 013 (I). Bangalore South, Phone : +91 - 22 - 71715000 Bangalore-560071 +91 - 22 - 24963645 Web : www.nxtgen.com Web : www.vodafone.in
Perpetuuiti Technosoft Services Pvt. Ltd. Wipro Ltd. 1208, Regus Trade Centre, Doddakannelli, Sarjapur Road Level One, Trade Centre, BKC, Bangalore - 560 035. Mumbai – 400051 Maharastra, India Phone : +91- 80 - 28440011 Phone : +91 – 22 – 40700700 Fax : +91 - 80 -28440256 web : www.ptechnosoft.com Web : www.wipro.com
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