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Computing as well as a BCS have been gratified to have known a finalists for a all-new UK IT Industry Awards 2009

Computing as well as a BCS have been gratified to have known a finalists for a all-new UK IT Industry Awards 2009.

It has been a really rival preference process, with a lot of high-quality entries, as well as those who have done a shortlist can be justifiably unapproachable of their achievement.

The latest awards programme merges a longstanding Computing Awards for Excellence as well as a BCS IT Industry Awards to emanate a height for a complete UK IT contention to showcase as well as applaud most appropriate practice, creation as well as excellence. The winners will be voiced during a intemperate prizegiving ceremony, to be hold during a Battersea Park Events Arena in London upon Thursday twelve Nov 2009.

To book your list during what will be a greatest night of a UK IT calendar, revisit a web site at: www.computing.co.uk/awards.

Individual Excellence Awards

Presented to IT professionals for demonstrating value in their field

IT Leader of a Year, sponsored by Qedis

• Alan Harrison, executive of IT, Yorkshire Water Services
• Kate Craig-Wood, handling director, Memset
• Chris Price, conduct of ICT, Highways Agency
• Ajay Burlington Bohr, executive of report systems as well as media services, Anglia Ruskin University
• Paul Smith, conduct of IT, Business Stream
• Phil Pavitt, arch report officer, Transport for London
• Terry Trundley, arch report officer, Fife Council
• David Walters, arch report as well as innovations officer, LBM Direct Marketing
• David Henderson, arch report officer, A&N Media
• Catalina McGregor, owner as well as president of a Cabinet Office CIO/CTO Council Green ICT Delivery Group

Young IT Professional of a Year, sponsored by NetworkersMSB

• Oliver Clarke, connoisseur technologist, Capgemini
• Stuart Clarke, partner plan manager, The Coal Authority
• Riyaz Patel, IT professional, Yorkshire Water
• Aimee Lawrence, product as well as pricing use smoothness manager, Whitbread
• Luke Claughton, IT & telecoms manager, Micheldever Tyre Services
• Jacques Erasmus, executive of malware research, PrevX
• Christopher Findlay, comparison researcher programmer, National Australia Group
• Alex Stewart, IT plan manager, Allianz Insurance
• Denise Kirrane, plan manager, Allianz Insurance
• Emily Taylor, comparison IT military military military military military officer DBA, Leeds City Council

APM Group Project Manager of a Year

• Paul Canavan, WHR plan manager, Whitbread
• Jayne Wirepa, plan manager, National Grid
• John Garner, IDS systems manager, Procter & Gamble
• Jeff Ridgley, opening & peculiarity manager, Oxford City Council
• Mark Sweeny, plan manager, Ministry of Justice/Parity
• Sebastian Shaw, plan manager, Portal Technology Systems
• Dennis Rocks, smoothness manager, Network Rail
• Mike Tyrie, conduct of craving transformation, Liverpool Direct
• Mike Whyment, programme manager, University of Aberdeen

Systems Developer of a Year

• Rob Parsons, comparison approved technical applications developer, Allianz Insurance
• Kelly Webb, focus developer, Berwin Leighton Paisner
• Christian Jensen, commercial operation systems developer, Berwin Leighton Paisner
• Gustavo Recio, program engineer, Portal Technology Systems
• Mark Robertshaw, director, Oxford Information Labs
• Josh Twist, focus growth consultant, Microsoft
• Andrew Stevens, web focus developer, Vivantio
• Stephen Miller, systems growth as well as operations manager, ADL Smartcare
• Ben Travis, manager, Deloitte

IT Service & Support Professional of a Year, sponsored by itSMF

• Jenny Nicholson, ICT await manager, Lincolnshire Police
• Valerie Maddock, conduct of IT learning, The Salvation Army
• Jag Johal, use manager, National Grid
• Rob Hobart, commercial operation systems technologist, Berwin Leighton Paisner
• Nalini Patel, use table adviser, University of Wolverhampton
• Jamie Brown, lead record consultant, National Australia Group
• Margaret Long, IT precision supervisor, Berwin Leighton Paisner
• Yvonne O’Connell, Operational standards & SLA manager, Network Rail
• Nigel Woods, technical director, Intercept IT
• Mark Porton, programme & use smoothness manager, Liverpool Direct

Business Analyst of a Year, sponsored by Assist Knowledge Development

• Julian Dyer, commercial operation analyst, National Grid
• Stuart Pearson, commercial operation mutation leader, Procter & Gamble
• Paul Perry, commercial operation analyst, NFU Mutual
• Clair Douglas, commercial operation systems analyst, Capital One
• Christine Henly, commercial operation analyst, Allianz Insurance
• James Archer, commercial operation analyst, Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea
• David Wood, commercial operation systems manager, Berwin Leighton Paisner
• Jane Kelly, commercial operation analyst, The Insolvency Service
• James Mitchell, commercial operation analyst, Centrica
• Claire Lamb commercial operation analyst, Allianz Insurance

Project Excellence Awards

Presented for projects which have delivered genuine benefits to organisations by a doing of IT

Innovative Project of a Year, sponsored by Konica Minolta

• National Grid -­ Planning for Success
• Flintshire County Council ­- Virtualisation
• HR Wallingford ­- OpenWeb integrated environmental modelling
• GHL Insurance Services/IT-Freedom ­- ICE Claims
• BT Innovate & Design -­ Risky Starts: preventing early hold up failures in write lines
• Mouchel Group ­- Maps@mouchel
• Teliris -­ Teliris 6G
• Defra/IBM -­ Energy potency investigate project
• Siemens IT Solutions as well as Services ­- Media Community Cloud
• Glasgow School of Art Digital Design Studio ­- Venus: Virtual scrutiny of underwater sites

Community Project of a Year

• Strategic Systems Solutions – Advanced IT tutelage programme
• The Digbeth Trust ­-Digbeth Trust Broadcast
• Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust ­-Community midwives: Meditech upon a move
• Bradford Chronic Kidney Disease Electronic Advisory Service – E-consultations
• Yorkshire Air Ambulance Service/SICL – Cisco WAN as well as one communications
• Metropolitan Police – Crime mapping
• Royal Borough of Kensington as well as Chelsea Council ­-Integrated Children’s System
• Volunteer Action – Drives system
• Lincolnshire County Council ­-Community web sites
• Comic Relief/Carrenza – Red Nose Day ’09

Private Sector Project of a Year

• Trowers & Hamlins – IS commercial operation continuity
• Procter & Gamble – Laptop encryption
• Messier-Dowty/Telindus ­- Application opening management
• Long Tall Sally/Portal Technology Systems -­ hybris://QuickLive
• British Airways -­ Zero hold desktop
• TUI UK & Ireland ­- StepStone e-recruitment
• Anglian Water/CSC -­ Debt management
• WSP/ESRI (UK) ­- iGIS mapping portal
• Clear Channel Outdoor UK ­- WAVe
• Balfour Beatty WorkPlace/Esteem Systems -­ Secure Citrix infrastructure

Public Sector Project of a Year

• West Sussex Accessible Services Partnership -­ Street cleaning tracking during Crawley Borough Council
• The Rivers Agency, Northern Ireland ­- Strategic inundate map
• Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals ­- BloodTrack
• Kent Connects -­ Kent Public Services Network
• Leicestershire Constabulary/Point to Point -­ Mobile data
• NHS/Concentra -­ Cancer Commissioning Toolkit
• Norfolk Constabulary/enCircle Solutions ­- Intelligence lecture & tasking
• Northern Ireland Department of Finance as well as Personnel ­- Shared use centre
• Ministry of Defence/Capgemini ­- Defence Travel Online
• HM Revenue & Customs ­- Self Assessment Online

Environmental Project of a Year, sponsored by Ricoh

• Flintshire County Council ­- Virtualisation
• HR Wallingford -­ OpenWeb: Integrated environmental modelling
• National Trust/eLinia ­- Virtualisation
• The Insolvency Service -­ Enabling a future
• National Australia Group -­ Managed imitation services
• Petroleum Geo-Services/Keysource ­- Mega centre
• Screwfix ­- Sun Ray project

IT Project Team of a Year

• Whitbread -­ Simply Better programme
• Standard Life ­- Heal project
• Bradford & Bingley/IBM ­- Transfer of assets IT to Santander
• Virgin Atlantic -­ IT Lite
• COLT Telecom -­ Infrastructure mutation programme
• Long Tall Sally/Portal Technology Systems ­- hybris://QuickLive
• Lloyds Banking Group -­ Project Hawk
• Guide Dogs for a Blind Association/IRIS NFP Solutions -­ CRM as well as fundraising system
• Aviva UK/Deloitte ­ -Datacentre strategy
• Matalan Retail/Capgemini ­- E-commerce project

Organisational Excellence Awards

Presented in approval of a smoothness of IT value as well as patron compensation opposite a organisation

Best IT Strategy of a Year, sponsored by Pirean

• Whitbread Group
• Wipro Technologies
• Ministry of Justice
• Liverpool Direct
• London Borough of Southwark
• Wales & West Utilities/ESRI (UK)
• Prudential UK
• Rolls-Royce
• Businesslink.gov.uk

Best SME IT Strategy of a Year

• Business Stream
• IT Lab
• LiveXchange
• Bottomline Technologies
• Utilize

Diversity in IT Award

• Microsoft
• Google
• NHS National Mental Health Development Unit

Best Technology Supplier of a Year

• Imprivata
• Citrix Online
• Emis
• Meru Networks
• Vivantio
• Red Hat
• IQMS
• Hitachi Data Systems
• VMware
• Sentilla

Best Small IT Supplier of a Year

• Networks First
• Postcode Anywhere
• Telnic
• nFlow Software
• Memset
• DTP Group
• La Fosse Associates
• eg Solutions
• ScriptSwitch
• ZyLAB

Best IT Services Supplier of a Year

• SICL
• MBA IT
• Portal Technology Systems
• Brookcourt Solutions
• BT Business
• Capital Support
• Glasshouse Technologies
• FDM Group
• Luxoft
• Northgate Managed Services

Promoting IT Professionalism Award

• Procter & Gamble
• IBM
• Lincolnshire Police
• IT Lab
• Deloitte
• Royal London Asset Management
• UKFast
• Leeds City Council
• Allianz Insurance
• Northgate Managed Services

Technology Excellence Awards

Presented for a latest hardware, program or IT services products which have a greatest grant to commercial operation technology

Research & Development Achievement of a Year

• BT Innovate ­- Seamless mobility for users with multi-radio devices
• BT -­ Postern
• BT ­- Autonomic disaster prophecy as well as prevention
• HR Wallingford ­- OpenWeb: Integrated environmental modelling
• BT Innovation & Design -­ BCOS Cloud Broker
• Corizon -­ Enterprise mashup thick customer extender
• BT Innovation & Design – Access carry out permission use & desert server
• Lloyd’s Register Group Services -­ Enterprise calculation framework
• Beam Strategic Research as well as Consulting ­- Sirona illness as well as amicable services indicator

Mobile Product of a Year

• Cordia ­- E-router
• Handheld PCs -­ Hand-e-pix
• InTechnology -­ Push to Experience
• National Rail Enquiries ­- National Rail Enquiries iPhone application
• Point to Point -­ Leicestershire Constabulary mobile interpretation project
• iPass ­- iPass Mobile Office
• TAAP Limited ­- TAAP Field Force
• AQL -­ Mobile Access
• Rufus Leonard/Highways Agency -­ Mobile web site
• West Yorkshire Police -­ Mobile interpretation project

Internet Product of a Year, sponsored by Postcode Anywhere

• Mr Site ­- Takeaway Website: Pro Edition
• Portal Technology Systems ­- hybris://QuickLive
• Huddle.net -­ Huddle
• General Medical Council -­ Good Medical Practice in Action
• CGI ­- Account Reconciliation Centre
• Vivantio ­- Vivantio Service Desk
• intY ­- WebDefender Enterprise Mobile
• Ninth Wave/Lloyds Banking Group ­- Change government toolkit
• 4Projects -­ Collaborative Extranet Solution
• MetaSwitch ­- CommPortal

Information Security Product of a Year

• Pirean -­ Compliance: One
• Barracuda Networks ­- Barracuda SSL VPN
• Commerce Media ­- Celo
• MessageLabs -­ Policy-based encryption service
• SoThin -­ SoThin Thin Client
• Arten Science ­- R10Cipher
• ScanSafe -­ SaaS web security
• CrypotCard ­- Crypto-MAS
• Secerno -­ DataWall/DataStream
• SafeNet -­ ViewPIN+

IT Infrastructure Product of a Year

• Zeus Technology -­ Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager
• Exponential-e -­ PowerNGN
• TadaSoft -­ Restorepoint
• Autonomy -­ IDOL
• NetSupport ­- NetSupport DNA chronicle 3
• Progress Software -­ Progress Apama CEP Platform
• Neverfail ­- ClusterProtector
• UKFast ­- The Delivery of Internet Speed
• CopperEye ­- Secure Data Retrieval Server
• Storage Fusion -­ Storage Resource Analysis

Best New Product Developed in a UK

• Lost Wax -­ Aerogility
• TadaSoft -­ Restorepoint
• Portal Technology Systems -­ hybris://QuickLive
• Sales-i ­- Sales-i
• Buzan Online ­- iMindMap
• Unilink Software -­ NForce/ATM
• Rosslyn Analytics -­ RA.Pid
• Vivantio ­- Vivantio Service Desk
• Vicon ­- T-Series
• Ninth Wave/Lloyds Banking Group ­- Change Management Toolkit

Outstanding Contribution to UK IT

Winner to be voiced upon a night.