ET Exchange 2017 Summit Award Winners Announced

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. - Dec. 5, 2017 - PRLog -- The 2017 ET Exchange, held November 13-15 at the Ponte Vedra Inn and Club, announced Samsung, Cog Systems and VANTIQ as award winning vendors at the fourth annual event.

ET Exchange once again gathered industry thought leaders to address digital transformation solutions and future technology trends for the enterprise. ET Exchange hosted some of the largest enterprise organizations as they discussed their specific needs for a digital transformation strategy, as well as learn from industry leading solution providers on how they are deploying these initiatives across multiple vertical industries.

More than 75 hosted executives who are directly responsible for developing and executing their organizations technology roadmap voted for the three annual awards in the following categories: Best Overall Solution, Best Case Study Presentation, and Best Emerging Technology Solution.

Cog Systems won the 2017 Best Overall IoT Solution award. This award was given to the most comprehensive industry offering, and went to the vendor who showcased an overall understanding of needs in the IoT marketplace. The nominees for best overall solution were: Apperian, Cog Systems, Insight, Vantiq. "This was our first nGage ET Exchange event and found it to be very informative, highly educational and galvanizing," said Carl Nerup, CMO, Cog Systems. "We're glad to be a part of the digital transformation conversation by providing a proactive, modular approach to security and privacy in IoT, and we are honored that the nGage participants recognized our D4Secure solution as the best."

Samsung won the 2017 Best Case Study Presentation award. This award was based on the overall presentation and interaction that occurred between sponsors and the senior level hosted executives in private 25 minute boardroom style case study presentations over the two and half days. The nominees for best case study presentation were: ClearBlade, DXC Technology, Samsung and VANTIQ.

VANTIQ won the 2017 IoT Best Emerging Technology Solution award. This award went to the sponsor who exhibited a unique solution set that senior level executives identified as early to market and addressing a specific need to better the industry. The nominees for vendor to watch were: AetherPal, Cog Systems, ServiceNow and VANTIQ. "We have participated in a number of nGage ET events in 2017 and found them all to be highly valuable," said Marty Sprinzen, CEO of VANTIQ. "Enterprise transformation via the creation of innovative digital applications is what VANTIQ is all about and we appreciate being recognized by event participants as the 'Vendor to Watch."

"The level of the enterprise attendees, the support from leading solution providers and industry leading analysts made for an extremely productive and intense couple of days. We look forward to building on the momentum for our 2018 summit", said Philip Mckay, CEO, nGage Events.

ET Exchange is focused on bringing senior level executives together to discuss business objectives and digital transformation strategy with their peers and leading solution providers across multiple vertical industries.

To learn more about our portfolio of events for 2018 that include IoT6 Exchange and multiple events around digital transformation including, ET6 Exchange, ET Exchange, ET Canada Exchange, Leveraging Big Data and High Performance Computing please email Spencer Bisgaard at sbisgaard@ngagevents.com.

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