2026 VISIONARY SPOTLIGHT AWARDS | CHANNELVISION 49 Minerva Networks The Minerva 10 Platform transforms the television from a passive screen into an intelligent, interactive hub, unifying live TV, VOD, SVOD and FAST channels into a single, normalized metadata layer. Its Smart Highlights AI engine analyzes live sports streams in real-time, automatically identifying key events to generate dynamic, near-live highlight playlists. Supporting this is Minnie, a GenAI companion that moves beyond voice commands to true conversational search, understanding complex context and user intent. Minerva enables operators to protect their subscriber base and monetize high-margin content that would otherwise be lost in external apps. National Retail Solutions (NRS) NRS now offers Databeans, an AI engine that democratizes big data for small businesses. Databeans analyzes millions of daily transactions across the NRS network to deliver Amazon-style recommendations to the merchant’s POS screen around products and pricing. It takes complex, emerging AI technology and simplifies it into a “yes/no” recommendation button, giving corner stores the same predictive power as the world’s largest retailers. Picus Security Picus Security offers an AI-powered continuous validation platform that operationalizes continuous threat exposure management (CTEM) through evidence-based exposure validation. Picus Exposure Validation continuously tests whether vulnerabilities can be exploited within an organization’s unique environment by safely simulating real-world attacks across cloud, network, endpoint and identity layers. Powered by Numi AI, the Picus Platform autonomously converts threat intelligence, CVEs and adversary techniques into production-ready attack simulations mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework. Organizations using Picus have reduced patch backlogs by up to 86 percent, cut MTTR from 74 days to 14 days and reclaimed thousands of analyst hours by safely deprioritizing theoretical vulnerabilities. Telesystem Telesystem EasyRoute accelerates Microsoft Teams Direct Routing deployments, enabling organizations to activate enterprise-grade voice capabilities in Teams within minutes. Using a proprietary configuration file tailored to each organization, EasyRoute automates critical setup steps, reducing deployment times with just a few clicks. By eliminating per-seat voice expenses and aligning costs with the number of simultaneous call paths needed, organizations experience greater cost efficiency. The platform also supports scalable deployment, enabling IT teams to easily add or remove users and phone numbers as business needs evolve. Best Service Delivery Teams AireSpring AireSpring’s Service Delivery team specializes in coordinating multi-carrier, multi-technology deployments – including SD-WAN, global connectivity, security and voice solutions – across hundreds of locations worldwide. The team manages every phase of the delivery lifecycle, including solution validation, order management, carrier coordination, provisioning, scheduling, installation and turn-up. They work directly with more than 265 global carriers and technology partners, removing the burden from customers and ensuring consistent execution across all sites. This eliminates the need for enterprises to manage multiple vendors, dramatically reducing delays, miscommunication and deployment risk. NHC NHC’s service delivery team values customer experience, even during off hours. The company provides a single point of contact for all aspects of technology, including network, overlay, services and management. Its team accommodates on-the-fly demand, whenever and wherever its assistance is needed. Consider a recent services restoration for a customer impacted by a devastating fire. Despite the company’s primary structure being eviscerated, NHC quickly acted to extend hosted PBX and network services to a nearby location in under 48 hours, facilitating PBX call flow, provisioning and number routing, virtually overnight. Cases such as this are why NHC can boast a 99.5 percent customer retention rating over 20-plus years of business. Telinta Telinta’s highly trained engineers provide live technical support 24/7/365. These engineers help customers make important configurations to their environment within the cloud-based TeliCore softswitch and billing platform. Telinta backs each support request in writing, so that both teams have a written resource to rely on. The company also grants customers free access to its extensive documentation and other resources, including an online knowledge base. New customers receive six hours or more of hands-on training from a senior engineer.
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