Meet all the winners of the 2018 CRN Impact Awards

Category: Digital Transformation

DiUS

Customer: Environmental Monitoring Solutions

Environmental Monitoring Solutions partnered with DiUS to deliver an IoT, cloud-based platform and web application to provide a unique and first of its kind monitoring and reporting solution specifically for retail fuel businesses. EMS' Fuelsuite and Fuelscan tools help petroleum retailers across Australia run their operations safely and efficiently by providing a 24/7 monitoring and reporting solution across all of their stations operating systems.

Key technology: AWS

Commended: Kiandra IT - The MSBase Foundation

Commended: Nexon - Essential Services Commission

Category: Modernising Infrastructure (enterprise)

Winner: Thomas Duryea Logicalis

Customer: City of Casey

Category: Modernising Infrastructure (mid-range)

Winner: Combo

Customer: Workways Australia

Category: Workforce Empowerment

Winner: Outware Mobile

Customer: Safe Food Production QLD

Safe Food engaged Outware Mobile to digitise its existing paper reporting system in order to improve the efficiency of reporting and allow them to better regulate the processing of poultry and red meat in Queensland. Data entered into the app is automatically uploaded to a live web dashboard that Safe Food and the business can view. The app not only assists Safe Food in verifying overall performance of a business’ food safety system, it generates alerts, trends data, and assists the business in making better real-time decisions.

Category: Trusted Systems

Winner: OBT

Customer: Planet Plumbing

Planet Plumbing alighted on the Office 365 public cloud platform with the help of OBT — along with technology partner-bespoke elements to harden security and improve access — with the aim of going agile while emphasising cybersecurity and cutting costs to improve its competitiveness.

Key technology: Microsoft

Commended: Infotrust - Department of Human Services

Category: Exporting Innovation

Winner: Envato

Envato Market services hundreds of thousands of customers complete millions of transactions every year, catering to digital creatives who need WordPress themes, code and plugins, stock photos or audio, graphic templates, fonts and more. The company has customers – and authors – in nearly every continent from Europe to South America, North America to Asia.

Highly Commended: TrademarkVision

Commended: LiveTiles

Category: Evolving Innovator

Winner: Cohesio Group

Cohesio Group began as systems integrator four years ago, and has since developed a market-leading software platform. Its Ignito software enables workflow optimisation and task automation for retail stores, including customer My Chemist.

Highly Commended: Bistech

Commended: Invarosoft

Category: Emerging Innovator

Winner: Reekoh

Reekoh is a leading IoT data and API management platform, designed to help enterprise customers manage the complexity of IoT solution components and accelerate IoT adoption. Its solution solves integration problems and enables enterprise customers and managed service providers to be agile and accelerate their adoption of IoT solutions, avoid vendor lock-in and future-proof their investments to build greater returns.

Highly Commended: Complexica

Commended: Credit Clear

Category: Distribution Performance

Winner: Alloys

Vendor: Canon

Alloys created a systematic campaign to increase adoption, market share, and grow the number of channel partners supporting Canon’s large-format printers.

Commended: rhipe - Microsoft Summit 2017

Commended: Arrow ECS ANZ - HPE

Category: Network Evolution

Winner: AirBridge Networks

Customer: Northern Peninsula Area Regional Council

AirBridge Networks deployed a new wide area network for NPARC in far north Queensland, to improve the connectivity of remote northwestern coast of Cape York Peninsula, and is made up of five indigenous communities with a total population of just under 3000 people. The network is based on a proprietary IP-based wireless solution and supports an IP telephony service and Cisco Meraki wireless infrastructure.

Key technologies: Telstra, Cisco Meraki

Highly Commended: Outcomex - Llanelli Farm

Category: Working Together

Winner: Mangano IT and Telstra

Customer: Whitsunday Regional Council

Mangano IT and Telstra deployed a full disaster recovery and backup solution for Whitsunday Regional Council so it could continue operating in the event that any of its 64 servers between sites in Proserpine and Bowen went down.

Key technology: Datto

Highly Commended: base2Services and Avanade - Open Universities Australia

Category: Customer Experience

Winner: DiUS

Customer: nib Health Insurance

nib became the first Australian health insurer to introduce artificial intelligence technology to assist Aussies with their health insurance enquiries with the launch of nibby in October 2017.

Key technology: AWS

CRN deputy editor Michael Jenkin with awards judge Susan Sly

The team from Base2services, Avanade and customer Open Universities Australia, highly commended in the Working Together category

DWM Solutions was a finalist in the Trusted Systems category

Brad Culbert from Bistech, which was highly commended in the Evolving Innovator category

CommsPlus was a finalist in the Distribution Performance category for  a project with Access4 to build an end-to-end unified communications-as-a-service telephony solution for Panasonic SIP Phones 

Toby Alcock from CNI, which was a finalist in the Customer Experience category

BNW Consulting was highly commended in the Modernising Infrastructure category for its work with Visy Industries

Karen Drewitt (The Missing Link), Jo Masters (Tquila ANZ), Prue Herman (CRN) and Malin Lyckang (CRN)

The team from Comlinx: Wayne Shaw, Scott Smith, Andrew Skinner and Ben Dale. Comlinx and NEXTDC were finalists in the Working Together category

Ted Zafirov and Paul MacNeill from Wise-Sync, which was a finalist in the Exporting Innovation category

Alvin Oh and Damian Coyne from Nebulr, which was a finalist in the Customer Experience category

The team from eNerds and Invarosoft, which were finalists in two awards: Workplace Empowerment and Evolving Innovator