| New Delhi, August
14, 2006: Bharti Airtel Limited continued to add to its impressive list of accolades
and recognition, winning the coveted MIS Asia IT Excellence Awards at the MIS
Asia IT Summit 2006,
Singapore. Bharti Airtel won awards in two categories
-the ‘Best Bottom Line IT’ and ‘Best Knowledge Management’
category and is the only Indian Telecom Company to win these awards. The MIS Asia
IT
Excellence Awards 2006 recognizes companies that have pushed the boundaries
of excellence and demonstrated outstanding performance in IT
implementation.
The ‘Best Bottom Line IT’ award category demonstrates the way IT
at Bharti Airtel tangibly impacts business thus increasing shareholder value for
the company. This category was one of the most contested categories and the organizations
which reached the finals include
companies like - BASF Southeast Asia, Immigration
Department, Hong Kong and the Ministry of Defence, Singapore.
The win
in ‘Best Knowledge Management’ award category reflects the company’s
robust and systematic approach in retaining, aligning and propagating best practices
in IT. The co-finalist in this category was
Immigrations and Check Point
Authority, Singapore.
Dr Jai Menon, Director - IT & Innovations, Bharti
Airtel Limited said, “Bharti won this award last year in the "Best Change
Management" category for its transformation journey of the IT Community of
Practice (IT COP). The "Bottom Line IT" award further punctuates this
transformation through the practical implementation of a large scale enterprise
utility computing paradigm. An additional recognition for "Knowledge
Management" re-emphasises the benefits of this transformation. Several other
such group level
>transformation projects will truly set the IT COP on
its way towards a global benchmark”.
Bharti was amongst an impressive
list of over 100 global companies across multiple industries participating from
countries that included
Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, China, India, Thailand,
the Philippines, Indonesia and Japan.
The process of awards finalization
included month’s rigorous evaluation by a panel of judges that comprised
CIOs, industry experts and analysts. The key judging criteria included: execution
of the project, business alignment and measurable results.
About MIS
Asia IT Excellence Awards
The MIS Asia IT Excellence Awards are organised
annually by MIS Asia. This is the fourth year MIS Asia is staging the event, which
recognises IT organisations and CIOs for excellence in management and for helping
to attain business goals. Since they were launched in 2003, the response
to the Awards has been overwhelming. Since 2005, MIS Asia has changed the name
of the Awards to the MIS Asia IT Excellence Awards to better reflect the role
of IT and the CIO in business.
About Bharti Airtel Limited
Bharti
Airtel Limited is one of India’s leading private sector providers of telecommunications
services with an aggregate of 25.89 million customers as of end of July‘06,
consisting of 24.34 million mobile customers. Bharti Airtel created history by
being ranked among
the top 10 best performing companies in the world in the
globally renowned BusinessWeek IT 100 list.
The company was the first
private operator to provide mobile services in all the 23 circles in India. The
company also provides telephone services and Internet access over DSL in 92 cities.
The company
complements its mobile, broadband & telephone services with
national and international long distance services. The company also has a submarine
cable landing station at Chennai, which connects the
submarine cable (owned
by an associate company) connecting Chennai and Singapore. The company is a part
of the consortium, which jointly owns and has developed the next generation undersea
cable system
SEA-ME-WE-4. The company provides reliable end-to-end data and
enterprise services to the corporate customers by leveraging its nationwide fiber
optic backbone, last mile connectivity in fixed-line and mobile circles, VSATs,
ISP and international bandwidth access through the gateways and landing station.
For more information, visit
http://www.bhartiairtel.in
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