Business Wire IndiaFrost & Sullivan hosted the 13th edition of its ICT India Awards in New Delhi on June 18, 2015. At the awards banquet companies were honored for their outstanding achievements and success, which witnessed the assembly of some of the leading names from the country’s ICT enterprises. This year 29 awards were given away across four award categories – Enterprise Infrastructure, Emerging Software Products and IT Services, Enterprise Telecom Services and Mobile & Wireless.
Frost & Sullivan’s awards assessments brought forth interesting insights from the Indian ICT sector. Innovation emerged as a key differential factor in terms of evolution of the product portfolio, especially in the telecom sector. The stabilization of the Government at the Center and increased focus on digitalization earned the confidence among investors. Hence, enterprises are increasingly investing in or are looking at technology upgrades and futuristic technology adoption more than ever, with BFSI and media segments leading the investment in this space.
Talking about the awards, Benoy CS, Director, ICT Practice, Frost & Sullivan said, “Despite a challenging year companies have shown technological innovations and high growth backed by constant innovation and product differentiation. For enterprises to grow further, innovation will play a major role, which will enable them to differentiate themselves from their competition. The award winners demonstrated superior performances in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, and strategic product development which enabled them to drive business growth in their respective market segments.”
The awards selection involved a rigorous measurement based approach with measurement parameters applied to conduct a detailed study of each of the award contenders. The award recipients were judged on the basis of several parameters such as revenue, market share, product introduction, innovation, diversity of products and solutions, customer acquisitions, product service value and positioning, etc., which involved in-depth primary interviews of various industry participants and secondary research conducted by Frost & Sullivan analysts. To incorporate the end-user perspective, the data was then presented to an elite panel of jury comprising of some of the most prominent CIOs/CTOs from the industry. Frost & Sullivan then presented the award to the company that achieved the number one industry rank.
The esteemed Jury for the Awards this year included the following eminent personalities:
Softline was the Event Partner for the 2015 Frost & Sullivan India ICT Awards, and the Media Partners were CIOL, Communications Today, CXO Today, PC Quest and Telecom Watch.
The 2015 Frost & Sullivan India ICT Award Recipients are:
| Award Category and Title | Award Recipients |
| Enterprise Infrastructure | |
| Video Conferencing Equipment Vendor of the Year | Polycom |
| Unified Communications Application Vendor of the Year | Avaya |
| Audio Conferencing Service Provider of the Year | Chorus Call |
| Work Force Optimization Vendor of the Year | Verint |
| Managed Video Conferencing Service Provider of the Year | Bharti Airtel |
| Web Conferencing Service Provider of the Year | CISCO |
| Contact Center Application Vendor of the Year | Avaya |
| Network Security Vendor of the Year | Fortinet |
| Secure Content Management Vendor of the Year | Intel Security(McAfee) |
| Hosted Contact Center Service Provider of the Year | Tata Communications |
| Technology Innovation Leadership in Cloud Telephony Solutions | Ozonetel Systems |
| Emerging Software Products and IT Services | |
| Visionary Innovation Leadership: Business Intelligence | Blueocean Market Intelligence |
| Company of the Year: Analytics | LatentView Analytics |
| Visionary Innovation Leadership: Enterprise Mobility Applications | Mobiliya Technologies |
| IT Service Provider of the Year | HCL Services |
| IT Services Provider of the Year - Banking Financial Services and Insurance Sector | Infosys |
| IT Solutions Provider of the Year – Oil and Gas Sector | ROLTA |
| IT Services Provider of the Year – Transportation Sector | Tech Mahindra Limited - Travel Transportation & Logistics vertical |
| Enterprise Telecom Services | |
| Enterprise Telecom Service Provider of the Year - Large Enterprise Segment | Tata Communications |
| Enterprise Telecom Service Provider of the Year - SMB Segment | Bharti Airtel |
| Enterprise 3G Service Provider of the Year | Bharti Airtel |
| Enterprise Mobile Service Provider of the Year | Vodafone |
| Third Party Data Center Service Provider of the Year | Netmagic Solutions |
| Enterprise Data Service Provider of the Year | Tata Communications |
| Infrastructure as a Service Provider of the Year | Netmagic Solutions |
| Enterprise Ethernet Provider of the Year | Tata Communications |
| Captive Data Center Service Provider of the Year | IBM |
| Mobile & Wireless | |
| Mobile Commerce Company of the Year (B2C) | Paytm |
| Telecom Active Infrastructure Vendor of the Year | Ericsson India |
