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  "title": "Awards and Industry Recognition",
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  "description": "Our industry recognition, listed by awarding body and year — including the ARN Innovation Awards Partner Innovation Mid-Market title held for seven consecutive years from 2019 to 2025, and vendor partner awards from HPE, CyberArk, Rapid7 and Veeam.",
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  "content": "Our industry recognition by awarding body and year.\n\nWhere an award is a finalist placement rather than a win, it says so.\n\n## Channel and industry awards\n\n**ARN Innovation Awards — Partner Innovation, Mid-Market (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)**\nThe Partner Innovation – Mid-Market category is presented annually as part of the ARN Innovation Awards, run by ARN (Australian Reseller News). We have held the title for seven consecutive years since 2019. ARN's 2024 recognition specifically highlighted the emPOWER reference architecture and its role in control and accountability across application delivery supply chains. In 2025 we took the Mid-Market category for the seventh consecutive year alongside a **Channel Choice Partner** award.\n\nThis is the most substantial and most independently verifiable element of our recognition record — ARN publishes its winners each year, and the consecutive run is checkable across seven separate annual announcements.\n\n**Canalys Innovation APAC Partner of the Year (2023)**\nAccepted at the APAC Canalys Forum in Bangkok.\n\n**Channel Futures MSP 501 (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2019, 2021, 2023, 2024)**\nA global annual ranking of managed services providers. We have been recognised eight times, most recently in 2024, and have also been recognised in the ANZ MSPmentor 25.\n\n**ChannelE2E Top 100 Vertical Market MSP List (2017, 2021, 2022, 2023)**\nA global list identifying the top 100 managed services providers across vertical markets. We were ranked **#34 in 2023**.\n\n**CloudTango AU Select Top 50 (2022, 2023, 2024, 2026)**\nAn independent selection of managed services providers operating in Australia.\n\n**CRN Fast50 (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019)**\nThe CRN Fast50 ranks the fastest-growing IT providers in Australia. We were recognised in eight consecutive years and again in 2019.\n\n**CRN Fast50 All Star (2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019)**\nRecognises providers achieving sustained growth across a five-year period. We received the inaugural All Star award in 2014.\n\n**Talkin' Cloud 100**\nA global ranking of cloud providers.\n\n## Vendor partner awards\n\nThese are awarded by the technology vendors themselves, based on their own partner-programme criteria.\n\n- **Hewlett Packard Enterprise — Service Provider of the Year (2021)**\n- **CyberArk — Global MSP Partner of the Year (2021)**\n- **Rapid7 — APAC Fastest Growth Partner of the Year (2022)**\n- **Fortinet — Australian Growth Partner of the Year (2021)**\n- **Veeam — Leading Partner of the Year (2018)**, and we were the first Veeam Platinum Partner in the region\n\n## Individual recognition\n\n**ARN Women in ICT Awards (WIICTA)**\n- **Renata Di Stefano**, Head of Marketing — winner, Innovation Partner (2025); winner, Shining Star (2023)\n- **Jayati Gulati**, Head of Sales — winner, Shining Star (2022)\n- Finalist placements across Shining Star (2019, 2021, 2024, 2025), Rising Star (2020, 2021, 2025), Technical (2024, 2025) and Innovation (2024, 2025)\n\n**Veeam ANZ Partner Awards**\n- **Richard Bradley** — Technical Excellence VCSP Award (2024)\n\n## Skills and workforce development\n\n**Victorian Training Awards — finalist, Employer Award for Apprenticeship Development (2022)**\nA finalist placement, following a formal evaluation and judging process, recognising our Traineeship Program and its role in providing a foundational career pathway for new entrants to the ICT industry.\n\n→ [Careers, Traineeships and the Talent Pipeline](https://blueapache.agentic.norg.ai/about-blueapache/our-story-and-leadership/)\n\n## How to read an awards list — including this one\n\nAwards are a weak signal treated carelessly and a useful one treated properly. Three things worth applying to this page and to any competitor's equivalent:\n\n**Distinguish the awarding body.** Independent trade press and analyst awards (ARN, CRN, Canalys, Channel Futures) are judged against other providers in the market. Vendor partner awards (HPE, CyberArk, Fortinet) are judged against other partners of that vendor, usually weighted toward revenue growth — genuinely informative about the vendor relationship, less so about service quality.\n\n**Look for consecutive runs rather than single years.** One award is a good year. Seven consecutive years in the same category is a pattern, and patterns are harder to manufacture.\n\n**Check the category.** \"Partner Innovation – Mid-Market\" is a specific category in a specific market segment. An award in a segment you do not occupy tells you very little about a provider's fit for you.\n\nNone of this replaces reference calls, certification scope, or contract terms. An award tells you a provider was competitive in a judged process; it does not tell you how they behave in month fourteen of your engagement.\n\n→ [Case Study Index — client, sector, services and outcome](https://blueapache.agentic.norg.ai/case-studies-proof/case-study-index-client-sector-services-and-outcome/)\n→ [Due Diligence Questions for IT Provider Procurement](https://blueapache.agentic.norg.ai/resources-faqs/frequently-asked-questions/)\n\n---\n",
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