It was great to attend the Frost & Sullivan Industry awards dinner

It was amazing to see the progress the industry made with Cisco and Microsoft all winning awards in the Unified Communications Category.

With Microsoft winning 4 out of 5 awards in the unified communication category, it was an important step in recognising the Australian Unified Communications Team

A big congratulations to Peter Hughes of Cisco and George Atrash from Dimension Data for Systems Integrator of the year

A big thank you to the Australian Unified Communications team at Microsoft - Sandra Lee-Joe, Sonya Aboudargham, Mario D'Silva, Johann Kruse, Lisa Eastley, Colin Lee, Jonathan Spellman, Fiona Cheong and Belinda Varriale

Frost recognizes 11 Australian Information and Communications Technology companies Frost & Sullivan - November 16, 2007

Frost and Sullivan today presented 17 awards to the best and brightest in the Australian Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry. The second annual Frost and Sullivan Best Practices Awards recognize 11 companies spanning three market sectors: digital media advertising, unified communications, and enterprise outsourcing. Sponsors include Aspect Software and Salesforce.com.

Each of these sectors has a dedicated local researching analyst who produces a series of in-depth reports during the year that are available in Frost & Sullivan’s growth partnership services.

Said Mark Dougan, managing director for Frost & Sullivan Australia, “An integral part of our research program is recognising both market and customer leadership. Market leadership is based on our assessment of who leads the market in terms of market share and growth over the past year. Customer leadership is based on the views of customers and end users on the levels of satisfaction they have with various suppliers.”

“Of course these are all highly competitive markets, and many high quality vendors or suppliers compete neck and neck. Receiving a Frost & Sullivan award is therefore a tremendous recognition of success both in the marketplace, and in the minds of customers,” added Dougan.

Frost & Sullivan congratulates all its Award recipients:

Digital Media Advertising awards:

1. carsales.com.au – 2007 Frost & Sullivan Advertiser Satisfaction Award for Online Classifieds Advertising

2. SEEK Ltd – 2007 Frost & Sullivan Market Leadership Award for Online Classifieds Advertising

3. Tempest Media - 2007 Frost & Sullivan Market Leadership Award for Online General Advertising

4. ninemsn - 2007 Frost & Sullivan Advertiser Satisfaction Award for Online General Advertising

5. Google Australia - 2007 Frost & Sullivan Market Leadership Award for Online Search Advertising & 2007 Frost & Sullivan Advertiser Satisfaction Award for Online Search Advertising

Unified Communications Awards:

6. Microsoft Australia

2007 Frost & Sullivan Customer Endorsement Award for Unified Communications in BFSI

2007 Frost & Sullivan Customer Endorsement Award for Unified Communications in Government

2007 Frost & Sullivan Market Leadership Award for Unified Communications in Government

2007 Frost & Sullivan Customer Endorsement Award for Unified Communications in Healthcare

7. Cisco Systems – 2007 Frost & Sullivan Market Leadership Award for Unified Communications in BFSI

Enterprise Outsourcing Awards:

8. EDS – 2007 Frost & Sullivan Market Leadership Award for Enterprise Outsourcing in BFSI

9. IBM – 2007 Frost & Sullivan Customer Satisfaction Award for Enterprise Outsourcing in BFSI; 2007 Frost & Sullivan Customer Satisfaction Award for Enterprise Outsourcing in Government; 2007 Frost & Sullivan Market Leadership Award for Enterprise Outsourcing in Government

Of the year Awards:

10. Dimension Data – 2007 Frost & Sullivan Australia Unified Communications Systems Integrator of the Year

11. Salmat – 2007 Frost & Sullivan Australia Business Process Outsourcing Service Provider of the Year

About this program

The Frost & Sullivan Awards banquet, held annually, recognises outstanding performance by companies in the ICT industry in Australia. Introduced for the first time in 2006, the Awards attracted some of the leading names in technology on a single platform to compete for the most coveted titles in ICT. Benchmarked against leading companies in each category, the recipients of these awards represent the best-of-breed in the country.

This year’s Awards is supported by Aspect Software (silver sponsor) and Salesforce.com (bronze sponsor), Viocorp (official internet broadcaster) along with MediaConnect & M&a, Marketing & Advertising. Computerworld Australia is the official media partner.