
Shortlist announced for UK IT Industry Awards 2018
Did you make the shortlist for the UK's most respected IT event?

Every year, the IT industry gathers in Battersea Park to separate the wheat from the chaff - and have a cracking good time doing it.
V3's sister site Computing, in association with BCS - The Chartered Institute for IT, has announced the shortlist for this year's UK IT Industry Awards: the biggest and most prestigious event of the IT calendar.
Covering a whole spectrum of IT achievements from personal, organisational, project and technology standpoints, the Awards recognise the very best that the industry has to offer - simply being shortlisted is something to be proud of.
Next to come is the judging day in mid-September, when our expert judges will choose the winners. They will be announced at a glittering ceremony in Battersea Park Events Arena on the 14th of November, with a host of other entertainment for good measure.
Remember to book your table so that you can be there on the night to enjoy unmatched opportunities for dining, networking, entertainment and - if you truly are exceptional - collect your prize.
Good luck!
Personal Excellence
Business Analyst of the Year
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Margaret Battensby, HMRC
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Danielle Harley, Allianz Insurance
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Charles Jenkins, QBE
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Nicola Joy, QBE
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Arjun Kondisetti, Cognizant Technology Solutions
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Kamini Kumaran,BP
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Ranvir Rai, Deloitte MCS
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Su Taylor, University of Derby
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Jason Wood, Nationwide Building Society
CIO of the Year
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Dr Jacob Abboud, Allianz Insurance
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Steven Capper, Royal BAM Group
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Richard Corbridge, NHS Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust
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Adam Gerrard, Yodel Delivery Network
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Ian Penny, Hiscox
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Chris Reynolds, Pennine Care NHS FT
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Duncan Stott Kier
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John Sullivan, Virgin Trains
IT Apprentice of the Year
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Chris Bubloz,Orbis IT & Digital, Brighton & Hove City Council
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Michael Griffin, Lloyds Banking Group
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George Hudson, Mirus IT
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Charlie Lennon, risual
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Blake Meyrick, HMRC
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Gus Parkhouse, IBM
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Alex Pedersen, Allianz
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Robin Proudfoot, National Grid
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Thomas Sherlock, IBM UK
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Hannah Surry, Lloyds Banking Group
IT Manager of the Year
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Gaurav Bhardwaj, BP
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Paul Calvert, NHS North of England Commissioning Support
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Mark Castro, Daisy Group
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Chrissie Felthouse, University of Derby
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Laura Firth, Allianz Insurance
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Adam Hett, Picsolve International
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Tim Piper, QBE
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Andrew Sheppard, HMRC
IT Service & Support Professional of the Year
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Sam Dart, Sovereign Housing Assocation
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John Fenlon,QBE
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Nick Gee, risual
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Vivek Godyani , Mastek
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Rhys Harris, Content Guru
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Melanie Holley, Radius Payment Solutions
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Olly Hosken, HMRC
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Dumitru Reaboi, Plan-Net
Young IT Professional of the Year
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Richard Baines, HMRC
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Sebastian Gallego Jimenez, QBE
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Piotr Grzeskowiak, Automation Logic
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Anna Hackett Boyle, Automation Logic
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George Hill, HMRC
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Harry McLaren, ECS Security
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Rachel Rajkumar, Content Guru
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Alin Rohnean, Atkins
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Ekaterini Tasiopoulou, IBM
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Alex Young, ECS Security
Organisational Excellence
Best Place to Work in IT 2018
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Automation Logic
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Box UK
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Company85
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Datto, Inc.
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Ensono
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HMRC
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Mirus IT Solutions
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RockIT
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Royal College of Nursing
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Softcat Plc
Development Team of the Year
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EA Games and CloudBees
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Mayden
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Picsolve International
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Royal London
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Speechmatics
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The Accenture London Liquid Studio and CloudBees
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TrakCel
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Yodel Delivery Network
IT Project Team of the Year
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Anglian Water
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BP
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Driver and Vehicle Agency (Northern Ireland)
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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Kainos
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Lloyds Banking Group
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Lookers Plc
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Parcelforce
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Post Office
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Sky
IT Team of the Year
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Centrica
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Deutsche Bank
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Heathrow / Capgemini
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HMRC - The Platform Group
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HMRC - DRM Team
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Picsolve International
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Royal London
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Surrey County Coucil
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Virgin Trains
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Vodafone UK
Services Company of the Year
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Company85
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DCSL Software
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Derive Logic
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MANAGED 24/7 Ltd
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Mirus IT Soultions
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NetSupport
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Performanta
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Retail Assist Limited
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RFA
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Sopra Steria
Small Supplier or VAR of the Year
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Accedia
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DCSL Software
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GuideSmiths
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REPL Group
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Satchel
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Vivantio
Project Excellence
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) Machine Learning (ML) Project of the Year
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Barclays - GTIS Enterprise Data Analytics and Reporting team
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MMT Digital - Vodafone TOBi Sales Chatbot
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Kainos - Intelligent Risk Ratings that Improve Road Safety
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Luminance Technologies - Luminance - the AI platform for the legal profession.
Best IoT Project of the Year
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BT - IoT Security Platform
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BT - SeeSense Smart Cycling Manchester
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Heat Genius - Genius Control saves taxpayer's money with automatic heating controls
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IMS Evolve - IMS Evolve IoT Energy Solution
Best Not for Profit IT Project of the Year
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Belfast Health & Care Trust - NISTAR eHealth Solution
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Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust - Digital Ward - Therapeutic and physical Observations
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Edinburgh Napier University - LapSafe Self-Service Laptop Loans Project
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Egress Software Technologies - Operation SNAP
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HMRC - Portal Rehoming Project
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Leeds Teaching Hospital Trust - PPM+ - An Electronic Health Record
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NHS NECS - NHS Wi-Fi - Paving the way for Digital Patient Care
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Pennine Care Foundation Trust - Improving Community Clinical Recording and Information Exchange
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Post Office - Network Transition Programme
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Sovereign Housing Association - Sovereign Housing Customer Portal
Best Use of Cloud Services
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Content Guru - storm® Citizen Engagement Hub®
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CTIL - City of London Wireless Concessions
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Daisy Group - Costain
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HMRC - Portal Rehoming Project
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Royal Dutch Shell - Travel and Entertainment Next Generation Project at Shell
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Welsh Revenue Authority - Welsh Revenue Authority and Kainos
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Yodel Delivery Network - Project Nubilum
Cybersecurity Project of the Year
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ECS Security Ltd - Managed Security Service for a Luxury Goods' Retailer
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HMRC - SMiShing
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Radius Payment Solutions - Project Obsequio
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Royal London - User Behaviour Analytics (UBA)
Digital Project of the Year
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Anglian Water - Developer Services Digital Transformation Programme
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Box UK/RS Components - RS Components DesignSpark
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BP - BPMe - Fuel Payment
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Hermes UK - HERMES UK Digital advancement programme - Digital Futures.
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Mastek - Together
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University of Derby - Portal Replacement Project (UDo)
Enterprise Data / Analytics Project of the Year
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BT - BT Billing Analytics
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Gatwick Airport - Operational Performance Management (OPM) System Upgrade
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HMRC - Threat Hunting
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Orwell Group with Hortonworks
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SIG - SIG moves to hybrid cloud architecture with SnapLogic
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Tessella and Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - NERC DATALABS - Virtual Research Environment for Environmental Science
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Travelport - Rich Content and Branding (RC&B) Data Analytics project.
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University of Derby - Learning Analytics and Machine Learning to improve Digital Teaching Practice
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Zurich Insurance UK - Data Transformation - The Strategic Data Asset
Workplace Transformation Project of the Year
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Driver and Vehicle Agency (Northern Ireland) - The Driving Examiners' Digital Solution (DEDS)
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Heathrow Airport Ltd - Digital Workplace Programme
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HMRC - HMRC Workplace Transformation
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Silver Peak, Mazars deploys hybrid WAN with Silver Peak SD-WAN solution
Technology Excellence
Business IT Innovation of the Year
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360Globalnet - 360SiteView
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Centrica - Global Supply Chain planning implementation for Centrica HIVE
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Evo-soft - Evo-auction from Evo-soft Limited
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Thoughtonomy - The Virtual Workforce
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ServiceNow - Virgin Trains: Redefining the Rail Experience
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Speechmatics - Speechmatics' Automatic Speech Recogniton feature - Custom Dictionary
Cloud Innovation Provider of the Year
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Atmosera - Three-Tier Azure Management Suite
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Content Guru - Content Guru and Serco Citizen Engagement Hub
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CTERA Networks - CTERA 6.0 Enterprise File Services Platform
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Hedvig
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iland
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MuleSoft - Titan release of Anypoint Platform
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Natterbox Ltd - Natterbox Advanced Voice Services
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Sesui
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UKCloud - UKCloud's Multi-cloud platform
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Version 1 - Cloud Innovation & Customer Success - Migrating Oracle to Public Cloud
Infrastructure Innovation of the Year
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Agilitas IT Solutions - Agilitas' Inventory-as-a-Service
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Cohesity - Cohesity's webscale data platform redefines the secondary data landscape
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Delphix - Delphix Dynamic Data Platform
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Excelero - Excelero NVMesh
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Runecast - Runecast Analyzer
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Scality
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Silver Peak - Silver Peak Unity EdgeConnect SD-WAN Solution
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Travelport - Next Generation Search
Mobile App of the Year
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Autocab - Autocab Passenger App & iGo network
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DMI - Ubamarket and DMI Reimagine the In-Store Shopping Experience
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HMRC - HMRC Mobile App
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NutraTech Limited - Nutracheck
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Totalmobile and Allianz
Security Innovation of the Year
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CensorNet - CensorNet Unified Security Service (USS)
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Cofense - Cofense human phishing defence solution
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CyNation - CyDesk
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Digital Shadows - Digital Shadows SearchLightTM
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Egress Software Technologies - Egress user centric data security platform
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Endace - Endace / EndaceProbe Analytics Platform
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OneTrust
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RepKnight - BreachAlert dark web monitoring platform
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Tessian (formerly CheckRecipient)
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XQ Cyber - CyberScoreTM
UK Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award
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Automation Logic - Automation Logic Cloud Platform Innovation.
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CloudApps- SuMo by CloudApps - Sales Improvement you can Measure
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Collision Management Systems - Collision Management Systems (CMS) risk management and crash detection
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Droplet Computing - Application Delivery Redefined
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Evident Proof -
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Primary Goal Ltd
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Ravelin
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ScopeMaster
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systemsync solutions ltd - pensionsync
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Thoughtonomy - The Virtual Workforce
Vendor of the Year 2018
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Content Guru
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Egress Software Technologies
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KnowBe4
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Mastek Limited
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Mendix
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Sopra Steria
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SysGroup
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