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2008 Software Innovation Award Finalists

SoftwareCEO Innovation Awards

The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA), the leading trade association for the world’s information technology (IT) industry, announced the finalists for the 2008 SoftwareCEO Software Innovation Awards.

The SoftwareCEO Software Innovation Awards will recognize innovative software products and new business models in eight different categories. Award winners will be announced at the Software Marketing Perspectives conference this May in Santa Clara, Calif.

Finalists by category are:

 

Company Achievement in Innovation
Company Name Product or Service Name Type of Nomination
Next IT Corporation for ActiveAgent™
Next IT Corporation Company
Visible World intelliSpot
Visible World intelliSpot Software Product
Nexidia
Nexidia Company
Print Audit
Print Audit Software Product
Maximizer Software Inc.
MaxMobile Software Product

 

Most Innovative Enterprise Software
Company Name Product or Service Name Type of Nomination
Splunk Inc.
Splunk 3.1.5 Software Product
ICT, Inc.
AcceleNet Software Product
Intermine

FileCensus

Software Product
Knoa Software Inc.
Knoa Experience & Performance Manager (EPM) Software Product
Next IT Corporation
Next IT Corporation for ActiveAgent™ Software Product
Q.Know
Q.Know Enterprise Software Software Product
SAVO Group

SAVO

Software Product
Bit9, Inc.
Bit9 Parity Software Product
JackBe Corporation
JackBe’s Presto Enterprise Mashup Platform Software Product

 

Most Innovative General Business Software
Company Name Product or Service Name Type of Nomination
BoardVantage, Inc.
BoardVantage Board Portal Secure Vault Software Product
Central Desktop Inc.

Central Desktop

Software Product
Integration Point, Inc.
Integration Point Software Product
Market2Lead, Inc.
Market2Lead Software Product
SmartDraw
SmartDraw 2008 Software Product
Boston College Center
Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship Assessment Tool Software Product
Rapid Intake
Unison Software Product

 

Most Innovative Service/Business Model
Company Name Product or Service Name Type of Nomination
SAVO Group

SAVO

Software Product
Tax Technology Services

CertCapture - Exemption Certificate Management Solution

Software Product
Vitrium Systems
docmetrics Software Product
Generate Corporation
Generate gClick Service
TriActive, Inc.

TriActive Systems Management On Demand™

Software Product
Unisfair Inc.
Unisfair Virtual Events Service
SPS Commerce
SPS Commerce Company
Skoach
Skoach™ Software Product

 

Most Innovative Small and Medium-Sized
Infrastructure Software
Company Name Product or Service Name Type of Nomination
eEmpACT

eEmpACT Software, Version 14.0

Software Product
InnoSource Business Solutions
Docufree Software Product
BlueCat Networks
BlueCat Networks: Proteus Company
HyperOffice
HyperOffice Software Product

 

Most Innovative Software for the Software Industry
Company Name Product or Service Name Type of Nomination
Aladdin Knowledge Systems, Inc.

Aladdin HASP SRM

Software Product
Bomgar™ Corporation

Bomgar software, Version 10.0

Software Product
OpSource
OpSource Connect Software Product
SourceKibitzer
SourceKibitzer EyeQ Software Product
Accept Software
Accept Innovation Management Solutions Software Product

 

Most Innovative Software Idea
Company Name Product or Service Name Type of Nomination
GreenPrint Technologies

GreenPrint

Software Product
Next IT Corporation

Next IT Corporation for ActiveAgent™

Software Product

 

Most Innovative Vertical Industry Software
Company Name Product or Service Name Type of Nomination
Autotask Corporation

Autotask

Software Product
Bullhorn, Inc.

Bullhorn On Demand Integrated Front Office Software

Software Product
Gemcom Software International Inc.

Gemcom InSite

Software Product
Scivantage

Scivantage Maxit

Software Product
Greycon Ltd.

D-Opt

Software Product
Satori Group, Inc.

i-Performance

Software Product
Exaktime
PocketClock/GPS portable time and attendance tracking system Software Product


Award finalists were determined by evaluations of this panel of esteemed software industry experts:

  1. Winton Churchill, Churchill Method, Inc.
  2. Jim Geisman, MarketShare, Inc.
  3. Gordon Graham, Editor, SoftwareCEO
  4. Charles Mills , Strategic Due Dilligence
  5. Bruce Hadley, Founder, SoftwareCEO
  6. Robert Dubicki, TP Systems Ltd.
  7. Dave Sommer, Publisher, SoftwareCEO

Criteria for the awards include:

  • Scope - What business problem or opportunity does the software innovation address? What is the size of the problem/opportunity?
  • Impact - What practical results, such as sales, users or profits, has the innovation had on a software product or on the software industry? The innovation must be new and have both a current and future impact.
  • Novel - How does the innovation break with traditional ideas or processes?

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