CMP Media's Intelligent Enterprise Announces Winners of the Fourth-Annual Readers' Choice Awards for Best IT Products

CMP Media's Intelligent Enterprise announced today the winners of the Fourth-Annual Readers' Choice Awards for best IT products. Through the voting process, Intelligent Enterprise subscribers -- including C-level executives, top application development managers, data management and business intelligence decision makers -- have determined which IT products best enable an "intelligent enterprise." These are the products that help organizations deploy strategic applications that collect, analyze, and deliver business information wherever and whenever it's needed to improve business performance and maximize customer relationships.

"The Readers' Choice Awards are a wonderful example of how Intelligent Enterprise serves as an interface between solutions providers and their customers," said Justin Kestelyn, editor in chief of Intelligent Enterprise. "Through their participation in the voting process, readers communicate directly which solutions best meet their unique needs for developing, implementing, and managing strategic business applications."

"Businesses today are under tremendous economic and competitive pressure," said David Kalman, publisher of Intelligent Enterprise. "They have to focus their IT investments on products that unlock the value of their information assets. Their competitive edge depends on how well they can collect and organize information, then analyze, understand, and act on that information to make better decisions and improve businesses processes. Intelligent Enterprise subscribers plan and deploy these strategic business applications, and in the process directly influence strategic IT purchases for applications, software tools, and enabling platforms. The Intelligent Enterprise Readers' Choice Awards highlight the IT products that deliver a competitive advantage."

Voting was open exclusively to Intelligent Enterprise subscribers. Results will be published in the January 14, 2002 issue of Intelligent Enterprise magazine. Readers made their choices among several categories of products, including comprehensive e-business application suites, business performance management, customer relationship management, analytic applications, business intelligence, enterprise information portals, ERP applications, application servers, and integration middleware. Readers also voiced their opinions about which systems integration services provider is the best. Visit http://www.intelligententerprise.com/ for the full story.

  Here is the complete list of winners:

  -- Access, Reporting, and BI Portals:  Business Objects:  BusinessObjects
  -- Advanced Analysis and Mining:  MicroStrategy Inc.:  MicroStrategy
     Intelligence Server
  -- Data Integration and Transformation:  Data Junction Corp.:  Data
     Junction
  -- Data Visualization:  Cognos:  Visualizer
  -- Data Warehouse Management & Hygiene:  Informatica Corp.:  Informatica
     PowerCenter
  -- Information Retrieval:  Alta Vista Co.:  Alta Vista
  -- Packaged Analytic Applications:  Informatica Corp.:  Informatica
     Applications
  -- Business Performance Management:  Oracle:  Oracle Financials
  -- B2B E-Commerce:  Oracle:  Oracle B2B
  -- Campaign Management:  Siebel Systems Inc.:  Siebel Marketing
  -- Customer Relationship Management:  MicroStrategy:  MicroStrategy CRM
  -- Enterprise Information Portals:  iPlanet:  iPlanet Portal Server
  -- ERP Applications:  PeopleSoft:  PeopleSoft Applications
  -- One-to-One Customer Interaction:  IBM:  WebSphere Commerce Serve
  -- Supply Chain Management:  I2 Technologies Inc.:  i2 SCM
  -- Systems Integration/Consulting:  IBM Global Services
  -- Application Development Tools:  Microsoft:  Visual Studio
  -- Application Servers:  IBM:  IBM WebSphere
  -- B2B Integration:  IBM:  IBM Commerce Integrator
  -- Design & Modeling:  Computer Associates: ERwin
  -- Distributed Systems Management:  Hewlett-Packard:  OpenView
  -- Enterprise Integration:  IBM:  MQSeries
  -- Database Servers: Oracle:  Oracle Database Server
  -- Operating Systems:  Solaris
  -- Scalable Hardware:  High-End:  Sun Microsystems:  Enterprise 10000
     (Starfire)
  -- Scalable Hardware:  Midrange:  Sun Microsystems: Fire Series
  -- Specialized Data Management:  IBM:  DB2 Digital Library
  -- Storage Management Software:  EMC:  Enterprise Storage Networks
  -- Best Intelligent Enterprise Columnist:  Ralph Kimball

  About Intelligent Enterprise

Intelligent Enterprise is the only IT publication focused exclusively on the most critical issue in business today: planning and deploying the strategic business applications that unlock the value of collected information for competitive advantage. Intelligent Enterprise shows business and technology professionals how to plan, deploy, and manage the strategic applications their companies depend on to improve decision making, optimize business performance, and maximize the value of customer relationships. Published 18 times per year, Intelligent Enterprise provides comprehensive coverage of the technologies and practices that promote the collection, storage, analysis, and distribution of business information. For more information, contact Tara Gibb at 650-513-4566 or tgibb@cmp.com. Access free subscriptions from the Web site at http://www.IntelligentEnterprise.com.

About CMP Media

CMP Media LLC (http://www.cmp.com/) is a leading high-tech media company providing essential information and marketing services to the entire technology spectrum-the builders, sellers and users of technology worldwide. Capitalizing on its editorial strength, CMP is uniquely positioned to offer marketers comprehensive, integrated media solutions tailored to meet their individual needs. Its diverse products and services include newspapers, magazines, Internet products, research, direct marketing services, education and training, trade shows and conferences, custom publishing, testing and consulting.

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