CRN Sales and Marketing Awards shortlist revealed
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The competition for the 2019 Sales & Marketing Awards (SMAs) has been fierce, so those that have made the shortlist should be very proud of their achievement.
Entry standards have definitely been raised this year, and the judges have had to be stricter than ever on wordcount and rewarding those that really followed the criteria and told their story in a personal and informative way.
The shortlist will now go through to the second round of judges where the winners will be decided. Their job is going to be even harder as it really is that close.
See below for the full shortlist and congratulations to all those that have made it this year.
Reseller Categories
Best company to work for (sub £50m)
- Fitzrovia IT
- Ideal
- Pure technologies
- Air IT
- Atlas Cloud
- Risual Ltd
- Cisilion
Best Marketing Campaign
- SWcomms - Health Campaign
- Mobliciti - Enterprise Mobility and Cloud conference
- EACS - Optimise IT
- Academia - Surface Go campaign
- Softcat - Explain IT
- Probrand - A new way to buy IT
- Cisilion - Network Refresh campaign
- SCC - Workplace Productivity and Journey to the Modern Desktop
Best Sales Team
- Trustmarque Solutions ltd
- Mobliciti
- Risual Ltd
Best Graduate/Apprentice Scheme
- Swcomms
- Fitzrovia IT
- IPNetix Ltd
- Circle IT
- Softcat
- PCM Technology Solutions UK Ltd
Best New Business Win
- MTI
- Fizrovia IT
- SysGroup
- Noveau Solutions Ltd
Vendor Categories
Technology Innovation Award
- TP-Link UK - Deco range
- Rubrik - Radar
- HP Inc - Device-as-a-Service
- Continuum - Fortify for Protection
- Agilitas IT Solutions - Inventory-as-a-Service
Best Marketing Campaign
- Trend Micro - Go Big in Japan
- Netwrix - Best Practices in Securing Enterprise File Storage
- Harmony PSA - Enabling Growth Campaign
- Unify - WorkUtopia
- Fujitsu - Pilot campaign
- PFU (EMEA) - 10 Million Campaign
- BullGuard - Flying High in Dubai
- HPE - Intelligent Storage
Best Partner Programme
- UKFast
- SYNAXON UK
- PFU EMEA Ltd
- HP Inc
- BullGuard
- Malwarebytes
Best partner event
- ESET UK Partner Conference
- HP Partner First Roadshow
- Barracuda Networks - Discover 2018
- Microsoft Partner Executive Summit
- SYNAXON UK Member Conference
- NetApp Partner Executive Forum 2018
Best Graduate/Apprentice Scheme
- Microsoft Apprenticeship Programme
- Mason Frank Tech Academy - Salesforce Recruitment Scheme
- HP Internship and Placement Programme UK&I
- Agilitas IT Solutions Apprenticeship Scheme
Best company to work for
- Virtual1
- Dropbox
- Datto Inc
- ESET UK
- Red Hat
General Category
Best channel marketing/PR agency
- ResourceIT Consulting Ltd
- Junction Marketing Agency
- Bite IT marketing
- Ice and a Slice
- Asgard Marketing
- Purechannels
- Kingpin Communications
- Pursuit Marketing
Distributor Category
Best Marketing Campaign
- Sigma Software Distribution - Attack of the Vulnerabilities
- Midwich - Midwich TV
- Ingram Micro Horizon - Delivering HPE Solutions for Digital Transformation
- CMS Distribution - See Commvault from a new Perspective
- Exertis - Plug in to Exertis
- Westcon UK - Inside Agent lead generation Campaign
Best Sales and Marketing Support Team
- Tech Data
- intY
- Westcoast Cloud
- Exclusive Networks
- Comstor Engage
- Ingram Micro Marketing Team
Best company to work for
- Westcoast
- Exertis
- Tech Data
- Purdicom
- Exclusive Networks
Best Graduate/Apprentice scheme
- Tech Data
- Exertis
- Westcon-Comstor
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