Have you wrapped up a great IT project lately? One that shows truly innovative use of network technology or a demonstrable improvement in business operations? If so, then get ready to exercise your boasting rights.
Don’t be shy. Consider nominating your project in Network World’s newest reader award program: the Enterprise All-Star Awards. All you have to do is head here and tell us why your project is exemplary, what business problem it solves and how.
The Enterprise All-Star Awards program represents the evolution of our longtime User Excellence Award competition, through which we recognized companies that used newer infrastructure technologies in practical ways or that creatively adapted mainstream technologies. It also merges in the Extended Enterprise Innovator Award, launched several years ago to honor companies for extraordinary e-business initiatives.
While each of those programs recognized a main winner and one or two runners-up, the Enterprise All-Star Awards is more granular. We’ll select winners by technology category, with the goal of honoring dozens of user organizations for top-notch projects.
So maybe you’ve built a services-oriented architecture that has allowed your company to develop new business opportunities. Perhaps you’ve orchestrated a major server consolidation, or virtualized your storage. Or has your focus been on building a wireless infrastructure to support mobile employees? No matter – there’s a fit with the Enterprise All-Star Awards.
Enterprise All-Star Award categories include: applications, convergence/VoIP, e-commerce, LANs/routers, network and systems management, operating systems, security, servers/desktops, storage, WANs and wireless/mobile. Award winners will be enterprise user organizations that act as role models for the use of one or more of these technologies within their particular vertical markets and the business world at large.
Enterprise All-Star Award winners will share their projects in a special Network World Signature Series issue in November. Winning an Enterprise All-Star Award will give you recognition for your hard work and accomplishments.
So don’t hesitate to seek recognition for a job well-done. The deadline to nominate your project is July 8. Head online, and fill out a form. Your project might just become one of the inaugural Enterprise All-Star winners.
