CMP Media's Business Intelligence Group Announces Winners of the 2001 RealWare Awards

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

PRNewswire
SAN MATEO, Calif.
Jun 13, 2001

CMP Media's Business Intelligence Group, featuring the publications Intelligent Enterprise and Transform Magazine, has announced the winners of this year's RealWare Awards -- 17 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. Winners were announced last night at a special RealWare Awards event in San Jose, California.

Entries were reviewed in nine 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.

  The winning vendors and their customers in the 2001 RealWare Awards are:

  The Bekins Company and vendor submitting, IBM Corporation
  Category:  Best E-Business Application:  B2B

  Honeywell Corporation and vendor submitting, Entigo Corporation
  Category:  Best E-Business Application:  B2C

  Union Pacific Railroad and vendor submitting, nQuire Software, Inc.
  Category:  Best Business Intelligence Application

  Autodesk, Inc. and vendor submitting, Epicentric
  Category:  Best Enterprise Information Portal:  B2B E-Business

  Hewlett-Packard Company
  Best Enterprise Information Portal:  Corporate

  Bank of America and vendor submitting, SAS Institute
  Category:  Best Electronic Customer Relationship Management Application

  BOC Gases and vendor submitting, Documentum, Inc.
  Category:  Best Content Management Application

  Professional Service Industries, Inc. and vendor submitting, Datawatch
  Corporation
  Category:  Best Output/Report Management Application

  digiMine, Inc. and vendor submitting, EMC Corporation
  Category:  Best Intelligent Storage Management Application

  eBay, Inc. and vendor submitting, Informatica
  Merit Award Winner, Customer Intelligence

  City of Richmond and vendor submitting, Information Builders, Inc
  Merit Award Winner, Business Intelligence:  Mobile/Wireless

  Flextronics International and vendor submitting, Datasweep
  Merit Award Winner, E-Business: EAI

  LogonHealth and vendor submitting, Sybase iAnywhere Solutions
  Merit Award Winner, E-Business:  B2C Mobile/Wireless

  SGS A/S and vendor submitting, SoftDesign A/S
  Merit Award Winner, E-Business:  B2B Mobile/Wireless

  Carfax and vendor submitting, Oncontact Software Corporation
  Merit Award Winner, CRM:  Marketing Automation

  Credit Union of Texas and vendor submitting, IBM Corporation
  Merit Award Winner, CRM:  ERP

  Providence Health System and vendor submitting, Eprise Corporation
  Merit Award Winner, Content Management:  Personalization

"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 M. Kalman, group publisher of CMP Media's Business Intelligence Group. "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, Transform, and CMP Media's Business
   Intelligence Group

Intelligent Enterprise is devoted to business software strategies that provide competitive advantage by improving business decision-making, enhancing business performance, and maximizing the lifetime value of customer relationships. Its mission is to be a strategic guidebook focused on showing IT and business managers how to collect, analyze, understand, and act decisively on enterprise business information in order to make their companies smarter, faster, and more profitable. Published 18 times a year, Intelligent Enterprise provides more than 100,000 readers with targeted, technical editorial through columns, features and product reviews. For more information, contact Intelligent Enterprise at 650-513-4566. Subscriptions are available at http://www.intelligententerprise.com/.

Transform Magazine is the definitive publication for business and IT managers who are experts or seek expertise in content & collaboration technologies. The publication serves as a business-critical resource, providing in-depth information that helps readers purchase and deploy the products and technologies that transform paper processes into e-processes, personal knowledge into shared knowledge, customer service headaches into customer self-service, business into collaborative e-business. For more information, contact Transform at 917-305-3317. Subscriptions are available at http://www.transformmag.com/.

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 magazine, Transform Magazine, and DB2 Magazine, along with a suite of Web sites dedicated to specific technology areas: IntelligentEAI, IntelligentERP, IntelligentKM, and IntelligentCRM. The group also offers demand-side technology research via Business Critical Research (http://www.businesscritical.com/). For more information, contact David M. Kalman at 650-513-4251.

About CMP Media

CMP Media Inc. 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, multiple 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 market information company.

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.

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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