Beka Publishing and ChannelVision magazine have announced the 2015 Visionary Spotlight Awards. Entries will be accepted through Nov. 15, 2014. The 2015 Visionary Finalists will be announced Dec. 5, and Winning Honorees will be named Dec. 15.
To access the nominations forms, please visit www.visionaryspotlightawards.com.
The inaugural Visionary Spotlight Awards competition has been created to honor outstanding products, services and deployments across 24 communications technology categories. Editors from Beka Publishing as well as a panel of judges from research firms and other independent industry resources will judge nominations based on a stringent set of evaluation criteria, highlighting overall innovation, as well as future industry impact of the nominated product or service; creativity and feature set differentiation; and ease of use and interoperability.
“We have created the Visionary Spotlight Awards program to highlight the rapid pace of evolution within the communications industry, to give innovators and industry visionaries the opportunity to gain the exposure and recognition that they deserve,” said Berge Kaprelian, president of Beka Publishing. “We are seeing breathtaking changes in both business models and the technology itself. Our team of respected industry veterans has deep experience in both channel/enterprise technology as well as the service provider arena, and I’m looking forward to seeing them bring their critical, independent evaluations to bear in uncovering the most meaningful deployments and product/service design and engineering across our industry today.”
Awards categories include four overall excellence awards:
- Channel Deployment of the Year 2015
- Channel Program of the Year 2015
- CSP Network Infrastructure Innovation of the Year 2015
- CSP Communications Deployment of the Year 2015
In addition, there are separate sets of categories for Enterprise Technology and Service Provider Technology Awards:
Enterprise Technology:
Unified Communications and VoIP
- Best Channel Deployment
- Best Enabling Technology
Storage and Virtualization
- Best Channel Deployment
- Best Enabling Technology
SaaS and Cloud Services
- Best Channel Deployment
- Best Enabling Technology
Enterprise Mobility
- Best Channel Deployment
- Best Enabling Technology
Data, Ethernet and Converged Infrastructure
- Best Channel Deployment
- Best Enabling Technology
HD Voice and Video
- Best Channel Deployment
- Best Enabling Technology
Vertical Markets
- Best Channel Deployment
- Best Enabling Technology
Conferencing
- Best Channel Deployment
- Best Enabling Technology
Managed Services
- Best Channel Deployment
- Best Enabling Technology
Information security
- Best Channel Deployment
- Best Enabling Technology
Service Provider Technology:
Data Center Innovation
Green Communications Deployment
Emerging Markets Deployment
Rural and Underserved Connectivity
Back Office and OSS Innovation
Service Provider Video
- Best Deployment
- Best Enabling Technology
Broadband and Capacity
- Best Deployment
- Best Enabling Technology
Service Provider Mobile
- Best Deployment
- Best Enabling Technology
Small Cells and Wi-Fi
- Best Deployment
- Best Enabling Technology
OTT and Online/Cloud Content and Services
- Best Deployment
- Best Enabling Technology
The 2015 Innovation Awards program is open to all companies. Products and services entered must be commercially available as of Nov. 15.
The Visionary Spotlight Honorees will be recognized with an official media introduction, including a magazine feature in the January/February issue of ChannelVision Magazine, and a series of online spotlights.
Should you have questions regarding the 2015 Visionary Spotlight Awards, please contact Tara Seals at tara@bekapublishing.com.
