In addition to the cross-category criteria, the following aspects are especially important for the jury's evaluation:

  • Usability
    • How well is the service or product explained for the customer?
    • How easy is it for the customer to complete the purchase process?
    • How fast and how well are customers helped when they have problems?
  • Quality aspects
    • How stable is your product?
    • What seals of quality/ certificates/ audits does the product or the service have?

ANEXIA
Deutschland
GmbH

Nominated in
the category
ISP/Interconnection

Nominierte 2018 1
Backbone Europe

With its project “Backbone Europe”, Anexia’s European backbone – and thereby, the connection between Austria and Germany – was massively strengthened (n*100G), upgraded with the most state-of-the-art hardware, and fully automated.

Colt Technology
Services

Nominated in
the category
ISP/Interconnection

Nominierte 2018 2
Blockchain-Initiative: Simplifying billing between carriers

With the help of blockchains, Colt and its partners are revolutionizing the billing of wholesale voice minutes between carriers, and with that the telecommunications industry.

Cronon AG

Nominated in
the category
ISP/Interconnection

Nominierte 2018

Cronon BSP – Our fusion of leased lines, hosting, and systems house expertise

For companies that still have the digital transformation ahead of them, the path to a modern IT operation is complex. Cronon offers everything they need: Leased line and hosting expertise as well as the know-how of a system house. Digitalization from 0 to 100 from a single source.

In addition to the cross-category criteria, the following aspects are especially important for the jury's evaluation:

  • Usability
    • How well is the service or product explained to the customer?
    • How easy is it for the customer to complete the purchase process?
    • How fast and how well are customers helped when they have problems?
  • Quality
    • How stable is your product?
    • Are there seals of quality/certificate/audits for your product or service?

ColocationIX
GmbH

Nominated in
the category
Datacenter
Infrastructure

Nominierte 2018 10
ColocationIX

With its future-oriented physical and digital security standard as well as its award-winning energy-efficient climate control concept, ColocationIX is one of Europe’s most modern data centers.

KAMP
Netzwerkdienste
GmbH

Nominated in
the category
Datacenter
Infrastructure

Nominierte 2018 6

Data centers rethought: Innovative colocation solutions from KAMP

Innovative separated and dedicated colocation areas (KAMP Private Suites) in small units, built on the basis of a package of measures for increasing operational security, high availability, and energy efficiency in the entire data center complex.

WestfalenWIND
IT GmbH

Nominated in
the category
Datacenter
Infrastructure

Nominierte 2018 5
WindCORES: IT meets Renewables

In the unused space at the foot of a wind turbine, an energy-efficient, high-availability (VK 3) DC was installed that meets the highest safety requirements. 92% of the electricity is supplied directly from the wind turbine, and the CO2 reduction is 109 tons/year.

In addition to the cross-category criteria, the following aspects are especially important for the jury's evaluation:

  • Usability/ customer friendliness
  • Diverse and out-of-the-ordinary services/package offers
  • Clearly defined added-value services
  • Flexible rates/contract terms
  • Proof of quality (e.g. seals of quality, certification, attestation.)
  • Special security features (e.g. data security, backup, etc.)
  • Number of users/companies (if there are figures)
  • Customer references
  • Innovation factor

KAMP
Netzwerkdienste
GmbH

Nominated in
the category
Hosting

Nominierte 2018 6

KAMP Dynamic Hardware Pool (DHP) – dynamic, flexible, high-performance

An Infrastructure-as-a-Service solution developed by KAMP and hosted in its own certified data center, which provides business customers with high-performance virtual servers in a virtual data center that is offered on a customized and secure basis.

Plus.line AG

Nominated in
the category
Hosting

Nominierte 2018 7

Managed hosting of a high availability platform for the operation of micro-services

Plus.line operates a platform that, with high availability, allows the smooth operation of micro-services across multiple data centers, and in so doing keeps the operating costs to a minimum.

Strato AG

Nominated in
the category
Hosting

Nominierte 2018 8

STRATO has simplified webhosting in a fair manner (“#faireinfacht”)

With its “Webhosting #faireinfacht” (“simplyfair”) initiative, STRATO is rewriting the rules of the industry: As a fully customer-oriented hoster since 2016, STRATO expressly opts for a transparent price display, short contract durations, a simple online cancelation process, as well as a 30-day money-back guarantee.

In addition to the cross-category criteria, the following aspects are especially important for the jury's evaluation:

  • Can the service/ product be categorized
  • Is there proof of quality for the service/product (e.g. seals of quality, certifications, attestation.)
  • Is the service/ product distinguished by a particularly effective protection factor (e.g. DDoS capacity, encryption level, detection rates, etc.)
  • Process relevance of the service/product
  • Number of users/companies
  • Customer references
  • Innovation factor

Cloud&Heat
Technologies
GmbH

Nominated in
the category
Security

Nominierte 2018 9 Nominierte 2018 23

SecuStack – The Secure Cloud.

SecuStack is a security-hardened cloud infrastructure solution based on OpenStack, incorporating numerous functions for securing the data of its cloud users and also offering integrated cryptographic client isolation.

Rohde & Schwarz
Cybersecurity
GmbH

Nominated in
the category
Security

Nominierte 2018 25
R&S®Trusted Gate

Company data in public clouds is not sufficiently protected against cyber attacks – the innovative R&S®Trusted Gate security solution combines a cloud access security broker with a data-centric encryption system to provide sufficient security.

Thycotic

Nominated in
the category
Security

Nominierte 2018 12
Thycotic Secret Server

Thycotic Secret Server is an instantly deployable, user-friendly, and scalable enterprise solution for privileged account management that automates the management and protection of privileged accounts in a single console, thereby saving time and money.

In addition to the cross-category criteria, the following aspects are especially important for the jury's evaluation:

  • Is it a new business model based on domains or TLDs?
  • Is it a new service based on domains?
  • Is it a remarkable achievement that benefits the entire market?
  • Is it an innovative concept for the marketing of domains?

DENIC eG

Nominated in
the category
Domains

Nominierte 2018 18
DENICs Data Escrow Service

As an ICANN-designated and accredited escrow agent, DENIC offers ICANN-accredited registrars and new generic Top-Level Domain (ngTLD) backend operators a unique solution to bring their contractual escrow obligations into line with European legal standards.

HEXONET
GmbH

Nominated in
the category
Domains

Nominierte 2018 19
HEXONET Search and Help Me Find My Domain

It's time we, as an industry, reconsider domain name search technology.
HEXONET's new domain search framework is relevance- and speed-based, challenging the traditional search approach. In addition, we have launched a chat-like feature which is fast becoming a preferred interface.

ID4me AISBL

Nominated in
the category
Domains

Nominierte 2018 20
ID4me

ID4me is a domain name based open, global, federated Single-Sign-On Technology which gives users full-control over both their digital identity and usage and distribution of their personal data.

In addition to the cross-category criteria, the following aspects are especially important for the jury's evaluation:

  • Can the service function be categorized?
  • Is there any proof of quality for the service (e.g. seal of quality, certification, attestation.)?
  • Is the service distinguished through special security features (e.g. DDoS prevention, etc.)?
  • Are there any certificates (e.g. Star Audit, Code of Conduct, C5, etc.) which prove that your service is GDPR compliant?
  • Is the service notable for the purpose of market exploitation (e.g. numbers of users/customers, increase in revenues, partners/eco system
  • Is the service multinational (e.g. localization, language, legal framework, etc.)?
  • Can it be connected to other systems/services via interfaces?
  • How open is the architecture? Is the service interoperable and portable?
  • How process-relevant is the service?
  • Are there significant customer-references?

1&1 IONOS
Cloud GmbH

Nominated in
the category
Cloud

Nominierte 2018 24
IaaS Cloud Computing and Block or Object Storages

1&1 IONOS is the “Cloud - Made in Germany” with a self-developed, data protection compliant IaaS platform. As the only German IaaS cloud computing provider with its own code stack, ProfitBricks offers professional cloud solutions for companies and managed service providers.

Consultix
GmbH

Nominated in
the category
Cloud

Nominierte 2018 3
ProCampaign Lighthouse

ProCampaign Lighthouse is the secure customer engagement hub for individualized marketing campaigns and e-commerce activities and currently the only solution on the market that fully meets the requirements of the EU-GDPR.

NOVUM
GmbH

Nominated in
the category
Cloud

Nominierte 2018 14
NOVUM Cloud Platform and V'ger Sky Cloud-Service

The V'ger Sky SaaS solution consists of core insurance systems (P&C, Life, Health). The NOVUM Cloud Platform (NCP) fully meets the high security and compliance requirements of the insurance industry.

In addition to the cross-category criteria, the following aspects are especially important for the jury's evaluation:

  • Is the description of the innovative character plausible?
  • How is the comparison and differentiation to established business models clarified?
  • Is there a recognizable relevance for the economy, society or the environment, and is this documented by a neutral third party?
  • Is the solution applicable in an international context (e.g. localization, language, legal framework, etc.)
  • Does the solution provide a purely digital process, and is it scalable?

eyeo GmbH

Nominated for
the Special Award
Innovation / Digital
Business Models


Trusted News

Trusted News is a free browser extension that uses independent data to categorize websites according to their trustworthiness, thereby helping users to recognize fake information more easily.

TelefĂłnica
Germany
GmbH & Co. OHG

Nominated for
the Special Award
Innovation / Digital
Business Models

Nominierte 2018 15
Data Anonymization Platform - our intelligent solution for the responsible use of Big Data.

The Data Anonymization Platform is an intelligent solution for the anonymization of large amounts of data via a certified, multi-stage procedure, and it enables analyses with great social, ecological, and economic added-value to be undertaken.

WiredScore
GmbH

Nominated for
the Special Award
Innovation / Digital
Business Models

Nominierte 2018 16
WiredScore Certification: The Digital Real Estate Infrastructure Valuation System

WiredScore evaluates the digital infrastructure and connectivity of properties through a standardized certification system and creates transparency with regard to the quality of connectivity to wired and wireless telecommunications networks.