Infoworld 100 awards Top 10 Finalists- Innovative IT companies ntegrated technologies in innovative ways in pursuit of concrete business goals.

1. InfoWorld 100
Awards
Top 10
Finalists
2008

2. InfoWorld 100 Awards celebrate 100 IT
organizations that have implemented and
integrated technologies in innovative ways in
pursuit of concrete business goals. These 100 real-
world projects stand as proof that striking a new
path in IT can reap deep organizational rewards.
From the 100, 10 rise above the rest.

3. Presenting
The Top 10
Finalists

4. Accenture
10
Finalists
The services firm launched a comprehensive collaboration initiative,
leveraging a wealth of technologies, including telepresence, VoIP, and
videoconferencing to establish a quot;borderless workplacequot; conducive to
face-to-face collaboration among coworkers dispersed across the globe.

5. ADP
10
Finalists
ADP centralized its IT operations into two identical datacenters,
consolidating data processing operations, centralizing fragmented line-
of-business operations into a utility computing infrastructure, and
reducing its overall carbon footprint by 24,000 tons per year..

6. BlueStar Energy Services
10
Finalists
The energy services firm developed its NextStar SOA initiative to
streamline and automate core business processes, including customer
enrollment, provisioning, care, and billing, from the ground up, relying in
large part on open source technologies…

7. Con-way
10
Finalists
To minimize planning time and distance traveled by forklifts at freight
docks, Con-way developed Step Saver, a Web-based interactive system
based on numerous development tools, cutting planning time by 38
percent to the tune of $3 million in annual savings..

8. Direct Energy
10
Finalists
The energy services firm developed Jumpstart, a multilayered BI solution
that includes a 100GB data warehouse, a 40GB data mart, OLAP cube
repositories, and ETL-based integration. The project, thanks to deep
analytics and forecasting capabilities, has saved Direct Energy $30 million
in bad debt and customer churn to date.

9. Eaton
10
Finalists
The diversified manufacturing firm dramatically reduced the cost of
communications across its global operations by establishing a voice-
enabled global area network, replete with unified communications and
collaboration functionality -- all without completely recapitalizing its
legacy telephony environment.

10. Midland Memorial Hospital
10
Finalists
The Texas-based hospital transformed 1970s-era code into a modern
EHR (electronic health records) system, integrating 10 critical health
applications into a near-paperless environment at a third the cost of
proprietary EHR systems, resulting in vastly reduced infection and
medication error rates.

11. Morgan Keegan
10
Finalists
To gird against downtime, the financial services firm re-architected
resiliency into its systems by tapping virtualization, splitting its clustered
environment in half, and building a metropolitan area network from the
ground up.

12. Qualcomm
10
Finalists
The mobile technology firm consolidated 75 percent of its Windows
server environment, extending virtualization to the desktop, and pushing
the company toward thin mobile computing as part of an effort to
establish a next-generation, organizationwide cloud-based architecture.

13. Wells Fargo & Co.
10
Finalists
Wells Fargo developed a next-generation ATM platform tapping state-of-
the-art development technologies and integrating the resultant dynamic
UI with the company's mainframe systems to deliver customized services
based on transaction history and customer preferences.

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