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Express BFSI Technology Awards 2020

Express Computer, an IT business magazine from the Indian Express Group, invites nominations from Indian Banks for ‘EXPRESS BFSI Technology Awards’. The awards are given away to Indian Banks or Indian subsidiaries of MNC BFSI institutions in the BFSI industry that demonstrate innovative use of a particular technology or a combination of technologies for distinct business benefit. This includes deploying a completely new solution or an innovative use of an existing technology to gain a competitive edge, improve operations, become more responsive to customers and partners or, simply, to add to the top or bottom line.The nominations will be shortlisted, reviewed, and judged by a panel of Editors from the Express Computer team, and the winners will be felicitated at the BFSI Technology Conclave, 2019, Pune, Novotel Pune Nagar Road, (24-25 January 2020).

The submission can be made in the following categories:

Analytics / Big Data
AI
Enterprise Mobility
Storage
Cloud
Enterprise Applications
Unified Communications
Data centers (Networking / Infrastructure Transformation / SDx)
IoT
Document Management
Blockchain
Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
Enterprise Security

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA/RULES & REGULATIONS:

Any Indian BFSI institution or subsidiary of an MNC
While multiple nominations can be submitted, each nomination must be submitted separately.
The company must have a registered office in India and should have been in active business for at least two years.
The system, project or solution for which nomination is sought should have been implemented in 2018.
Sponsors are not allowed to participate.
Submissions with wrong or inadequate information will be considered invalid.
Entrants must agree to be featured, along with their nominated system and organization, in Express Computer and other Express Group publications.
The last date for filing nominations is Wednesday, January 15^th, 2020

TIPS & GUIDELINES

The judging panel is on the lookout for companies that have broken new ground in using IT systems/initiatives/projects in adding value to their customers or in solving a key business problem.
The nominated project should articulate the strategic impact that it has had such as creation of new revenue channels, or new business areas, or an initiative that has transformed the nominee’s industry or sector.
Clearly spell out the goals that your organization was trying to achieve with the initiative or project.
Provide as many details or numbers as you can about the nominated project, including project dates, timelines, history, milestones, costs, etc.

INSTITUTION / AGENCY INFORMATION

A) Name of the CIO/ IT Head and the nominated organization*

B) Contact Details of the CIO or IT Head (email, Mobile, Phone)

First Name*

Last Name*

Designation *

Email *

Mobile*

Phone (Landline) *

Company and CIO Twitter handle

C) Number of Employees in the IT Organization (Size of the internal IT team)

D) Latest Annual IT Budget of the Nominated Organization

E) If you are a SI / vendor / PR firm filling up the form on your client’s behalf, please provide us with the following details :

Name of representative from SI / Vendor / PR firm:

Name of organization:

2. Nominated Project

Please select the award category of the nominated project.

About the Nominated Project:

1. Brief Overview of project [Please state a brief overview of the project, what business problem it is supposed to solve, or the goals that the project wants to achieve]

2. Description Of Solution Designed / Implemented

3. Innovative usage of technology (Has your organization / client organization adopted a unique mix of technologies or a new untried technology for overcoming an obstacle using an innovative method)

4. Benefits – please compare the pre-deployment and post-deployment scenario, and explain how the solution deployed has helped

5. List all major vendors and products (software, hardware, services, etc.) that were used to build/run the initiative.

6. Please articulate the business benefit of the project. List and describe at least three key benefits (Please provide quantifiable numbers wherever possible)

7. What are the unique differentiators of this project that would merit this project to be considered for an award?

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