Awards categories – 2010
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Vendor Categories
The ARN vendor awards categories recognise high-achieving technology organisations for their channel efforts over the past year. These awards stretch across hardware, software, specialist and innovative technology players.
Vendors will be judged by the ARN Judging Panel on delivering high-class and innovative product sets, innovative channel rewards, training and marketing programs and above-par support.
Four awards will be presented in 2010:
- Hardware Vendor
- Software Vendor
- Specialist Vendor
- Best Vendor Initiative with an Emerging Technology - This year's focus will be on vendor solutions addressing cloud computing. The criteria for this award will change every year to reflect emerging technologies.
Distributor Categories
Distributors are an integral link between vendor and reseller organisations when bringing technologies to market. The distributor awards aim to honour those organisations doing the best job of helping resellers secure customer sales and ongoing revenue streams.
Nominees will be judged on their abilities around credit, logistics, marketing and services initiatives.
Four awards will be handed out this year:
- Hardware Distributor
- Software Distributor
- Specialist Distributor
- Best Distributor Initiative
Reseller Categories
As a whole, the reseller awards are about saluting small, mid-sized and enterprise IT providers for their customer successes, productivity, technology delivery and growth.
ARN is introducing two new Reseller awards in 2010: A Mid-Market trophy to reward mid-tier organisations for their success over the past year; and an award recognising one reseller’s successful growth performance initiative.
The four awards categories are:
- Enterprise Reseller
- Mid-Market Reseller
- SMB Reseller
- Best Reseller Performance Initiative
Personal Innovation Categories
The ARN IT industry awards are not just about recognising channel organisations – we’re also keen to honour those individuals behind the scenes who contribute to their company’s customer, technical or sales triumphs.
The Personal Innovation category awards are open to individuals from vendor, distributor and reseller companies.
This year, we will be presenting three awards to outstanding individuals:
- Customer Service
- Sales Excellence
- Technical Excellence
Green IT categories
Providing more sustainable solutions has become an increasingly critical component of all manner of IT solutions. ARN’s Green IT awards are aimed at recognising vendors and IT suppliers for their efforts in delivering greener, more environmentally-friendly offerings to their customers over the past 12 months.
Nominees will be judged on the environmental efficiencies and sustainability practices.
The two awards being presented in 2010 are:
- Green Vendor
- Green Project
Hall of Fame
Over the past three years, a host of the IT industry’s finest have been inducted into the ARN Hall of Fame. We look forward to presenting this exclusive accolade to three more worthy individuals in 2010.
ARN’s industry judging panel, as well as previous Hall of Fame inductees, will be asked to nominate one person from a vendor, distributor and reseller worthy of recognition. The three individuals with the highest votes from our judges will be inducted. Inductees will have demonstrated a long-term commitment to the Australian channel.
The Hall of Fame: Phil Cameron, Ross Cochrane, Phil Cronin, John Grant, David Henderson, Peter Kazacos, Ken and Maree Lowe, Jon Shein, John Walters.
Channel Choice categories – by popular vote
Much like the popular-vote TV Week Logie Awards, ARN’s online-only, people’s choice awards give ARN readers a chance to choose their favourite vendor, distributor, reseller or retailer over the past 12 months. The winners of the four Channel Choice category awards will be those organisations with the most votes through ARN’s online poll.
Voting will run for four weeks, from July 19 to August 16, 2010 and only one vote per IP address will be accepted.
The Channel Choice categories for 2010 are:
- Vendor of the Year
- Distributor of the Year
- Reseller of the Year
- Retailer of the Year
