Telstra, Cochlear, Lion Win SAP Best Tech Awards 2025 for Innovation
▼ Summary
– SAP recognized Australia and New Zealand’s most forward-thinking organizations and their channel partners at the SAP Best Tech Awards 2025 for their digital transformations.
– Winners were selected from over 100 entries across 13 categories based on disruptive technology use, measurable business impact, and innovation with SAP solutions.
– Key award categories included Business Transformation (won by Telstra and Bunnings), Business AI (Woolworths Group), and The Chris O’Brien Award for sustainability (The Smith Family).
– Channel partners like Accenture, Deloitte, and DXC Technology played a significant role in enabling the successful projects recognized at the awards.
– The awards ceremony took place on October 7, 2025, at the Art Gallery of NSW, celebrating organizations that used SAP to drive growth and set industry benchmarks.
The SAP Best Tech Awards 2025 have spotlighted the most forward-thinking organizations across Australia and New Zealand, celebrating their groundbreaking use of technology to reshape entire industries. These awards recognize not just the winning companies but also the vital contributions of their channel partners, who played a crucial role in enabling these impressive digital transformations. From a competitive field of over 100 entrants, a select group of winners emerged across 13 distinct categories, each chosen for their disruptive applications of technology that have established new benchmarks within their sectors.
Judges focused on projects that delivered tangible business results, demonstrated genuine innovation, and exhibited clear leadership. They specifically sought out organizations that leveraged SAP solutions to simplify complex operations, enhance productivity, create exceptional experiences for both customers and employees, and harness the potential of data analytics and artificial intelligence to fuel sustainable growth.
Angela Colantuono, President and Managing Director of SAP ANZ, emphasized the critical nature of such technological investments. She observed that in the current demanding business climate, maintaining the status quo is a recipe for obsolescence. The award winners, she noted, prove that strategic technology spending goes far beyond simple cost reduction. These initiatives unlock fresh revenue opportunities, sharpen a company’s competitive advantage, and fundamentally reposition information technology as a powerful engine for growth. It is truly motivating to witness how these organizations, in collaboration with their partners, are redefining value creation and setting new standards for their peers.
The complete list of 2025 SAP Best Tech Award winners is as follows:
- Business Transformation: Telstra and BunningsSAP was quick to highlight that the success of these award-winning projects was significantly aided by a network of skilled channel partners. Companies including Accenture, Deloitte, and DXC Technology were among those credited for their instrumental roles in bringing these innovative solutions to life, with several partners seeing multiple projects achieve notable success. The winners were formally announced at a special ceremony held on October 7, 2025, at the Art Gallery of NSW.
(Source: ITWire Australia)
