The Innovation Awards were created to recognize technological achievements that demonstrate creative thinking and determined problem solving. They honor the individuals and companies who have forged new ground and implemented JBoss Enterprise Middleware and open source solutions in inspiring ways.
JBoss Innovator of the Year:
Ecommerce Inc. & Vizuri: Ecommerce, Inc., www.ecommerce.com, is a global web hosting and ecommerce services provider with a sound customer base of several hundred thousand individuals and businesses from around the globe, and currently hosts more than half a million domains on its infrastructure. Vizuri, www.vizuri.com, is a Red Hat Advanced Business Partner and Preferred JBoss Certified Systems Integrator committed to delivering innovation by utilizing open source solutions to provide cost-effective, enterprise solutions. Ecommerce and Vizuri were selected for their work in developing Imperia, an Intelligent Data Center web services hosting platform that aims to increase customer service, reduce customer turnover, reduce operational costs, and increase customer reliability using Red Hat, JBoss, Hyperic and EnterpriseDB solutions. Ecommerce chose Vizuri to develop the project because of its excellent track record with Red Hat based open source solutions and strong placement within the industry.
Winners by Category:
Management Excellence:American Family Insurance: American Family Insurance, www.amfam.com, is the nation's third-largest mutual property and casualty insurer and the 14th-largest property and casualty insurance company with more than $4.1 billion in policyholder equity, and a network of 4,000 agents who serve 19 states. American Family Insurance is migrating to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform from WebSphere, and was selected for its use of JBoss Operations Network to manage its servers and its close work with the JBoss engineering team that plans to provide benefits to the open source community and commercial enterprises looking at JBoss ON.
Optimized Systems:
Harvard Business Publishing & Rivet Logic: Harvard Business Publishing (HBP), www.harvardbusiness.org, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Harvard University, providing a wide range of publications - both print and online - that target academic, enterprise and individual manager markets. Rivet Logic, www.rivetlogic.com, is a consulting and systems integration firm that provides professional open source services and solutions for organizations such as HBP. Rivet Logic and HBP were selected for the innovative use of open source solutions from Red Hat, JBoss, and Alfresco at HBP, that have enabled increased stability and the ability to develop products faster, bundle existing products more efficiently, and generate new revenue opportunities by increasing site traffic and offering richer, fresher, and more varied content.
Superior Alternatives:
GEICO: GEICO (Government Employees Insurance Company), www.geico.com, is the third-largest private passenger auto insurer in the United States. The company provides auto insurance coverage for more than 9 million policyholders. GEICO was selected for its evaluation and choice of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform to reduce total cost of ownership by more than 30 percent and overall resource utilization went from above 50 percent to under 10 percent, which allowed significant room for scalability without having to acquire additional hardware.
Carved Out Costs:
Allianz Australia Ltd: Allianz Australia Limited, www.allianz.com.au, Australia's fourth largest general insurer with over two million policyholders, operates across Australia and New Zealand and offers a wide range of insurance and risk management products and services.
Extensive Ecosystem:
Optaros + Massachusetts Convention Center Authority: Optaros, www.optaros.com, is an open source consulting firm that specializes in the development of custom applications for clients through the Assembled Web. The Massachusetts Convention Center Authority (MCCA), www.mccahome.com, owns and oversees the operation of four major facilities, including the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center (BCEC). According to the MCCA, it has generated $2.3 billion in economic impact over the past five years in the greater Boston area and is the eighth busiest convention center in North America. Optaros and MCCA staff worked together to rebuild the MCCA's event management system. The product, known as ShowBiz, helps streamline the detailed process of setting up large-scale events, and is now completely run on an open source stack that was designed and assembled by Optaros. Approximately 90 percent of the MCCA's day-to-day operations now run on open source solutions from JBoss Enterprise Middleware.
Outstanding Open Source Architecture: (Red Hat Summit & JBoss World)
Ecommerce Inc. & Vizuri: Ecommerce, Inc., www.ecommerce.com, is a global web hosting and ecommerce services provider with a sound customer base of several hundred thousand individuals and businesses from around the globe, and currently hosts more than half a million domains on its infrastructure. Vizuri, www.vizuri.com, is a Red Hat Advanced Business Partner and Preferred JBoss Certified Systems Integrator committed to delivering innovation by utilizing open source solutions to provide cost-effective, enterprise solutions. Ecommerce and Vizuri were selected for their work in developing Imperia, an Intelligent Data Center web services hosting platform that aims to increase customer service, reduce customer turnover, reduce operational costs, and increase customer reliability using Red Hat, JBoss, Hyperic and EnterpriseDB solutions. Ecommerce chose Vizuri to develop the project because of its excellent track record with Red Hat based open source solutions and strong placement within the industry.
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