CMP Media's Intelligent Enterprise Magazine and Transform Magazine Announce the Winners of the 2003 RealWare Awards for IT Excellence

CMP Media's Intelligent Enterprise Magazine and Transform Magazine have announced the winners of this year's RealWare Awards -- 9 companies and their customers selected for their outstanding enterprise information technology solutions.

Now in their 10th year, the RealWare Awards are presented to both IT vendors and their customers, and recognize outstanding achievements in innovative IT solutions that produce business value. The Awards are open to all providers and customers of enterprise IT solutions and are given in categories representative of leading-edge information technologies.

The 9 RealWare Awards winners were judged by industry editors, analysts and business leaders, and culled from a field of 78 entries. Each RealWare entry consists of a detailed case study that describes the solution, its technology components, its cost, and its business value. Awards are presented in key categories identified by the editors of Intelligent Enterprise and Transform. The categories change from year to year.

The entries were judged on the innovative use of technology, and the degree of business impact, as well as factors specific to each category. For a description of each winning entry, with an explanation of how the featured application impacted the customer's business, as well as a listing of the judges for each category, visit www.RealWareAwards.com.

  The winning vendors and their customers in the 2003 RealWare Awards are:

  Best Strategic Business Performance Management Application
  Informatica and Motorola

  Best Customer Intelligence and Interaction Application
  KANA and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota

  Special Merit Award:  Enterprise Data Integration for Customer
  Intelligence
  SAS Institute Inc. and Intellidyn

  Best Enterprise Content Management Application
  Stellent, Inc. and Eminent Research Systems

  Best Enterprise Portal Application
  Workscape, Inc. and General Motors Corporation

  Special Merit Award:  Portal Application Development
  Plumtree Software and Hamilton-Sundstrand

  Special Merit Award:  EAI Infrastructure
  Oracle Corporation and Pakprint S/A

  Best E-Business Collaborative Commerce Application
  Sybase, Inc. and Aviall, Inc.

  Special Merit Award: Web Services
  Systinent Corporation and T-Mobile International

"Congratulations to the winners of this year's RealWare Awards. These companies demonstrate the impact of IT excellence resulting in significant business benefits. The RealWare winners are transforming business and enabling the intelligent enterprise," said David Stodder, Editorial Director for Intelligent Enterprise Magazine. "We would also like to recognize all of the RealWare Awards finalists, who represent the best solutions being developed in IT today."

About Intelligent Enterprise

Intelligent Enterprise is the only publication dedicated exclusively to the strategic business applications that turn information into intelligence. It serves as a technology guidebook and thought leader for more than 80,000 senior business and IT managers who plan and deploy strategic business applications in their organizations. For more information, contact Tara Gibb at +1-650-513-4566 or tgibb@cmp.com. Access free subscriptions from the Web site at http://www.intelligententerprise.com/ .

About Transform Magazine

Transform Magazine is the definitive publication for business and IT managers implementing content and collaboration products and strategies. It is the only publication that addresses the full lifecycle of corporate content, from capture to management to delivery and storage. Apply for free subscriptions from the Web site at http://www.transformmag.com/.

About CMP Media, LLC

CMP Media LLC (www.cmp.com) is a leading integrated 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 and custom publishing.

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CONTACT: Tara Gibb of CMP Media LLC, +1-650-513-4566, or tgibb@cmp.com.

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CONTACT: Tara Gibb of CMP Media LLC, +1-650-513-4566, or tgibb@cmp.com

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