Indian Airlines, LIC win Nasscom user awards

Circuit EC / Mumbai

Indian Airlines and Life Insurance Corporation of India were among the winners of the Nasscom IT user awards. These awards are given for the best IT usage in Indian businesses. The awards were decided on the basis of a user industry survey conducted in association with IMRB, covering verticals such as banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI), manufacturing, retail, transportation, government, education, energy & utilities, FMCG, pharma, healthcare and ICT. The parameters on which the businesses were assessed include IT policy, state of IT infrastructure, people and processes and IT implementation benefits.

Nasscom chairman Som Mittal said, “The IT user survey was intended to assess if there has been an incremental shift in terms of investment and mindshare amongst the user industry about IT usage, and we are glad that the results have been positive.”

Mukesh Ambani, chairman, Reliance Industries said that there is a need to leverage technology to link the Old Economy to the New Economy in order to enlarge the use of IT in every sphere of work.

The other winners of the user awards include Glaxo Smithkline (consumer healthcare-pharmaceuticals), ITC (FMCG), Bharat Petroleum (energy & utilities), HDFC Bank (banking), Tata Iron & Steel (manufacturing), WeP Peripherals (information and communication technology), Shopper’s Stop (retail), Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (education) and Aditya Birla Group (best overall IT user).