CMP Media's Intelligent Enterprise Magazine Announces 2003 RealWare Awards for IT Excellence

CMP Media's Intelligent Enterprise Magazine today announced details of the eleventh annual RealWare Awards, with five categories addressing a wide range of strategic IT solutions. Open to all IT vendors and customers, the RealWare Awards recognize outstanding customer solutions demonstrating innovation and significant ROI.

Submissions are actual case studies, with awards given to the top vendors and their customers. Entries, which are judged by a distinguished panel of editors, analysts and business leaders, are evaluated primarily on innovation, return-on-investment and other business benefits derived by users.

The 2003 RealWare Awards will be given in the following five categories, with special Merit Awards granted at the judges' discretion:

   I. Best Strategic Business Performance Management Application
   Special Merit Award: Data Quality and Integration.
   Special Merit Award: e-Business Intelligence for BPM.

   II. Best Customer Intelligence and Interaction Management Application
   Special Merit Award: Enterprise Data Integration for Customer
    Intelligence.
   Special Merit Award: Customer Privacy & Trust.

   III. Best Enterprise Portal Application
   Special Merit Award: Portal Application Development
   Special Merit Award: Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)
    Infrastructure

   IV. Best E-Business Collaborative Commerce Application
   Special Merit Award: Web Services
   Special Merit Award: Business-to-Consumer (B2C) Application

   V. Best Intelligent Business Execution Application
   Special Merit Award: Enterprise Integration
   Special Merit Award: RFID Implementation

Entries are due Friday, April 18, 2003 and category winners will be announced in June. RealWare Awards details are available at www.RealWareAwards.com or from Tara Gibb, 650-513-4566, tgibb@cmp.com.

"Introduced in 1993, the RealWare Awards have become a prestigious achievement for IT vendors and their customers. It takes both partners to create real business solutions and real business value," said David Kalman, Group Publisher of CMP Media's Business Intelligence Group. "The RealWare Awards program continues to grow to reflect the rapid evolution of intelligent e-business. By improving the quality and timeliness of information in an e- business world, organizations can improve productivity, make better business decisions, collaborate more effectively with partners and maximize customer relationships."

Past RealWare Awards winners include: IBM Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Company, SAS Institute, Documentum, Inc., EMC Corporation, Informatica, Information Builders, Inc., Datasweep, Sybase iAnywhere Solutions, Oncontact Software Corporation, Teradata, a division of NCR, Sun Microsystems and Vignette.

About Intelligent Enterprise

Published 18 times annually, Intelligent Enterprise is the only magazine dedicated to the strategic business applications that turn information into intelligence. It serves an exclusive audience of business and IT professionals who plan and deploy the strategic applications their companies depend on to improve decision making, enhance business performance, and maximize the value of customer relationships. Providing the context and the technical detail needed to take strategic business applications from concept to deployment, Intelligent Enterprise serves as a technology guidebook and thought leader. It covers such interlocking technology categories as: application development, business intelligence and data warehousing, data management, enterprise application integration, enterprise/e-business applications, CRM and customer analytics, knowledge management, scalable server hardware, enterprise storage, and systems and applications management.

For more information, contact Tara Gibb at 650-513-4566 or tgibb@cmp.com. Access free subscriptions from the Web site at www.IntelligentEnterprise.com.

About CMP Media

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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