Frost & Sullivan Presents 2012 Excellence in Best Practices Awards

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, March 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --

- Growth Partnership Company Recognizes World-Class Companies for Innovation and Leadership Across Their Respective Markets

Frost & Sullivan honored recipients of its 2012 Excellence in Best Practices Awards at a dinner banquet held Tuesday, March 13, 2012, in Coronado, Calif., at the Loews Coronado Bay Resort.

The Excellence in Best Practices 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:

Acuo Technologies  - 2011 North American Medical Imaging Informatics Product Leadership Award
Agilent Technologies  - 2011 Global Oscilloscopes Company of the Year Award
ALI Solutions  - 2011 North American Outbound Customer Contact Solutions Customer Value Enhancement Award
Amdocs Management LTD.  - 2011 Global CSP Billing - Rating & Charging & Other Core Billing Market Share Leadership Award; 2011 Global CSP Billing - Total Billing Market Share Leadership Award
Avaya  - 2011 Global Unified Communications Technologies Customer Value Enhancement Award; 2011 North American Enterprise Session Management Product Differentiation Excellence Award
Avistar Communications  - 2011 Global Desktop Videoconferencing New Product Innovation Award
BK Medical Analogic Ultrasound Group  - 2011 North American Surgical Ultrasound Product Differentiation Excellence Award
Celestica  - 2011 Global Aerospace & Defense EMS Customer Value Enhancement Award
CenturyLink  - 2011 North American Connected Home Landline Customer Value Enhancement Award; 2012 North American Retail Mid-Band Ethernet Services Customer Value Enhancement Award
Cisco  - 2012 Global Satellite Transponder Technology Innovation Award
Clarity International  - 2011 Global Network Services Business Quality Management Technology Innovation Award
Compuware Corporation  - 2011 Global Cloud-Based Application Monitoring Company of the Year Award
Comverse  - 2011 Global Communications Service Provider Billing Product Line Strategy Award
Contact Solutions  - 2011 North American Hosted IVR Applications Product Differentiation Excellence Award
Courtagen Life Sciences, Inc.  - 2011 North American Clinical Diagnostic Tools New Product Innovation Award
DigiCert, Inc.  - 2011 North American SSL Certificate Customer Value Enhancement Award
DigitalRoute  - 2011 Global CSP Billing Mediation Competitive Strategy Innovation Award
Electro Rent Corporation  - 2012 North American Rental, Used and New Test Equipment Sales Company of the Year Award
Enterasys Networks  - 2012 Global Network Access Control Customer Value Enhancement Award
ForeScout Technologies, Inc.  - 2012 Global Network Access Control Technology Innovation Award
Getaround  - 2011 North American Carsharing Enabling Technology Award
GreatCall  - 2011 North American mHealth Customer Service Leadership Award
HealthOneMed  - 2012 North American Medication Management Systems New Product Innovation Award
Heckmann Corporation  - 2011 North American Private Commercial Fleet Green Excellence Award
Hipcricket  - 2011 North American Mobile Marketing Customer Value Enhancement Award
InterCall  - 2011 North American Audio Conferencing Service Market Share Leadership Award
Interstate Battery System of America, Inc.  - 2011 U.S. Automotive Technicians' Choice: Overall Best Brand of Automotive Batteries LifeSize Communications - 2011 Global Enterprise Video Webcasting Solutions Customer Value Enhancement Award
Michelin Americas Truck Tires  - 2011 North American Wide-Base Truck Tires Product Line Strategy Award
Monitronics International  - 2011 North American Residential Alarm Monitoring Company of the Year Award
MPDV Mikrolab GmbH  - 2011 Global Manufacturing Execution Systems Customer Value Enhancement Award
NAPA  - 2012 United States Automotive Technicians' Choice: Overall Best Program Distributor for Replacement Parts
Nuspire  - 2011 North American Managed Security Service Providers Entrepreneurial Company of the Year Award
OpenText Corporation  - 2011 Global Digital Media Management and Workflow Company of the Year Award
Pedigree Technologies  - 2011 North American M2M-Based Fleet Management Software New Product Innovation Award
PGi  - 2011 North American CSP-Based Videoconferencing Services Product Line Strategy Award
QlikTech, Inc.  - 2011 North American Health Data Analytics Technology Innovation Award
Recognition Technologies, Inc.  - 2011 North American Speaker Verification Biometrics New Product Innovation Award
SafeNet  - 2011 Global Software License Management Product Line Strategy Award
Sagent Pharmaceuticals, Inc.  - 2011 North American Finished Heparin Product Quality Leadership Award
Senscient, Inc.  - 2011 North American Gas Detection Entrepreneurial Company of the Year Award
Siemens Enterprise Communications  - 2011 Global Unified Communications Technologies Healthcare Product Line Strategy Award
Somnetics International, Inc.  - 2012 North American Sleep Disordered Breathing Product Differentiation Excellence Award
Symantec Corporation  - 2011 U.S. Cyber Security Managers' Choice Award: Most Trustworthy Brand of Website Certification
Toon Boom Animation Inc.  - 2011 Global Animation Software Entrepreneurial Company of the Year Award
Tridium - 2011 North American Integrated Building Systems and Services Customer Value Enhancement Award
Velocent Systems  - 2011 North American Mobile Broadband Service Assurance 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.

About Frost & Sullivan

Frost & Sullivan, the Growth Partnership Company, enables clients to accelerate growth and achieve best-in-class positions in growth, innovation and leadership. The company's Growth Partnership Service provides the CEO and the CEO's Growth Team with disciplined research and best-practice models to drive the generation, evaluation, and implementation of powerful growth strategies. Frost & Sullivan leverages 50 years of experience in partnering with Global 1000 companies, emerging businesses and the investment community from 40 offices on six continents. To join our Growth Partnership, please visit http://www.frost.com.

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