(PCQuest – India’s leading IT magazine, conducts ‘Best IT Implementation Awards’ every year, to recognize good IT initiatives implemented in India. This is the time again when we come up with the results.)

After months of efforts in evaluating 160+ IT projects, PCQuest finally declared the results. It was rather a hectic job evaluating the projects. While the trend of implementing IT projects continues to grow unabated, some projects undertaken recently as we have witnessed are really different and path breaking.

This time we sent the invitation to 4 lakh people and the entire nomination was done completely online. We based our shortlisting process on five parameters as usual, i.e. innovation, business impact, social impact, technical complexity and scale of implementation. We rated each project, with 5 being the maximum score, meticulously. After scrutinizing and shortlisting the projects we came out with 24 finalists that were presented to the jury.

Results

Overall Best: Online BPL Census, Govt. of Rajasthan

Most Innovative: Raising the Bar of Transparency, Shri Sant Gajanan Maharaj Trust

Maximum Business Impact: RFID, ITC Wills Lifestyle

Largest Scale: Consultant Corner, HDFC Standard Life Insurance; IT Project Management System,

Reliance Industries

Maximum Social Impact: CoRD, Govt of West Bengal; World Ahead Community Implementation, Intel

Most Complex: Productivity Enhancement Platform, Infosys Technologies; Enterprise Server Virtualization, ICICI Bank

Special mention: Transport Management System, Apollo Tyres; QMail & Exchange, FICCL; Policy Kit System, Reliance General Insurance; Project SPARX, DUXSoft

Other 11 Made to Finals

BPL Census of Rajasthan undertakes the job of identification of households under poverty line every five years to make BPL Census easily available at a central location with high level of transparency. The project went live in 2006 and is continuous process. Rajasthan became the first state to provide digitized data for BPL families. Now every rural citizen of Rajasthan is identified with a unique serial number. This enabled availability of census data at public domain. Gajanan Maharaj Trusts of Mumbai deployed SAP 6.0 to automate 20,000 transactions per day. ITC Wills Lifestyle put to use one of the first PoS apps for daily store operations. ITC Wills is first in India crack physics of RFID. They gained huge benefits in the area of supply chain and customers delight.

Project Management System (PMS) of Reliance Industries is adjudged as the project with largest scale. PMS is all about a single repository for all IT project knowledge in one system. This has helped enhance the company’s structural capital initiative. Department of Registration of West Bengal deployed CoRD (computerization of registration of document) across 89 Sub-Registrar/ district office s of WB. Registration data at a central place enable them better planning and decision making for govt.

ICICI Bank went for server virtualization to save cost in terms of real estate, power consumption, and hardware doing datacenter consolidation with virtualization. With this they made it to condense 550 servers in about 43 servers using VMware virtualization and technology.