Ed Brill

Lotus Awards 2008: And the winners are...

As just announced by IBM, here are the 2008 Lotus Awards winners and finalists.  Congratulations to all!

These will be published shortly on lotus.com at http://www.ibm.com/software/lotus/awards2008/

Category	Winner	Finalists
Best Unified Communications and Collaboration solution	CodaChat from Coda OnDemand Systems, Singapore	Click to Meet from RadVision, USA VoiceRite plug-in client for Lotus Sametime from VoiceRite, USA
Best total Lotus Software solution	GEDYS IntraWare GmbH, Germany	GIS Management Cockpit from GIS, Germany Neo.Dashboard from OpusNeo, Denmark
Best Industry solution	RIX from E-ON Integration SA, Greece	Idea Central from Imaginatik, USA Second Signal from Northern Collaborative Technologies, USA
Best Messaging and Collaboration solution	Virtual Office for Services Industries from Brookstone Technologies, Australia	SecurTrac from Extracomm, Canada Mail Attender from Sherpa Software, USA
Best Tool/Utility solution	IntelliPRINT from Synaptris, USA	Mobile Admin from Rove, Canada Blackberry MDS - Studio Development Platform from RIM, Canada
Best Philanthropy Award	Mission Control System from Lotus911, USA	eAkte from Cedros, Germany Celtel Africa Challenge from PSC Group LLC, USA
Best Mid-Market solution	Project4Domino from GeniusInside, Switzerland	Home Inspections Application from RESolutions Consulting LLC, USA Pressley Ridge, USA
Best Portal solution	Complete Enterprise Portal from Alphalogix, USA	Scantron Portal 360 from Ascendant, USA ProjExec Online from Trilog Group, USA

Here are the finalists for the Distinguished Achievement awards, listed in alphabetical order -- winners for these will be announced at Lotusphere 2008:

North America: Ascendant Technology, 4C Technologies, Perficient
Latin America: Assist Consultores de Sistemas, Iberia Assessoria em Informatica, Plansis Planejamento e Sistemas
Northeast Europe: GIS, LAN2LAN, 3ESS Konsulentselskap AS
Southwest Europe: EASI, Sowre Consulting España, V DOC
Asia Pacific: Maum Info, Softcell Technologies, Softwork Taiwan
Japan: Hitachi Software Engineering Co. Ltd., Otsuka Corporation, PFU Limited