The most powerful message consists of success stories that tell how your products and solutions have been successfully deployed. Success stories give your company a sturdy competitive edge.

Your company may be a start-up or an established worldwide leader; local or global, you can still make an excellent impact on your existing and new prospects by highlighting your real deployment scenarios – success stories that illustrate how your product and solutions have helped your customers. Such customer stories will continue to bring greater confidence in your products and solutions.

Nominations are invited for the 5th Annual 2009 Best Deployment Scenario Awards which include your existing or new case studies and customer wins.

Submit your nominations online by June 25, 2009 (6PM PST)

Guidlines on filling the online form (all nominations must be submitted online only):

The following information will be required when filling the online form. (Hint: you may prepare the answers in advance and then simply cut-and-paste them in the online form):

First tell us something about the organization where your solution is deployed
1. Organization where your solution is deployed
2. Does this organization want to remain anonymous? Yes/No
3. Website address of this organization
4. In which year was this solution deployed?
5. Do you already have a PDF file about this deployment?
6. Categories: (select categories from CLICK HERE)

Details of Best Deployment Scenario/ Case Study/ Customer Win being nominated
7. Title (Please give a suitable title to your submission i.e. "Vendor helps prevent data breach at local hospital")
8. Background of the organization where the product/service is deployed Maximum of 100 words or less. (Please give a background of the organization where the product/service is deployed, i.e. what this organization does (business activity), where are they located, how big are they – anything that helps the readers understand more about the organization that is using the products and services.)
9. Challenges the organization faced before your solution was successfully deployed (At least 150 words. Please describe the customers network, number of users, remote users, branch offices, global expansion, and all the security challenges the customer had been facing before your solution was provided.)
10. Solution(s) provided by the vendor (At least 200 words. Describe the products or services your company provided and how these were perfectly suited to solve the challenges/issues you already described above.)
11. Summary/Conclusion At least 50 words. (Describe here the current scenario after your product(s) have been successfully deployed/installed. Example - The IT staff does not have to worry about worms any more as the product XXXX automatically updates all the signatures every 24 hours.)
12. Do you have a layout for this deployment which you can email to us?
13. Additional details to support your submission (Please give here URL links to existing PDF files that relate to this submission.)
14. List the other companies against which your solutions compete (This information will not be published)
15. Vendor's Company Name and complete corporate mailing address
16. Vendor's website address/URL

For the categories of 2009 Best Deployment Scenarios, CLICK HERE

FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)

Questions 1: Does the deployment/case study have to be of the year 2009 only?
Answer 1: No, the deployment year could be any i.e. 2009, 2008, 2007...etc. but not older than 5 years.

Questions 2: What if a vendor does not have formally written case studies for their successful installations but they know their customers are satisfied and that the customers may even be willing to cooperate in turning these into winning deployment scenarios? Can vendors still nominate with the bits and pieces of info they can best gather?
Answer 2: Yes, simply fill in the online nomination form as best as you can. Please make sure that minimum and maximum word count of content is met. Let your customers know that you are proud of the installation with them and that you would now like to nominate this deployment scenario with them for an Award if they have no objections.

Question 3: What if a vendor has sold products to their customers in the past, and the customers are satisfied too, but they are not willing to allow the vendor to use their name or agree to become a reference or even give them a customer quote that can be used. Is there a way the vendor can still nominate a similar/alike deployment scenario without naming the customer? For example instead of mentioning the customer name directly can we simply say Best Deployment Scenario for Large Enterprises?
Answer 3: Yes, our editors talk to end-users all the time and are aware that sometimes a vendor just cannot get their customer to publicly discuss the deployment scenario for privacy or any other reasons. You may submit a generic case study in such a case. However, this case study must not be an imaginary one. It should resemble a real deployment still.

Question 4: If a vendor has already written some formal Case Studies in the past and some of these are on their web sites too. Is it ok if we nominate these existing Case Studies for the Best Deployment Awards?
Answer 4: Yes, your previous Case Studies whether they are on your web site in PDF, html or MS Word format are all eligible for nominations. But you must still fill the details in the online nomination form even for such case studies. You may send a copy of such case studies to nominations[@]infosecurityproductsguide.com

Question 5: If a vendor wants to file a joint nomination with any of their channel partner, who should submit the completed nomination forms? And who should pay the nomination fee?
Answer 5: The vendor/or their PR agency should file all the nominations and submit all relevant fees even if this is a joint submission.

Question 6: What if a vendor is interested in nominating but unable to collect all the clearances from customers, joint with partners or even some content?
Answer 6: Submit your nomination forms by due date and request for a supplement submission date by sending an email to nominations[@]infosecurityproductsguide.com in writing. That way you will not miss this opportunity and deadline. However, complete clearance should be communicated to us within 10 days from the date of nomination closing otherwise the nomination will not be accepted.