Locked EN (Press): Red Herring Top 100 Europe 2014

[Tom Wellige]

Swyx, the "Unified Communications" vendor from Dortmund has been awarded for its innovative business model and product development in the cloud, at the Red Herring Top 100 Europe 2014 held in Amsterdam. Every year, one hundred innovation and technology leaders from different sectors are awarded with the coveted prize. Red Herring evaluates the companies on both quantitative and qualitative criteria such as financial performance, technology innovation, quality of management, business strategy and market penetration. Swyx convinced the judges with its many years of experience as well as with its current and up and coming range of software-as-a-service solutions.

In Europe‘s Top 100

"The award shows that we have placed our focus in the right area – with our ambitions to be more international and respond with an innovative product portfolio aimed at new target markets ," said Swyx CEO Dr. Ralf Ebbinghaus who was delighted to be honoured with this prestigious prize , "Our many years of experience in the cloud segment and our new business models in this area have been reviewed by the Red Herring jury, and compared to our many competitors in cloud computing, we have been found to be highly innovative and promising."

Alex Vieux , chairman and publisher of Red Herring who presented the award to Swyx said: "We looked at hundreds of candidates across the continent. After much consideration and discussion, we narrowed the long list of candidates to 100 winners. Each year, the competition is getting tougher, but we believe that Swyx with its vision, drive and innovation has exactly what defines a Red Herring winner."

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