CMP Media's Intelligent Enterprise Magazine and Transform Magazine Announce The Winners of the 2002 RealWare Awards for IT Excellence

11 Vendors and Their Customers Represent Excellence and Innovation in IT Solutions

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SAN MATEO, Calif.
Jun 21, 2002

CMP Media's Intelligent Enterprise Magazine and Transform Magazine have announced the winners of this year's RealWare Awards -- 11 companies and their customers selected for their outstanding enterprise information technology solutions. The RealWare Awards recognize real-world solutions that produce measurable business advantages and innovative use of information technology in the enterprise, awarding both the vendor and its customer implementing the winning solution. The Awards are open to all providers and customers of enterprise IT solutions and are given in categories representative of leading-edge information technologies.

Entries were reviewed in six pre-defined categories by teams of recognized industry editors and analysts who served as judges. 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, and a listing of the judges for each category, visit http://www.intelligententerprise.com/ or http://www.transformmag.com/.

  The winning vendors and their customers in the 2002 RealWare Awards are:

   Best Business Performance Analysis and Management Application
   Teradata, a division of NCR Corp./3M

   Special Merit Award:  e-Business Intelligence Implementation
   BusinessObjects/Penske

   Best Customer Intelligence and Interaction Application
   Teradata, a division of NCR Corp./Merck-Medco Managed Care

   Special Merit Award:  Enterprise Data Integration for Customer
   Intelligence
   Informatica Corp./BAX Global

   Best Enterprise Content Management Application
   Belo Interactive (home grown application)

   Special Merit Award:  Web Content Management Implementation
   Interwoven/Credit Suisse First Boston

   Best Enterprise Portal Application
   Sun Microsystems/AXA Financial

   Best Document/Data Capture Application
   Kofax Image Products/FedEx Services/Bell & Howell Scanners

   Special Merit Award:  Distributed (Remote) Capture Application
   ActionPoint /R&L Carriers

   Best E-Business Collaborative Commerce Application
   IBM Corporation/Caretouch

   Special Merit Award:  Business-to-Consumer Application
   IBM Corporation/Experian

"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 IT publication focused exclusively on planning and deploying strategic business applications that turn information into intelligence. Published 18 times annually, Intelligent Enterprise gives business and technology professionals expert advice on e-business intelligence, data warehousing, decision support, analytical applications, database and application development, application and data integration, enterprise applications, and enabling technologies. 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 Transform Magazine

Transform (http://www.transformmag.com/) is a print and online publication read by more than 90,000 business leaders and IT managers implementing content and collaboration products and strategies. The magazine focuses exclusively on technologies for the capture, storage, management, delivery and sharing of business content. These technologies include content management; e-forms; electronic bill presentment and payment; customer self-service and e-CRM; data and document capture; Web interaction and transaction management; e-process automation; enterprise report and output management; B2B collaboration; portal-based collaboration and application integration; taxonomy, search and retrieval; and enabling software tools, storage and peripherals. Content & collaboration technologies allow companies to share content internally with employees and among customers and business partners over the Internet.

About CMP Media, LLC

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.

NOTE: Intelligent Enterprise, Transform Magazine, DB2 Magazine, and RealWare Awards are registered trademarks of CMP Media LLC. All CMP Media product, service and program names are trademarks of CMP Media LLC.

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