Audience Picks the Most Innovative It Solutions for First Quarter 2000 From Selected Demos; Companies Vie for Top Honors At Giga Information Group Conference.Business/Technology Editors CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 20, 1999 After a stringent selection process, an array of small and large IT providers presented timed product demonstrations before a high-level audience of CIOs, senior level end-users, and international press at Giga Information Group's second annual Emerging Technology Scene conference in Palm Desert, California Palm Desert is a city in Riverside County, California, in the Coachella Valley (Palm Springs area), approximately 11 miles east of Palm Springs. The population was 41,155 at the 2000 census. . Each group of product demonstrations was followed by evaluations by senior-level end-user "critics" panels. The "critics" included leading executives such as Dr. James Canton Canton, cities, United States Canton. 1 City (1990 pop. 13,922), Fulton co., W central Ill., in the corn belt; inc. 1849. It is a trade and industrial center for a coal and farm area. 2 Town (1990 pop. 18,530), Norfolk co. , President, The Institute for Global Futures; Scott Dinsdale, Executive Vice President, Firstlook.com; Pamela Jordan, Vice President of Information Systems, SAIF Corporation; Bob Offut, Vice President, Sabre Labs; Max Palmer Max Palmer was born in a small town in Mississippi called Ponotoc. He had three sisters, all of normal height. His mother measured 5 feet tall and he himself was billed at 8 foot 2 inches, though may have been around 7 ft 7 in. His acting spanned from 1952 to 1954. , CIO CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. (Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization. , National Securities Clearing Corporation; Stephen Pozgaj, CIO Mackenzie Financial Corp.; Steve Wincor, Deployment & Infrastructure Manager, Lockheed Martin For the former company, see . Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is a leading multinational aerospace manufacturer and advanced technology company formed in 1995 by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta. ; among others. The panels critically assessed each product's level of innovation, business application potential, and overall quality. The audience then voted on the most innovative products in each of the four technology segments or TechnoVistas focusing on: e-business applications, Web infrastructures, CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. , and desktop & devices; yielding the following results: TechnoVista 1- Behind the Scenes of e-Business Applications Product voted overall winner in category - Total-e-Business from Bluestone bluestone, common name for the blue, crystalline heptahydrate of cupric sulfate called chalcanthite, a minor ore of copper. It also refers to a fine-grained, light to dark colored blue-gray sandstone. Software, Inc. Product voted most innovative in category - Total-e-Business from Bluestone Software, Inc. Product voted as having the best business application potential - - Total-e-Business from Bluestone Software, Inc. Product voted highest quality demonstration - Total-e-Business from Bluestone Software, Inc. TechnoVista 2- Spinning the Enterprise Web: Infrastructures for e-Commerce e-commerce, commerce conducted over the Internet, most often via the World Wide Web. E-commerce can apply to purchases made through the Web or to business-to-business activities such as inventory transfers. Product voted overall winner in category - e-@ction Enterprise Server ES7000 from Unisys Corporation (company) Unisys Corporation - The company formed in 1984-5 when Burroughs Corporation merged with Sperry Corporation. This was when the phrase "dinosaurs mating" was coined. Product voted most innovative in category - MetaConnect from ISOCOR Product voted as having the best business application potential - MetaConnect from ISOCOR Product voted highest quality demonstration - e-@ction Enterprise Server ES7000 from Unisys Corporation TechnoVista 3-4 - Technologies Enabling the Connected Worker of Tomorrow Product voted overall winner in category - AudioMining from Dragon Systems Dragon Systems, Inc., was the company that created DragonDictate and Dragon NaturallySpeaking. It was founded in 1982 by Drs. James and Janet Baker and bought by Lernout & Hauspie in 2000. , Inc. Product voted most innovative in category - AudioMining from Dragon Systems, Inc. Product voted as having the best business application potential - AudioMining from Dragon Systems, Inc. Product voted highest quality demonstration -AudioMining from Dragon Systems, Inc. TechnoVista 5 - Customer-Centric e-Business Solutions Product voted overall winner in category - Silknet eSales from Silknet Software Product voted most innovative in category - Silknet eSales from Silknet Software Product voted as having the best business application potential - Silknet eSales from Silknet Software Product voted highest quality demonstration - Silknet eSales from Silknet Software About Giga Information Group Giga Information Group (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :GIGX) provides objective research, advice and continuous coaching on technology for e-Business. Giga's integrated suite of offerings helps clients make strategic decisions about the technologies, people and processes needed to excel in the new digital economy. Emphasizing close interaction between analysts and clients, Giga delivers support with the speed and scope necessary for e-Business. Giga, founded by Gideon I. Gartner, began providing services in April 1996 and now has a global client base encompassing more than 1,000 organizations and over 118,000 licensed users, making it the fastest growing company in the IT advisory industry's history. P. Its enterprise clients include companies that use, sell and invest in technology. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts This article is about the city of Cambridge in Massachusetts. For the English university town, see Cambridge, England. For other places, see Cambridge (disambiguation). Cambridge, Massachusetts is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. , Giga has 10 other offices covering the Americas and Europe. Giga is also represented by distributors in other areas of the world. The Company's Web site can be accessed at http://www.gigaweb.com. 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