2019 CRN IMPACT Awards - the finalists revealed!

The 2019 CRN IMPACT Awards are contested across 11 categories. In the slides to come you'll see the 11 listed alphabetically, plus the three finalists in each category. They're listed alphabetically too: there's no hints at all in this slideshow! If your company has made the finals and you fancy attending the IMPACT Awards in Sydney on May 23rd, we'll be in touch very soon with an invitation. Or mail events@crn.com.au for details.

The Customer Experience award recognises projects that help client organisations better service their own end user customers. The three finalists are ...

Ericom replaced the kind of phones depicted above in NSW prisons with in-cell touchscreen phones that can also deliver video training. Brilliant results on this project include better education outcomes for prisoners.

GHO Sydney built a powerful portal for student accommodation outfit Urbanest.

Transpire delivered a dazzling smartphone experience for visitors to the Sir John Monash Center, Australia's World War One memorial in France.

The Digital Transformation award recognises projects that help customer organisations modernise internal systems and harness the power of data. Meet the finalists on the next three slides

CustomTec took television production house Endemol Shine's tape-based video library and transformed it into an online, accessible tool that makes finding - and selling - assets far easier.

Idea 11's work for City of Gold Coast has started transforming the Council to a cloud-wielding, data-driven entity. An early win: measuring when parking meters are full of coins so they can be emptied as needed, instead of regularly patrolled.

Fujitsu Australia deployed drones and AI-powered image recognition to help the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage to create 'Digital Owl', a method of monitoring endangered species that is more effective and vastly cheaper than current methods.

The Distribution Performance category celebrates distributors that  demonstrate their skill in helping vendors and partners alike to launch a product, achieve a sales result or deliver a stellar marketing campaign. Learn the three finalists on the next three slides.

Ingram Micro drove a $30 million revenue increase for Dell with a complex campaign that encouraged social media activity, extra sales and gave away a Tesla to one lucky partner.

Synnex's Flexible Technology As A Service delivered a seamless multi-vendor sales experience to the channel.

TechData chalked up huge growth for IBM, winning over 45 new reseller partners, $8m in revenue and creating an innovative IoT solution along the way.

The Emerging Innovator award celebrates Australian software startups or other emerging tech firms that have developed their own intellectual property and succeeded in turning it into a viable product. Who are the three finalists? Click ahead, dear readers ...

Cogniss has cooked up a low-code dev environment for health and education apps, and quickly won impressive support.

Sydney's Gluh created a sales and quoting engine that automates an awful lot of the sales proposal process for MSPs.

Invarosoft's ITSupportPanel started life as a remote support tool for eNerds. Now it's a fast-growing SaaS business!

The Evolving Innovator category celebrates Australian solution providers that diversify by building their own intellectual property around a third-party platform. And the three finalists are, in alphabetical order ...

Enable Labs, which used ServiceNow to power 'ToolBox', an app that handles myriad task for construction companies.

ONGC, which has used Office 365, Veeam and Cylance to create "Reach", a remote working tool that's become popular among real estate agents. 

Powertec, which has created an IoT product for agriculture companies based on the Rayven platform.

The Exporting Innovation category celebrates Australian firms that have developed their own intellectual property, successfully commercialised it and are winning export sales as a result. Our three finalists are ...

NextTechnick's NextService automates field service and is making waves in the USA thanks to NetSuite integration.

Wise-Sync and Wise-Pay continue to rack up strong overseas sales, with MSPs everywhere appreciating the way the products streamline their businesses.

XREF's reference-checking service went from strength to strength in 2018, with plenty of new international success to report!

The Modernising Infrastructure category  recognises projects that move customers to modern platforms and help them to control costs, become more efficient and innovate. The next three slides reveal the finalists!

Data#3 and Dell gave Western Australian council the City of Kwinana a top-to-bottom Dell, EMC and VMware infrastructure refresh!

Thomas Duryea Logicalis got Melbourne Racing Club past the winning post with Lenovo, Nutanix and Cisco.

Parallo took the Australian Catholic University from a classic multi-vendor mess to a hyperconverged and resilient rig.

Network Evolution celebrates connectivity, so this category features projects that connect teams and organisations, speed up communications and break down silos between teams, data and environments. This category has three finalists, but two are from one company!

AirBridge Networks scored two nominations, one for work in the Whitsunday Islands and another in the Northern Territory. In both cases the company's wireless networks brought connectivity into very tricky situations and really made a difference!

Intuit Technologies built a network for fish farming firm Tassal that lets it monitor offshore salmon feeding pens that are more than 20km from dry land!

The Trusted Systems category recognises projects that protect customer assets and data, build resiliency, ensure business continuity and protect transactions. And the finalists, as always in alphabetical order, are ...

OBT for its work integrating Australian company Eureka with French outfit AXA-IM, much of which took place in the dead of night.

Panther Data for its work improving resilience at the Coomera Anglican College.

SecureCo for extensive PCI DSS compliance work at insurer Auto & General Holdings.

The Workforce Empowerment award recognises projects that make people more productive. The three finalists follow this slide.

LOOKUP delivered a paperless office for its client Elite Traffic, so that remote workers can now access all the documentation they need with ease!

OBT's work at Niche Environment & Heritage has seen staff pass up the chance to work from home, and instead come to the office in increasing numbers to enjoy the thorough tech refresh on offer.

Peace of Mind Technology introduced video conferencing to health insurer nib. The project had short deadlines and quickly changed work practices.

The Working Together category focuses on “partner-to-partner engagements” or “partnering with other partners” that, while they deliver for a customer, impress the judges by showing how multiple providers have collaborated to achieve the desired business outcome. 

Encoo and Systima together delivered vastly improved resilience for food charity SecondBite

Engage2, Insync Technology and Adopt & Embrace - all members of the Modern Workplace Alliance - together delivered a monster Office 365 implementation for the City of Hobart and its 600 staff.

OBT and Clouds Made Simple worked with Skype for Business and teamed to win a stack of business around Australia.