Digium Innovation Award

The Innovation Award is designed to recognize developers, customers and partners for outstanding achievements that are improving business processes, overcoming technology challenges and enhancing the company's bottom line.

"Asterisk generates so much excitement in the telephony world because its openness allows it to form the basis of unlimited types of applications," said Mark Spencer, creator of Asterisk and Digium's chief technology officer. "Many of the nominees for the Innovation Awards blew us away with their ability to solve real business problems and to create entirely new voice solutions using Asterisk. We're pleased to recognize the winners and to congratulate each and every entrant."

Award Winner

The 2011 Digium Innovation Award winner is Clarity, a division of Plantronics. Based in Chattanooga, Tenn., Clarity is the leading supplier of amplified telephones, notification systems, assistive listening devices and other communications devices for millions with hearing loss. With Asterisk-based technology, the company created ClarityLogic, a first-of-its-kind service that enables customer representatives to remotely retrieve and adjust settings, quickly resolving customer issues. This is critically important for Clarity's primary customer-senior citizens-as many have a difficult time hearing, remembering and performing complex, technical instructions given over the phone.

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Benefits of being named the Digium Innovation winner

• Presentation of the award with a profile of your company in the Conference General session
• Congratulatory press release from Digium, Inc.
• Listing on the Digium Web site
• Chance to highlight the accomplishments of you and your team
• Recognition by your industry, friends and family

Eligibility

• All Digium|Asterisk customers and partners world-wide with solutions that are live or in production
• Submit as many projects as you like
• Each project requires a separate submission

Judges

• Asterisk Community member
• Mark Spencer, CTO, Digium and Creator of Asterisk
• Danny Windham, CEO, Digium
• Leslie Conway, VP of Marketing, Digium
• Bryan Johns, Asterisk Community Director
• Steve Sokol, Asterisk Marketing Director

Selection Process

• What makes your Asterisk-based solution innovative?
• Did your solution improve processes?
• What technology challenges were overcome to achieve your goal?
• What was the largest implementation of your solution?
• What was the measurable ROI and competitive advantages generated by project?
• What can be achieved with the solution today that couldn't be previously accomplished?
• Creativity
• Presentation

When can applications be submitted?
August 1 - Last day for submission for the award year
Winners will be announced at AstriCon 2012

Award applications can be submitted at any time during the year but no later than August 1 for that year's awards. Please send completed forms to Julie Webb via email at jwebb@digium.com or via postal service.

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