

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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