Friday, April 27, 2018

Domo Wins Gold in Horizon Interactive Awards Competition

SILICON SLOPES, Utah – April 27, 2018Domo®, the cloud-based operating system for business, today announced that it has been named a 2017 Horizon Interactive Awards gold award winner in the “Websites-Training/e-Learning” category. The Horizon Interactive Awards, a leading international interactive media awards competition, highlight the “best of the best” in interactive media production.

Awarded to the Domo University team, the Horizon Interactive Award highlighted Domo’s free e-learning training course called Domo Basics, designed for the company’s 1500+ enterprise customers. Domo Basics courses have the advantage of being found, accessed and downloaded via the Domo App Store, which is available to all Domo users worldwide. This provides sharing options on the Domo platform itself to ensure training deployment at scale. The training includes both engagement activities (clickable, self-guided learning) and scenario-based application activities, and through Domo University, customers can access all of Domo’s learning resources in one place.

“Domo University is an essential part of Domo’s integrated approach to helping our customers get up to speed quickly with the Domo platform and enabling them with the real-time data they need to discover previously unseen opportunities,” said Jason Burby, chief customer success officer at Domo. “With the support of Domo University’s coursework, our customers can better leverage data and Domo, and improve the way business is run for the good of the company. Congratulations and thank you to our Domo University team for their well-deserved gold Horizon Interactive Award win.”

An international panel of judges, consisting of industry professionals with diverse backgrounds, evaluated categories ranging from online advertising to mobile applications. The 2017 winning entries showcase the industry’s best interactive media solutions including web sites, mobile applications, print media, interactive displays, public exhibits, online advertising, video, email, and more.

“The 2017 competition was an extremely interesting competition for many reasons. We saw a return to simplicity of the user experiences, an emphasis on minimal design, a deepening of the importance of mobile first design, and more targeted and streamlined content to bolster the user’s offline experiences,” said Mike Sauce, founder of the Horizon Interactive Awards. “In addition, we continue to see the use of multiple types of media to seamlessly integrate social channels, audio, video, 360° immersive video, and stunning photography. Many of the top award winners illustrate a perfect balance of form and function that are as welcoming and interesting to look at as they are in their overall purpose.”

The 2017 competition saw over 1,000 entries from around the world, encompassing 36 out of 50 U.S. states and 16 other countries, including: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Malaysia, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Taiwan, Turkey, U.K., and the United Arab Emirates.

For more information on the Horizon Interactive Awards, visit: www.horizoninteractiveawards.com.

About Domo
Domo’s mission is to help all employees – from the CEO to the front-line worker – optimize business performance by connecting them in real time to the right data and people they need to improve business results. The company works with many of the world’s leading and most progressive brands across multiple industries including retail, media and entertainment, manufacturing, finance and more. For more information, visit www.domo.com. You can also follow Domo on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

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About the Horizon Interactive Awards
In its 16th year, the Horizon Interactive Awards was created to recognize excellence in interactive media production worldwide. Since 2001, the competition has received tens of thousands of entries from many countries around the world and nearly all 50 US States.  Each year, those entries are narrowed down to the “best of the best” to be recognized and promoted on an international stage for their excellence. The judging process involves a blend of the Horizon Interactive Awards advisory panel and an international panel of volunteer judges consisting of industry professionals. Winning entries have been dubbed the “best of the best” in the interactive media industry.