(London, 11^th February 2011) IT Europa, the leading European IT publisher and market intelligence organisation, today announced the winners of the European IT Excellence Awards 2011 – the pan-European awards event for IT and Telecoms channels. The finalists were honoured last night at a celebration dinner at The London Marriott Hotel, Grosvenor Square, London.

The European IT Excellence Awards are the only 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 31 countries. Entries were submitted by ISVs and resellers describing the solution provided and each had to be supported by an endorsement by the client. 62 companies from 22 countries made the finals. The winners were selected by an independent panel of consultants and editors.

The award for Channel Company of the Year, the award to the entry across all 17 categories that most impressed the judges, was won by Eurodata for a Unified Communications solution for the Rugby Football Union.

Another notable award on the night, for the European Channel Personality of the year, went to Ian Moyse, EMEA Channel Director, Webroot. This award was based on the results of a poll of 20,000 directors of Europe’s leading 8,000 channel organisations and the readership of the IT Europa’s pan-European channel news services.

 

The award for European Distributor of the year went to Westcon Convergence and that for European Vendor of the year was awarded to Oracle.

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 2011 – results:

 

ISV Award Categories

Business Intelligence Winner: Phocas

Sponsored by Foster MacCallum

Communications & Mobility Winner: Appear Networks AB

Sponsored by Cisco

Enterprise Application Winner: Neural Technologies

Sponsored by Oracle

Information Management Winner: DocLogix

Sponsored by SAP

Relationship Management Winner: IBA Group

Sponsored by SAP

 

SaaS Solution Winner: HansaWorld

Sponsored by SIIA

 

Vertical Market Winner: Anglia Business Solutions

Sponsored by IBM

Solution Provider Award Categories

Data & Information Management Winner: Sigma Consultancy

Sponsored by Dell

E-Business Winner: PureNet

Sponsored by Oracle

 

Enterprise Winner: Critical Software

Sponsored by CA Technologies

Managed Service Winner: Azzurri Communications

Sponsored by Jaspersoft

 

Mobility Winner: Combis

Sponsored by Avnet

 

SMB Winner: Green Fields Technology

Sponsored by BPL

Unified Communications Winner: Eurodata Systems

Sponsored by Cisco

Vertical Market Winner: S & T Serbia

Sponsored by IBM

Supplier Award Categories

European Distributor of the Year Winner: Westcon

Sponsored by IT Europa

European Vendor of the Year Winner: Oracle

Sponsored by IT Europa

 

Special Awards

 

Channel Company of the Year Winner: Eurodata

Sponsored by IT Europa

Channel Personality of the Year Winner: Ian Moyse, EMEA Channel Director, Webroot

Sponsored by IT Europa

 

 

About IT Europa

IT Europa is the leading provider of strategic business intelligence, news and analysis on the European IT marketplace and the primary channels that serve it. It publishes European channel publications such as the IT Europa Newsletter, markets a range of database reports and organises European conferences and events for the IT and Telecoms sectors. For further details visit: www.iteuropa.com

 

For further information contact:

 

Alan Norman

Tel: +44 (0) 1895 454 604

Email: alan.norman@iteuropa.com