What is Technology Intelligence?

Technology Intelligence is the ability to understand and manage all your technology. Only by having a complete picture of all the technology investments across your organization can you ensure that your technology is delivering value. This intelligence is fundamental to making more data-driven decisions about your technology, allowing business and IT leaders to use these insights across strategic initiatives, whether driving growth, fostering innovation or fortifying resilience. Technology Intelligence helps organizations move from silos to collaboration, addressing complexity and creating simplicity.

Our 2023 submissions

Customers were recognized in nine categories across the full range of technology intelligence. Organizations of all sizes, in all industries and across all geographies were encouraged to apply. We selected the award winners based on the quality of submission and tangible detail provided, demonstrable metrics against the award categories, and the business outcomes achieved. 

The categories and winners

Impact of the Year:  Organizations that deliver multifaceted value and elevate their business utilizing one or more of the solutions offered by Snow. 

• Winner: 
  • Target (Australia) 
  • Morrisons PLC (UK) 
  • Xylem, Inc. (US) 

• Honorable Mention: 
  • JG Summit Holdings (Philippines) 

Transformation of the Year:  Recognizes organizational excellence and programs that raised the bar on best practices for collaboration and globalization of Technology Intelligence. 

• Winner: 
  • Majorel (Germany) 

• Honorable Mention: 
  • Dachser (Germany) 

Cloud Excellence:  Recognizes exceptional vision in cloud cost management, cloud management or FinOps, powered by the Snow suite of cloud solutions. 

• Winner: 
  • Noventiq (Global) 

Innovation of the Year:  Recognizes organizations that achieved technical innovations, whether that was a new way to connect systems, a new way to leverage data or even helping Snow build new and better products. 

• Winner: 
  • Telkomsel (Indonesia) 

• Honorable Mention: 
  • Vodafone (UK) 

ITAM Excellence (replacing SAM Excellence from previous years):  Recognizes exceptional achievement in IT Asset Management powered by the Snow SAM solution. 

• Winner: 
  • Dart Container (US) 

• Honorable Mention: 
  • Tata Consultancy Services (India) 
  • Mphasis (India) 

SaaS Management Excellence (new):  Recognizes exceptional achievement in SaaS management powered by Snow SaaS Management. 

• Winner: 
  • Curtin University (Australia) 

• Honorable Mention: 
  • Bridge Investment Group (US) 
  • Ulster University (N. Ireland) 

Technology for Good:  An organization that has leveraged Technology Intelligence to tackle some of the most challenging issues affecting society and the planet. 

• Winner: 
  • Christchurch City Council (New Zealand) 

• Honorable Mention: 
  • Bane NOR (Norway) 
  • Mercy (US) 

Trailblazer of the Year:  Recognizes organizations new to Snow that have realized accelerated time to value on Snow Atlas. 

• Winner: 
  • Equans (Netherlands) 

Judges’ Choice:  Celebrates organizations that our judges also wanted to recognize for how they have gone above and beyond in their Technology Intelligence journey in 2023. 

• Cosentino (Spain) 
• University of Cambridge (UK) 

We’d also like to extend our appreciation to our global partners who have closely supported and collaborated with many of the award winners and honorees. The outstanding efforts of partners such as SoftwareONE, Softcat, CDW Logistics, Long View Systems, Insight, Crayon, PT Astra Graphia Information Technology, and Sistemas Informáticos Abiertos have played a pivotal role in driving these exceptional achievements.  

The best way to really understand how our products deliver results is to hear directly from our customers. At Snow, we are always delighted to hear about the incredible things our customers accomplish along with the value that our solutions deliver in helping drive real business impact and in solving real-world challenges. We hope to see an equally amazing turnout next year! For more information on this year’s award winners and categories, please visit our customer awards page. And to dive deeper into Technology Intelligence, visit our Seeing Beyond resource hub. 

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At Snow Software, we pride ourselves on finding this time. This marks the third year we are hosting the Technology Intelligence Awards. It’s an amazing opportunity for us to learn all about our customers’ successes and the incredible impact they’re making every single day. This is our chance to celebrate with you, for you! 

Customers of all sizes, across all geographies and industries are encouraged to apply as we’re keen to honor those with accomplishments in SaaS, SAM and cloud management, to name a few. Don’t miss this opportunity to get the recognition you deserve! 

The 2023 categories

Our customers and partners are using Snow Software to empower IT and business leaders, evolve the way their companies think about technology investments and drive transformation with precision and agility. With this in mind, we’ve created eight distinguished award categories to complement the diversity of our customer communities: 

• IMPACT OF THE YEAR
  • Goes to an organization that has delivered multifaceted value and elevated their business by utilizing one or more Snow solutions
  • Outstanding programs have clearly defined challenges and have delivered impacts such as significant costs savings, increasing efficiency, reducing risk or enabling innovation  
• ITAM EXCELLENCE
  • Recognizes exceptional achievement in IT asset management powered by the Snow SAM solution
  • Measurable outcomes may include cost optimization, audit mitigation,  process automation and risk reduction 
• SAAS MANAGEMENT EXCELLENCE
  • Recognizes exceptional achievement in SaaS management powered by the Snow SaaS Management solution
  • Measurable impacts may include exceptional vendor management, limiting SaaS sprawl with demonstrable cost savings and/or risk mitigation, audit management/compliance and improved visibility
• CLOUD EXCELLENCE
  • Recognizes exceptional achievement in cloud cost management, cloud management or FinOps, powered by the Snow suite of cloud solutions
  • Measurable  impacts may include cost optimization/allocation, process automation, risk reduction and migration enablement
• TECHNOLOGY FOR GOOD
  • An organization that has leveraged Technology Intelligence to tackle some of the most challenging issues affecting society and the planet
  • Areas  of impact  could include  sustainability programs,  medical breakthroughs,  charitable initiatives and more
• TRANSFORMATION OF THE YEAR
  • Recognizes organizational excellence and programs that raised the bar on best practices for collaboration and globalization of Technology Intelligence
• INNOVATION OF THE YEAR
  • Recognizes organizations that did something technically innovative, whether that was a new way to connect systems, leverage data or even help Snow build new and better products
• TRAILBLAZER OF THE YEAR
  • Recognizes organizations new to Snow that have realized accelerated time to value on Snow Atlas
  • Winner demonstrates agility, has an cloud-first strategy, embraces new thinking and is an active part of the peer-to-peer community 

How do we celebrate the winners?

You and your team deserve a round of applause. We want to celebrate your great work! Award winners will all be celebrated at a virtual awards ceremony on June 15. Your efforts will be promoted in a press release, social spotlights and more.

Winning organizations will also receive: 

• A $500 donation to an approved charity of your choice 
• A personalized Technology Intelligence Awards trophy 
• Snow swag for your team 
• A brainstorming session with the Snow Product Team 
• A digital promotion package with branded graphics 

Need some help?

Your Snow account representative or partner can work with you to create a strong application and even submit it on your behalf. We’re here to support you however we can. Please feel free to contact Catherine Picknell, the awards program owner, if you have any questions.

Don’t miss your chance to showcase your team’s achievements! Learn more about the Technology Intelligence Awards and share your story today. 

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What is Technology Intelligence?

Technology Intelligence is the ability to understand and manage all your technology. Only by having a complete picture of all the technology investments across your organization can you ensure that your technology is delivering value. This intelligence is fundamental to making more data-driven decisions about your technology, allowing business and IT leaders to use these insights across strategic initiatives, whether driving growth, fostering innovation or fortifying resilience. Technology Intelligence helps organizations move from silos to collaboration, addressing complexity and creating simplicity. 

Our 2022 Submissions

We invited customers to share their stories about their SAM/ITAM, SaaS, SAP^® and cloud management programs, describe the tangible impacts of these programs and explain how they were achieving success by using Snow products. Thanks to newfound visibility into their IT environments, our participating customers realized impressive results that included seven-figure cost savings, risk reduction, significant cost avoidance during software audits, efficiency gains in terms of time and productivity that enabled them to provide more value-added service, and improved collaboration with stakeholders across the business. 

Determining and celebrating the winners

The Snow global Technology Intelligence Awards program recognizes our customers’ innovative and impactful IT initiatives and programs that are helping to transform their organizations. We selected the award winners based on the quality of submission and tangible detail provided, demonstrable metrics against the award categories, and the business outcomes achieved. 

We had such great entries this year that we added three additional Judges’ Choice award categories to recognize customers’ achievements. These awards are for the Transformation of the Year, Innovation of the Year and Trailblazer of the Year. We also awarded honorable mentions for all categories.

Without further ado, here are the winners!

2022 Technology Intelligence Awards Results

Impact of the Year 

Organizations that have delivered multifaceted value and elevated their business by utilizing one or more Snow solutions. 

• Winner: Direct Line Group 
• Honorable Mention: MemorialCare Health Systems 

SAM Excellence

Recognizing exceptional achievement in software or SaaS management powered by Snow SAM solutions. 

• Winner: Motorola Solutions, Inc. 
• Honorable Mention: Panasonic Information Systems Company Europe 
• Honorable Mention: Telkomsel 

Cloud Excellence

Recognizing exceptional achievement in cloud management powered by Snow Commander. 

• Winner: Canon Business Services 
• Honorable Mention: DB Schenker 

SAP^® Excellence

Recognizing exceptional achievement in SAP^® management powered by Snow Optimizer for SAP^® Software. 

• Winner: Newmont 
• Honorable Mention: Prysmian S.p.A. 

Technology for Good

Organizations that have leveraged Technology Intelligence to tackle some of the most challenging issues affecting society and the planet.

• Winner: Jaguar Land Rover 
• Honorable Mention: UnitedHealth Group 

Judges’ Choice Awards

Trailblazer of the Year

This category recognizes organizations that have successfully implemented Snow Atlas into their strategy and seen rapid time to value.

• Winner: Investec 
• Honorable Mention: Orica 

Innovation of the Year

Organizations that have achieved a new level of Technology Intelligence thanks to an innovative use of the Snow platform and data. 

• Winner: Sasol 
• Honorable Mention: Mott MacDonald

Transformation of the Year

Organizations that have embraced Technology Intelligence best practices and elevated their transformation programs with comprehensive strategy and execution.

• Winner: Christchurch City Council
• Honorable Mention: Dart Container Corporation

What’s next?

All our winners and honorable mention award recipients will receive: 

• $500 donation to their charity of their choice
• A personalized Technology Intelligence Awards trophy
• Snow swag for the team
• Brainstorming session with the Snow Product Team
• Digital promotion package with branded graphics

We congratulate all our winners of this year’s Technology Intelligence Awards. Many congratulations on the outstanding achievements and successes you have all shared!

Learn more about our customers 

The best way to really understand how our products deliver results is to hear directly from our customers. At Snow, we are always delighted to hear about the incredible things our customers accomplish along with the value that our solutions deliver in helping drive real business impact and in solving real-world challenges. We hope to see an equally amazing turnout next year!

In the coming months, you can expect to learn more about these customer stories on our blogs and as case studies. And if you’d like us to feature your story in a future post, please contact customermarketing@snowsoftware.com. 

Learn more in the full press release and stay tuned to our Technology Intelligence Awards page for updates on the 2023 Awards.

Paula Darvell is the Chief Marketing Officer at Snow, where she is responsible for overseeing worldwide marketing efforts, with an emphasis on customer-centric growth. She is an enterprise technology veteran with more than 30 years of marketing experience.

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In this second annual awards ceremony, we’ll honor those accomplishments and recognize customer excellence in software, SAM, SaaS, SAP^® and cloud management categories. Customers of all sizes, in all industries and across all geographies are encouraged to apply.

We’ve heard from many customers that business is booming and they need more time to participate, so we’ve extended the deadline for submissions to April 29. Don’t miss this opportunity to get the recognition you deserve!

The 2022 categories

Our customers and partners use Snow products in many ways, especially as they face new pandemic-era challenges and support remote work alongside shifting budgets and increasing cloud costs. To honor the multitude of different programs and industries across our customer base, we’ve created these five distinguished award categories.

• Impact of the Year: This award recognizes an organization that has elevated its business by utilizing one or more Snow Software solutions. Outstanding programs have clearly defined challenges and have delivered multifaceted value, i.e., significant cost savings and increased efficiency, thereby reducing risk or enabling innovation.
• SAM Excellence: This award recognizes exceptional achievement in software or SaaS management powered by Snow SAM solutions. Measurable impacts may include cost optimization, audit mitigation, process automation, risk reduction and more.
• Cloud Excellence: This award recognizes exceptional achievement in cloud management powered by Snow Commander. Measurable impacts may include cost optimization, process automation, risk reduction, migration enablement and more.
• SAP Excellence: This award recognizes exceptional achievement in SAP management powered by Snow Optimizer for SAP^® Software. Measurable impacts may include cost optimization, audit mitigation, process automation, risk reduction and more.
• Technology for Good: This award recognizes an organization that has leveraged technology intelligence to tackle some of the most challenging issues affecting society and the planet. Areas of impact could include sustainability programs, medical breakthroughs, charitable initiatives and more.

What will the winners receive?

We will celebrate the winners at an awards ceremony in June and promote We will celebrate the winners at an awards ceremony in June and promote your work with a press release, social spotlights and more. Winning organizations will also receive:

• A $500 donation to an approved charity of your choice
• A personalized Technology Intelligence Awards trophy
• Snow swag for your team
• A brainstorming session with the Snow Product team
• A digital promotion package with branded graphics
• Recognition for all our winners’ respective partners for their participation

Reasons to apply

• Elevate your program. Being recognized for the impact you’ve made on your organization will help prove the value of your technology intelligence initiatives.
• Support a worthy cause. Snow will donate $500 to the approved charity of your choice if you are selected as one of the winners.
• Cool prizes. In addition to the charitable donation, winners will also receive a personalized trophy, swag packs and a brainstorming session with our Product team.
• Real recognition. You and your team deserve a round of applause. We want to celebrate your great work!

Need some help?

Your Snow account representative or partner can work with you to create a strong application and even submit it on your behalf. We’re here to support you however we can. Please feel free to contact our Sr. Customer Advocacy Manager, Kathleen Shepherd, and she can coach you on delivering a strong submission.  

Don’t miss your chance to showcase your team’s achievements! Learn more about the Technology Intelligence Awards and share your story today.

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The 2022 categories

Our customers and partners use Snow products in many ways, especially as they face new pandemic-era challenges and support remote work alongside shifting budgets and increasing cloud costs. To honor the multitude of different programs and industries across our customer base, we’ve created five distinguished award categories.

• Impact of the Year: This award recognizes an organization that has elevated its business utilizing one or more of Snow’s solutions. Outstanding programs have clearly defined challenges and have delivered multifaceted value such as significant cost savings, increasing efficiency, reducing risk or enabling innovation.
• SAM Excellence: This award recognizes exceptional achievement in software or SaaS management powered by Snow’s SAM solutions. Measurable impacts may include cost optimization, audit mitigation, process automation, risk reduction and more.
• Cloud Excellence: This award recognizes exceptional achievement in cloud management powered by Snow Commander. Measurable impacts may include cost optimization, process automation, risk reduction, migration enablement and more.
• SAP Excellence: This award recognizes exceptional achievement in SAP management powered by Snow Optimizer for SAP Software. Measurable impacts may include cost optimization, audit mitigation, process automation, risk reduction more.
• Technology for Good: This award recognizes an organization that has leveraged technology intelligence to tackle some of the most challenging issues affecting society and the planet. Areas of impact could include sustainability programs, medical breakthroughs, charitable initiatives and more.

What will the winners receive?

We will celebrate the winners at an awards ceremony in June and promote your work with a press release, social spotlights and more. Winning organizations will also receive:

• $500 donation to an approved charity of your choice
• A personalized Technology Intelligence Awards trophy
• Snow swag for your team
• Brainstorming session with the Snow Product Team
• Digital promotion package with branded graphics

Reasons to apply

• You can elevate your program. Being recognized for the impact you’ve made on your organization will help prove the value of your technology intelligence initiatives.
• You want to support a worthy cause. Snow will donate $500 to the approved charity of your choice if you are selected as one of the winners.
• You like cool prizes. In addition to the charitable donation, winners will also receive a personalized trophy, swag packs and a brainstorming session with our Product team.
• You and your team deserve a round of applause. We want to celebrate your great work!

Need some help?

Your Snow account representative or partner can work with you to create a strong application and even submit it on your behalf.

Don’t miss your chance to showcase your team’s achievements! Learn more about the Technology Intelligence Awards and share your story today.

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Following a year with so much uncertainty and unprecedented change, we’re proud to recognize our customers’ successful and innovative programs transforming their organizations through technology intelligence.

What is technology intelligence?

It starts with a fundamental understanding of how and why employees use specific technologies, along with a clear understanding of the resources an organization has across its ecosystem. With accurate and actionable data to make informed decisions, IT teams can use these insights to make strategic business decisions, propel innovation initiatives, build resilience, empower the workforce and more. At Snow, we believe that empowering IT and business leaders with this perspective enables them to understand both the granular impacts of technology and the high-level view of how it all fits together.

Our 2021 submissions

Among our submissions, customers shared interesting anecdotes and tangible impacts around how their SAM/ITAM, SaaS and cloud management programs were achieving success using Snow. They shared eye-opening results which included seven-figure savings, risk reduction, significant cost avoidance during software audits, and huge time savings. One customer even shared that they were able to decrease their audit preparation time from eight weeks to one hour!

Many of our submissions also showed customers that see significant benefits from automation and improving their employee’s ability to manage self-service requests.

We received so many incredible applications from organizations of all sizes and industries, and the honorees selected truly represent the best of the best. In fact, we had so many strong submissions that we added two additional categories to what we originally had intended – Innovation of the Year and Transformation of the Year.

Learn more about this year’s winners and honorees below:

Impact of the Year

Recognizing programs with the biggest impact on their organizations through technology intelligence. This category extends across all Snow products and solutions. We had so many tremendous applications from around the world, we awarded regional winners as well as an overall global winner.

• Global Impact of the Year Winner: Sasol
• Impact of the Year Winner – US: Salesforce
• Impact of the Year Winner – EMEA: DB Schenker
• Impact of the Year winner – APAC: UST in India

Innovation of the Year

Recognizing organizations that did something technically innovative. Whether that was a new way to connect systems, a new way to leverage data or even helping Snow build new and better products.

• Winner: Johnson Matthey
• Honorable Mention: Mott MacDonald

Transformation of the Year

Recognizing organizational excellence and programs that raised the bar on best practices for collaboration and globalization of technology intelligence.

• Winner: Vodafone
• Honorable Mention: Dart Container

SAM Excellence

Celebrating organizations around the world that have leveraged Snow’s Software Asset Management (SAM) tools to drive immense value.

• Winner: Direct Line Group
• Honorable Mentions: Syntegon and Energy Queensland

SAP Excellence

Recognizing organizations driving incredible savings and efficiencies with Snow Optimizer for SAP Software ®.

• Winner: Volkswagen
• Honorable Mention: Maynilad Water Services

Cloud Excellence

Recognizing organizations that have achieved true technology intelligence with powerful insights into and automation of their cloud infrastructure with Snow Commander. 

• Winner: Vanderbilt University Medical Center
• Honorable Mention: HAMK University in Finland

Technology for Good

Recognizing organizations that have leveraged technology intelligence to do good things for the world.

• Winner: HealthPartners
• Honorable Mention: National Trust

Please give a big round of applause to all the winners of the inaugural Technology Intelligence Awards – what tremendous accomplishments!

Learn more about our customer’s success stories

At Snow, we are continuously impressed by the incredible things our customers accomplish. It was truly a competitive field across the board, with so many deserving submissions, and I can only hope that we see an equally amazing turnout next year.

In the coming months, you can expect to learn more about these customer success stories on our blog. And if you’d like us to feature your story in a future post, please contact kathleen.shepherd@snowsofware.com.

Learn more in the full press release and stay tuned to our Technology Intelligence Awards page for updates on the 2022 Awards. 

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The 2021 Categories

Our customers and partners use Snow in many ways, especially during the pandemic as organizations have faced new challenges supporting remote work alongside shifting budgets and increasing cloud costs. To honor the multitude of different programs and industries, we’ve created 5 distinguished award categories.

What will the winners receive?

We will celebrate the winners at an awards ceremony in June and promote your work with a press release, social spotlights and more. Winning organizations will also receive:

• $500 donation to an approved charity of your choice
• A personalized Technology Intelligence Awards trophy
• Snow swag for your team
• Brainstorming session with the Snow Product Team
• Digital promotion package with branded graphics

Reasons to apply

• You can elevate your program. Being recognized for the impact you’ve made on your organization will help prove the value of your technology intelligence initiatives.
• You want to support a worthy cause. Snow will donate $500 to the approved charity of your choice if you are selected as one of the winners.
• You like cool prizes. In addition to the charitable donation, winners will also receive a personalized trophy, swag packs and a brainstorming session with our Product team.
• You and your team deserve a round of applause. Seriously, you do great work, and we want to celebrate that!

Need some help?

Your Snow account representative or partner can work with you to create a strong application and even submit it on your behalf. Don’t miss your chance to showcase your team’s achievements! Learn more about the Technology Intelligence Awards and share your story today.

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