Finalists by category

Our successful finalists were invited to attend a prestigious judging day.

Individual Excellence

CIO of the Year
  • Phil Holmes, Remploy
  • Adam Gerrard, The LateRooms Group
  • Phil Pavitt, HM Revenue & Customs
  • Atul Hindocha, Lloyds Register Group
  • Neil Williams, University of Derby
  • David Wilde, Essex County Council
  • Susan Cooklin, Network Rail
  • Lance Fisher, Sthree Plc
  • Dave Henderson, A&N Media
  • James Fairhurst, Hastings Insurance Services Limited
Young IT Professional of the Year
  • Eilidh Clarkson, Baker Hughes Incorporated
  • Emma Colclough, Co-operative Banking Group
  • Alex Healing, BT plc
  • Hasnain Iqbal, Lloyds Banking Group
  • Andrew Elliott, JDA Software
  • Teju Isola, Network Rail
  • Bradlee Allen, Cisco
  • Damon Neale, Mediasmiths International Ltd
  • Michael Stenhouse, Procter & Gamble
  • Tom Eddings, Microsoft Limited
IT Manager of the Year - Private Sector
  • Kevin Green, National Grid
  • Dr Yang Li, British Telecom
  • Brian Mills, Fletchers Solicitors Ltd
  • Chris Owen, JDA Software
  • Jiten Kachhela, A&N Media IT Services
  • Md Sadeque Imam Shaikh, BRIT College London
  • Amardeep Sitara, Barnett Waddingham
  • Mav Peri, Holiday Lettings Ltd
  • Stuart Mills, The LateRooms Group
  • Jonathan Allen, CapitalOne (Europe) plc
IT Manager of the Year - Public Sector
  • Steve Connell, Home Office IT (IT Manager - Public Services category)
  • David Forshaw, Liverpool Direct Limited
  • Bryn Robinson-Morgan, Post Office Ltd
IT Service & Support Professional of the Year
  • Chris Wallace, Baker Hughes Incorporated
  • Mike Aistrop, Liverpool Direct Limited
  • Daniel Fiddeman, Aviva
  • Amanjit Sandhu, JDA Software
  • Matt Long, Comms-care
  • Rebecca Prindiville, PepsiCo UK
  • Andy Birds, The Co-Operative Banking Group
  • Erten Yussuf, Plan-Net plc

Organisational Excellence

IT Department of the Year
  • AmicusHorizon
  • Camelot UK Lotteries Limited
  • Egton Medical Information System Ltd
  • Wellcome Trust
  • The LateRooms Group
  • Plan-Net plc
  • Lloyds Banking Group - Colleague IT Service Desk
  • HM Revenue & Customs
  • Wales & West Utilities
  • Hastings Direct
Best Use of Cloud Services
  • The Met Office - Weather Observation Website (WOW)
  • Smart421
  • MetaCompliance Ltd
  • Tellybug
  • Mitchells & Butler and Fujitsu
  • United Biscuits UK Ltd
Large Supplier or Major VAR of the Year
  • BT Engage IT
  • Dell
  • Eze Castle Integration
  • European Electronique Limited
  • Trustmarque Solutions
  • IPL
  • Northgate Managed Services
  • Azzurri Communications
  • Autodesk
  • Softcat
Small Supplier or VAR of the Year
  • Signify
  • Connection Point Technology Ltd
  • Methods
  • SICL Ltd
  • Ancoris
  • Vivantio Limited
  • Memset
  • Imerja
  • Company85
  • Oneserve Ltd
IT Employer of the Year
  • Telefonica UK
  • Accenture
  • JMC IT
  • Remploy Ltd
  • SICL Ltd
  • The LateRooms Group
  • Northgate Managed Services
  • CapitalOne (Europe) plc
  • XOR Professional Services
  • University of Derby
IT Project Team of the Year
  • IBM and the Home Office
  • Higgs & Sons
  • Hanover Housing Association
  • Logica
  • Barclaycard
  • Hotels.com
  • Northgate Public Services
  • Fluent Technology and Surrey County Council's Policy and Performance team
  • Network Rail
  • PepsiCo UK

Project Excellence

Best business project dependent on mobile technology
  • JBW Group Ltd
  • Telefónica UK
  • Locala Community Partnerships
  • RIM
  • Leeds City Council
  • aql
  • Quest and e.surv
  • Warburtons Ltd
Best Not for Profit IT project
  • Wellcome Trust
  • Edinburgh Napier University, Sitekit, Microsoft and HoIP
  • Home Office and Ministry of Justice
  • Countess of Chester NHS Foundation Trust
  • The Pennies Foundation
  • National Union of Students
  • Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
  • Mimas - Autonomy
  • The Children's Trust
Big Data Project of the Year
  • HolidayExtras.com
  • BT
  • HM Revenue & Customs
  • Rutherford Appleton Laboratories
  • QlikView
  • Memset
  • Network Rail
  • Brightsolid online technology and The British Library
  • MarkLogic
Data Centre Project of the Year
  • Colt Technology Services
  • Arup
  • Electrocomponents PLC
  • Adapt
  • ARM Ltd
  • International Personal Finance
  • Six Degrees Group
  • PEER 1 Hosting
  • Sudlows
  • University of St Andrews
IT project demonstrating most effective use of collaborative technology
  • JBW Group Ltd
  • The Met Office - Weather Observations Site
  • N3 and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust
  • EMC
  • The Fifth Business
  • Deutsche Bank
  • City ehealth Research Centre (CeRC), City University
  • BG Group
  • BT
  • Volkswagen Group UK
Network / Infrastructure Project of the Year
  • Wellcome Trust
  • The LateRooms Group
  • LinuxIT
  • AstraZeneca
  • Eaton Corporation
  • Lloyds Banking Group
  • Mitchells & Butlers and Fujitsu
  • BT
  • BT
  • Damovo

Technology Excellence

Business IT Innovation of the Year
  • Deutsche Bank AG; Horizon
  • sales-i
  • Spiceworks
  • Intuitive Business Intelligence Ltd
  • Click Travel
  • Xafinity
  • WANdisco
  • Contigo Ltd.
  • Amicus ITS; Out Of Hours Managed Services
  • Riso UK
Cloud Provider of the Year
  • Interoute Application Management; OraCloud™: The SaaS
  • Enablement Solution for the Oracle ISV Community
  • Eduserv
  • CentraStage; LGfl Case Study
  • Salesforce.com
  • Northgate Managed Services
  • SkyDox Ltd
  • Autonomy, an HP company
  • Dot Net Solutions; Windows Azure
  • ServiceNow
  • British Telecommunictions PLC; BT Cloud Compute
Infrastructure Innovation of the Year
  • Emulex Corporation; Emulex OneConnect 10Gb Ethernet Universal Converged Network Adapter family
  • Tegile Systems, Inc.; Tegile Zebi Hybrid Storage Arrays
  • Hampshire County Council; HPSN2 for Schools
  • Virtual Instruments; VirtualWisdom
  • Coraid
  • Ruckus Wireless
  • Azzurri Communications; ICON (Intelligent Cloud Optimised Network)
  • Debriefing Software
  • Ipswitch Network Management Division
  • AppSense; AppSense User Virtualization Platform
Innovative Mobile App of the Year
  • Telefónica UK; Priority Moments
  • Accenture
  • Black Pepper; Companion
  • Polycom; Polycom RealPresence Mobile
  • Polymorph; Tactical Solutions
  • NMBS Ltd; I-Exhibit
  • Metricell Ltd; Tracesaver
  • Fruitful Media Ltd; Keyboard Shortcuts - The Ultimate Guide
  • AirWatch; AirWatch Global Deployment
  • Metricell Ltd; NETcare - Connecting operators with their customers
Security Innovation of the Year
  • BT Security Futures Practice; SATURN
  • Avecto
  • Varonis Systems
  • MetaCompliance Ltd
  • SCC; Secure Multi-Tenanted Cloud (SMTC)
  • Cyber-Ark; Cyber-Ark Privileged Identity Management (PIM) Suite
  • McAfee
  • CNS COMPLIANCEngine; CNS COMPLIANCEngine
  • HID Global; HID Global's iCLASS
  • Entersekt; Interactive Transaction Authentication
UK Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award
  • Wazoku; Wazoku's Idea Spotlight
  • miiCard
  • Skyscape Cloud Services; Assured Cloud Services for the UK Public Sector
  • Avecto
  • Blippar
  • Iceotope
  • Shoothill; FLOOD ALERTS
  • Trade Mark Direct Ltd
  • CNS; CNS COMPLIANCEngine
  • Content Catalyst Ltd. (Trading as Publish Interactive); iReports