Lanner’s WITNESS Wins National Award for Innovation

WITNESS has been awarded the Expert Laurel Award 2015/2016 in Poland for the most innovative products and services in the region. The award was presented by Kamilia Przenioslo, CEO, Institute of Management and Quality Development, and judged by a panel of experts from universities and business, WITNESS won the accreditation in the Applications and IT systems for Business and Administration category.

The first competition of its kind, the Expert Laurel Award is the Quality Mark now given to consumer products and services delivered in Poland in 2015-2016 as recognized as leaders in their field. The competition saw more than 200 companies and 300 products take part across 50 categories, with 87 achieving the highly acclaimed award.

WITNESS was recognised in the category focused on Systems and IT Applications for Business and Administration, and presented with its award based on high overall product quality; its ability to respond perfectly to customer needs; and advanced levels of innovation.

“The latest edition of WITNESS, in particular its usage for lean and production optimisation, allows for easy and highly effective process modelling and identification of improvement within an organisation,” comments Pawel Nowakowski, director of AMC, Lanner’s Polish sales partner in Poland, and architects of the award entry. “Having assessed the application against others in its category, WITNESS was awarded the accreditation based on its ease of use, intuitiveness and a wide range of functionality, all of which distinguish WITNESS from other solutions on the market.”

“We are incredibly proud to have won this award. We are gaining more ground in Eastern Europe as companies pursue strategies focused on greater sophistication and improvement of their manufacturing processes. In line with this, their awareness of the benefits of applications such as ours is increasing significantly. Lanner has deep domain expertise and experience of with working with both multinational firms in Poland and the rest of Eastern Europe, as well as local Polish manufacturing organisations, and this accolade is testament to the value WITNESS continues to bring to organisations in the region,” comments David Jones, CEO, Lanner. “Better decisions are the currency of forward thinking, proactive companies in 2015/16 and applications such as WITNESS are hugely valuable in ensuring that executives make the very best decisions to mitigate risk and drive profitability.”

Lanner received its award at an official ceremony on 9^th of November 2015 in Belveder, Warsaw, Poland attended by David Jones, CEO Lanner and Pawel Nowakowski, AMC, Poland.