Competitive Profiles serves thousands of users in over 120 countries
Sydney, Australia – July 7, 2010
Ideas International (ASX:IDE) has today won the New South Wales (NSW) ICT Exporter of the Year iAward for its Competitive Profiles submission. The iAwards are Australia's ICT industry awards and the NSW award winners were presented by Mr. Frank Terenzini, NSW Minister for Small Business, and accepted by the Chairman of Ideas International, Mr. Peter Wallace. The Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) runs the iAwards as the Australian member of the Asia-Pacific ICT Awards (APICTA).
This award comes on top of the NSW iAwards win for IDEAS Server CAR offering last year, in the category of Sustainability and Green IT.
Competitive Profiles is a web-based service that provides comprehensive coverage of the features, pricing, and performance characteristics of a wide range of enterprise ICT products and services.
Competitive Profiles (CP) is a global service, updated daily and delivered to thousands of users in over 120 countries around the world. CP is now used by both the buy and sell sides of enterprise businesses and has become a global "gold standard" used by many of the major ICT vendors and an ever increasing number of Global 1000 institutions.
At its core is a rich database of product and services information with a powerful suite of interactive analysis tools. CP offers a wealth of information and comparative capabilities to meet a broad array of decision support needs.
Stephen Bowhill, Ideas International CEO, commented: “This is a great achievement for the global IDEAS team and recognizes the importance of the company’s products and services, not only in Australia, but also in the global marketplace. This prestigious industry award recognizes all of the hard work the IDEAS team has put in to creating a leading global service and maintaining the high service quality for our clients.”
Entries were judged on uniqueness, marketability, features, quality, and application. Winners of the state iAwards will go on to compete at the national awards, which will be announced at the iAwards gala dinner on August 5, 2010.
About Ideas International (IDEAS)
IDEAS is the leading global supplier of comparative intelligence on enterprise IT infrastructure. Servicing both IT vendors and large-scale IT users, IDEAS products focus on: servers; storage; virtualization and consolidation; and software and infrastructure services. IDEAS online products are backed by expert industry analysts who can also deliver specialized advisory and consulting services.
www.ideasinternational.com
For more information please contact:
Stephen Bowhill, CEO
+61 2 9472 7701 (direct)
stephenb@ideasinternational.com