OREANDA-NEWS. October 30, 2012. Tata Housing, India’s fastest growing real estate development company, has bagged the prestigious SAP ACE Award for customer effectiveness at a function held in Mumbai.

The awards recognise cutting edge work that enterprises are doing from SAP implementation perspective to deliver game-changing innovation and value to their business. The SAP ACE Award is an industry benchmark to recognise the pioneering and innovative use of technology for outstanding business transformation.

The award signifies Tata Housing’s position as the best SAP implementer in the real estate industry, setting global benchmarks in excellence by deploying innovative solutions.

On receiving the award, Brotin Banerjee, MD and CEO, Tata Housing, said, “We are honoured to win the SAP ACE Award for adopting enterprise software solutions. Tata Housing has been one of the frontrunners in deploying integrated enterprise software solutions and has also named this initiative as T-SIP, ie Tata Housing SAP Implementation. SAP solutions have immensely helped to scale up operations and equipped teams to handle complex business challenges and thus cater to the ever growing number of customers, projects and segments in an innovative way.

“Today, the real estate sector is grappling with a number of challenges such as shortage of skilled manpower, escalating project cost and prolonged construction period. Technology holds the key to not only address some of these issues, but also a promise for the sector to react to the changing market conditions more effectively and efficiently. At Tata Housing, we believe SAP solutions were best suited to achieve operational excellence, improve operational efficiency and have thus helped to distinguish the company in the cluttered market. We are extremely proud to have won this prestigious award which is a key milestone in our journey towards excellence.”

SAP ACE Awards have become one of the most sought after and highly recognised customer focused awards. This year, the largest number of nominations received were from India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. The selection process involved a three-step evaluation process that included performance benchmarking across five KPIs and 10 best practices followed by interviews and a detailed jury discussion with the project management teams.