Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Companies for Growth, Innovation & Leadership

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Frost & Sullivan honored recipients of its 2013 Growth, Innovation & Leadership Awards at a dinner gala held Tuesday, September 10, in San Jose, Calif., at The Fairmont San Jose. The Awards banquet was preceded by a 60-minute CEO Roundtable. During the session, chief executives from selected companies discussed the most pressing issues facing their companies and industries today.

The Growth, Innovation & Leadership Awards are presented each year to companies that are predicted to encourage significant growth in their industries, have identified emerging trends before they became the standard in the marketplace, and have created advanced technologies that will catalyze and transform industries in the near future.

Awarded companies included:

AB SCIEX - 2013 Global Mass Spectrometry Market Share Leadership Award

AdaptiveMobile - 2013 Global Network Centric Security Visionary Innovation Award

Aegis Limited - 2013 North American Contact Center Outsourcing Product Differentiation Excellence Award

Affirmed Networks - 2013 North American Subscriber Aggregation & Content Monetization New Product Innovation Award

Apriso Corporation - 2013 North American Total Integrated MES Customer Value Enhancement Award

ArisGlobal – 2012 North American Pharmacovigilance Software Customer Value Enhancement Award

Asurion - 2013 North American Mobile Protection Customer Value Leadership Award

AT&T - 2013 North American Video Company of the Year Award

Cisco Systems, Inc. - 2013 Global On-Premises Multimedia Conferencing Competitive Strategy Leadership Award

2013 Global Smart Business Collaboration Solutions Customer Value Enhancement Award

Clavister AB - 2012 Global Enterprise Firewalls Product Quality Leadership Award

DEM Solutions - 2013 Global Engineering Simulation for Mining Entrepreneurial Company of the Year Award

Edgewater Wireless Systems, Inc. - 2013 North American Next-Generation Wi-Fi Access Points New Product Innovation Award

Entersekt - 2013 South African Mobile Security Technology Leadership Award

Fortinet - 2013 North American Unified Threat Management Market Share Leadership Award

Huron Technologies - 2013 North American Digital Pathology Slide Scanner Product

Differentiation Excellence Award

Interstate Batteries, Inc. - 2012 U.S. Automotive Technicians' Choice Award: Overall Best Brand of Automotive Batteries

JDSU - 2013 Global Cable and Antenna Analyzer Customer Value Enhancement Award

Kareo - 2013 North American Physician Practice Management Customer Value Enhancement Award

KLA Tencor - 2013 Information Leadership Award

Level 3 Communications - 2012 U.S. Dedicated Internet Access (DIA) Services Growth Leadership Award

Memex Automation Inc. - 2013 North American Machine Monitoring Systems Technology Innovation Leadership Award

MSA (Mine Safety Appliances Company) - 2013 Global Head Protection New Product Innovation Leadership Award

Nuance Communications, Inc. - 2013 North American Customer Contact Mobility Applications Customer Value Enhancement Award

Omni-ID - 2013 Global RFID in Manufacturing Customer Value Leadership Award

QlikTech International - 2013 North American Enterprise Business Discovery Customer Value Enhancement Award

Radvision, an Avaya Company - 2013 North American Software-based Desktop Video Conferencing Product Leadership Award

Riello UPS - 2013 Global UPS Product Leadership Award

Schneider Electric - 2013 Global Total Plant Ecosystem Energy Optimization Customer Value Enhancement Award

Sciformix Corporation - 2013 North American Pharmaceutical Knowledge Process Outsourcing Entrepreneurial Company of the Year Award

Siemens AG - 2013 Global Smart Machine Safety Networks Company of the Year Award

Siemens Healthcare - 2013 North American Molecular Imaging Company of the Year Award

Waterfall Security Solutions - 2013 North American Defense-in-Depth Platform for Upstream Oil & Gas Customer Value Enhancement Award

Frost & Sullivan's Best Practices Awards recognize companies in a variety of regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer service and strategic product development. Industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analysis and extensive secondary research in order to identify best practices.

For further information about the Awards Banquet, please contact a member of the Best Practices Team.

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