Categories and Awards

Awards

Best Web Development Agency

This Web Developer excellence award recognises a developer or development team that has used development techniques to deliver a clean, integrated, scalable, mobile, user-focused system or application (e.g. CMS, CRM, Website or Mob/Web Application). The award winner will have clearly demonstrated their skill in capturing, understanding and delivering an innovative, sustainable customer solution that enhances the overall customer/user experience. Projects in beta or test phase will not be accepted.

Best Cloud Service for SMEs

The Cloud Service Award recognises the business that has developed and delivered a cloud based service for the SME market. It will be an organisation committed to promoting cloud adoption within the SME community and who through their service provision has proven the business case for cloud services. The winning entry will have a proven track record in the provision of a
stable, innovative, useful and accessible cloud
service for their clients.

Best Mobile Service or Application – indispensable
to its users

Public Vote

The Best Mobile Service or App Award will go to the
Irish business that has provided a mobile service or
app for their customers on the move. They have
exhibited a real understanding of their customers’
needs and have designed and delivered a reliable,
user friendly and lovable app or mobile service that
their customers can no longer live without.

Best International Scaling Irish Business

We are looking for the Bear Grylls of tech
business. This award will go to the business that
has survived and thrived to achieve stellar metrics
for business growth. Not necessarily a start-up but
a business that has exhibited remarkable strength
and growth over the past three years. They will
have a minimum turnover of €250k and have plans
in place to maintain this strong growth.

Best Start-Up – the one to watch

The “One to Watch” Internet Start-Up Award
recognises new companies that have achieved
substantial breakthroughs in building a successful
internet-based business. The winning company will
have shown strategic vision and demonstrated
tangible deliverables in their first year.
Nominations will be accepted only from companies
that have been set up within the past three years
and which exhibit evidence of long-term
sustainability.

Best Ecommerce Site (B2C)

This award recognises the retailer who sells across
multiple channels, with a compelling customer
proposition that is executed to the highest
standards of customer experience from initial
contact through to fulfilment. It recognises those
organisations that have been courageous and
determined in their efforts to grow their business
and embrace technology to meet their customers’
needs.

Best Ecommerce Site (B2B)

This award recognises the business who sells across
multiple channels, with a compelling business
proposition that is executed to the highest
standards of client experience from initial contact
through to fulfilment. It recognises those
organisations that have been courageous and
determined in their efforts to grow their business
and embrace technology to meet their customers’
needs.

Best Brand Marketing

Seamless integration of online and offline
messaging. This award will be given to the digital
agency/client partnership that has executed the
most comprehensive Digital Marketing Campaign
for a specific event, promotion or awareness
campaign which reinforces the strength of the
brand. The winner will have provided evidence of
excellence across the gamut of the digital
marketing mix– social media, SEO, online PR and
online advertising.

Best Use of Video for Digital Marketing

The creation of engaging video content is a
considerable talent and a discipline that we wish
to recognise with this award. The winning entry
will be an agency or in-house marketing team
whose video content was created and used to
best effect in a digital marketing campaign or to
encourage website visitors to engage with the
business.

Best Use of Technology for Social Good

Public Vote
The Internet as a force for good! Technology
enables the effective delivery of social benefits to
so many people and we want to recognise and
reward this. The winning entry will be the entity
that has developed and delivered a free online
service for no other reason but to help people;
social inclusion, health, education, support, save
money or simply making people smile.

Best Social Media Activity

This award will be given to a business or
organisation that has planned and implemented a
highly effective social media strategy, across
multiple platforms over the last year or more.
The winner will show an exceptional
understanding of how social media platforms and
emerging technologies can deliver creative
content in order to build an ever increasing and
engaged target market.

Best Online Social Movement

Public Vote
This award will be given to the organisation that
can demonstrate the greatest impact by
connecting people online to develop a base and
gain awareness of a cause. The organisation
needs to show the use of various social media
platforms to gain wide-scale, online audience
participation for social change.

Best Innovation for Financial Services

This award goes to the best technology innovation
within the Financial Services sector. The winning
entry will showcase how technology has been used
to enhance the customer experience. The winning
entry may come from a FinTech start-up business
or it could equally come from an innovation by an
established financial services business

Best Innovation for Health/Medical Services

This award goes to the best technology innovation
in the field of medicine/healthcare. The winning
entry will showcase how technology has been used
to enhance the user (medical practitioner or
patient) experience. It will be an innovative use of
technology that is internationally scalable with
proven traction in the market. The winning entry
may come from a MedTech start-up or it could
equally come from an innovation by an established
organisation in the field.

Best Innovation for Agri/Food Services

This award goes to the best technology innovation
in the Agri/Food Sector. The winning entry will be
an exciting, internationally scalable technology
solution to an Agri/Food industry challenge.
The winning entry may come from a start-up and it
could equally come from an innovation by an
established Agri/Food business

Best Innovation in Technology for Learning

The use of technology at home and in the
classroom is a game-changer in education. This
award will go to the most innovative use of
technology to benefit students and teachers. It will
showcase how technology can be used to provide
an enriched and engaging learning experience for
the student.

Best Website for Compliance Guidance

Compliance is vital for every organisation and
failure to follow certain regulations could lead to
severe penalties. This award will be given to the
organisation which offers a website rich in
information and resources that facilitates business
visitors to adhere to compliance regulations.
Informative and timely content will be key – the
information should be easily accessible too. It
should be positioned as the ‘go-to’ site for relevant
information on topics such as GDPR, MiFID II etc.

Best use of UX Design

This Award will be given to a business or
organisation that has put UX design to the
forefront of its thinking. It will have invested in an
innovative design process, useful functionality and
the development of UX resources that result in a
hugely positive user experience and strong
engagement with the website.

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