Channel Middle East magazine has released the final shortlist for the 2017 Channel Middle East Awards.
A final list of 83 award nominations have remained from the initial list of over 200 nominations received across the 17 categories.
As expected, competition was intense in the Best Vendor Channel Programme of the Year, Systems Integrator of the Year, Training Provider of the Year and Value Added Distributor of the Year (Value Solutions) categories this year.
In addition, there were also a large number of entries for the IT Distributor of Year (Broadline Products) and Security Vendor of the Year, reflecting that the volume business is still vibrant while investments in comprehensive IT security solutions have continued in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) market.
The names of shortlisted companies have already been forwarded to the judges who will select the overall winners, while the Readers’ Choice Awards for Best Distributor Channel Programme of the Year and Best Vendor Channel Programme of the Year will be voted for by readers of ITP.net, Channel Middle East and Channel Arabic magazine.
The awards gala dinner and ceremony will be held at the Westin Dubai Mina Seyahi Beach Resort and Marina on 1st May 2017. More than 350 executives and business leaders from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA channel are expected to attend the ceremony.
For more information please go to https://beta.edgemiddleeast.com/channel-me-awards
For sponsorship please contact ibrahim.parwaz@itp.com
The final shortlist is below:
Best Distributor Channel Programme of the Year
Arrow ECS
emt Magnitude
ASBIS Bonus Club
Best Vendor Channel Programme of the Year
Aruba Partner Ready for Networking
Avaya Edge programme
Cisco Value Incentive Program (VIP)
D-Link Partner Programme
Epicor Business Partner Programme
Fortinet FortiPartner Programme
TP-Link Partner Programme
Veeam Partner Programme
Components Vendor of the Year
Intel
Toshiba Gulf FZE
Transcend Information Inc
Enterprise Networking Vendor of the Year
Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise
Aruba, a HPE Company
Avaya
Cisco
Infoblox
Riverbed Technology
IT Distributor of the Year (Broadline Solutions)
ASBIS Middle East
Logicom Distribution
Mitsumi Distribution FZCO
Spectrami
Mobile Solutions Vendor of the Year
Prestigio
Quantum Global
Touchmate
TP-Link MEA FZE
Power Retailer of the Year
Jumbo Electronics
Tecbuy
Sharaf DG
Printing & Consumables Vendor of the Year
Lexmark International Middle East
OKI Europe Limited
Xerox
Retail Distributor of the Year
ASBIS Middle East
BDL Gulf
Trigon LLC
Security Vendor of the Year
Axis Communications
Check Point
Cisco
Fortinet
Infoblox
Palo Alto Networks
Sophos
SMB Networking Vendor of the Year
D-Link MEA
DrayTek
TP-Link MEA FZE
SMB Reseller of the Year
Quality Computers LLC
New Trend Computer Networks LLC
Pixcom Technologies LLC
Software Vendor of the Year
Avaya
Commvault
SAP
Silver Peak
Veeam
VMware
Systems & Hardware Vendor of the Year
Aruba, a HPE Company
Cisco
Dell EMC
Hitachi Data Systems
Infoblox
Systems Integrator of the Year
AGC Networks
Alpha Data Group
Condo Protego
Finesse
Gulf Business Machines (GBM)
Help AG
IST Networks
OMA Emirates
Training Provider of the Year
Arrow ECS
Avaya
Axis Communications – Axis Academy
Cisco Networking Academy
Emt Academy
Ingram Micro
SAP
Value Added Distributor of the Year (Value Solutions)
Aptec – an Ingram Micro Company
Arrow ECS
ASBIS Middle East
Bulwark Technologies
Emt Distribution
Mindware
Spectrami
StorIT Distribution FZCO
Westcon-Comstor
Voting for the Readers’Choice Awards has opened for this year’s Channel Middle East Awards.
This year’s awards have been made possible by Silver sponsor Ingram Micro’s Aptec, Category sponsors Avaya, AOC, GBM and Malwarebytes.
 For full details please see https://beta.edgemiddleeast.com/channel-me-awards
