Frost & Sullivan Announces 2011 Australia Excellence Awards Recipients
Announcement posted by Frost & Sullivan 28 Oct 2011
Sydney, 27 October 2011 – Frost & Sullivan has recognised outstanding performance of companies in the Australian Information Communications Technology (ICT) industry by presenting 18 awards to deserving organisations at the 2011 Frost & Sullivan Australia Excellence Awards.
Staged last night in Sydney, the prestigiousawards event, now in its sixth year was attended by key opinion and business leaders within Australia’s ICT industry.
Benchmarked against leading companies in each category, the recipients of these awards represent the best-of-breed in their sector in the country. This year’s awards were focused on three industry categories: Security & Infrastructure, Enterprise Communications and Telecommunications.
The Frost & Sullivan Awards are presented to companies that demonstrate excellence in the industry, based on the commitment and innovative business strategies required to advance and excel in the competitive Australian market. Each of these award recipients were selected based on their market performance, including market share leadership, revenue growth and degree of product and service innovation displayed over the past year.
”This year’s award recipients include the most innovative and effective IT and telecommunications vendors who have demonstrated business excellence in their respective market segments. These companies all operate in highly competitive segments but have succeeded in maintaining market leadership,” said Mark Dougan, Managing Director, Frost & Sullivan, Australia and New Zealand.
Frost & Sullivan congratulates all the recipients of the 2011 Frost & Sullivan Australia Excellence Awards:
Security & Infrastructure
UPS Vendor of the Year - APC by Schneider Electric
UPS Service Provider of the Year – Emerson Network Power
Secure Content Management Vendor of the Year – Websense
Network Security Vendor of the Year – Juniper
Datacentre Services Provider of the Year – Equinix
Security as a Service Vendor of the Year - Symantec
Infrastructure as a Service Vendor of the Year – Amazon Web Services
Software as a Service Vendor of the Year – Salesforce.com
Enterprise Communications
Enterprise Video Vendor of the Year – Cisco Systems
Contact Centre Applications Vendor of the Year - Genesys
Hosted Contact Centre Service Provider of the Year - Telstra
Application Networking Vendor of the Year – Riverbed
Unified Communications Vendor of the Year – Cisco Systems
Telecommunications
Managed Security Services Provider of the Year - Verizon Business
Data Communications Service Provider of the Year - Telstra
Broadband Service Provider of the Year - Telstra
Mobile Service Provider of the Year - Telstra
Service Provider of the Year - Telstra
”By maintaining their strategic focus of delivering new, customer-driven IT business capabilities to organisations that demand high performance, these vendors have demonstrated their capacity to fuel future growth and set the bar higher for others in the industry,” said Dougan.
The 2011 Frost & Sullivan Australia Excellence awards are supported by ZDNet Australia as Awards Partner. For more information on the awards, visit http://www.frost-awards.com.au
About Frost & Sullivan
Frost & Sullivan, the Growth Partnership Company, enables clients to accelerate growth and achieve best-in-class positions in growth, innovation and leadership. The company's Growth Partnership Service provides the CEO and the CEO's Growth Team with disciplined research and best-practice models to drive the generation, evaluation, and implementation of powerful growth strategies. Frost & Sullivan leverages 50 years of experience in partnering with Global 1000 companies, emerging businesses and the investment community from more than 40 offices on six continents. To join our Growth Partnership, please visit http://www.frost.com on six continents.
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Staged last night in Sydney, the prestigiousawards event, now in its sixth year was attended by key opinion and business leaders within Australia’s ICT industry.
Benchmarked against leading companies in each category, the recipients of these awards represent the best-of-breed in their sector in the country. This year’s awards were focused on three industry categories: Security & Infrastructure, Enterprise Communications and Telecommunications.
The Frost & Sullivan Awards are presented to companies that demonstrate excellence in the industry, based on the commitment and innovative business strategies required to advance and excel in the competitive Australian market. Each of these award recipients were selected based on their market performance, including market share leadership, revenue growth and degree of product and service innovation displayed over the past year.
”This year’s award recipients include the most innovative and effective IT and telecommunications vendors who have demonstrated business excellence in their respective market segments. These companies all operate in highly competitive segments but have succeeded in maintaining market leadership,” said Mark Dougan, Managing Director, Frost & Sullivan, Australia and New Zealand.
Frost & Sullivan congratulates all the recipients of the 2011 Frost & Sullivan Australia Excellence Awards:
Security & Infrastructure
UPS Vendor of the Year - APC by Schneider Electric
UPS Service Provider of the Year – Emerson Network Power
Secure Content Management Vendor of the Year – Websense
Network Security Vendor of the Year – Juniper
Datacentre Services Provider of the Year – Equinix
Security as a Service Vendor of the Year - Symantec
Infrastructure as a Service Vendor of the Year – Amazon Web Services
Software as a Service Vendor of the Year – Salesforce.com
Enterprise Communications
Enterprise Video Vendor of the Year – Cisco Systems
Contact Centre Applications Vendor of the Year - Genesys
Hosted Contact Centre Service Provider of the Year - Telstra
Application Networking Vendor of the Year – Riverbed
Unified Communications Vendor of the Year – Cisco Systems
Telecommunications
Managed Security Services Provider of the Year - Verizon Business
Data Communications Service Provider of the Year - Telstra
Broadband Service Provider of the Year - Telstra
Mobile Service Provider of the Year - Telstra
Service Provider of the Year - Telstra
”By maintaining their strategic focus of delivering new, customer-driven IT business capabilities to organisations that demand high performance, these vendors have demonstrated their capacity to fuel future growth and set the bar higher for others in the industry,” said Dougan.
The 2011 Frost & Sullivan Australia Excellence awards are supported by ZDNet Australia as Awards Partner. For more information on the awards, visit http://www.frost-awards.com.au
About Frost & Sullivan
Frost & Sullivan, the Growth Partnership Company, enables clients to accelerate growth and achieve best-in-class positions in growth, innovation and leadership. The company's Growth Partnership Service provides the CEO and the CEO's Growth Team with disciplined research and best-practice models to drive the generation, evaluation, and implementation of powerful growth strategies. Frost & Sullivan leverages 50 years of experience in partnering with Global 1000 companies, emerging businesses and the investment community from more than 40 offices on six continents. To join our Growth Partnership, please visit http://www.frost.com on six continents.
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