Digium is pleased to be announce that we are accepting entries for our 3rd annual Asterisk Innovation Award program. This program was created to recognize Asterisk developers, customers and partners for outstanding achievements that are improving business processes, overcoming technology challenges and delivering record return on investment. Over the years, Mark Spencer, creator and author of Asterisk and Digium’s CTO, has enjoyed sharing innovation in the Asterisk Community with audiences around the world. Some of these innovations were so much fun and rewarding, 3 years ago we built the Innovation Award program around these ideas to share the success with millions of readers. Asterisk has been referred to as a “Swiss Army Knife” of IP Telephony because in it’s source code form it can be applied to endless applications from basic PBX, advanced clustered phone system, Call Center, and voice mail systems to plant watering systems, call center ‘quiz’ questions to move up or down while on hold in the call queue, smart parking in the city to locate vacant parking spaces and many more.
Awards will be recognized in four distinct categories, each showcasing a particular area of innovation. The four awards are as follows:
Pioneer Award : Does your application break new ground where no one has ever gone before? Do you integrate applications in a unique way that exhibits innovative uses of Asterisk? The award in this category is given to the entry that displays these attributes.
Big Biz Asterisk Award : This category is reserved for the largest Asterisk-based solutions in enterprise-class businesses. Over 14% of all Asterisk-based installations have over 500 users and over 9% have over 1000 users. Share your success with the world.
ROI Award : Does your Asterisk-based system provide a strong measurable return on investment second to none? Each year we uncover incredible ROI examples only available using open source Asterisk.
Inside Out Award : Asterisk has a whimsical side unlike any other telephony platform and each year we find that one unique award-worthy application. This category is for applications outside of the typical telecommunications world.
Winners from each category will be announced October 13-15 at AstriCon 2009, in Glendale, Arizona. Digium Innovation Award winners will receive a congratulatory press release from Digium, Inc., a listing on the Digium Web site, and recognition by the industry, community, family and friends as well as at Astricon 2009, AstriCon ‘09.
2008 Winners of the Innovation Awards include Greenfield Tech for Pioneer category, Integrics, Ltd for Big Business category, Emdeon Business Services for ROI category, PhonePlay for “Inside Out” category, and NTT Software received an honorable mention. Read more about last years winners here.
2007 winners of the Innovation Awards include Aheeva for the Big Business category, OneBizTone for the ROI/Cost Savings category, Shelton|Johns for the Pioneer category, iPLATEu for the Most Unique category and Super Technologies’ DIDX . Read more here.
To submit your 2009 Innovation Award entry application click here.
[...] *actualización* Parece que han tardado un poco en hacerlo público como bien se señala en el blog de Digium: http://blogs.digium.com/2009/06/14/digium-calls-for-3rd-annual-asterisk-innovation-award-entries/ [...]
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