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Innovative Solutions

Best Security Solution

This award recognizes the most innovative implementation of security in either an on-premise or cloud environment. Nominations of a physical security hardware solution are welcome. The winning entry will demonstrate how the customer’s operation became a safer place to do business, or prevented data leakage. Evidence can range from resolving a single crisis to vastly improving the overall security posture of a company.

Top Data Management Solution
This award recognizes a state-of-the-art data management solution that enables end users to integrate, cleanse, migrate, analyze, and manage data across platforms to produce accurate, consistent information in a clear and precise manner.

Top Collaborative Solution Transforming Workspaces

Workspaces are changing. As AV and IT networks converge, businesses need to accommodate the evolving communication needs of mobile and tech-savvy employees that are demanding more in exchange for their commitment to corporate service. This award recognizes the most innovative solution that increases collaboration, communication, and productivity in the workplace. The solution can involve any part of the workspace’s transformation from the reconfiguration of physical environments to the development of collaboration platforms or AV/IT solutions supporting connectivity, security, productivity metrics or associated processes. 

Top Open Source Solution

Open Source tools and software are changing the way companies build applications, operate their datacenters, and run their businesses. The Top Open Source Solution will honour the company that has developed the best open source project that drives innovation by enabling developers, operators and security professionals to provision, secure, run and connect cloud-computing infrastructure.

Top Solution Supporting Business Agility

This award honours the most innovative and problem-solving hardware, networking, mobile, cloud, big data or software-defined solution that has helped a company or organization improve their business agility.

Top (Federal/Provincial/Municipal) Government Solution

This award recognizes the most innovative and problem-solving hardware, networking, mobile, cloud, big data or software-defined solution for a federal, provincial or municipal government, or crown agency.

Business Leadership

Top Solution Provider Supporting Sustainability

This award honours a solution or solution provider that supports efforts that have a sustainable impact on our communities.  Solutions that allow companies to go paperless, reduce their use of packaging or contribute to a reduction in e-waste are just a few examples. Qualifying initiatives can be internal, external or both.

CDN Award for Diversity and Inclusion

The award recognizes an organization that excels in providing unique service and solutions to help solve diversity and inclusion challenges. The organization’s nomination must demonstrate a commitment to equity, inclusion, social justice, or community and social responsibility and a record of acting on that commitment. This commitment, which includes thought leadership, is not limited to a single project and may be expressed in many areas of the nominee’s operation.

Next Generation Channel Innovator (under 3 years in business)

This award is presented to an up-and-coming channel business that has been operating commercially for three years or less. he winning company will have documented successful results in digital innovation. This could include successfully deploying digital technology or a digital transformation; improving how it approaches digital; delivering effective digital strategies; creating business value, efficiencies and cost savings, or improving services through the use of digital technology; or helping a company handle the challenges that come with digital.

Disruptor of the Year

This award recognizes the solution provider that has disrupted a business, industry, market, or long-held way of doing something through the innovative use of technology. This could be disruption at an internal, operation level, or disruption at a customer-facing level. Judges will examine how disruptive the solution/service has been as well as the business results and innovation it has generated.

Solution Provider of the Year (selected by judges)

The Solution Provider of the Year is awarded to an organization that has demonstrated excellence by adapting quickly to the ever-changing tech space, providing quality service, and providing its customers with solutions proven to make their businesses more efficient.

Any questions? Please contact Desere Cowin or Sophia Khan

All award nominations are evaluated by an independent panel of experts from within the Canadian technology scene. The selection of winning solutions is based on a variety of considerations, including innovation, design and user experience, and customer service as well as the overall technological advancement for their respective categories.

Note: Judges reserve the right to not designate a winner in a given category if none of the submissions are deemed sufficiently innovative.