CMP Media's Business Intelligence Group Announces Details of the 2001 RealWare Awards for IT Excellence

Intelligent Enterprise and Imaging & Document Solutions Issue The 2001 RealWare Awards Call for Entries Available Now at http://www.RealwareAwards.com

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SAN MATEO, Calif.
Feb 26, 2001

CMP Media's Business Intelligence Group, featuring the magazines Intelligent Enterprise and Imaging & Document Solutions, today announced details of the ninth annual RealWare Awards, with seven awards categories addressing a wide range of IT solutions. The RealWare Awards recognize outstanding customer solutions demonstrating innovation and significant ROI, and are open to all IT vendors and customers.

Intelligent Enterprise and Imaging & Document Solutions specialize in solutions that help organizations unlock the value of their information for improving e-business efficiency and maximizing customer relationships. Intelligent Enterprise covers solutions such as data warehousing, data mining, and decision support, ERP (enterprise resource planning), scalable e-commerce, CRM (customer relationship management), EAI (enterprise application integration) and enabling technologies. Imaging & Document Solutions focuses on content and collaboration technologies that drive e-business, including document and content management, enterprise reporting, scan and capture, and Web document technologies.

As the name suggests, the RealWare Awards recognize real-world solutions that produce measurable business advantages. Entries are submitted in the form of actual case studies, with awards given to the top vendors and their customers. Entries are judged by a distinguished panel of editors, analysts, and business leaders, and are evaluated primarily on return-on-investment and other business benefits derived by users, as well as the level of innovation.

The 2001 RealWare Awards will recognize outstanding solutions in the following seven categories, with special Merit Awards granted at the judges' discretion:

  -- Best Business Intelligence Application
  Best Overall Award
  Merit Award:  Customer Intelligence
  Merit Award:  Mobile/Wireless BI

  -- Best Enterprise Information Portal Implementation
  Best Overall Award:  Corporate Portal
  Best Overall Award:  B2B E-Business Portal
  Merit Award:  EAI for EIP
  Merit Award:  Mobile/Wireless EIP

  -- Best Electronic Customer Relationship Management (eCRM) Application
  Best Overall Award
  Merit Award:  Marketing Automation
  Merit Award:  eCRM/ERP Integration

  -- Intelligent Storage Management
  Best Overall Award
  Merit Award:  Networked Storage (SAN or NAS)

  -- Best E-business Application, with separate awards for:
  Best Overall Award:  Business-to-Consumer (B2C) E-Business Application
  Best Overall Award:  Business-to-Business (B2B) E-Business Application
  Merit Award:  Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) Implementation
  Merit Award:  Mobile/Wireless Implementation

  -- Best Content Management Application
  Best Overall Award
  Merit Award:  XML Document Interchange
  Merit Award:  Personalization Implementation Award

  -- Best Output/Report Management Application
  Best Overall Award
  Merit Award:  Mobile/Wireless Implementation

Entries are due Friday, April 20. Winners in each category will be announced at a ceremony at CMP's eBusiness Conference & Expo, June 12-14 in San Jose. RealWare Awards details are available at http://www.RealwareAwards.com or from Mary Lindsay, 408-984-7242, mary@lindsaypr.com.

"Introduced in 1993, the RealWare Awards have become a prestigious distinction for IT vendors and their customers. It takes both partners to create real business solutions and real business value," said David M. 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 and make better business decisions, collaborate more effectively with partners, and maximize customer relationships."

Past RealWare Awards winners include: BEA/WebLogic, BroadVision, Btrieve Technologies (now Pervasive Software), Charles Schwab, Cognos, Computer Associates International, Extricity, Hewlett-Packard Network & Systems Management Division, Hyperion Solutions, IBM, Information Advantage, Magic Software, MicroStrategy, NCR, ON!contact Software Corporation, ParcPlace Systems (now Cincom), Prism Solutions, SAGA Software, SAP, Selectica, Servio Corporation, Software AG, SPSS, Sybase, Texas Instruments, TopTier Software, Uniface (now part of CompuWare), Verity.

About Intelligent Enterprise

Intelligent Enterprise is an essential IT information resource specializing in enterprise solutions that make companies smarter, faster, and more profitable. Published 18 times per year, Intelligent Enterprise features influential authors and experts who explore e-business intelligence, infrastructure, integration and collaboration technologies that provide competitive advantage. More than 100,000 readers, including CIOs, CTOs, and other strategic IT and business leaders from major corporations and public sector organizations, depend on Intelligent Enterprise for real-world insights to help them achieve success with customer relationship management (CRM), e-business, ERP, supply chain management, and other intelligent business objectives. For more information, contact Intelligent Enterprise at 650-808-3934. Subscriptions are available from the Web site at http://www.iemagazine.com/subs.shtml .

About Imaging & Document Solutions Magazine

Imaging & Document Solutions is edited to serve 90,000 business and IT experts who are using content and collaboration technologies to obtain greater competitive advantage. These professionals work in content-intensive, collaborative industries such as manufacturing, insurance, banking, financial services, government, healthcare, telecommunications/utilities, and transportation. Imaging & Document Solutions examines the integration of content and collaboration technologies with an emphasis on creating a seamless flow of shareable content, from capture to storage to delivery. Every month, Imaging & Document Solutions provides unbiased analyses, strategies and product information to serve as a true buying companion. For more information, contact Imaging & Document Solutions at 917-305-3317. Subscriptions are available from the Web site at http://www.imagingmagazine.com/ .

About CMP Media's Business Intelligence Group

CMP Media's Business Intelligence Group provides publications, Web sites, and events that help organizations unlock the value of collected information for business advantage. Headed by group publisher David M. Kalman, the Business Intelligence Group produces the RealWare Awards and publishes "Intelligent Enterprise," "Imaging & Document Solutions," and "IntelligentERP," along with a suite of integrated print/Web communities dedicated to specific technology areas: IntelligentEAI, IntelligentKM, and IntelligentCRM. For more information about the group, contact David M. Kalman at 650-513-4251.

About CMP Media

CMP Media Inc. (www.cmpnet.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. CMP Media is owned by United Business Media (NASDAQ: UNEWY), a London-based marketing information company.

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

CONTACT: Mary Lindsay of Lindsay PR, 408-984-7242, or mary@lindsaypr.com, for CMP Media, Inc.; or Christine Jones of CMP Media, Inc., 650-513-4211, or cjones@cmp.com .

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