Bravura Solutions has won the 2007 Adnitor award in the ‘Industry achievement for administration technology’ category. 

Nominees for this award were chosen based on their specific targeting of the UK Platform Market and their success at winning business in this space.

Bravura Solutions has been awarded the prominent Australian Export Award for Information and Communication Technology.

The Australian Export Awards are presented annually and showcase Australia’s top exporters of goods and services.

The Australian Export Awards program aims to:

• Identify and reward Australia's most successful and innovative exporters
• Promote top exporters as corporate role models in order to stimulate greater involvement in exporting amongst Australian businesses
• Promote Australia's leading exporters to the same status and public recognition as sporting and entertainment heroes
• Further develop community awareness of the importance of exporting to Australia's economic future

Bravura Solutions has been selected as a finalist for the 2007 Australian HR Awards in the Best Strategic Plan category. 
This award recognises HR teams who can demonstrate they have achieved genuine business partner status within their organisations.

Bravura Solutions has been selected as a finalist for the 2007 Australian HR Awards in the Best Strategic Plan category. 
This award recognises HR teams who can demonstrate they have achieved genuine business partner status within their organisations.

Judging criteria:

Essential

• Demonstrable alignment with business strategy
• Collaboration with key business stakeholders
• Quantifiable impact upon the business

Desirable

• How the HR team’s priorities and strategies were devised and implemented
• A proactive HR practice that has anticipated business demands
• Identification of both short and long-term objectives such as immediate need for attraction/retention versus succession planning in face of ageing workforce

Organised by the HR industry’s leading fortnightly magazine, Human Resources, the awards culminated in the Palladium Room Crown Casino Melbourne on 21 September 2007.

On 18 October Bravura Solutions won the 2007 Premier's NSW Export Award for Information and Communication Technology.

The Premier’s NSW Export Awards is an annual awards program that recognises excellence in the export of goods and services and acknowledges the important contribution that these businesses make to the economy through job creation and increased prosperity.

Winners of these awards went on to be finalists for the Australian Export Awards held on 22 November in Brisbane.

Bravura Solutions is pleased to have been selected as part of the 25 Rising Stars List, for the MIS (Managing Information Strategies) Strategic 100. 

Our appearance on this list is an indication that we are on the radar of CIO’s from leading financial institutions, who have become aware of us in their local markets

Each year, MIS Australia takes a look at the IT vendor community. The companies profiled are compiled through suggestions from expert judges and MIS editorial teams around the world. The companies selected are often new businesses that show signs of seriously influencing the way technology is bought or deployed.

According to the MIS judging panel, many of these companies will see rapid growth, acquisition or significantly increased presence in the enterprise over the next 12 months.

Bravura Solutions has been selected as the winner of the Australian Business Award for International Trade in the IT&T industry.

The Australian Business Awards recognise organisations that demonstrate the core values of business and product excellence, sustainability and commercial success in their respective industries.

The Awards are a national, all-encompassing awards program with entries judged on specific criteria underpinned by the program's values of success, innovation and ethics. The judging panel is carefully selected and coordinated by the Australian Business Awards to ensure that the judging process is fair and objective, free of bias or influence.

Bravura Solutions has been listed as #1 on the BRW Fast Starters list for 2008; obtaining Bravura Solutions  the top ranking for the second consecutive year. BRW is Australia's leading business magazine.

The BRW Fast Starters list outlines the companies BRW sees as the fastest growing and most successful new small to medium sized enterprises in Australia.

To be selected as a BRW fast starter a company must fulfil the following criteria:

• Must have commenced trading after June 30, 2003
• Must have reported at least two fiscal years of revenue
• Must have revenue of more than A$500,000 in 2006-07
• Revenue for 2006-06 must have been higher than in 2005-06
• Must have more than one main customer
• Must be Australian (not a subsidiary of a multinational)

Bravura Solutions has been ranked in the BRW Fast Starters list for 2009; this is the third consecutive year the company has been chosen by Australia's leading business magazine. One of only two publicly listed companies to be featured, Bravura Solutions is ranked second on the list after two years in the number one position.

The BRW Fast Starters list showcases entrepreneurial and growing businesses from across the economy.

Bravura Solutions was listed as #1 on the BRW Fast Starters list for 2007. BRW is Australia's leading business magazine. 

The BRW Fast Starters list outlines the companies BRW sees as the fastest growing and most successful new small to medium sized enterprises in Australia. 

To be selected as a BRW fast starter a company must fulfil the following criteria:

• Must have commenced trading after June 30, 2002
• Must have reported at least two fiscal years of revenue
• Must have revenue of more than A$500,000 in 2005-06
• Revenue for 2006-06 must have been higher than in 2004-05
• Must have more than one main customer
• Must be Australian (not a subsidiary of a multinational)

For the second consecutive year, Bravura Solutions has secured a place in the top 20 of the Deloitte Technology Fast 50. The Fast 50 is a group of Australia’s most rapidly growing technology companies, which are ranked according to percentage revenue growth over three years.

Those chosen as part of the Fast 50 are Australian-owned technology companies that have:

• Developed proprietary technology that contributes to a significant portion of the company’s operating revenues; or
• Manufactured a technology-related product; or
• Invested a significant percentage of revenues to research and development efforts.

Bravura Solutions has secured a place in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50. The Fast 50 is a group of Australia’s most rapidly growing technology companies, which are ranked according to percentage revenue growth over three years.

Bravura’s revenue for FY06/07 was A$99.4 million, an increase of 939 per cent from the company’s first year revenue of A$9.5 million in 2005.

Those chosen as part of the Fast 50 are Australian-owned technology companies that have:

• Developed proprietary technology that contributes to a significant portion of the company’s operating revenues; or
• Manufactured a technology-related product; or
• Invested a significant percentage of revenues to research and development efforts.

Bravura Solutions has secured a top 50 place in the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific. The Deloitte listing comprise the 500 fastest growing technology companies in the Asia Pacific region, which are ranked according to percentage revenue growth over the past three years.

Companies chosen as part of the Fast 500:

• Own proprietary technology that contributes to a significant portion of the company’s operating revenues; or
• Manufacture a technology-related product; or
• Devote a significant proportion of operating revenues to research and development of technology.
• To be eligible for the Deloitte Technology Fast 500, companies must have operated for at least three years, be Asia-Pacific owned and based, and have generated first year revenue of at least US$50,000.

For the second consecutive year Bravura Solutions has secured a place in the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific. The Deloitte listing comprise the 500 fastest growing technology companies in the Asia Pacific region, which are ranked according to percentage revenue growth over the past three years.

Companies chosen as part of the Fast 500:

• Own proprietary technology that contributes to a significant portion of the company’s operating revenues; or Manufacture a technology-related product; or Devote a significant proportion of operating revenues to research and development of technology.
• To be eligible for the Deloitte Technology Fast 500, companies must have operated for at least three years, be Asia-Pacific owned and based, and have generated first year revenue of at least US$50,000.

Bravura Solutions’ Group CEO & Managing Director, Iain Dunstan, has won Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year award in the Technology, Communications, E-commerce and Life Sciences category for the Eastern Australian region.

Entrepreneur of the Year celebrates entrepreneurs who are building and leading successful, growing and dynamic businesses, recognising them through regional, national and global award programs in over 100 cities and more than 40 countries.

Judging criteria for the awards included nominees and their companies demonstrating the following:

• Entrepreneurial spirit
• Innovation
• Personal integrity / influence
• Financial performance
• Strategic direction National / global impact

Bravura Solutions has won the European ICFA award in the European Asset Servicing Technology Vendor of the Year category. Hosted by International Custody and Funds Administration (ICFA) magazine, the European ICFA awards highlight excellence within dedicated European securities services markets.

Bravura’s win was based on its Rufus (Transfer Agency), Talisman (Wealth Management) and Babel (Straight Through Processing) products, supported by testimonials from two key clients; the Bank of New York Mellon and Scottish Friendly Assurance.

Bravura Solutions has been selected for the Finextra Innovation Showcase 2009. The showcase highlights the most innovative technologies, products and projects in financial services over the last 12 months.

Our submission for the Financial messaging and connectivity category focuses on our recent partnership with Luxembourg's eBRC in providing software to help connect EMX, the leading UK based electronic funds trading system, with Vestima+, the automatic funds order routing service, one of the largest electronic settlement and custody providers in Europe.

For the second year running, Bravura Solutions is the only Australian company to rank amongst the FinTech 100 group of companies as named by Financial Insights and American Banker magazine. Bravura Solutions has made the largest leap forward of any company on the 2008 list; soaring 36 places to 64th position.

The FinTech 100 is an annual listing of the world’s leading vertical technology vendors which generate more than one third of revenues from the financial services sector.

The rankings are determined on by calendar year-end revenues and the percentage of revenues attributed to financial services

Bravura Solutions has premiered amongst the FinTech 100 group of companies as named by Financial Insights and American Banker magazine. Bravura Solutions is the only Australian company to appear on this year’s list.

The FinTech 100 is an annual listing of the world’s leading vertical technology vendors which generate more than one third of revenues from the financial services sector.

FinTech 100 rankings are determined on the basis of calendar year-end revenues and the percentage of revenues attributed to financial services

Bravura Solutions has ranked 64 amongst the FinTech 100 group of companies, as named by Financial Insights and American Banker magazine. This is the third year that Bravura has secured a position on the list and it has held steady in the same position as 2008. Bravura is the only Australian company to be ranked on the list this year.

The FinTech 100, now in its sixth year, is an annual listing of the world's leading vertical technology vendors which generate more than one third of revenues from the financial services sector.

Bravura Solutions has been listed as a finalist for the Australia and New Zealand Insurance Industry wards for the 'Technological Innovation of the Year' category. This category is for organisations operating in the insurance industry in Australia and/or New Zealand who have made a fresh and successful contribution to product development and/or customer service through technological innovation.

To be considered for the award, a company must address the following criteria:

• In-depth knowledge and understanding of the market through research
• Responsiveness to customer needs
• The ideals of the technological product/service and it’s reason for being developed
• Degree of innovation
• Originality of product/services offered
• Success of the product/service in the market (including profitability)
• The applicability of the product/service to the wider industry market, as opposed to meeting the needs of a specific company
• Industry leadership
• Professional standards (including a focus on staff training and development).

Bravura Solutions is proud to have placemed in the top three for the Product Innovation & Leadership Award. The award was presented on October 20 2006 by UK Trade and Investment, a government organisation committed to increasing competitiveness in the UK.

The Product Innovation & Leadership Award is for companies that have experienced commercial success through developing and bringing market leading products to the UK. These companies needed to be able to demonstrate the following:

• Genuine innovation;
• Success in identifying and capitalising on market gap with products new to the UK; and,
• Market leadership, as well as the ability to pinpoint and measure aspects of the business that influenced sustainability and success.

The Premier's NSW Export Awards is an annual program which aims to recognise excellence in the export of goods and service by NSW business. The Awards acknowledge the important contribution of businesses to the economy through job creation and increased prosperity for the community and for the state.

The Premier's NSW Export Awards are managed by the Australian Institute of Export and supported by many sponsors, in particular the Department of State and Regional Development, whose assistance makes these awards possible.

Bravura Solutions has received a highly commended Award in the 2008 Premier’s NSW Export Awards.

The Premier’s NSW Export Awards is an annual awards program that recognises excellence in the export of goods and services and acknowledges the important contribution that these businesses make to the economy through job creation and increased prosperity.

Bravura Solutions has secured the eleventh position on the Smart Company Smart50.

The Smart50 list, compiled by SmartCompany - a free news, information and resource site for Australia's entrepreneurs, small and medium business owners and business managers - is based on revenue growth over the last three financial years. The fastest growing companies are ranked in order.

To be ranked as a fast growing SmartCompany, a business must:

• Report the last three fiscal years of revenue
• Show revenue growth for each year
• Be Australian (not a subsidiary of a multinational)
• Not exceed revenue of $200 million
• Have revenue above $500,000

To review Bravura's profile for the Smart50, visit http://www.smartcompany.com.au/smartcompany-awards-2009/bravura-solutions.html

Bravura Solutions has ranked ninth on the SmartCompany Dun & Bradstreet Industry Growth List for the IT sector. The list is comprised of Australia’s top 50 IT companies, by revenue growth for FY08.

The list is compiled by SmartCompany, a news, information and resource site, in collaboration with Dun & Bradstreet, the world's leading business information company, using information from its commercial database of more than 2.7 million companies.