Computing Awards 2008
SHORTLIST 2008
Project Awards
Private Sector Project of the Year
Sponsored by:
  • Citi UK Consumer – Derby Live
  • Farnell – i-Buy
  • Lewis Silkin – Document control & security
  • National Australia Group – Datacentre migration
  • Red Bull Racing – High performance computing
  • Taylor Woodrow – Cloud computing
  • Waitrose – Demand forecasting
  • Zurich Life UK – E-business project
Public Sector Project of the Year
Sponsored by:
  • Kent County Council – Kent Highways Service
  • NHS Connecting for Health – GP2GP
  • NHS Connecting for Health – NHS Pathways
  • NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde – RFID portable asset tracking
  • North Mersey Health Informatics Service – Wireless communication badges
  • Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals – Electronic control of blood transfusion
  • Southwark Council – One Touch Gov
  • West London Cancer Network - Videoconferencing
Community Project of the Year
Sponsored by:
  • Bullying UK – Click, create & print
  • City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council – SmartAssist
  • e-Learning Foundation – Children’s Hospital School at Great Ormond Street Hospital
  • Liverpool Direct & BT – Telecare
  • St Barnabas Hospice – SystmOne
  • Solihull Community Housing – Leased lines in the sky
  • University of Liverpool & OciusB2 – Community Grid
  • Voluntary Services Overseas – VSO matching system
Innovative Project of the Year
Sponsored by:
  • Lloyds TSB – Innovation Market
  • Loyalty Management Group – Self Serve
  • NHS Connecting for Health – Mobile clinical assistant
  • Nomura Securities – Grid computing
  • Sky – Electronic programme guide
  • Southern Water – Field data capture system
  • The Co-operative Group – Insight project
  • Yorkshire Water Services –Water resource allocation plan
Green Project of the Year
Sponsored by:
  • Gm2 – New storage architecture
  • Leeds City Council – Green IT strategy
  • London Borough of Waltham Forest – Managed print services
  • National Australia Group – Green initiative
  • Reed Managed Services – Thin client computing
  • Royal Bank of Scotland – Carbon offset project
  • The Co-operative Group – Night-time Epos energy saving
Outsourcing Project of the Year
Sponsored by:
SSS
  • Financial Services Authority
  • Highways Agency
  • Iceland Foods
  • Lloyds TSB
  • Skandia
  • Test & Verification Solutions - ClearSpeed

Student Project of the Year

  • Yasmeen Ahmad, University of Dundee – NOPdb content management system
  • Stephen Boot, Sheffield Hallam University – Embedded digital set-top box application
  • Robin Bourne, University of Portsmouth – The student information system
  • Wesley Hollin – ZooTech project
  • Leanda Long, Brunel University- E-banking study
  • Suzanne Prior, University of Dundee – Glu-zone diabetes monitoring system
  • Amarvir Thindal, Sheffield Hallam University – Laura Ashley e-learning
  • Gavin Topley, Kent IT Clinic – Text-a-car
Individual and Team Awards
 
IT Leader of the Year 
Sponsored by:
  • Janet Day, IT director, Berwin Leighton Paisner
  • Patrick O'Connell, managing director, BT Health
  • Darryl West, director of group IT, Lloyds TSB
  • Catherine Doran, director of information management, Network Rail
  • Darrell Stein, director of IT & logistics, Marks & Spencer
  • Al-Noor Ramji, chief information officer, BT Design
  • Phil Pavitt, chief information officer, Transport for London
IT Professional of the Year
Sponsored by:
  • Morteza Alamolhoda, direct services manager, Information Systems Aston
  • Steve Christer, global head of testing, Strategic Systems Solutions
  • Margaret Corrigan, service delivery transformation manager, Service Birmingham
  • Keith Files, delivery director, VocaLink
  • Rob Hobart, business systems technologist, Berwin Leighton Paisner
  • Lee Parry, project manager, Fife Council
  • Renata Vincoletto, head of IT, Camfed International
  • Brian Wells, test and validation specialist, Experimentus
IT Department of the Year
Sponsored by:
  • Home Group
  • Iceland Foods
  • Kent County Council
  • IT Assist, Northern Ireland Civil Service
  • Network Rail
  • Standard Life
  • The Exchange delivery team
  • The Pensions Regulator
IT Team of the Year
Sponsored by:
 
  • Berwin Leighton Paisner - development team
  • Citi UK Consumer - Technology team
  • Lloyds TSB - Process, design and solutions team
  • Lloyds TSB - Innovation & research team
  • London Borough of Havering - IT customer & service support team
  • Network Rail - Rail defects management team
  • The Co-operative Group – InControl support & rollout team
  • The Pensions regulator - ITSSS

Company Awards

Best IT Strategy
Sponsored by:
  • Berwin Leighton Paisner
  • Liverpool Direct
  • PDSA
  • Swiftcover.com
  • VocaLink
Best Small Business IT Strategy
Sponsored by:
  • Business Stream
  • Close Invoice Finance
  • ControlCircle
  • Ecotricity
  • Imagine Homes
  • Imerja
  • ProNet
  • TDX Group
IT Employer of the Year
Sponsored by:
  • Berwin Leighton Paisner
  • Kent County Council
  • Rackspace
  • Yorkshire Water
  • National Australia Group

Industry awards

Business hardware supplier of the year
Sponsored by:
  • 8e6
  • 3Par
  • IronKey
  • EMC
  • Hitachi Data Systems
  • Secure Computing
  • Texas Memory Systems
  • Yoggie Security Systems

Business software supplier of the year

  • BigHand
  • Citrix Online
  • Eg Solutions
  • PlateSpin
  • Red Hat
  • Sage
  • StepStone
  • Tideway
IT services supplier of the year
Sponsored by:
  • Cognito
  • Esteem Systems
  • FDM Group
  • Glasshouse
  • LogMeIn
  • MessageLabs
  • Networks First
  • Optevia

Networking and communications supplier of the year

  • ANS Group
  • BlackBerry
  • iPass
  • Freedom4 WiFi
  • Fluidata
  • Ruckus Wireless
  • Telecity Group
IT PR Company of the Year
Sponsored by:
  • Brands2Life
  • Chameleon PR
  • Fleishman-Hillard
  • Johnson King
  • Lewis PR
  • Octopus Communications
  • Rainier PR
  • Weber Shandwick Technology
Recruitment Consultancy of the Year
Sponsored by:
  • Advanced Resource Managers
  • Elan Computing
  • Hays IT
  • Henderson Scott
  • Highams Group
  • La Fosse Associates
  • Preferred IT
  • ReThink Recruitment

Technology Advertising Campaign of the Year

  • Chemistry for Morse
  • Creative Direction Consultants for Fujitsu Siemens Computers
  • DWA Media for Citrix Online GoToMyPC
  • DWA Media for KonicaMinolta
  • DWA Media for ESET
  • Mason Zimbler for Toshiba
  • Ogilvy for BT Global Services
  • StarCom for Oracle

Editor’s Award

  • Outstanding Contribution to UK IT
    To be announced on the night

    Sponsored by:
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