Congratulations to all our winning partners who picked up awards of recognition at this year’s Adobe Omniture Summit EMEA. Here’s why!
Best Overall Partner – Bitbang
Bitbang was founded in 2003 in Italy with a focus on web analytics. They became an Omniture partner in 2008 and expanded their scope to cover online optimisation. With 10 certified consultants they are autonomous in driving sales cycle and implementation. They have shown great ability to cross-sell to existing accounts and drive business with solutions like Test & Target. Bitbang is a premier partner who has contributed significantly to our leadership position in Italy during 2010.
Giovanni Lorenzoni, CEO of Bitbang, collecting the award
Best Technology Partner – Searchmetrics
Searchmetrics delivers the most comprehensive, integrated suite of search analytics available to help companies move their brand into the top positions of all leading search engines. They understood early on, the vision and benefits of integrating organic search and web data, and joined the Genesis Program almost a year ago. The deep integration is now in beta with first German customers and on a 1:1 basis is already generating a huge demand for both companies.
Searchmetric’s CEO, Dr. Horst Joepen, collecting the award
Fastest Growing Partner – Swordfish Inc.
Swordfish Inc. is a Swedish start-up founded in Q1 of 2010 with just three employees. Since then it has grown to a team of 12 professionals working from Stockholm and covering the whole Nordic region. Swordfish is completely aligned with Adobe technology, centering innovative services around the Adobe Online Marketing Suite. Swordfish help customers with all aspects of digital marketing and have shown leadership in customer acquisition and conversion strategies across different industries.
Swordfish realised Adobe technology could be used as a fuel for growth, a company that brought $300k in revenue to Adobe in its first nine months of business and continues to drive customers and revenue throughout 2011.
Mattias Ward, CEO, Per Lönnqvist, Sales Director, and COO Mr Gordon Savage collecting the award
Best Search Agency Partner, EMEA – WPP – GroupM
GroupM is a media investment management operation, part of the WPP group and serving agencies such as Mindshare. In 2010, SearchCenter was implemented by GroupM for customers such as LG in 22 countries. In Italy, the agency has started to use SearchCenter to run campaigns for Fiat Group. GroupM has demonstrated their ability to optimise the adspend of their customers by using SearchCenter to improve the ROI of their campaigns.
Simona Petti , Head of Search for Mindshare in Italy and Riccardo Scali, Adobe, collecting the award in GroupM’s absence
Best Value Added Partner, EMEA – Adversitement
Adversitement successfully ran 150 Omniture projects in parallel, during peak time in 2010, handling implementations, measurement, reporting, data analysis and optimisation for 200 local and multi-national companies.
They have embraced our multi-product suite strategy as nobody else has, demonstrating competencies on SiteCatalyst, Discover, Insight, SearchCenter, Survey, Genesis, Test & Target, Test & Target 1:1 and Adobe University. These efforts led, in 2010 alone, to revenue under management of $2.25m.
Bob Nieme & Nick Wood from Adversitement collecting the award
Best Professional Services – Acceleration
This is a brand new award, introduced this year to highlight the ever-increasing requirement from clients to work with our partners to provide support and services in order for clients to maximise their investment in Adobe software.
Acceleration provide support and services across multiple OBU solutions in multiple regions including Middle East, Africa and UK.
Stephan Pretorius, Grant Keller and Jon Tate of Acceleration collecting the award
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