CMP Media's Intelligent Enterprise Announces Winners of the Seventh-Annual Readers' Choice Awards for Best IT Products

CMP Media's Intelligent Enterprise today announced the winners of the Seventh-Annual Readers' Choice Awards for best IT products. Through the voting process, Intelligent Enterprise subscribers -- including C-level executives, top level managers, and strategic IT decision makers -- have determined which IT products best enable an "intelligent enterprise." These are the products that help organizations deploy strategic applications that collect, analyze, and deliver business information wherever and whenever it's needed to improve business performance and maximize customer relationships.

"The Readers' Choice Awards are a wonderful example of how Intelligent Enterprise serves as an interface between solutions providers and their customers," said David Stodder, Editor-in- Chief of Intelligent Enterprise. "Through their participation in the voting process, readers communicate directly which solutions best meet their unique needs for developing, implementing, and managing strategic business applications."

Voting was open exclusively to Intelligent Enterprise subscribers. Results will be published in the September 4, 2004, issue of Intelligent Enterprise magazine. Readers chose among several categories of products, and voiced opinions about their most important reason to buy strategic software right now. Visit www.IntelligentEnterprise.com for the full story.

  Here is the complete list of winners:

  Ad Hoc Query & Reporting
  Microsoft

  Search & Retrieval
  Google

  Knowledge Management
  Microsoft

  OLAP
  Microsoft

  Business Performance Monitoring/Management
  Cognos

  Text Analysis
  SAS

  Business Intelligence Suites
  Microsoft

  Data Mining
  Cognos

  Data Visualization
  Advanced Visual Systems

  Geographic Information Systems
  ESRI

  Predictive Modeling & Planning
  SAS

  Customer Analytics
  Business Objects

  Web Analytics
  IBM

  Customer Data Integration
  Oracle

  Application Integration
  Microsoft

  EII
  webMethods

  B2B integration
  Microsoft

  Business Process Management or Automation
  IBM

  ETL
  Informatica

  DBMS for Data Warehousing
  Oracle

  Data Quality Tools
  Trillium Software/Harte-Hanks

  Enterprise Resource Planning
  PeopleSoft/J.D. Edwards

  Supply Chain Management
  SAP

  Customer Relationship Management
  Siebel

  Contributing editor
  Ralph Kimball

  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 80,000 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. It provides both the context and the technical detail needed to take strategic business applications from concept to deployment, covering 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 415-947-6242 or tgibb@cmp.com. Access free subscriptions from the Web site at www.IntelligentEnterprise.com.

About CMP Media LLC

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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   Tara Gibb
   CMP Media LLC
   415-947-6242
   tgibb@cmp.com

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