Congratulations to the Winners of the European Seal of e-Excellence 2013

Brussels, Belgium – January 2013 – The names of the 32 Winners of the prestigious European Seal of e-Excellence were published today (5 February). The award ceremony takes place on the 5th March 2013 at 4.30PM at the Open Stage of the CeBIT in Hanover, Germany.

From April to December 2012, more than 100 worldwide ICT companies participated to the prestigious contest « the European Seal of e-Excellence » and fine tuned the presentation of their innovative product/service. A Jury of investors, entrepreneurs and experts in the ICT field picked the 31 best one to win a Platinum, Gold or Silver Seal 2013.

Created by EMF, the Forum of e-Excellence, the Seal is the public recognition for winners that they’ve translated an innovative idea into a valuable and bankable product/service that has an excellent track record in the market. What better place to be rewarded of an ICT prize than the CeBIT, the world's largest and most international computer expo, held on the Hanover fairground, Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany.

The 32 winners of the European Seal of e-Excellence are:

Platinum

cluetec GmbH - Germany

Speexx - Germany

Shanghai Elook Network Technology Co.Ltd - China

Siriona SA – Availpro - France

Gold

ADmantX - Italy

Famasete - Tecnologia da Informação - Portugal

Inbenta - Spain

Voxxcom - The Netherlands

Joy Street S/A - Brazil

Musala Soft - Bulgaria
Pactas - Germany

Rohde&Schwarz Topex - Romania

VASCO Data Security - Belgium

Silver

2X Software - Malta

Accurate Equity - Norway

ALVAO s.r.o. - Czech Republic

apprupt GmbH - Germany

Balázs-Diák Ltd - Hungary

belboon-adbutler GmbH - Germany

Core-Competence GmbH - Germany

CREOGROUP.EU Kft. - Hungary

Creativ IT - Spain

Datalab Tehnologije d.d. - Slovenia

G&L Group S.A. - Argentina

Hexacta - Argentina

INVEA-TECH a.s. – Czech Republic

linkbird GmbH - Germany

NetRefer - Malta

Reading Room Ltd – United Kingdom

TWT Business Solutions GmbH - Germany

Ubiwhere - Portugal

Young Digital Planet - Poland

More information:

- Full List of the Winners 2013
- Full press release about the Winners 2013

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Then you need look no further than the European Seal of e-Excellence, a high level distinction financed by EMF, the Forum of e-Excellence and its sponsors: The CeBIT, Softex, The Bayard Partnership, Deutsche Messe, Digital Tender and Viking River Cruises.

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Ireland benefits not only from the presence of the big ICT names such as Microsoft, HP, Google, Facebook and Twitter - attracted by the country's low corporation taxes and an educated workforce with English as a mother tongue - but also from its robust and highly successful home-grown ICT sector.

The European Seal of e-Excellence hopes that a lot of ICT Irish companies will enter the competition in 2013. 

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Scandinavian countries awarded by the European Seal of e-Excellence

The European Seal of e-excellence 2012 granted two Scandinavian ICT companies for their innovative products and services and their outstanding marketing track records. 

Lingosaur (2012 Gold Seal Winner) is a Finnish translation agency offering translation services by real people. To maximize its efficiency and to minimize costs, it operates purely on the Internet. Whatever the business of its customers, it wants to enable their global communications. 

Its aims were to create an efficient and easy solution for its customers to make translation orders over the Internet, and to provide jobs for translators. The outcome was today's Lingosaur, The Online Translation Agency.

Norse Solution (2012 Silver Seal Winner) is a Norwegian company that delivers the best and most comprehensive software and service for efficient administration, reporting, accounting and disclosure of share-based payment programs. It is today the leading supplier of customized web-based software for the administration of share-based compensation plans in the North-European region.

The World Economic Forum’s Global Information Technology Report 2012 which is based on items such as broadband and mobile phone use, number of applications for ICT patents, Internet access in schools, e-government initiatives, ... described the Nordic region as “leading the ICT revolution.” Scandinavian countries are a real potential area of high level ICT companies for the European Seal of e-Excellence and many contacts will be made for the 2013 Seal edition.

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Apply for the European Seal of e-Excellence 2013!

Many companies from ICT sector are applying to the European Seal of e-Excellence 2013 organised by EMF and its partners. This distinction recognizes every year ICT and digital media companies worldwide which have an excellent track record in the marketing of innovation. It is widely known for promoting digital companies which have:

• Innovative products and services

• Excellent marketing practices to promote them

"Musala Soft developed a software application for Sales Force Mobility that has reshaped the insurance sector in Bulgaria. The solution enabled insurance brokers to approach sales in a contemporary way, through the mobile technologies’ capabilities. We innovated the way business is done, for brokers, insurers and end customers. Our aim is to continue providing value to our partners and customers and to help them improve their business results." said Delyan Lilov, CEO of Musala Soft, winners of the platinium European Seal of e-Excellence 2012.

By focusing on the marketing aspects of digital products and services, the European Seal of e-Excellence helps winners promote themselves in the worldwide market.


Awarded Annually Since 2003
The Seal has been awarded annually since 2003 by the EMF – The Forum of e-Excellence and its Partner Associations at an Award Ceremony at CeBIT, the European trade show for the ICT industry.

How to Apply

The period to apply for the European Seal of e-Excellence officially opened on 1 June 2012, and nominations will be received until 30 November 2012. Interested companies may apply online at the Seal website: www.seal-of-excellence.org

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Detailed information about the Winners of the European Seal of e-Excellence 2012 is now available on-line

An on-line brochure with detailed information about each of the Winners of the European Seal of e-Excellence 2012 is now available on-line. The PDF document contains information about the winners' company website, country of origin, key activities and a detailed company/product profile.

European Seal of e-Excellence winners brochure 2012

The European Seal of e-Excellence rewards ICT and Digital Media companies with an excellent track record in innovation marketing. Awarded annually since 2003 by EMF and its Partner Organisations, the Seal is widely known for distinguishing companies with innovative products & services and outstanding marketing.

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Five Chinese companies winners of the European Seal of e-Excellence 2012

For the very first time in the history of the European Seal of e-Excellence, five Chinese companies were awarded the 6 March 2012 at the CeBIT, thanks to the support of the Shanghai Multimedia Industry Association.

The Seal has been awarded annually since 2003 and is widely known for distinguishing companies with innovative products and services and outstanding marketing track records.

Platinum chinese Seal winners:

Crystal Digital Technology

Crystal CG,  is now striving to be a globally leading creative group of digital and visual services, supplying clients of varied sectors with integrated solutions based on digital graphics. Using computer graphics processing technique, the Company offers creative direction, design, production, as well as hardware and software integration, for purposes in publicity, presentation, display, communication, entertainment and customized applications.

Energy Source Communications

Energy Source is currently the foremost innovator in Asia’s automotive digital marketing. With a rich wealth of integrated marketing & innovation experience spanning a decade, it is the leading player in China’s interactive marketing arena and a frequent recipient for over 200 premium awards at home and abroad.

Gold chinese Seal winners:

Loe Design

Loe Design has participated in large numbers of design and construction of large-scaled exhibition projects,which is promoting the strength of the corporation. A more professional system of design and service and a more effective management mode of construction have been set up. Loe Design is particularly specialized in all kind of large-scaled public cultural facilities,such as Science & Technology Museums, Planning Exhibition Halls,...

YEESO Advertising & Media

Yeeso focuses on providing a comprehensive solution of outdoor mobile advertising vehicles. At any budget, in any size, for any issue, you will find your ideal and unique promotion solution here. YEESO have different series of mobile advertising vehicles such as LED truck series, LED trailer series, LED container series, installable series, mini series and light box series etc.

Silver Chinese Seal winners:  

Shanghai IPAV

The Interactive Information Experience Platform from Shanghai IPAV consists of network system, display system, hardware system (main unit), and software system. It has two main functions, network information issue and watching Adv. self-optional. On this platform, people can publish and control network information, such as, video, words and pictures, so as to achieve the advertisement effect. 

More information about other European Seal of e-Excellence winners will be weekly provided in this blog. 

Language Technology companies among the European Seal of e-Excellence Winners 2012

Six innovative and market driven language technology companies won on 6 March the European Seal of e-Excellence award. The Seal has been awarded annually since 2003 and is widely known for distinguishing companies with innovative products and services and outstanding marketing track records.

Gold language technology winners:

Digital publishing AG (www.speexx.com), a German supplier of online language learning technology (using the Intellispeech accent-reduction tool, and Speex Plug&Learn)

Lingosaur (www.lingosaur.com) a Finnish online translation management platform designed to create an efficient and easy solution for customers to make translation orders over the Internet, and provide jobs for translators.

Young Digital Planet (www.ydp.eu) a German educational publisher that among other products provides online language learning courses that integrate speech and other language technology solutions.



Platinum language technology winners:

Admantx (www.admantx.com) from Italy offers semantics-based data contextaulization technology to optimize ad placement. The aim is to assure that the underlying emotional response to the content matches the action desired by the advertiser.

Anboto (www.anbotogroup.com) is a Spanish supplier of Web Customer Service and e-Commerce technology based on semantics and natural language processing to reduce costs and increase sales. The company’s main products are a Virtual Sales Agent and Intelligent Chat.

Inbenta, (www.inbenta.com) is a Barcelona-based company that pioneered a new approach to corporate semantic search designed to improves the customer experience.




More information about other European Seal of e-Excellence winners will be weekly provided in this blog.

The European Seal of e-Excellence 2012 winners awarded on 6 March at the CeBIT

The winners of the European Seal of e-Excellence 2012 were announced on 6 March at CeBIT in Hannover, Germany.  Innovative and market driven companies from 18 countries joined the award ceremony to receive their award from the hands of jury members.

The prize has been awarded annually since 2003 by EMF-The Forum of e-Excellence and its Partners Organisations at the CeBIT, and is widely known for distinguishing companies with innovative products & services and outstanding marketing.

The Seal is getting more and more international with winners from different countries around the word. In 2011, several Latin American companies were awarded for the first time and this year we have winners from new countries such as China and Canada. The Seal of e-Excellence partners and sponsors' network has also grown with new partners from China, Hungary, Bulgaria and Ukraine for this edition of the award.

The event ended with a cocktail sponsored by Seal partner SOFTEX, The association for the Promotion of Brazilian Software Excellence.

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24 hours to announce the winners of the European Seal of e-Excellence 2012!

Tomorrow afternoon, the 42 Winners of the European Seal of e-Excellence 2012 will be publicly announced at the CeBIT in Hannover, Germany.
The winners represent innovative and market driven ICT companies from 18 countries all over the world and they will receive the award supported by the international network of Seal partners and sponsors.

Life information and all the details of the ceremony as well as the full list of winners will be provided tomorrow in www.emfs.eu and www.seal-of-excellence.org.

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Join the European Seal of e-Excellence award ceremony and get free entrance tickets for the CeBIT

The award ceremony of the European Seal of e-Excellence 2012 will be held on 6 March 2012 at the Webciety Forum (hall 6) of the CeBIT in Hanover.

The European Seal of e-Excellence rewards ICT and Digital Media companies with an excellent track record in innovation marketing. The European Seal of e-Excellence is widely known for promoting digital companies which have innovative products and services and excellent marketing practices to promote them.

Margaretha Mazura, Secretary General of EMF states: "Europe is full of small, creative companies and interesting offers – the only problem is: not many know about them. 2012 is a special year for the Seal: It is its 10th anniversary. In the short-living times of ICT, this is an achievement we are proud of. The Seal is increasingly gaining recognition and becoming a major focal point for Europe’s most successful digital media companies. Therefore, those who have not yet applied and won a Seal of e-Excellence, I can only say: try and join our community of excellence!”.

The prize have been awarded annually since 2003 by EMF and its Partner Organisations at the CeBIT, and is widely known for distinguishing companies with innovative products & services and outstanding marketing.

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The European Seal of e-Excellence, seeking Innovative Digital Media and ICT Companies

The European Seal of e-Excellence Seeks Innovative Digital Media and ICT Companies for the 10th Anniversary of the Award

• Are you an ICT company at the forefront of technology?
• Do you market your products & services internationally?

Applications are online at www.seal-of-excellence.org. Deadline 31 December 2011.

The winners will be announced at CeBIT, the most prestigious ICT fair in Europe on 6 March 2012.

More info: www.seal-of-excellence.org

Brazil to be partner country for CeBIT 2012

It has been announced that Brazil will be the partner country of the CeBIT 2012.
CeBIT is the world's largest and most international ICT fair. It is held each year on the world's largest fairground in Hanover, Germany, and is a barometer of the state of the art in information technology. More than 4,200 companies from over 70 countries participated in CeBIT 2011.
Wolfram von Fritsch, CeBIT director said 2012 will show that Brazil and CeBIT are a "dream team" and looks forward to the samba summit at CeBIT.

European Seal of e-Excellence award at CeBIT 2012

The European Seal of e-Excellence rewards ICT and Digital Media companies with an excellent track record in innovation marketing. Awarded annually since 2003 by EMF and its Partner Organisations at the CeBIT, the Seal is widely known for distinguishing companies with innovative products & services and outstanding marketing.

Applications for 2012 are already open on the Seal website:www.seal-of-excellence.org

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Applications for the European Seal of e-Excellence 2012 are now open!

Applications for the European Seal of e-Excellence 2012 are open since yesterday until the 31rd of December 2011. The European Seal of e-Excellence rewards ICT and Digital Media companies with an excellent track record in innovation marketing. The prize have been awarded annually since 2003 by EMF and its Partner Organisations at the CeBIT, and is widely known for distinguishing companies with innovative products & services and outstanding marketing.

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eRevMax, Norse Solutions, RichCast, Soft Economy and TR Associates Gold winners of the European Seal of e-Excellence 2011

eRevMax provides the hospitality industry with online rate shopping, channel management, customer review management and digital marketing tools to maximize online reservations and revenue.
RateTiger, the leading division of eRevMax, enables hoteliers to save time and money by making real time price comparison and updates of room rates and availability to multiple online channels simple and easy. Direct GDS connectivity and over 600 channel partners allows RateTiger to offer a vast distribution network to hotels.

Norse Solutions is the largest supplier of software and services for the efficient administration of share-based compensation plans in the North-European region. Norse Solutions has the longest experience related to IFRS-2 in the world today, and our Top Down architecture puts our software above and beyond our competitors.

RichCast enriches communications through innovative webcasting solutions that provide autonomy, flexibility and cost-effectiveness.
The company offer unique and portable tools that combine robotic cameras with an easy-to-use interface for the recording and live or on-demand publishing of videobanners, videomagazines and videoblogs as well as webcasts of seminars and congresses.
The main areas of use are e-learning, corporate communications (investor relations, HR, marketing) and event communication.

Soft Economy Umbriasoft.net is a quality website of tourist promotion that meets the needs of the hotels and all the other accommodations in the Umbria region. We provide the following services to hotels: a better visibility in the online tourism market; a customized full presentation of the hotel in the homepage, last minute offers, holiday packages; improvement of their ranking in search engines through Google Adwords advertising campaigns.

TR Associates is an Innovation minded company, that brings open innovation to the marketplace in the different areas of the applications (urban and rural development , ageing society, education, Intelligent transport, e-Business, green technologies).

Wordbee and Lingosaur awarded with the Special mention Seal on Language Technologies 2011

Wordbee, the online computer assisted translation (CAT) and management platform from Luxemburg won the Gold seal of the European Seal of e-Excellence award 2011 whereas Lingosaur, an online translation agency from Finland was awarded with the Silver seal 2011.

The cloud-based software of Wordbee, a Translation Environment Tool (TEnT), called Wordbee Translator, provides a centralized, shared environment and workspace for translators, reviewers, project managers, and other project stakeholders. The TEnT provides project management and tracking capabilities, linguistic technology tools like glossary management, translation memory and machine translation, and customizable workflows.
Wordbee proposes a web platform (SaaS) that enables companies to bring all documents and people into one collaborative workspace.

Lingosaur Online Translation Agency operates purely in the Internet. The technology enable the service?s quality and promptness but at its core is a community of translators. Therefore, it is not a translating machine but a service based on human work.
Via Lingosaurs web page, customers can send their texts to be translated, set the source and target languages, and choose between two quality levels.

More information about other European Seal of e-Excellence winners will be weekly provided in this blog.

CINETIS, a Swiss multimedia company specialized in film scanning solutions, Platinum winner of the European Seal of e-Excellence 2011

The Swiss company Cinetis won for the second time the European Seal of e-Excellence award. The company was awarded for the first time in 2006, and has received its second award this year.

Cinetis presents a unique mix of software developers and film scanning/editing specialists. The company commercializes its digitization service under the Bolex Digital brand name.

Since 1924, Bolex is famous among amateur and professional film makers for the quality of its products. Bolex Digital is the Swiss leader of Super8, 8mm, 9.5mm and 16mm film digitization. Bolex Digital offers high quality film digitization services and the best available digital restoration technologies at an affordable price.

More information about other European Seal of e-Excellence winners will be weekly provided in this blog.

2 Bulgarian Companies winners of the European Seal of e-Excellence 2011

“ICB - InterConsult Bulgaria”, a leading Bulgarian software and consulting company and “Musala Soft”, a software engineering services company, won the Gold and silver award of the European Seal of e-Excellence 2011.

“ICB - InterConsult Bulgaria”, puts the stress on its business-process-based portal solutions and expects to find new clients and partners. The company has been specially awarded for its product Engi Tools.
Engi Tools, based on artifitial intelligence, is an integrated software system which automatically generates product and engineering documentation. Its accuracy is over 95% for all the 50 supported types of documents. According to Konsberg, the main user of Engi tools, the product generates more than 10,000 pages for about 20,000 projects annually. It improves productivity 30 times and shortens the entire process from 60 days to less than 2 days.

“Musala Soft”, is a leading Bulgarian software engineering services company, specialized in nearshoring, delivery of complex and large-scale software projects, IT consulting and solution implementation.
Musala Soft has developed methodology to execute projects under complicated setups including geographical dispersion, remote access, organizational obstructions and tight deadlines. Our commitment to understand clients' needs and deliver high quality and innovation, has attracted customers as DHL, EnBW, HP, IBM, OMV, SAP, as well as small and medium-sized enterprises in Bulgaria, Western Europe and USA.

More information about other European Seal of e-Excellence winners will be weekly provided in this blog.

VASCO, the world leader in strong authentication and e-signature solutions winner of the European Seal of e-Excellence 2011

The Belgium company VASCO data security won for the second time the European Seal of e-Excellence award. The company was awarded for the first time in 2008, and has received its second award this year.

VASCO is a global market leader in software solutions and services for user authentication, electronic and digital signatures, specializing in online accounts, identities and transactions. As a global software company, VASCO serves a customer base of over 10,000 companies in over 100 countries, including more than 1,500 international financial institutions. In addition to the financial sector, VASCO's technologies secure sensitive information and transactions for the enterprise security, e-commerce and e-government industries.

More information about other European Seal of e-Excellence winners will be weekly provided in this blog.

5 German Companies winners of the European Seal of e-Excellence 2011

“Digital publishing”, an on-line language training company and “Adobe Systems Gmbh”, a cross media solutions company won the Gold award of the European Seal of e-Excellence 2011.

“Digital publishing” provides the software tools and blended solutions that make online language learning really work. The company help large organizations around the world to address the business communication needs of a global workplace.


"Adobe Scene7" a product developed by “Adobe Systems Gmbh” is the industry-leading hosted cross media platform for managing, enhancing and delivering dynamic, rich content to any channel - web, print, email, and mobile. With Scene7, companies can grow revenues, enhance customer experience and cut production costs via an easy-to-use, Web-based system requiring minimal IT support.

The other 3 German companies ("apprupt", "plista" and "QUISMA") received the Silver Seal for their innovative products & services and outstanding marketing.

"apprupt" is the first premium performance network for mobile applications. Through its Premium Network and its Affiliate Network, apprupt enables app developers and advertisers to market their apps effectively to specific target groups.


"Plista" develops innovative solutions for publishing houses and other online publishers which enable them to tie their readers closer to them and at the same time offer more attractive marketing possibilities to advertisers. Moreover, plista helps to convert local advertisers to online advertising customers, by providing resourceful and easy to use tools like the 1-Click-Ad-Creator.

"QUISMA" is an autonomous network for performance marketing with the GroupM. We offer full service to our clients, containing search engine marketing, affiliate marketing, search engine optimisation, performance display advertising,conversion optimisation and marketing intelligence.


More information about other European Seal of e-Excellence winners will be weekly provided in this blog.