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

Posted on: Thursday, 6 November 2003, 06:00 CST

SAN MATEO, Calif., Nov. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CMP Media's Intelligent Enterprise today announced the winners of the Sixth-Annual Readers' Choice Awards for best IT products. Through the voting process, Intelligent Enterprise subscribers-including C-level executives, top application development managers, data management and business intelligence 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."

"Businesses today are under tremendous economic and competitive pressure," said David M. Kalman, Group Publisher of Intelligent Enterprise. "They have to focus their IT investments on products that turn information into intelligence. Their competitive edge depends on how well they can collect and organize information, then analyze, understand, and act on that information to make better decisions and improve businesses processes. Intelligent Enterprise subscribers plan and deploy these strategic business applications, and in the process directly influence strategic IT purchases for applications, software tools, and enabling platforms. The Intelligent Enterprise Readers' Choice Awards highlight the IT products that deliver a competitive advantage."

Voting was open exclusively to Intelligent Enterprise subscribers. Results will be published in the November 18, 2003 issue of Intelligent Enterprise magazine. Readers chose among several categories of products in the four Intelligent Enterprise technology focus areas: intelligence, integration, infrastructure, and collaborative commerce and voiced opinions about their most important reason to buy strategic software right now. Visit http://www.intelligententerprise.com/ for the full story.

Here is the complete list of winners:

I. INTELLIGENCE

Alerting Tools

MicroStrategy NarrowCast Server

Analytic Servers

Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services

BI Application Development Platforms and Tools

BusinessObjects Developer Suite

Business Performance Monitoring & Management Environments

Pilot Software: Pilot BusinessMonitor

Clickstream-Analysis Tools

SAS IntelliVisor

Data Mining Tools

SAS Enterprise Miner

Data Movement & Transformation Tools

Informatica PowerCenter

Data Visualization Tools

Visual Mining: NetCharts Server

Enterprise BI Suites or Platforms

Crystal Decisions: Crystal Enterprise

Financial Planning, Forecasting, and Budgeting Tools

Hyperion Planning or Pillar

Geospatial Analysis Platforms

MapInfo products

Managed Reporting Systems

Crystal Decisions: Crystal Reports

Multidimensional Analysis Tools

Cognos: PowerPlay

Predictive Modeling Tools

SAS/STAT

Search & Retrieval Tools

Google Search Appliance

Unstructured-BI Applications

SAS Text Miner

II. INTEGRATION

Application Servers

IBM: WebSphere Application Server

Enterprise Information Integration Platforms and Portals

IBM: WebSphere Portal

Enterprise Integration Middleware

IBM: WebSphere MQ

Mobile Application Servers

IBM: WebSphere MQ Everyplace

III. INFRASTRUCTURE

Application Development Tools & Platforms

Microsoft: Visual Studio.Net

Database Servers

Oracle: Oracle Database Server

Enterprise Modeling & Design Tools

Microsoft: Visio

Enterprise Storage Management Systems

EMC: Enterprise Storage Networks

ERP Application Suites

mySAP ERP

Operating Systems

Microsoft Windows 2000

Systems Integration/Consulting Providers

Accenture

IV. COLLABORATIVE COMMERCE

E-Business Integration Middleware

IBM: WebSphere Commerce

Providers of Customer Intelligence, Interaction, and Relationship

Management Software

Siebel

Bonus

Intelligent Enterprise Columnist

Ralph Kimball

Most important reason to buy strategic software right now

Capturing Efficiency to Drive Down Costs

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 http://www.intelligententerprise.com/ .

About CMP Media LLC

CMP Media LLC ( http://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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