As Internet World has been co-located with Streaming Media for the past year, this year's Best Of Show Awards program has been expanded to include products on the Streaming Media exhibition floor as well.
"Internet World has long been a place where attendees can see the state of Internet technology," said John Zipperer, technology editor of Internet World magazine and head of the judging staff. "Over its ten years, the event has focused on a variety of hot topics, running the gamut from infrastructure to customer service. What's notable this year is that the companies vying for the Best of Show Awards represent a broader spectrum of Internet technologies."
Prior to this morning's keynote address by Tony Scott, CTO of GM, the editors of Internet World announced this year's winners in the following categories:
BUSINESS APPLICATION: Cysive, Inc., won for its Cysive Cymbio Interaction Server, which is an interaction server that helps companies interact with their customers, partners, and employees over multiple channels. Playing in the Web services field, the solution also handles the long-running transactions (that can last for days or more) that are familiar to enterprises.
CLIENT SOFTWARE: Computer Associates won for its CleverPath suite of applications. CleverPath brings together such trends as the use of portals to present information with the need to access and manipulate that information, and it does so with an easily configurable interface.
CLIENT DEVICES: Sprint won for its PCS Phone by Handspring Treo 300, a device that combines a mobile phone with a handheld organizer. With Internet access speeds between 50 and 70 Kbps, the device gives users easy access to e-mail, contacts, calendaring, and other features.
COMMERCE: Internet Server Connections, Inc., won for its Commerce Made Easy solution, a solution for building e-commerce capabilities. Aimed at service providers, Commerce Made Easy does not use cookies, and it has a friendly interface and uses familiar Web wizards.
COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION: Sprint also won this category, this time for its eVideoconferencing(SM) product, which can join together IP and ISDN endpoints in a single video conference. Using a simple Web interface, it offers a wide selection of tools, including reporting, user help, and administrative features.
DESIGN: LinkTek, a company formally incorporated just two weeks before the Internet World show, won for its LinkFixerPlus, which saves Web teams a great deal of time by allowing for the automatic detection and repair of broken links on Web sites.
DEVELOPMENT TOOLS AND APPLICATION SERVICES: With Enterprise Pty Ltd won for Witango, a tool that allows for rapid application development. It uses XML in a Java environment, and allows cross-platform deployment.
ENTERTAINMENT: X3D Technologies Corp. won for X3D Gateway Software, which can change two-dimensional Internet and video content into 3D content "on the fly." Priced affordably, it could popularize 3-D images on the Web.
INFRASTRUCTURE: Radware won for its Content Inspection Director product, which is a scalable solution that ensures the availability of an enterprise's content-filtering services.
MARKETING AND CUSTOMER SERVICES: Fused Solutions, Inc., won for its FS Virtual Agent, a software product that can reduce companies' customer-care support costs by building easy-to-use customer self-service systems. It's also easy-to-use for the content creator.
SECURITY: Entercept Security Technologies won for its self-named Entercept product, an intrusion-detection solution. Using both behavioral and signature-based technology, this solution protects against both known and unknown attacks.
STREAMING MEDIA: sofTV.net won for its sofTV.Presenter, a powerful and simple tool for creating video presentations that can be rapidly loaded onto the Web.
