DM Review is pleased to announce the winners of this prestigious award.
"We received more than 100 entries for this year's World Class Solution Awards competition. I commend all the finalists that were announced in September, and now I heartily congratulate the winners for 2005!"
As in the past, this year's winners were selected by a panel of business intelligence industry experts. Our panel of expert judges evaluated the solutions based on their business value, quantitative benefits, qualitative benefits, sustainability and value as a best practice. More than 100 entries were distributed to the judges this year.
2005 Judges
DM Review wishes to express sincere gratitude to the 2005 WCSA judges, including: Sid Adelman of Sid Adelman & Associates; Lou Agosta, technology analyst; Kent Bauer of GRT Corporation; Steve Craggs of The Integration Consortium; Jonathan Geiger of Intelligent Solutions; Larry Goldman of AmberLeaf; Claudia Imhoff of Intelligent Solutions; David Loshin of Knowledge Integrity; William McKnight of Conversion Services International, Inc.; Sue Osterfelt of Bank of America; Craig Schiff of BPM Partners; Rick Sherman of Athena IT Solutions; and Deepak Srinivasan of Headstrong.
Raytheon Inc. with VitalSpring Technologies
Category: Analytic Applications
Verizon Wireless with Teradata, a division of NCR
Category: Business Intelligence
Brigham and Women's Hospital with SAS
Category: Corporate Performance Management and Balanced Scorecard
ING Americas with Informatica
Category: Data Acquisition and Integration
North Carolina Hospital Association/North Carolina Department of Public Health with Knightsbridge Solutions and Solucient
Category: Data Acquisition and Integration
Caudwell Communications with Netezza Corporation
Category: Data Management
Office of the Secretary of Defense/Logistics with EWSolutions and SAIC
Category: Data Management
Hewlett-Packard (HP) with Identity Systems
Category: Data Quality, Data Profiling and Data Remediation
Mutual of Omaha with Proxima Technology Inc.
Category: High Availability, Performance and Systems Management
Awards were presented to both the implementation site and vendor companies at DCI's Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing Conference in Orlando, Florida, on September 28. Read more about the award-winning solutions at www.dmreview.com/awards.
Brian Cronin is the publisher of DM Review magazine.
Be the first to comment on this post using the section below.