Stars in Asia Pacific’s ICT Industry Honoured
29 Titles, 25 Companies Named the Region’s Best at the 2008 Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific ICT Awards
Honoring Asia Pacific’s finest in the ICT (information and communications technology) industry, Frost & Sullivan today hosted the 2008 Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific ICT Awards. The awards, in its fifth consecutive year, was held at the St. Regis in Singapore.
The Awards seek to recognise companies and individuals that have pushed the boundaries of excellence - rising above the competition and demonstrating outstanding performance in the ICT industry across the region for base year 2007.
This year, the awards saw both global as well as emerging companies claiming the 29 coveted titles offered within four distinct categories – enterprise vendors, telecom vendors, service providers and the best of the best.
Nitin Bhat, Asia-Pac Senior Vice President for the ICT Practice at Frost & Sullivan says, “While Asia Pacific continues to be one of the fastest growing ICT markets globally, the diversity of the region entails customised strategies for success in each given country. A focus on innovative business models to suit emerging economies; strategies for new revenue streams through service bundling and blending in developed economies; and the increased focus on market segmentation in mature sectors have been some of the common themes across this year’s award recipients.”
Among the celebrated recipients who took home more than one award were Huawei Technologies, Avaya, Alcatel-Lucent and Telstra. Huawei received the prestigious Vendor of the Year Award along with Broadband Equipment Vendor of the Year, while Avaya clinched two awards for Contact Center Applications Vendor of the Year as well as Enterprise Telephony Vendor of the Year.
Alcatel-Lucent repeated its feat of bagging the NGN Infrastructure Vendor of the Year title for the fourth time, in addition to being named the Optical Vendor of the Year. Mr. Solomon Trujillo, CEO of Telstra was selected as the CEO of the Year in the Service Provider category. Telstra also received the Wireless Data Service Provider of the Year Award.
A much anticipated event in the annual calendar of the ICT industry, the awards has become a benchmark of success among organisations across the region’s ICT sector. Nominations are made by a team of Frost & Sullivan experts based on the companies’ actual market performance indicators. Measurement criteria include revenue growth, market share and growth in market share, leadership in product innovation, breadth of products and solutions, major customer acquisitions, subscribers and growth in subscriber base, ARPU (average revenue per user) and growth in ARPU, data strategy and next-generation service strategy.
The short-listing along with a detailed evaluation of the nominees is presented to a panel of judges who deliberate on the deserving recipients for each of the contested title.
Frost & Sullivan congratulates all the outstanding recipients of the
2008 Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific ICT Awards
Category Award Recipient Telecom Vendors Broadband Equipment Vendor of the Year Huawei Technologies Mobile Handset Vendor of the Year Nokia NGN Infrastructure Vendor of the Year Alcatel-Lucent Optical Vendor of the Year Alcatel-Lucent Telecom BSS Vendor of the Year Comverse Telecom OSS Vendor of the Year Oracle Communications Wireless Infrastructure Vendor of the Year Ericsson Service Providers Broadband Service Provider of the Year Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT, Japan) Competitive Service Provider of the Year StarHub (Singapore) Conferencing Service Provider of the Year InterCall Data Communications Service Provider of the Year BT Emerging Market Service Provider of the Year UFone (Pakistan) Mobile Content Developer of the Year Faith, Inc. (Japan) Next Generation Service Provider of the Year Chunghwa Telecom (China) Satellite Communications Service Provider of the Year IntelSat Wireless Data Service Provider of the Year Telstra (Australia) Wireless Service Provider of the Year Bharti Airtel (India) Enterprise Vendors Application Networking Vendor of the Year F5 Networks Business Intelligence Vendor of the Year SAS Contact Center Applications Vendor of the Year Avaya Contact Center Outsourcing Vendor of the Year IBM Daksh Enterprise Telephony Vendor of the Year Avaya Network Security Vendor of the Year Check Point Software Technologies Best of the Best CEO of the Year: Service Provider Mr. Solomon D. Trujillo, Telstra Most Promising Innovative Application/Product of the Year Gifticon by SK Telecom Most Promising Vendor of the Year Blue Coat Systems Most Promising Service Provider of the Year Bakrie Telecom (Indonesia) Service Provider of the Year China Mobile Vendor of the Year Huawei Technologies
The panel of judges includes the following influential personalities and leaders in the ICT/telecommunications industry.
1. Manoj Menon - Partner & Asia-Pacific Managing Director, Frost & Sullivan
2. Nitin Bhat - Senior Vice President, ICT Practice, Asia-Pacific, Frost & Sullivan
3. Ben Chong - Editor, Network World Asia
4. Tan Hock Hai - Chief Information Officer, ST Engineering
5. Freddie Low - Director, Asia Network Services Information Systems, Polo Ralph Lauren Sourcing, Singapore
6. Henk A G Balsters - Vice President, Emerson Process Management Asia Pacific
7. Ng Yoke Weng - Group Chief Information Officer, SingTel
8. Andy Miller - Vice President of Service Provider Sales, Asia Pacific, Juniper Networks
9. Ashwini Bakshi - Head of Sales, Asia-Pacific, Nokia Siemens Networks
10. Eric Lauzon - Chief Information Officer, Nortel Asia
11. Raghu Prasad - Asia-Pacific Chief Technology Officer, Comverse
12. Hanh Tu - Vice President, Service Provider Operations Asia Pacific, Cisco Systems Inc.
13. Joseph Waring - Group Editor, Telecom Asia & Wireless Asia
14. Norman Donald Price IV - Director, Networks, Bharti Airtel
15. Asmawati Yusof - Vice President, Telekom Malaysia
16. Dr. S. Hariharan - Vice President, Network & Services Operations, Tata Communications Ltd.
17. Richard Yu Shing-Pui - Vice President, Managed Services, PCCW Global
18. Tay Soo Meng - Vice President for Networks Operations, SingTel
19. Wilfred Kwan - Executive Vice President, Operations and Technology, Pacnet
Supporting partners for the awards are Comverse, Huawei, Oracle, NetGain Systems, Contact Recruitment, and Robert Walters. The official broadcast partner for the Awards is CNBC Asia Pacific. Questex titles - Enterprise Innovation, Telecom Asia, Network World Asia, Wireless Asia and Global Telecom Directory are official media partners, together with Business Today.
About the Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific ICT Awards
The Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific ICT Awards is held annually to recognize outstanding performance by companies and individuals in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry in Asia Pacific. The awards are presented to companies that demonstrate best practices and superior performance in areas such as market leadership, innovation and business strategies. It has, over the years, attracted some of the leading names in technology on a single platform to compete for the most coveted titles in ICT. Benchmarked against the highest standards of measurement criteria, the recipients of these awards indeed represent the best-in-class in Asia Pacific. For more information on the awards, research and judging process, and past recipients, please visit http://www.ict-awards.com
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