MetTel Wins 2019 American Business Award for Helping Enterprises Map to Future Trends, Technologies at MetTel Innovation Summit
NEW YORK, May 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- MetTel, a digital transformation and communications leader, today announced that it won a Stevie® in the 2019 American Business Awards® for its industry-leading annual Innovation Summit, which is designed to help MetTel's enterprise customers envision and plan for future trends and technologies. A winner in the Customer Engagement category of the 17(th) Annual American Business Awards, the 2019 innovation Summit was held at the 1 Hotel in Miami March 27-29.
More than 3,800 nominations from organizations of all sizes and virtually every industry were submitted this year for consideration in a wide range of categories. MetTel's award is recognition of the exceptional emphasis the company places on hands-on customer interaction and service qualities rarely found in the communications industry and highly valued by enterprise clients.
"The goal of MetTel's Innovation Summit is to help partners and customers navigate and stay ahead of the constantly changing telecom and IT network technology landscape" said Lori Thomas, Senior Vice President, Strategic Engagement and Transformation at MetTel. "To help our customers prepare for the future, our annual Innovation Summit brings together the top minds in the industry for an opportunity to network and share best practices."
This year's Innovation Summit assembled leading customer brands across financial services, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, security, energy and other major industries to cover topics such as 5G, artificial intelligence, cyber security, digital transformation, edge computing, internet of things, software defined networking and more. MetTel's innovation ecosystem partners and sponsors included AT&T, Bruin, Corning, Cisco, Geotab, Intelygenz, Lumen.ai, Raytheon, Samsung, Sprint and VMware among others.
According to IDC's Shawn Fitzgerald, "digitally determined companies , those succeeding at digital transformation (DX), demonstrate three key attributes; a unified, enterprise digital business strategy; a single roadmap for implementing digital technologies and business capabilities; and the need for a digital platform for enabling digital with speed, scale, and agility. Digital transformation is both a long-game and a team sport so having a strategy along with planning horizons, combined with strategic partners like MetTel, enables critical parts of the technology roadmap and are central for realizing competitively differentiated DX outcomes."
More than 200 professionals worldwide participated in the judging process to select this year's Stevie Award winners.
The American Business Awards are the U.S.A.'s premier business awards program. All organizations operating in the U.S.A. are eligible to submit nominations - public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small.
Nicknamed the Stevies for the Greek word meaning "crowned," the awards will be presented to winners at a gala ceremony at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York on Tuesday, June 11. Tickets are now on sale.
Details about The American Business Awards and the list of 2019 Stevie winners are available at www.StevieAwards.com/ABA.
About MetTel
MetTel is a leading global provider of communications and digital transformation solutions and services for enterprise customers. By converging all communications over a proprietary network, MetTel enables enterprise companies to easily deploy and manage technology-driven voice, data, wireless and cloud solutions worldwide. MetTel's comprehensive portfolio of customer solutions can boost enterprise productivity, reduces costs and simplifies operations. Combining customized and managed communication solutions with a powerful platform of cloud-based software, the company's MetTel Portal® enables customers to manage their inventory, usage, spend and repairs from one simple, user friendly interface. For more information visit www.mettel.net, follow us on Twitter (@OneMetTel) and on LinkedIn, or call us directly at 877.963.8663. MetTel. Smart Communications Solutions(TM).
About the Stevie Awards
Stevie Awards are conferred in seven programs: the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, the German Stevie Awards, The American Business Awards®, The International Business Awards®, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, the Stevie Awards for Great Employers, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Stevie Awards competitions receive more than 12,000 entries each year from organizations in more than 70 nations. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at http://www.StevieAwards.com.
Sponsors of The 2019 American Business Awards include HCL America, John Hancock Financial Services, and SoftPro.
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