August 20, 2007 (Computerworld) --
The Computerworld Horizon Awards were established in 2005 to make readers aware of cutting-edge technologies from research labs and companies that are looming on the horizon.
Beginning this past April, Computerworld accepted nominations online for innovative technologies that meet the needs of corporate IT. We received 255 nominations. Eligible organizations were required to have a technology that meets one of the following criteria:
• Provides the means for applications integration across disparate systems and geographies. • Facilitates communication and collaboration among geographically dispersed teams/business units. • Provides security for corporate information assets, and privacy for employee and customer information. • Manages burgeoning needs for information storage and disaster recovery in a regulated world. • Provides manageable mobile/wireless computing for office workers, remote employees and business travelers. • Improves communications and visibility within the supply chain. • Makes it easier to manage the plethora of computing, networking and storage devices in todays corporations. • Manages and turns a profit from e-commerce and Web initiatives. • Extracts and leverage critical business intelligence from expanding data stores. • Develops high-quality, in-house software applications that meet business needs, on time and on budget. • Makes basic, underlying improvement in hardware or software architecture that improves processing or communication efficiencies for a wide variety of applications. • Brings productivity enhancements for consumers through new technology innovations.
Horizon Awards nominations were also collected from a panel of expert scouts, who alerted us to unique technologies in the field.
Information collected in all nominations was then sent to a panel of judges, who reviewed and scored the candidates. Based on those evaluations, Computerworld chose 10 Horizon Award winners and 10 honorable mentions.
Special thanks go to our six scouts and nine judges, who helped find and evaluate the winning technologies featured here. This panel of industry experts alerted us to technologies on the horizon: Anatole Gershman, distinguished service professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University Paul Gillin, principal of Paul Gillin Communications, founding editor in chief at TechTarget, former editor in chief at Computerworld Jose-Marie Griffiths, dean and a professor of the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill David Orenstein, communications and public relations manager at Stanford University School of Engineering Ed Sim, venture capitalist and founding member and managing director at Dawntreader Ventures Jay Srini, vice president of emerging technologies at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
This panel of IT executives helped evaluate dozens of technologies: Dennis Fishback, CIO and senior vice president at Calpine Corp. David G. Greenwood, vice president of strategic technology and innovation at Genworth Financial Inc. Norbert J. Kubilus, CIO at Sunterra Corp., William Edward Pence, senior vice president and chief technology officer at Napster LLC Beth S. Perlman, CIO and senior vice president at Constellation Energy Group Inc., Larry Quinlan, CIO at Deloitte & Touche USA LLP, Harry Roberts, senior vice president and CIO at Boscovs Department Store LLC, David N. Saul, senior vice president at State Street Corp., Gordon D. Wishon, CIO and associate vice president and associate provost for IT at the University of Notre Dame.
Program coordinators: Gary Anthes, Ellen Fanning and Mari Keefe.
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