ChampionIT is an award presented by Microsoft, which recognises the daily efforts of IT professionals who are often called-upon when problems arise, but are rarely celebrated when systems are running smoothly.
Winners are identified via a judging panel and public vote. The Champion of ChampionIT is recognised by both industry insiders (Microsoft and an independent judge) and their peers (IT Pro’s). Every six-week a new IT Pro is awarded the title of ChampionIT, and in April 2008, we are pleased to announce that this award went to NIIT’s very own Tarun Sharma, Design Leader on one of our British Airways projects. "This is an appropriate recognition and win in the year of ‘innovation’ at NIIT Technologies” comments Ravi Pandey, UK BU Head who continues “we all at NIIT Technologies congratulate Tarun on this wonderful achievement”.
Tarun who wins an array of prizes such as Windows Vista & Microsoft Office, as well as the sought after ChampionIT award says “I am extremely honoured to be Microsoft ChampionIT Award Winner. Many thanks to all those who have voted for me around the world."
Aladdin is a software quality documentation system that is used by British Airways cBA (cBA is short form of contactBA call centre for making and servicing reservations) application support and delivery teams. This application is used to produce the software review documents as per the BA Information Management Blueprint (BA IM Blueprint) guidelines.
Aladdin produces the following documents:
With the recent version of Aladdin v1.3– it now automatically creates the merge of all the changes to be included for a particular delivery.
Aladdin creates the relevant folder structure and documents with standard naming conventions.
Aladdin was first introduced about 2 years back and has saved more than 72 man-months for British Airways till now. At present, Aladdin is mainly used by contact BA support and delivery team. There are about 30 users of this application based in Newcastle (UK) and Delhi (India). These users are experienced developers and engineers who use Aladdin to produce software review documents and merge for the delivery of enhancements or bug fixes.
Aladdin was showcased in the NIIT Technology Conference 2007. Aladdin had also won the Quality Improvement Award by Phil Kelly (IM Portfolio Manager in BA).
