Zyncro, winner of the BDigital Award for Innovation: The story of a journey

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The story of a journey

The awarding of the BDigital Award for Digital Innovation took place on 31st of May.  These are prizes very much oriented towards supporting initiatives and projects, business-people and under-graduates that promote technological innovation in the digital world.

Great was the expectation awakened within the Zyncro team from the moment we learned that we were finalists.  The hope of gaining recognition of such magnitude, a boost into the public eye after all the months, years… dedicated towards the project meant that from Girona/Barcelona to Argentina, as well as in Brazil and Japan, there were many people awaiting the final outcome.

We even endured the wait alongside the team members of GooTaxi, from Sysandapp S.L, our opponents in the competition but brothers along the journey, team members from Inspirit Group incubator whose product for taxi requests via mobile applications is also marvellous. :)

Finally during the BDibital Global Congress institutional act, the awarding of the prize began by informing us of the good news: Zyncro was the prize winner in the category for “small companies and entrepreneurs”!! :D

The joy was let loose at the Zyncro Barcelona office, the attendees at BDigital hugged each other, from both places we began to publish comments on Zyncro, tweeting, publishing on Facebook… how exciting!

Collecting the prize was Dídac Lee and the Chairman of Inspirit, business group and Zyncro parent company as well as Albert Sampietro, CTO at Zyncro.

The delight on Didac and Albert’s faces said it all.  It was a sheer honor to receive that prize after three hard years crossing dessert sands, a time in which Zyncro evolved, searching for its place in the marketplace, its very own functions, its personality… until it became the robust product with a clear identity that it is today: a business social network an intranet 2.0 in the cloud in which knowledge, documents and  people live side by side and interact with each other for the improvement of communication, productivity and motivation within the company.

Thanks go out to the judges, to the participants, to the business partners… and of course, to the members of the team. :)  Without them it would not have been possible to even get to that scenario… but overall to their families, who always support the workloads of these insatiable entrepreneurs.

And a special mention for our CEO, Luis Font, currently in Brazil where he is opening our new office and without whom Zyncro would not be setting off on the journey it is beginning… we would also like to add a dear THANK YOU to all of you who have congratulated us on Twitter, Facebook, in person or via e-mail.  It is such an honor to receive so much support via so many different channels! :D

If you would like to know more about the event and the awarding of the prize, you can follow the following Storify of the second day at the event (in Spanish, thanks @pisetpiset) or the press release issued by BDigital.

In addition, we will be waiting for you to join us today for the presentation about “Corporate Social Networks” at the event that will take place between 11:30 and 12:30 during the BEST PRACTICES MARKETING AND THE USE OF SOCIAL NETWORKS WITHINT THE COMPANY session.

Thanks everyone.  Zyncronized!

 

To conclude, here is the information on all of the finalists in their different categories.  Well done to everybody for beings standards for measuring innovation! We are all in the same boat! :)

Category for small companies and entrepreneurs

Category for large and medium-sized companies

Category for Under-Graduates, Public Sector Administration and Institutions

  • Recomana, Research Group DAMA from UPC
  • Rehabilitació Digital, from the Cámara Oficial de Contratistas de Obras (Official Chamber of construction contractors)
  • QuesTInSitu, Interactive Technologies research group (GTI) from UPF