Finalists by category

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

Individual Excellence

IT Leader of the Year
  • Alan Harrison, director of IT, Yorkshire Water Services
  • Kate Craig-Wood, managing director, Memset
  • Chris Price, head of ICT solutions, Highways Agency
  • Ajay Burlingham-Bohr, director of information systems and media services, Anglia Ruskin University
  • Paul Smith, head of IT, Business Stream
  • Phil Pavitt, chief information officer, Transport for London
  • Terry Trundley, chief information officer, Fife Council
  • David Walters, chief information and innovations officer, LBM Direct Marketing
  • David Henderson, chief information officer, A&N Media
  • Catalina McGregor, founder of the Cabinet Office CIO/CTO Council Green ICT Delivery Group
Young IT Professional of the Year
  • Oliver Clarke, graduate technologist, Capgemini
  • Stuart Clarke, assistant project manager, The Coal Authority
  • Riyaz Patel, IT professional, Yorkshire Water
  • Aimee Lawrence, product and pricing service delivery manager, Whitbread
  • Luke Claughton, IT & telecoms manager, Micheldever Tyre Services
  • Jacques Erasmus, director of malware research, PrevX
  • Christopher Findlay, senior analyst programmer, National Australia Group
  • Alex Stewart, IT project manager, Allianz Insurance
  • Denise Kirrane, project manager, Allianz Insurance
  • Emily Taylor, senior IT officer DBA, Leeds City Council
APM Group Project Manager of the Year
  • Paul Canavan, WHR project manager, Whitbread
  • Jayne Wirepa, project manager, National Grid
  • John Garner, IDS systems manager, Procter & Gamble
  • Jeff Ridgley, performance & quality manager, Oxford City Council
  • Mark Sweeny, project manager, Ministry of Justice / Parity
  • Sebastian Shaw, project manager, Portal Technology Systems
  • Dennis Rocks, delivery manager, Network Rail
  • Mike Tyrie, head of enterprise transformation, Liverpool Direct
  • Mike Whyment, programme manager, University of Aberdeen
Systems Developer of the Year
  • Rob Parsons, senior certified technical applications developer, Allianz Insurance
  • Kelly Webb, application developer, Berwin Leighton Paisner
  • Christian Jensen, business systems developer, Berwin Leighton Paisner
  • Gustavo Recio, software engineer, Portal Technology Systems
  • Mark Robertshaw, director, Oxford Information Labs
  • Josh Twist, application development consultant, Microsoft
  • Andrew Stevens, web application developer, Vivantio
  • Stephen Miller, systems development and operations manager, ADL Smartcare
  • Ben Travis, manager, Deloitte
IT Service & Support Professional of the Year
  • Jenny Nicholson, ICT support manager, Lincolnshire Police
  • Valerie Maddock, head of IT learning, The Salvation Army
    Jag Johal, service manager, National Grid
  • Rob Hobart, business systems technologist, Berwin Leighton Paisner
  • Nalini Patel, service desk advisor, University of Wolverhampton
  • Jamie Brown, lead technology consultant, National Australia Group
  • Margaret Long, IT training supervisor, Berwin Leighton Paisner
  • Yvonne O'Connell, operational standards & SLA manager, Network Rail
  • Nigel Woods, technical director, Intercept IT
  • Mark Porton, programme & service delivery manager, Liverpool Direct
Business Analyst of the Year
  • Julian Dyer, business analyst, National Grid
  • Stuart Pearson, business transformation leader, Procter & Gamble
  • Paul Perry, business analyst, NFU Mutual
  • Clair Douglas, business systems analyst, Capital One
  • Christine Henly, business analyst, Allianz Insurance
  • James Archer, business analyst, Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea
  • David Wood, business systems manager, Berwin Leighton Paisner
  • Jane Kelly, business analyst, The Insolvency Service
  • James Mitchell, business analyst, Centrica
  • Claire Lamb, business analyst, Allianz Insurance

Organisational Excellence

Best IT Strategy of the Year
  • 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 the Year
  • Business Stream
  • IT Lab
  • LiveXchange
  • Bottomline Technologies
  • Utilize
Diversity in IT Award
  • Microsoft
  • Google
Best Technology Supplier of the Year
  • Imprivata
  • Citrix Online
  • Emis
  • Meru Networks
  • Vivantio
  • Red Hat
  • IQMS
  • Hitachi Data Systems
  • VMware
  • Sentilla
Best Small IT Supplier of the Year
  • Networks First
  • Postcode Anywhere
  • Telnic
  • nFlow Software
  • Memset
  • DTP Group
  • La Fosse Associates
  • eg Solutions
  • ScriptSwitch
  • ZyLAB
Best IT Services Supplier of the 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

Project Excellence

Innovative Project of the Year
  • 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 life failures in telephone lines
  • Mouchel Group - Maps@mouchel
  • Teliris - Teliris 6G
  • Defra / IBM - Energy efficiency research project
  • Siemens IT Solutions and Services - Media Community Cloud
  • Glasgow School of Art Digital Design Studio - Venus: Virtual exploration of underwater sites
Community Project of the Year
  • Strategic Systems Solutions - Advanced IT apprenticeship programme
  • The Digbeth Trust - Digbeth Trust Broadcast
  • Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust - Community midwives: Meditech on the move
  • Bradford Chronic Kidney Disease Electronic Advisory Service - E-consultations
  • Yorkshire Air Ambulance Service / SICL - Cisco WAN and unified communications
  • Metropolitan Police - Crime mapping
  • Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Council - Integrated Children's System
  • Volunteer Action - Drives system
  • Lincolnshire County Council - Community web sites
  • Comic Relief / Carrenza - Red Nose Day 2009
Private Sector Project of the Year
  • Trowers & Hamlins - IS business continuity
  • Procter & Gamble - Laptop encryption
  • Messier-Dowty / Telindus - Application performance management
  • Long Tall Sally / Portal Technology Systems - hybris://QuickLive
  • British Airways - Zero touch 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 the Year
  • West Sussex Accessible Services Partnership - Street cleaning tracking at Crawley Borough Council
  • The Rivers Agency, Northern Ireland - Strategic flood 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 briefing & tasking
  • Northern Ireland Department of Finance and Personnel - Shared service centre
  • Ministry of Defence / Capgemini - Defence Travel Online
  • HM Revenue & Customs - Self Assessment Online
Environmental Project of the Year
  • Flintshire County Council - Virtualisation
  • HR Wallingford - OpenWeb: Integrated environmental modelling
  • National Trust / eLinia - Virtualisation
  • The Insolvency Service - Enabling the future
  • National Australia Group - Managed print services
  • Petroleum Geo-Services / Keysource - Mega centre
  • Screwfix - Sun Ray project
IT Project Team of the Year
  • Whitbread - Simply Better programme
  • Standard Life - Heal project
  • Bradford & Bingley / IBM - Transfer of savings IT to Santander
  • Virgin Atlantic - IT Lite
  • COLT Telecom - Infrastructure transformation programme
  • Long Tall Sally / Portal Technology Systems - hybris://QuickLive
  • Lloyds Banking Group - Project Hawk
  • Guide Dogs for the Blind Association / IRIS NFP Solutions - CRM and fundraising system
  • Aviva UK / Deloitte - Datacentre strategy
  • Matalan Retail / Capgemini - E-commerce project

Technology Excellence

Research & Development Achievement of the Year
  • BT Innovate - Seamless mobility for users with multi-radio devices
  • BT - Postern
  • BT - Autonomic failure prediction and prevention
  • HR Wallingford - OpenWeb: Integrated environmental modelling
  • BT Innovation & Design - BCOS Cloud Broker
  • Corizon - Enterprise mashup thick client extender
  • BT Innovation & Design-Access control authorization service & entitlement server
  • Lloyd's Register Group Services - Enterprise calculation framework
  • Beam Strategic Research and Consulting - Sirona health and social services indicator
Information Security Product of the 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+
Internet Product of the Year
  • 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 management toolkit
  • 4Projects - Collaborative Extranet Solution
  • MetaSwitch - CommPortal
Mobile Product of the 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 data project
  • iPass - iPass Mobile Office
  • TAAP Limited - TAAP Field Force
  • AQL - Mobile Access
  • Rufus Leonard / Highways Agency - Mobile website
  • West Yorkshire Police - Mobile data project
IT Infrastructure Product of the Year
  • Zeus Technology - Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager
  • Exponential-e - PowerNGN
  • TadaSoft - Restorepoint
  • Autonomy - IDOL
  • NetSupport - NetSupport DNA version 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 the 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