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Institutes Prestigious Annual IT Award
The disposition was already set and a sense of expectation
hung suspended in the air in anticipation of some rare
honour since morning. Participants to COMPASS 2002,
annual IT Exhibition organised by the Computer Association
of Eastern India and world renowned Original Equipment
Manufacturers were all waiting in impatient expectation
of a history to ensue in the evening at Oberoi Grand
on January 13, 2002.
The
day added one of the most significant chapters in the
checkered history of the Association when Mr. Sharad
Srivastava of Seagate, the global hard disk manufacturing
major, conferred on TVS Electronics Ltd with the Award
for Best Channel-Friendly Original Equipment Manufacturer
amidst deafening applause. While the Award for the Best
Channel-Friendly distributor was bagged by Priya Electronics
Ltd and Asim Basu of SES Technology was awarded the
Best Channel-Friendly Executive.
The
distribution of the awards not only added a golden chapter
in the history of Computer Association of Eastern India,
the process undertaken to select the award winners set
a new trend in the Indian IT industry, especially among
the channel partners and resellers. The award provided
the channel partners and resellers an opportunity to
evaluate performances of the Original Equipment Manufacturers,
distributors and their executives. The Award Nite was
organised in association with Seagate.
 Describing
the Award Nite as a "historic day for all of us
in COMPASS", Mr. V.K. Bhandari, Chairman, COMPASS
2002, said, "We have long been planning to formulate
a mechanism to evaluate the performance of different
OEMs and their role is sustaining and improvement of
channels. With this objective in mind, we recently commissioned
a leading market survey organisation to conduct a survey".
Mr. B. Hari, a senior member of the COMPASS Executive
Committee and the former Secretary, elucidated in details
the parameters of the survey done to select the award
winners. The survey was carried by a renowned market
research agency.
In
the COMPASS 2002 Event category, which had 15 awards
covering areas like the best stall, best product display,
best single stall, best new product in hardware and
software, best pavilion etc., were given. VIA Technologies
Inc of Taiwan, bagged the best award for the Best Stall,
D-Link was the winner in the Best product display category,
PC Island won the Best Single Stall award, while in
the Best New Product (hardware) and software was won
respectively by Terapin and Stellar Phoenix. The Internet
Ready VIA Media PC from Nimbus Technologies bagged the
Best Value-for-Money category award.
Professional
perfectionism and aesthetics marked the award giving
ceremony. The Ball Room of Oberoi Grand, where the ceremony
took place, looked like a snow-white swan. Mr. Sanjay
Chordia, an Executive Committee Member, was the master
of ceremony.
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