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Elastic Announces 2023 Elastic Excellence Awards Winners

Elastic, the company behind Elasticsearch®, announced the winners and honorees of its Elastic Excellence Awards.

The awards celebrate organizations and individuals demonstrating ingenuity and resilience by pushing the limits of data search, observability, and security with groundbreaking implementations.

“Every day, our customers' work inspires us as they use search analytics to tackle complex problems that transform businesses and make the world a better place,” said Rick Laner, chief customer officer at Elastic. “We’re excited to announce the 2023 Elastic Excellence Awards winners and acknowledge our amazing community and their work.”

The 2023 Elastic Excellence Award winners and honorees are:

CAUSE AWARD WINNER

This award recognizes use cases addressing social and humanitarian challenges for the betterment of the world.

Winner: C4ADS

Honorees:
– Flo Health
- Archive Nepal

BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION AWARD

This award recognizes organizations that are creating measurable company-wide added value with each of Elastic’s solutions.

SEARCH BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION AWARD WINNER: MarketResearch.com

OBSERVABILITY BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION AWARD WINNER: Comcast

SECURITY BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION AWARD WINNER: The Texas A&M University System Cybersecurity Team

SOLVE WITH SEARCH AWARD WINNER

This award recognizes an organization uncovering relevant insights through data and drives action based on those insights.

Winner: SurePay

Honoree: Bharti Airtel

INNOVATION AWARD WINNER

This award recognizes an organization reimagining how problems are approached and tackling challenges head-on to achieve success.

Winner: Ada

Honorees:
- Consensus
- New York City Office of Technology and Innovation

PUBLIC SECTOR AWARD WINNER

This award recognizes an organization in the public sector that is leading the way in innovative, sustainable, and critical use cases.

Winner: The Met Office

Honorees:
- Network for Learning
- Arbetsförmedlingen the Swedish Public Employment Service

CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL OF THE YEAR

This award recognizes one individual who received their Elastic Certification and then went on to give back to the Elastic community and advance their personal and professional goals.

Winner: Adam Tischler, CISSP, CISM, ECE, ECOE, ECA, Cyber Operations Leader, ECS

Runners Up:
- Joao Neto, Tech Lead / Principal Consulting Architect, V8 Tech
- Anto Kallas, IT Security Specialist, Estonian Health and Welfare Information Systems Centre

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Elastic Announces 2023 Elastic Excellence Awards Winners

Elastic, the company behind Elasticsearch®, announced the winners and honorees of its Elastic Excellence Awards.

The awards celebrate organizations and individuals demonstrating ingenuity and resilience by pushing the limits of data search, observability, and security with groundbreaking implementations.

“Every day, our customers' work inspires us as they use search analytics to tackle complex problems that transform businesses and make the world a better place,” said Rick Laner, chief customer officer at Elastic. “We’re excited to announce the 2023 Elastic Excellence Awards winners and acknowledge our amazing community and their work.”

The 2023 Elastic Excellence Award winners and honorees are:

CAUSE AWARD WINNER

This award recognizes use cases addressing social and humanitarian challenges for the betterment of the world.

Winner: C4ADS

Honorees:
– Flo Health
- Archive Nepal

BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION AWARD

This award recognizes organizations that are creating measurable company-wide added value with each of Elastic’s solutions.

SEARCH BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION AWARD WINNER: MarketResearch.com

OBSERVABILITY BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION AWARD WINNER: Comcast

SECURITY BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION AWARD WINNER: The Texas A&M University System Cybersecurity Team

SOLVE WITH SEARCH AWARD WINNER

This award recognizes an organization uncovering relevant insights through data and drives action based on those insights.

Winner: SurePay

Honoree: Bharti Airtel

INNOVATION AWARD WINNER

This award recognizes an organization reimagining how problems are approached and tackling challenges head-on to achieve success.

Winner: Ada

Honorees:
- Consensus
- New York City Office of Technology and Innovation

PUBLIC SECTOR AWARD WINNER

This award recognizes an organization in the public sector that is leading the way in innovative, sustainable, and critical use cases.

Winner: The Met Office

Honorees:
- Network for Learning
- Arbetsförmedlingen the Swedish Public Employment Service

CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL OF THE YEAR

This award recognizes one individual who received their Elastic Certification and then went on to give back to the Elastic community and advance their personal and professional goals.

Winner: Adam Tischler, CISSP, CISM, ECE, ECOE, ECA, Cyber Operations Leader, ECS

Runners Up:
- Joao Neto, Tech Lead / Principal Consulting Architect, V8 Tech
- Anto Kallas, IT Security Specialist, Estonian Health and Welfare Information Systems Centre

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Today's enterprises exist in rapidly growing, complex IT landscapes that can inadvertently create silos and lead to the accumulation of disparate tools. To successfully manage such growth, these organizations must realize the requisite shift in corporate culture and workflow management needed to build trust in new technologies. This is particularly true in cases where enterprises are turning to automation and autonomic IT to offload the burden from IT professionals. This interplay between technology and culture is crucial in guiding teams using AIOps and observability solutions to proactively manage operations and transition toward a machine-driven IT ecosystem ...

Gartner identified the top data and analytics (D&A) trends for 2025 that are driving the emergence of a wide range of challenges, including organizational and human issues ...

Traditional network monitoring, while valuable, often falls short in providing the context needed to truly understand network behavior. This is where observability shines. In this blog, we'll compare and contrast traditional network monitoring and observability — highlighting the benefits of this evolving approach ...

A recent Rocket Software and Foundry study found that just 28% of organizations fully leverage their mainframe data, a concerning statistic given its critical role in powering AI models, predictive analytics, and informed decision-making ...

What kind of ROI is your organization seeing on its technology investments? If your answer is "it's complicated," you're not alone. According to a recent study conducted by Apptio ... there is a disconnect between enterprise technology spending and organizations' ability to measure the results ...

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