Enterprise Connect, the leading conference and exhibition for enterprise communications and collaboration, today announces the finalists for the Best of Enterprise Connect awards program. Best of Enterprise Connect recognizes excellence and innovation in the enterprise communications and collaboration industry. Judges reviewed entries with a focus on factors including technology advancement, innovation and business impact.

Finalists for the Best in Enterprise Connect awards are:

OVERALL Best in Enterprise Connect

• Amazon Web Services: Automated Chatbot Designer, a recently launched feature of Amazon Lex that helps customers design conversational bots using existing conversation transcripts in hours rather than weeks.
• Five9: For a product to be announced in March.
• Intelepeer: Atmosphere Marketplace, an intuitive bundled multi-application solution featuring no-code and low-code applications, equipped with a step-by-step plug-and-play setup.
• RingCentral: For a product to be announced in March.
• UJET: For a product to be announced later this month.
• Zoom: Zoom Events, an all-in-one platform for creating a wide range of interactive and immersive virtual events to reach and engage audiences of any size.

Best Innovation in Customer Experience

• 8x8: For a product to be announced in March.
• Intelepeer: Atmosphere Marketplace, an intuitive bundled multi-application solution featuring no-code and low-code applications, equipped with a step-by-step plug-and-play setup.
• Journey: For a product to be announced later this year.
• LiveVox: SpeechIQ with Quality Management, seamlessly integrating multi-channel interaction analytics with robust quality management tools.

Most Innovative Use of AI

• Thrio: ThrioRedact, a new AI-powered data loss prevention capability to help reduce the risk of personally identifiable information falling into the wrong hands.
• Virsae: VSM Everywhere, a cloud-based dashboard service that captures and analyzes critical performance and technical data in unmanaged Work From Home (WFH) environments.

Best Innovation for Virtual Meetings

• BlueJeans by Verizon: BlueJeans Studio, which brings professional-grade production tools to BlueJeans Events, giving organizations and creators the ability to easily produce TV-quality live streams.
• Vonage: For a product to be announced in March.

Best Innovation for Meeting Rooms

• DTEN: For a product to be announced in March.
• Zoom: Zoom Events, an all-in-one platform for creating a wide range of interactive and immersive virtual events to reach and engage audiences of any size.

“Innovation is only accelerating in the enterprise communications and collaboration industry as we move into a world of hybrid work, and the Best of Enterprise Connect award finalists testify to the pace and scale of that innovation,” said Eric Krapf, Enterprise Connect General Manager and Program Co-Chair. “This year’s finalists are leading the way toward a future of work that uses communications technology to help employees, customers, and businesses alike accomplish their goals as never before.”

Winners will be announced during an awards presentation at Enterprise Connect 2022 on Tuesday, March 22. Enterprise Connect 2022 takes place March 21 - 24 at the Gaylord Palms in Orlando. For more information and to register for the event, visit www.enterpriseconnect.com/orlando.

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About Enterprise Connect

For more than 30 years, Enterprise Connect has been the leading conference and exhibition for enterprise communications and collaboration in North America. Enterprise Connect brings corporate IT decision makers together with the industry's vendors, analysts and consultants to focus on the issues central to enterprise communications. Enterprise Connect owns and produces No Jitter, (nojitter.com), providing daily blogging and analysis of enterprise communications, and it also serves the community with a weekly email newsletter, research surveys and a Webinar Series. For more information, visit enterpriseconnect.com/orlando. Enterprise Connect is brought to you by Informa Tech.

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