SP Summit concludes on a high note

The Channel Excellence Awards saw more
than 100 companies gathering in Thailand's capital, Bangkok for a
three-day event from Jan 29 to 31. The sponsors for this event were
Kaseya, Sify, Toshiba, LG, Digilink, D-Link, Eaton, Siemens and GoIP.

The awards were hosted on a river
cruise, which was immensely enjoyed by the solution providers
present. The 'Most Successful Solution Provider' in the Gold category
was given away to Allied Digital Services whereas Frontier Business
Systems and Team Computers bagged the Silver award. Omnitech
Solutions and Allied Digital Services were recognized as the 'Fastest
Growing Solution Providers' in both Gold and Silver categories
respectively. Frontier Business Systems in the Gold category and
Orient Technologies in the Silver category walked away with the 'Most
Comprehensive Solution Provider' award. Allied Digital Services and
PC Solution were acknowledged as 'Best Service Providers' in volume
and value business categories respectively. 'The 'Best Deployment'
award was given to PC Solutions in Gold and Wysetek in Silver
category.

The three-day event was marked with
interactive sessions, where partners, vendors and speakers expressed
their views on the upcoming opportunities in the solution providing
business. The CIOs present at the event interacted with partners
about the challenges they face in IT infrastructure and the role that
SPs can play in revolutionizing IT implementation. Arun Gupta, Group
Chief Technology Officer, Shoppers Stop and Sumit Roy, VP and
Head-Business Applications, MPS Limited held a session entitled
'What a CIO Wants'. The session acted as a bridge to fill the gap
between SPs and CIOs. Keeping the recession in mind, Sanjeev Singhal,
EVP-Finance and Accounts, Religare Enterprises shared his thoughts
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Hemant Mishra, MD, Neeti Brand Solutions spoke to partners
about marketing their companies in a way that attracts customers and
gives them higher credibility in the competitive market. Prof Wong
Poh Kam, Chairman-Business Angel Network, SE Asia conducted a
knowledge session for partners and shared his views about how to make
a company a viable prospect for investors.Shyam Malhotra, Executive
Director,
Cybermedia India spoke about the ways and methods in which solution
providers should acknowledge potential of manpower and how to retain
them in every company.

Girish Krishnamurthy, MD, Kaseya
Software;
Deepak Jhaveri, Magnamious Systems; Sivakumar N, Head-PC Division,
Toshiba; R Manikandan , LG; Michael ANG, Manager-Channel Business
Development, Asia Pacific, Hitachi Data Systems; Deepak Sharma, GM-SE
Asia, Eaton; Shiv Nath Ghosh, Senior VP and Head-Enterprise
Application Services, Sify India and Satheesh Kurup, Director-Volume
Business, Siemens and Anand C Mehta, Associate VP-Marketing and Technical Assistance Center,Digilink gave detailed presentation on products and services
their respective companies offer to the customers and benefits that
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India, Ranjan Chopra from Team Computers and Ajay Sawant from
Orient Technologies elaborated on a wide variety of subjects in the
solution providing businesses and exchanged their views with
partners.

The event concluded with a presentation
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Management and Marketing, D-Link India.