16 2014 ASAP Global Alliance Summit > March 10 – 13, 2014 > Scottsdale, AZ, USA Alliance Excellence Awards Celebrate the Expertise and Leadership of ASAP Alliance Excellence Award Finalists! Wednesday, March 12, 4:40-5:40 p.m. The 2014 ASAP Alliance Excellence Awards shine the spotlight on those exemplars of business collaboration—organizations that epitomize the expertise to collaborate and leadership to perform. An ASAP Alliance Excellence Award is the world’s most prestigious honor for business collaborators—the world’s premier award celebrating advancements in the management of strategic alliances. 2014 ASAP Alliance Excellence Awards Finalists This year’s finalists share their real-world experiences and demonstrate how effective alliance management delivers meaningful results—revenue grown, markets captured, customers delighted, solutions delivered, communities served, lives transformed. The ASAP Alliance Excellence Awards recognize the people and teams, relationships, and approaches that foster collaborative culture and nurture collaborative engagements, for years or even decades. And with the 2014 ASAP Chapter Excellence Awards, we recognize the efforts of those who build community and advance the profession of alliance management among practitioners on the local and regional level. The Alliance Excellence Awards acknowledge major corporations, mid-sized enterprises, start-ups and public-private initiatives alike across a diverse array of industries. Some of this year’s finalists and winners have been honored before; others will for the first time join prestigious company that includes Schneider Electric, Oracle, Deloitte, SAS, Coherence, IBM, SAP, Cisco, HP, Xerox, Turkcell, Teradata, Novartis, Eli Lilly and Company, Roche, Ipsen, Inspiration Pharmaceuticals, P&G, Harley Davidson, Starbucks, and Federal Express, among others. F I N A L I S T S > Cisco > Covance > DNDi > Eli Lilly and Company > Janssen Biotech > KPMG LLP > Microsoft Canada > NetApp > Sanofi > SAS Institute > Schneider Electric