ASG Technologies Unveils Winners of Second Annual Excellence Awards

ASG Technologies, the only provider of integrated and flexible end-to-end solutions for the information powered enterprise, today announced the winners of its annual Excellence Awards program, naming Zia Consulting as Partner of the Year and American Fidelity as Innovator of the Year. Zia Consulting and American Fidelity were recognized for exceptional use of ASG solutions to inspire innovation and drive successful digital transformation.

ASG evaluated Partner of the Year candidates based on nominees' efforts to extend and enhance ASG's unique go-to-market strategy and the offerings they have developed around ASG's products. ASG's partner program serves as an increasingly critical piece of its sales strategy, ensuring enterprises can obtain and deploy the solutions they need to stay competitive.

Zia Consulting, which provides industry-leading solutions that automate business processes through streamlined content management, was selected for its successes on multiple joint customer engagements, collaborating extensively with both the Content Services and Data Intelligence teams. With a deep understanding of customer issues and complete solution selling, Zia has worked closely with ASG to demonstrate that they not only recognize their clients' unique needs, but that they can help solve problems with real solutions that maximize efficiency, enhance security and create a rapid ROI.

"As we help enterprises understand the importance of automating processes to remain compliant and ensure information is being used intelligently across the enterprise, our partnership with ASG has been invaluable," said Mike Mahon, CEO of Zia Consulting. "At Zia, we collaborate with our clients to identify the solutions we want to bring to their business and match them with the technology that will meet their goals. ASG's cutting edge technology and development expertise have complemented our efforts so strongly that the partnership is thriving."

"Partners like Zia are the reason ASG's partner program is as successful as it is, and we look forward to continuing to bring best-of-breed solutions to companies through our alliance partners," said Wayne Monk, SVP of global alliances and channel sales at ASG. "The Excellence Awards provide us with an opportunity to showcase the great work of our alliance partners and recognize their contributions to information access, management and control."

ASG's Innovator of the Year Award highlights customers using ASG to power innovative projects. Nominations were assessed based on the project's overall business impact, complexity, vision for the future and focus on digital transformation.

American Fidelity, a provider of supplemental benefits products, was chosen as Innovator of the Year for its use of ASG's Data Intelligence solution to better utilize data assets across the enterprise. With Data Intelligence, American Fidelity has been able to simultaneously transform its data and the culture around that data. As a result, American Fidelity has gained visibility into current systems through data lineage, eliminated redundancy, demonstrated the value of its data and facilitated collaboration across business lines.

"We had a vision and a desire to start transforming our data, and we needed the right technology to help us bring it to life," said Mark Nance, Chief Data Officer at American Fidelity. "With ASG's Data Intelligence, we're able to better utilize the data sets we have throughout the enterprise, ensuring we can deliver business value through data."

"American Fidelity's use of Data Intelligence underscores the importance of being able to leverage quality data to deliver market success," said Geoffrey Bock, principal at Bock & Company and an Excellence Awards judge with more than 30 years of industry experience. "ASG's solutions allow companies like American Fidelity to gain visibility into their data and use that data to drive business success tied to their goals."

The Excellence Awards winners were recognized at ASG's third annual customer and partner event, EVOLVE19, which took place Oct. 21-23 in Dallas. At the event, ASG unveiled process automation platform ASG-Zenith, a new systems offering with ASG-PRO/JCL, and several new features to its Data Intelligence Solution. Customers and partners in attendance left armed with the expertise they need to overcome the challenges that come with digital transformation?ensuring they can leverage their data to make business decisions while maintaining compliance.

To learn more about ASG, its partners and its customers, visit www.asg.com.

About ASG Technologies
ASG Technologies Group, Inc. provides global organizations with a modern approach to Digital Transformation to succeed in the Information Economy. ASG is the only solutions provider for both Information Management and IT Systems. ASG's Information Management solutions enable companies to find, understand, govern and deliver information of any kind, from any source ? whether structured or unstructured ? through its lifecycle from capture to analysis to consumption. The IT Systems Management solutions empower companies to support traditional and modern digital initiatives, operate their IT infrastructure more efficiently and effectively and reduce the cost of managing and running their internal IT systems landscape. ASG is proud to serve more than 3,000 customers worldwide in 60 countries and in top vertical markets including Healthcare, Financial Services, Insurance and Government. For more information, visit ASG.com or connect with us on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.