MONACO, October 23, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- On Thursday, October 22, Frost & Sullivan honoured recipients of its 2015 Excellence in Best Practices Awards Banquet in Monaco. With a festive ambiance and exciting Awards, the event brought together top executives to celebrate their success. The Awards banquet was preceded by a two hour Executive Growth Workshop, "The 15 Big Mega Trends," during which executives discussed the most pressing issues facing their industries today.

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The Best Practices Awards are presented each year to companies that are predicted to encourage significant growth in their industries, have identified emerging trends before they became the standard in the marketplace, and have created advanced technologies that will catalyze and transform industries in the near future.

Awarded companies included:

AMX by HARMAN – 2015 European Building Technologies Growth Excellence Leadership Award

Atento - 2015 European Contact Center Outsourcing Customer Service Leadership Award

Calon Cardio - Technology Ltd. - 2015 European Ventricular Assist Devices Technology Innovation Award

Citrix - 2015 Global Next-Gen Enterprise Mobility Solutions Transforming Traditional Work Solutions Visionary Innovation Leadership Award

Copper Mountain Technologies - 2015 Global Vector Network Analyzer Competitive Strategy Innovation and Leadership Award

CYBERBIT - 2015 Global Cyber Intelligence and Security Competitive Strategy Innovation and Leadership Award

DecaWave - 2015 Global In-door Positioning Systems Customer Value Leadership Award

Dimension Data - 2015 Global Contact Center Solutions Integration Customer Value Leadership Award

Enghouse Interactive - 2015 European Hosted Contact Centre Price/Performance Value Leadership Award

ERCOM - 2014 Global VoLTE Network Testing and Optimization Product Line Strategy Leadership Award

Eurotech - 2015 European Cloud-enabled M2M Platform for IoIT Applications Product Line Strategy Leadership Award

Fhoss Technology - 2015 European High-Visibility Clothing New Product Innovation Award

FlowSens by Medex, a Guerbet Group Company - 2015 European Contrast Auto-injector-CT Imaging Modality New Product Innovation Award

InspireMD - 2015 European Coronary Stent New Product Innovation Award

Koolicar - 2015 European P2P Car Sharing Growth Excellence Leadership Award

LoopUp - 2015 European Conferencing Services Price/Performance Value Leadership Award

Medtech SA - 2016 Global Surgical Robotics for Neurosurgical Interventions Company of the Year Award

Merck - 2015 European Human Growth Hormone Competitive Strategy Innovation and Leadership Award

Minkels - 2015 European Racks & Cabinets New Product Innovation Award

Oxford BioDynamics - 2015 European Biomarker Discovery Technology Innovation Award

Pie Medical Imaging - 2015 European Cardiovascular Image Management Technology Leadership Award

Smart Medical Systems Ltd. - 2015 European Endoscopy Devices Product Leadership Award

SP3H - 2015 European Automotive Fuel Quality Sensors Technology Innovation Award

SpatialBuzz - 2015 European Cloud-based Customer Experience Management Technology Innovation Award

Theradiag - 2015 European Theranostics Product Leadership Award

VocalZoom - 2015 Israeli Speech Recognition Systems for Consumer Electronics Technology Innovation Leadership Award

Frost & Sullivan's Best Practices Awards recognize companies in a variety of regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer service and strategic product development. Industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analysis and extensive secondary research in order to identify best practices.

For further information about the Awards Banquet, please contact a member of the Best Practices Team.

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For more information about why Copper Mountain Technologies won this award download Frost & Sullivan's report here.

For more information and photos of the award banquet read the online compendium

- Posted: Friday, October 23, 2015