The Omega Award recognizes industry excellence in product innovation, message marketing in videos

GILBERT, ARIZONA, USA, March 24, 2016 /EINPresswire.com/ -- ACG Research has announced its Omega Award for excellence. This year’s winners are Big Switch Networks, Brocade Communications, Cisco and Ixia. The Omega Award recognizes excellence in product innovation, message marketing in HotSeat, Whiteboard and Spotlight Innovation videos. Awards are determined by customer ratings, video views and feedback from service providers, enterprises and the financial community. These videos discuss the key points and advantages of the vendor’s product, outline concepts related to the topic, present a deep dive into the issues significant to the company and its customers and focus on fundamental innovations of the vendor’s product, service, and platform to highlight the nature of the innovations and their role in enabling the value proposition.

The Omega Award also recognizes operational excellence. Vendors winning this award demonstrate operation excellence and sustainability as measured by ACG’s financial vendor index. The vendors’ performance scores are calculated using 11 ratios and Z scores, subdivided into two categories: sustainability and operational; the data originates from annual reports, and quarterly filings. The index examines standard financial ratios related to profitability and liquidity, which are validated by Wall Street. An average of all ratios across all vendors was defined as the index. The goal of the index service is to create an industry baseline that takes all of the vendors in targeted sectors and creates an industry average to determine vendors’ risk levels.

Winners Big Switch Networks, Brocade, Cisco and Ixia were cited and honored because “of their achievements in the areas of product innovation, message marketing or operational excellence,” said Ray Mota, CEO, ACG Research. “Also in the case of the video awards, their peers and customers rated the videos and helped determine the winners.”

Of note this year is the new Breakthrough Innovation Product category. Winning the first ever award in this category is Big Switch Networks for its Big Cloud Fabric 3.0., which provides hyper-scale networking in public, hybrid and private clouds. Big Cloud Fabric is unique in that it delivers on the core vision of SDN on more dimensions than any other solution currently available. “It's an honor to be the recipient of the 2015 ACG Omega Award for Breakthrough Innovation Product of the Year,” said Douglas Murray, CEO of Big Switch Networks. “This award validates our rapid product innovation and commitment to customers as open networking becomes increasingly pervasive."

Other winners are Brocade Communications for HotSeat Winner of 2015 for the video Evolution of Mobile Network Visibility. The video features a discussion about Brocade’s significant new network visibility product announcement: carrier-grade, physical and virtual network packet brokers, virtual TAPs, an SDN based session director and a single pane of glass management application. Sanjay Munshi, Senior Director of Product Management at Brocade Communications, and Michael Bushong accepted the award on behalf of the company.

For the second year in row Cisco has continued to demonstrate operational excellence and sustainability as measured by ACG’s financial vendor index, winning the Trusted Vendor Award. Accepting the award for Cisco is Sanjeev Mervana.

Ixia was awarded the Whiteboard Winner category. In this video Dennis Cox, chief product officer of Ixia, and Ray Mota, CEO of ACG Research, discuss the need for true 100% visibility.

The staff at ACG Research congratulate all the winners of the 2015 Omega Award!

Ray Mota
ACG Research
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