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In every issue of
Business Info
,
PrintIT
,
Pen To
Paper, Voice 2 Data
and
Sustainable Times
, we
give Editor’s Choice awards to three or four
new office products that we consider worth
highlighting.
They may not always be the best products in the
world and some have sunk with trace after receiving
an award, though happily not quite enough of them to
raise fears of an Editor’s Curse; often they are so new
that we've not yet had a chance to test them; and
sometimes they are a work in progress or a completely
new technology that shows promise but won’t realise
its full potential for years to come. In other words they
are a bit of a mixed bag. So what is it that binds them
together?
There are no hard and fast rules in the Editor’s
Choice selection process, just certain qualities that we
look for, including technical brilliance, great design,
ease of use, impressive functionality, affordability and
sustainability. If a product combines all of these, so
much the better, but excellence in just one area can be
all that’s required.
In making our decision, we obviously consider
a product's relevance to our core readership of
purchasers in small and medium-sized businesses.
Any product that can help an SME improve efficiency,
raise productivity or cut costs has to be considered
– especially if it is also easier to use and manage,
Editor’s Choice Awards Special 2011/12
What we look for...
both key considerations for organisations with limited
in-house IT resources.
But
Business Info
readers aren’t just interested
in developments that directly impact their business:
they also have an appreciation of innovation per se
and this, too, is reflected in our awards, which we
often give to products developed for the consumer
market or enterprise space. Even more so now that
the barriers between devices used for personal and
business use are breaking down.
In this special supplement, you will find a selection
of Editor’s Choice Award winners from 2011. They
cover a broad spectrum of technologies and product
areas but all bring something different, better or new
to the table. Keep reading
Business Info
for more of
the same in 2012.
www.binfo.co.uk
Editor’s Choice Awards
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James Goulding
,
Editor
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