20 Companies Named Asia Pacific's Best at the Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific Technology Awards 2005.SINGAPORE -- Global growth consulting company Noun 1. consulting company - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting firm business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a , Frost & Sullivan, today hosted the annual Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific Technology Awards. Held for the second time this year, the Awards seek to recognize and honor outstanding performance by companies and individuals in the Information & Communications Technology Noun 1. communications technology - the activity of designing and constructing and maintaining communication systems engineering, technology - the practical application of science to commerce or industry (ICT (1) (Information and Communications Technology) An umbrella term for the information technology field. See IT. (2) (International Computers and Tabulators) See ICL. 1. (testing) ICT - In Circuit Test. ) industry across the region for base year 2004. "2004 was a challenging year with competition stiffer than ever, coupled with emerging disruptive technologies. ICT companies across Asia Pacific have had to innovate and reinvent to rise to the challenge and increase their value proposition to stay on top of the game," said Manoj Menon, partner at Frost & Sullivan. Twenty-three of the most coveted cov·et v. cov·et·ed, cov·et·ing, cov·ets v.tr. 1. To feel blameworthy desire for (that which is another's). See Synonyms at envy. 2. To wish for longingly. See Synonyms at desire. titles in technology were conferred at the Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific Technology Awards 2005, officiated by Singapore Senior Minister of State for Information, Communications and the Arts, and Health, Dr. Balaji Sadasivan. The award recipients were selected by an independent panel of judges Panel of Judges is an indie pop band from Melbourne, Australia. Members
MBT Masai Barefoot Technology MBT Main Battle Tank MBT Mechanical Biological Treatment (waste treatment) MBT Mercaptobenzothiazole MBT Master of Business Taxation , Huawei Technologies, Asia Netcom, Alcatel, NasionCom, Equant, SingTel, Cisco, StarHub, Juniper Networks Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR) is an information technology company based in Sunnyvale, California and founded in 1996. The company designs and sells Internet Protocol network products and services. and CSG CSG - constructive solid geometry Systems. A total of over 65 leading ICT companies in Asia Pacific were short listed and benchmarked in determining the deserving recipient for each of the prestigious awards. Frost & Sullivan's team of research analysts and consultants based in a network of offices across Asia Pacific conducted the benchmarking study. The key measurement criteria employed in the benchmarking study and judging process were based on actual market performance indicators for financial year 2004. These include revenue growth, market share and growth in market share, leadership in product innovation, breadth of products and solutions, major customer acquisitions, and business and market strategy. Menon said, "The recipients of the Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific Technology Awards 2005 indeed represent the best in their class. Each of these outstanding recipients has demonstrated significant growth and leadership in their respective market segments. "A common factor across all the award recipients is that they have significantly contributed to growing the industry either by bringing in strong new value propositions to the market or by developing new market segments," he added. From one class act to another! -- Frost & Sullivan congratulates all the outstanding recipients of the Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific Technology Awards 2005.
Category Award Recipient
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Service Providers (SP)
Broadband SP PCCW
Competitive SP OPTUS
Data Communications SP ASIA NETCOM
Mobile Content SP CYBIRD
NGN SP TELSTRA
Wireless SP NTT DoCoMo
Vendors
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Business Intelligence SAS
Billing Solutions CSG SYSTEMS
Broadband Equipment ALCATEL
Call Center Applications AVAYA
Enterprise Telephony CISCO SYSTEMS
Network Security JUNIPER NETWORKS
NGN Infrastructure HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES
Operational CRM SAP
Optical HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES
Storage EMC CORPORATION
Wireless Infrastructure HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES
Best of the Best
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Most Innovative Application/Solution CYWORLD -- SK COMMUNICATIONS
of the Year
Service Provider of the Year SINGTEL
Most Promising Service Provider TRUE CORPORATION
of the Year
Vendor of the Year CISCO SYSTEMS
Most Promising Vendor of the Year LG ELECTRONICS
CEO of the Year: Service Provider TADASHI ONODERA -- KDDI
CORPORATION
The Platinum Sponsor for the Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific Technology Awards 2005 was MBT, which has been supporting the Awards for the second year running. MBT is one of India's leading software services company with a near exclusive focus in Telecom segment. It has professional staff strength of over 5,500 people, six development centers worldwide, over US$220 Mil in annual revenues and strong technology and domain competencies in IT and Telecom. Manish Vyas, MBT regional director for South East and North Asia North Asia or Northern Asia is a subregion of Asia. The most common definition of the term is;
Also supporting the event were CNBC Asia CNBC Asia is a business news channel in Asia. A subsidiary of NBC Universal, it is the Asian service of Consumer News and Business Channel (CNBC). It is broadcast from Singapore and Hong Kong. History CNBC Asia launched in 1995. , Agere Systems Agere Systems Inc. was an integrated circuit components company based in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania, in the United States. Effective April 2, 2007, it was merged into LSI Corporation. , Premiere Global Services, CommunicAsia2005 and EnterpriseIT2005. "Gold Featured Nominees" of the Awards were Huawei Technologies, which was nominated in five award categories, and PCCW PCCW Pacific Century CyberWorks PCCW Palmer College of Chiropractic West (San Jose, California) and BT, each nominated in two categories. SAS (1) (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, www.sas.com) A software company that specializes in data warehousing and decision support software based on the SAS System. Founded in 1976, SAS is one of the world's largest privately held software companies. See SAS System. was a "Featured Nominee" of the Awards. The Charlton Media Group was the official media partner. The distinguished panel of judges: 1) Manoj Menon -- Partner, Frost & Sullivan 2) Nitin Bhat -- Director, Telecoms, Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific 3) Nitin Acharekar -- Director, Enterprise & Services, Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific 4) Clement Teo -- former Editor, TeleDotCom and Network Computing Storing and/or running applications in servers in a network. See cloud computing and network computer. Asia 5) Manish Vyas -- Regional Director, South East & North Asia, MBT 6) Abdul Majid Abdullah Abdul Majid Abdullah (Arabic: عبدالمجيد عبدالله) (Born 1963) is a Saudi Arabian singer. -- Executive Director, NasionCom Holdings 7) David Nishball -- Senior Vice President, Sales & Marketing, Equant 8) David Storrie -- Head of Network & Wholesale Services, StarHub 9) Wilfred Kwan -- Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Asia Netcom 10) Ng Yoke Weng -- Group CIO CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. (Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization. , SingTel 11) Andy Miller Andy Miller may be:
12) Richard Duggan -- Director, Telecom Business Consulting, Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. , Asia Pacific 13) Raghav Sahgal -- Vice President & Managing Director, CSG Systems, Asia Pacific 14) Nick Hutton -- Vice President, Marketing & Communications, Alcatel, Asia Pacific 15) Hu Yong -- Vice President, Global Corporate Marketing, Huawei Technologies About the Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific Technology Awards The Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific Technology 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 seek to showcase best practices in the vendor and service provider segments, which are synonymous with Frost & Sullivan's in-depth analysis and coverage of the technology industry. It has attracted some of the leading names in technology on a single platform to compete for the most coveted titles in technology. Benchmarked against the highest standards of measurement criteria, the recipients of these awards indeed represent the best of breed in Asia Pacific. For more information on the awards, please visit www.technology-awards.com. |
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