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| Winners of European IT Excellence Awards Announced IT Europa has announced the winners of the European IT Excellence Awards - the first pan-European awards event for IT and Telecoms channels. The finalists were honoured last night at a celebration dinner at the Intercontinental Hotel, in Frankfurt. The European IT Excellence Awards are the first pan-European awards which recognise the crucial role that Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Solution Providers play in the delivery of real world solutions, and attracted entries from more than 30 countries. Entries were submitted by ISVs and resellers describing the solution provided and each had to be supported by an endorsement by the client. 49 companies from 16 countries made the finals. The winners were selected by an independent panel of consultants and editors. The IT Europa award for IT excellence, the award to the entry across all 16 categories that most impressed the judges, was won by Appear Networks for a wireless productivity solution they developed for their client Nederlandse Spoorwegen, NS (Dutch Rail). Another notable award on the night, for the European Channel Personality of the year, went to Gerhard Schulz, Senior Vice President & Executive Managing Director, Ingram Micro Distribution GmbH. This award was based on the results of a poll of 20,000 directors of Europe's leading 8,000 channel organisations - the readership of 8020 Europa, IT Europa's pan-European channel magazine. In accepting the award Gerhard Schulz was quick to acknowledge the role his team had played in dealing with the company's challenges: "What we achieved in 2007 was a team success and as much as I feel honoured to receive the IT Europa European Channel Personality of the Year Award today, I feel honoured and proud to be managing such a great team". Other winners include: Xtract, Aldata, jMind Consultancy, INFOTHENA, IBS, SIVECO Romania SA, Fordway Solutions Ltd, Controlware Communications, Northdoor plc, vc-net, Care Telecom, Excell Group, Central Telecom, Esprinet, EMC, Appear Networks. In congratulating the winners, Alan Norman, Managing Director of IT Europa said: "The overall quality of entries was extremely high and demonstrated the depth of talent in the channel community across Europe. I congratulate all the winners and wish them and all the finalists every success in the year ahead". The awards categories were divided into two main groups: ISVs and Solution Providers. The ISV categories were for software-based solutions for which the ISV had written the bulk of the solution itself. The Solution Provider categories were for complete solutions that include hardware, software, communications and services. As well as the channel categories there were two supplier categories for which channel companies nominated their distributors or vendors for the support provided through their channel programs. The European IT Excellence Awards – results: ISV Award Categories Business Intelligence Sponsored by Microsoft Winner: Xtract Ltd. Other finalists: SoftPro Tetral d.o.o. Communications & Mobility Sponsored by Macrovision Winner: Aldata Solution Other finalists: HansaWorld, Mediixine Oy, Appgate Enterprise Application Winner: jMind Consultancy Sponsored by Roguewave Other finalists: IBA Group, Mamut ASA, Megabyte Ltd Information Management Sponsored by Hitachi Data Systems Winner: INFOTHENA Other finalists: Efecte Corp, IBA Group, STR SpA SaaS Solution Sponsored by SIIA Winner: IBS Other finalists: Aspire Technology Vertical Market Sponsored by European Software Assoc. Winner: SIVECO Romania SA Other finalists: edge IPK, Wipro Technologies Solution Provider Award Categories Data & Information Management Winner: Fordway Solutions Ltd Sponsored by Macrovision Other finalists: Jcom E-Business Sponsored by IBM Winner: IBS Other finalists: EuroOffice Ltd, Itransition Enterprise Sponsored by EMC Winner: Controlware Communications Other finalists: IBA Group, Keystone Computer Group, SIVECO Romania SA Managed Service Sponsored by Ness Europe Winner: Northdoor plc Other finalists: 2e2 Ltd, Aspire Technology Mobility Sponsored by Microsoft Winner: Appear Networks Other finalists: Anglia Business Solutions, Logos.a.s.. Pan- European Winner: vc-net Other finalists: Central Telecom UK Ltd, Tango/04 SMB Sponsored by Progress Software Winner: Care Telecom Other finalists: SoftPro Tetral d.o.o. Unified Communications Sponsored by IT Europa Winner: Excell Group Other finalists: Central Telecom UK Ltd, Controlware Communications/ntl:Telewest/North Lancashire Council Vertical Market Sponsored by Wick Hill Winner: Central Telecom Other finalists: Anglia Business Solutions, NS Optimum Limited Supplier Award Categories Distributor Channel Program Sponsored by Channel Dynamics Winner: Esprinet Other finalists: ASBIS Croatia, Wick Hill Group Vendor Channel Program Sponsored by Foster MacCallum Winner: EMC Other finalists: Avaya, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, VMware, WatchGuard Technologies. write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Computing News :: home page |