AvePoint Public Sector Wins 2015 GTRA ConVurge Tech Award for Excellence in Government SaaS
Nominees from Civilian, Defense, and Intelligence agencies, along with solution providers, were evaluated and selected by GTRA Council Members and community public voting
AvePoint (NASDAQ: AVPT), the global leader in data security, governance, and resilience, today announced it was named the recipient of the 2015 GTRA ConVurge Tech Award for Excellence in Government SaaS for its Citizen Connect Platform. The award, given out by the Government Technology Research Alliance (GTRA), was presented June 29 during the ConVurge Honorary Awards dinner in Gettysburg, PA. Nick Goudy, General Manager of AvePoint Public Sector, was on hand to accept the award on the company’s behalf.
The GTRA ConVurge Tech Awards celebrate and recognize government and industry IT leaders whose vision, innovation, and remarkable accomplishments improve efficiency, the delivery of government services, citizen engagement, information sharing, and national security. This is the third consecutive year AvePoint Public Sector has been awarded by the GTRA, notably winning the Top Technologies to Watch award in 2014.
AvePoint Citizen Connect provides governments with a unified system to actively engage their constituents, drive transparency, as well as efficiently and accurately communicate citizen service requests with departments – from any device, anywhere, at any time. Using Microsoft technologies – such as Office 365, Azure, BizTalk, Dynamics, Lync, Project, SharePoint, and Yammer – AvePoint Citizen Connect is a suite of integrated solutions that allows government agencies and non-government organizations (NGOs) to modernize their operations today, in order to better plan for tomorrow. To further serve government agencies, AvePoint has also integrated its AvePoint Online Services with Microsoft Azure Government – Microsoft’s community cloud platform for U.S. state, local, and federal government agencies.
“AvePoint Public Sector is incredibly proud to have received this honor from the Government Technology Research Alliance for Excellence in Government SaaS,” said Chris Foreman, CEO, AvePoint Public Sector. “Citizens expect to leverage the same technologies they use in their everyday lives with those used in their interactions with their local, state, and federal governments. AvePoint Public Sector takes cloud computing and mobile workforce platforms from the consumer world and extends their power to support government operations – enhancing productivity and creating a proactive government relationship between agencies and their constituents.”
AvePoint Public Sector helps public sector customers enhance citizen engagement and services while reducing risk and lowering costs. AvePoint Public Sector helps customers drive citizen engagement and improve services to create safer and modern governments. “GTRA is pleased to honor these leaders for their accomplishments and innovative contributions to the government IT community,” said Kelly Yocum, Co-Founder and Executive Director, GTRA.
GTRA is a leading nationally recognized nonprofit 501(c)3 organization of CIO’s/CISO’s/CTO’s dedicated to bridging the gap between Washington D.C. and Silicon Valley, creating a public-private sector technology collaboration fostering thought leadership, executive knowledge exchange, and to drive government technology ideas forward. Its core focus lies in the areas of Security, Big Data, Cloud, Mobile, Infrastructure, and IT Services.
About AvePoint
AvePoint is the global leader in data protection, unifying data security, governance, and resilience to provide a trusted foundation for AI. More than 25,000 customers rely on the AvePoint Confidence Platform to secure, govern, and rapidly recover data across Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, and other cloud environments. With a single platform for lifecycle control, multicloud governance, and rapid recovery paired with clear ownership across the business, we prevent overexposure and sprawl, modernize legacy and fragmented data, and minimize data loss and interruption. Our global partner ecosystem includes 5,000 MSPs, VARs, and SIs, and our solutions are available in over 100 cloud marketplaces. To learn more, visit www.avepoint.com.
