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Celebrating Innovation in EUC: Meet the Winners of IGEL’s Inaugural Now & Next Awards
IGEL CEO Klaus Oestermann with 2025 Now & Next Award winners from FMOL, Honeywell, and COCC at the Miami event.
• Jason Tujague, IS Systems Administrator and Jamey Shoemaker, Manager, Technology and Infrastructure, FMOL
• Rick Stopf, Senior Offering Management Lead, Honeywell
• Michael Dease, Senior Manager of Professional IT Services, and Billy Cruz, Technology Services Manager, COCC
Hybrid work is reshaping enterprise IT, making innovation in endpoint computing a critical necessity. To remain competitive, companies must adopt new technologies and flexible work environments set by hybrid models. This shift emphasizes the need for secure endpoint computing solutions that meet the dynamic requirements of a modern workforce.
Last month, at the prestigious IGEL Now & Next 2025 event in Miami, IGEL proudly launched the Now & Next Awards program. These awards reflect IGEL’s ongoing commitment to recognizing innovation among its global customer base as part of its customer advocacy and Global Ambassador Program.
To celebrate the achievements of individuals and organizations utilizing IGEL to drive transformative change by aligning with one or more of IGEL’s four pillars—security, lower total cost of ownership, simplified management, and sustainability—IGEL Technology CEO Klaus Oestermann welcomed each of the winning organizations to the stage.
“We are proud to honor these leaders for their innovative approaches to transforming endpoint security and sustainability, continually expanding the boundaries of what’s possible today and the future,” said Oestermann.
Innovation Award: FMOL – Redefining Secure and Sustainable Healthcare IT with IGEL
The Innovation Award honors organizations that are redefining endpoint strategies for tangible business results. FMOL (Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System) and its focus on utilizing IGEL technology to enhance IT operations and promote a sustainable digital future aligns strongly with IGEL’s security and sustainability pillars.
“We were able to apply the IGEL firmware to existing devices and reuse over half of our 11,000 devices,” said Jamey Shoemaker, Manager of Infrastructure and Technology, FMOL. “What it’s done for us is create an environment that is highly organized and easily accessible to our field operations teams. We can provide a uniform experience across the health system, regardless of whether you’re inside the hospitals or working remotely.”
Visionary Award: Honeywell – Setting the Pace for the Future of Endpoint Computing
The Visionary Award recognizes organizations that are revolutionizing their operations now while shaping the digital landscape. Through its innovative leadership and strategic foresight, Honeywell is leading the way in endpoint computing and is closely aligned with IGEL’s pillars of security and simplified management.
“IGEL OS has really helped us to deliver on this secure endpoint experience with a simple, centralized management experience, reduced deployment and management time,” said Rick Stopf, Senior Product Manager, Honeywell. “Typically, we can develop a new hardware Thin Client in about 30% less time than we previously did with our legacy operating system.”
All-In Award: COCC – Demonstrating the True Impact of Innovation at the Endpoint
The All-In Award recognizes organizations that implement a comprehensive approach to endpoint computing, showing that true innovation occurs when technology and strategy work together.
From enhancing security to optimizing cost-efficiency and supporting sustainability, COCC’s streamlined endpoint deployment aligns with the IGEL principles of security, lower TCO, simplified management, and sustainability. One example where COCC has been “all-in” with IGEL is Florence Bank, which it assisted in transitioning from a traditional to a virtualized desktop infrastructure environment.
“We chose IGEL specifically for the simplicity and security,” said Billy Cruz, Technology Services Manager, COCC. “It’s much simpler, faster, with up to a 30% reduction in client endpoint management costs, offers better and quicker management, and has extended the life of existing devices. Rather than needing a refresh cycle every five years like we would have in your typical thick client environment, we’re extending that more into a seven to eight-year range.”
Michael Dease, Senior Manager for the Professional Services Team, COCC, added, “We use IGEL across over 50 clients that we have today on our infrastructure service, and we service over 9000 endpoints. IGEL has really had a profound impact on the daily use of technology by our end users. I have not found another thin client endpoint OS that can do what IGEL can do—we’re getting an enterprise solution out of the box.”
IGEL congratulates each of these trailblazing organizations for pushing boundaries and setting the standard for what’s possible in EUC.
We are also proud to recognize our Now & Next Award nominees for the Innovation Award: ESTES (Estes Express Lines) and Jazan University; the Visionary Award: Texas Children’s Hospital and PQR | Rustmakers in IT; and, the All-In Award: Florence Bank and Stadt Schmallenberg.
Are you Interested in seeing your team on stage next year? Sign-up for IGEL’s Global Ambassador Program today for a chance to be featured as part of the 2026 IGEL Now & Next Awards.
In case you missed IGEL Now & Next 2025, you can register to watch the live stream of Day 1 and Day 2 here. Learn more about IGEL, the secure endpoint OS platform for now & next, and IGEL’s Preventative Security Model™, here.
