EuroCloud UK Awards 2012

EuroCloud Awards logoThe EuroCloud UK Awards provide a unique opportunity to highlight best practices, innovation and customer success achieved by providers of cloud services and products in the United Kingdom. The UK awards are part of a pan-European competition that EuroCloud is running across Europe. All national award winners will go forward to enter the Europe-wide EuroCloud Awards, in which the overall European champions will be revealed at a special gala dinner at the annual EuroCloud Congress in Luxembourg on October 8th.

"It gives exposure," says Matthieu Hug, founder and CEO of Run My Process, winner of the EuroCloud Award 2011 for best cloud offering. "Getting awards allows you to engage with bloggers, with journalists, with analysts; it allows you to engage more easily with larger customers. It's the long-term visibility that it gives you." 

Entry to the EuroCloud UK Awards is free-of-charge and is open to all eligible cloud vendors operating in the UK. There is no requirement to be a member of EuroCloud. The final closing date for entries is 6th June 2012 and the UK winners will be announced at a special EuroCloud UK event in July.

To enter, please read the terms, conditions and requirements for entry and then complete the online application form to register your company for the Awards. You will then receive a confirmation email with a request for submission of your completed entry for each category you have selected. 

Award categories

For cloud providers:
  • Best Cloud Offering. This Award will recognise the cloud service or product that, in the opinion of the judges, is most distinctive in its features and market appeal. The judges will examine the potential for high market acceptance and the nature of functionality offered. They will also rate characteristics such as connectivity and interoperability of the service, effective use of data center resources and conformity with data security, privacy and compliance requirements. 
  • Best Start Up. For start-up companies that have been active in the market for three years or less, this Award seeks to recognise innovation and future-oriented thinking in cloud solutions. There is a special focus on the originality and creativity of the entrant's offerings and on its vision for the future. Judging will also take into account business viability and market reach.
  • Best Case Study. There are two Awards for best customer case study: Commercial sector, covering the general business market; and Public administration. In each category, we are looking to find concrete examples of applying a service in practice and will examine the underlying business approaches. In addition to the attractiveness of the service offered, the judges will evaluate the achievable benefit and competitive advantage obtained for customers. In commercial sector cloud services, the judges will also consider any use of new and pioneering marketing and sales concepts. In cloud services for public administration, we will also assess the realistic benefits for the public and relevant institutions.
For cloud users:
  • Best Business Impact. This new category is for early adopters of cloud services — companies who have successfully deployed single or multiple cloud services and significantly benefited from their use in practice. The achieved user-benefits that companies have been obtained whilst using cloud services will be examined, such as percentage cost advantage, achieved competitive advantage, or efficiency gains — such as, for example, higher productivity or process speed.  

Register your Entry

Read the terms and conditions