Tata Steel (based on Application submitted by Information Technology Services) made it to the final in two categories: Best It Governance and Best Security Strategy and is the winner in the category of BEST IT GOVERNANCE. There were 15 more winners in other categories from Singapore, Hongkong, China and India. In all 97 entries were received from, Malaysia, Hong Kong, China, India, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia and even Japan.

The entries were judged 12 judges (only CIOs and analysts) came from all over Asia. The winners were announced by Mr John Lui Editor, MIS Asia during MIS Asia IT Excellence Awards function held at the Grand Hyatt Singapore on September 22, 2005. and was received by Mr V P Srivastava , Head IT(Technology and Project Consulting) , ITS, Tata Steel from the Guest of Honour: Mr Boon Swan Foo, Managing Director of Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR).

The Best It Governance looks at value/contribution of technology to corporate governance, creating frameworks to track and measure the value of IT. It also looks at how portfolio management is used to evaluate, prioritise and select IT-projects based on their risks and contribution to the business.

The Best Security Strategies category looks for IT teams with sound security enforcement policies as well as an ability to innovate in managing security risks and reducing the workload associated with patching servers and desktops. Managing Information Strategies (MIS) is about providing management information for senior IT professionals. The content is about business rather than technology, analysis rather than news, strategy rather than product, users rather than vendors, and more importantly, about IT executives becoming better managers..

MIS Asia: MIS Asia is Asia's leading IT management magazine, reaching out to 12,000 IT directors in South East Asia. MIS Asia is committed to the sharing of peer wisdom among IT directors. MIS Asia covers China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia and Thailand.The magazine had changed the tech-oriented awards categories of the last two years and replaced them with business categories.(listed below) to reflect the essential nature of IT within the success of the enterprise.

• Best Knowledge Management
• Best It Governance
• Best Security Strategy
• Best Change Management
• Best Bottom Line It
• Best Business Enabler( Banking & Finance ,Communications & Media, Education , Engineering, Government , Logistics ,Securities & Exchange )
• Best It Communication Strategy

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