CMP Media's Business Intelligence Group Announces 27 Finalists for 2001 RealWare AwardsPartnerships Between End-User Companies and Their Vendors Recognized For Achieving Exceptional IT Solutions to Support Business-Critical ObjectivesPRNewswire CMP Media's Business Intelligence Group, featuring the publications Intelligent Enterprise and Transform Magazine, today announced the companies selected as finalists in the prestigious RealWare Awards program. The RealWare Awards recognize outstanding customer implementations demonstrating innovative IT solutions. Recognized for their exceptional implementations of technology in the enterprise, the companies selected as RealWare Awards finalists demonstrated a high level of innovation and significant business impact. All finalists earned this distinction after careful review of all the entries by teams of industry editors, analysts and business leaders who served as judges. 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 that is 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. "The RealWare Awards have grown each year since the program started nine years ago, and this year is the most successful and competitive yet. The entries represent some of the most exciting and effective solutions being developed in IT today," said David M. Kalman, group publisher of CMP Media's Business Intelligence Group. "It takes vendors and customers working together as partners to develop real business solutions and build real business value. We would like to commend everyone who submitted an entry, and extend special congratulations to all of our finalists." This year's RealWare Awards finalists in each category are as follows: Best E-business Application Best Overall Award: Business-to-Business (B2B) E-Business Application: -- Datasweep / Flextronics International -- IBM Corporation / The Bekins Company -- Magic Software Enterprises / TIS -- Soft Design A/S / SGS A/S Best Overall Award: Business-to-Consumer (B2C) E-Business Application: -- BroadVision, Inc. / Shop At Home, Inc. -- Hewlett-Packard Company / Rockwell Collins Aviation Services -- Jacada, Inc. / 21st Century Insurance -- Sybase iAnywhere Solutions / LogonHealth Best Electronic Customer Relationship Management (eCRM) Application -- IBM Corporation / Dallas Teachers Credit Union -- Oncontact Software / Carfax -- SAS Institute / Bank of America Best Business Intelligence Application Best Overall Award: -- Brio Technology / Norfolk Southern -- Cognos, Inc. / Schneider Logistics -- Informatica Corporation / eBay, Inc. -- MicroStrategy, Inc. / Best Buy Company, Inc. -- nQuire Software, Inc. / Union Pacific Railroad Best Enterprise Information Portal Best Overall Award: Corporate Portal: -- Hewlett-Packard Company / Hewlett-Packard Company -- Plumtree Software, Inc. / Ford Motor Company Best Overall Award: B2B E-Business Portal: -- CoVia Technologies, Inc. / Intuit, Inc. -- Epicentric / Autodesk, Inc. Best Content Management Application -- Authoria, Inc. / Wells Fargo -- Documentum, Inc. / BOC Gases -- Interwoven / Nortel Networks Best Output/Report Management Application -- Cypress Corporation / Newport News Shipbuilding -- Datawatch Corporation / Professional Service Industries, Inc. Best Intelligent Storage Management -- EMC Corporation / digiMine, Inc. -- Sun Microsystems / Devon Energy Corporation Winners in each category will be announced June 12, 2001 at a special RealWare Awards ceremony during eBusiness Conference & Expo (http://www.ebusinessexpo.com/) in San Jose, California. Intelligent Enterprise and Transform will publish a special section devoted to the RealWare Awards finalists and winners. For additional information, see http://www.realwareawards.com/ . Past RealWare Awards winning vendors include BEA/WebLogic, BroadVision, Btrieve Technologies (now Pervasive), Charles Schwab, Cognos, Computer Associates International, Extricity, Hewlett-Packard Network & Systems Management Division, Hyperion Solutions, IBM, Information Advantage, Magic Software, MicroStrategy, NCR, Oncontact Software Corporation, ParcPlace Systems, Prism Solutions, SAGA Software, SAP, Selectica, Servio Corporation, Software AG, SPSS, Sybase, Texas Instruments, TopTier Software, Uniface, and Verity. 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. 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