JBoss Innovation Awards
JBoss, a division of Red Hat is pleased to announce the results of the JBoss Innovation Awards 2008. In its second year, the awards program is designed to recognize individuals, project teams and companies for technical achievements that show both creative thinking and determined problem solving with JBoss and Red Hat solutions. JBoss customers and partners worldwide were invited to submit a nomination, or be nominated by a development team leader, business partner, or supplier.
A panel of judges selected one winner from each of the categories below to be an Innovation Award winner. Winners received a free pass to the JBoss World Orlando, where their their technological achievements were featured in a press release and at an awards ceremony. At JBoss World, the community was encouraged to vote for the Innovator of the Year — the person who forged new ground and used JBoss solutions in an inspiring way. The community selected, Rivet Logic for Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions as the 2008 JBoss Innovator of the Year. Read the blog.
We would like to congratulate each of the category winners for their captivating stories of technical achievement and encourage you to read their submissions. It's not too early to begin thinking about your project to submit for 2009!
Category Winners
Emerging and Leading Edge Technologies
Winner: Big Lots
Submitter: Big Lots Application Architecture Team
Vertical: Retail
Location: Columbus, OH
You have cool, unique applications and systems you're building and deploying with cutting-edge technologies from JBoss.org and other open source projects.
Joint JBoss/Red Hat Deployment
Winner: CompuCredit
Submitter: Guido F. Sacchi, CIO and SVP, Corporate Strategies, Cindy Hayden, Manager of Real-Time Integration
Vertical: Financial services
Location: Atlanta, GA
An innovative solution that leverages Red Hat and JBoss solutions together, or that uses Red Hat Application Stack. This project demonstrates the value of open source.
Migration
Winner: Sakonnet
Submitter: David Renton, Vice President, Product Delivery at Sakonnet
Vertical: Oil and Gas
Location: New York, London, Rio de Janeiro
You have modernized your IT infrastructure with JBoss solutions. You have developed decision process and best practices that have made your migration from other platforms to JBoss a resounding success. Migrations can be from other competing platforms or legacy systems.
User Experience
Winner: Daiwa Securities
Submitter: Steve Dunstan, Vice President / Enterprise Systems Architect
Vertical: Financial services
Location: New York, NY
Today, the user experience is one of the most important issues in application development. You have used JBoss solutions such as JBoss Portal, JBoss RichFaces, etc. to improve collaboration, interaction, and information sharing in your organization.
Business Process Automation
Winner: SK Telecom/Helio
Submitter: Junwon Lee, Manager, Convergence and Internet R&D Center, SK Telecom
Location: Korea/USA
You're ahead of the curve and have automated business processes with JBoss solutions in your enterprise.
Ecosystem
Winner: Rivet Logic for Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions
Submitter: Mike Vertal, CEO/President/Owner
Location: Reston, VA
JBoss' Partner Ecosystem offers customers a wide variety of choices for proven, industry-standard technology solutions to solve real-world business challenges. You have leveraged these choices to build a compelling architecture that resulted in a transformation of your business.
Increased Return on Investment
Winner: Alintec for the Province of Bergamo
Submitter: Sanne Grinovero, Architect IT
Location: Milan, Italy
An innovative approach to drive out cost and achieve measurable ROI as a result of implementing a JBoss solution. Results could include financial return or percentage increase in productivity, yield, efficiency, quality, or uptime performance.
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Implementation
Winner: Vivat Consulting for US Trust
Submitter: Max Yankelevich, Chief Architect
Vertical: Vivat = Technology Partner / US Trust = Government, Financial
Location: Bensalem, PA
Shifting to an SOA is not always easy. You've moved down that path with JBoss and have a solution that leverages SOA concepts to solve a business problem while improving utilization and agility.
A big thank you to our judges:
- Sacha Labourey, GM Middleware Division, Red Hat
- Craig Muzilla, GM Middleware Division, Red Hat
- Matt Asay, CNET
- Chris Haddad, Burton Group
Questions:
- Contact JBossworld@jboss.com
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