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InfoWorld 100

The InfoWorld 100 awards celebrate IT projects that use technology in smart, innovative, creative ways to meet business and technical objectives.

2009 Winners included:

AT&T AT&T | Wireless, DSL Internet, U-verse, Digital TV, and Phone Service

Knowledge Management Initiative

Project lead: Pam Parisian, Senior Vice President, Consumer IT
Project description: AT&T developed the Atlas Knowledge Management system for call center representatives, replacing several regional KMSes with a unified, AJAX-derived Web app, based on a flexible in-house built architecture and third-party search.
Industry: Service provider

Cisco Systems Cisco Systems, Inc

Operational Security Oversight Dashboard

Project lead: Michael Machado, Manager of Security Engineering and Operations, Cisco Collaboration Software Group (WebEx)
Project description: Cisco built a RedSeal software-based security oversight dashboard to continuously analyze the configurations of its Cisco Collaboration Cloud firewalls and routers, as well as the results of daily vulnerability scans, identifying patching priorities, validating the enforcement of corporate network security polices, and ensuring compliance with PCI and other regulations.
Industry: Technology

ConvergEx BNY ConvergEx

Complex Event Processing for Trading Intelligence

Project lead: Joseph Weisbord, Managing Director
Project description: ConvergEx launched a complex event processing initiative for its financial trading operations centered around technology from StreamBase.
Industry: Financial services

HealthTrans :: HealthTrans ::

Data Warehouse Initiative

Project lead: Duane Green, Vice President, Systems Operations
Project description: HealthTrans built a 100TB data warehouse for managing pharmacy benefit programs, centered on technology from Sybase.
Industry: Health care

Lincoln Trust www.lincolntrustco.com

Business Process Management Initiative

Project lead: David Neitz, Vice President of IT
Project description: Lincoln Trust completed a series of projects using a BPM program approach, developing a data warehouse to support 15 new business processes across 10 business units, as well as a data delivery mechanism based on Microsoft SharePoint Portal, ProClarity, and SQL Server Reporting Services.
Industry: Financial services

Media Innovation Group Media Innovation Group

Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence

Project lead: Brian Lesser, Vice President and General Manager
Project description: The Media Innovation Group developed an advertising delivery platform based on technology from Netezza.
Industry: Media

NetApp NetApp

Enterprise Business Intelligence Project

Project lead: Dongyan Wang, Senior IT Director, BI & Data Management
Project description: NetApp launched a comprehensive BI initiative, developing an SOA-style framework based on technology from Oracle, Microsoft, and Cisco and a data warehouse built on Oracle 10g to pull in data from several upstream apps, including Siebel CRM, Oracle ERP, and PeopleSoft HRMS.
Industry: Technology

Peerless Foods www.peerlessfoods.com.au

Open Source Business Intelligence System

Project lead: Adrian Hamilton, CIO
Project description: Peerless Foods developed an ERP system based on open source software from Ingres and Jaspersoft, automating end-to-end business processes, including forecasting, ordering, production, packaging, and distribution.
Industry: Retail

ProcureStaff Technologies Welcome to ProcureStaff Technologies

Human Capital Business Intelligence Data Warehouse

Project lead: Allen Rittscher, President and CTO
Project description: ProcureStaff launched a business intelligence and data warehouse initiative geared toward aggregating and cleansing human capital management data for BI analysis, tapping SQL Server, ETL packages based on SQL DTS, and various reporting, OLAP, and analytics technologies.
Industry: Services

Reliance Communications Welcome to Reliance Communications

Web 2.0/SSO-Enabled Collaborative Platform

Project lead: Dr. Sumit Chowdhury, CIO
Project description: Reliance Communications developed a Web 2.0-based collaborative platform, unifying multiple, department-focused information architectures through use of SAP ERP, WebSphere, Intel servers, F5 load balancers, LDAP servers, single sign-on, and iGoogle as a design framework.
Industry: Service provider

U.S. Army www.us.army.mil

Army Knowledge Online Security Monitoring

Project lead: Earl Noble, Program Manager, AKO/DKO
Project description: The U.S. Army overhauled its approach to securing the Army Knowledge Online/Defense Knowledge Online portal consolidating data from myriad devices and applications and integrating security monitoring technology from ArcSight into a variety of legacy systems.
Industry: Government

Wells Fargo & Co. www.wellsfargo.com

Business Process Management Initiative

Project lead: Paul Tazbaz, Enterprise Architect
Project description: Wells Fargo has undertaken a BPM initiative in the wake of its merger with Wachovia, integrating Tibco software with an open source reporting engine and business intelligence and reporting tools.
Industry: Financial services