Crossroads 2002 A-List Awards Application Deadline Today.Business/Technology Editors BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 27, 2001 Open Systems Advisors, Inc. (OSA 1. OSA - Open Scripting Architecture. 2. OSA - Open System Architecture. ) will be accepting applications for its Crossroads 2002 A-List Awards program through today, Monday August 27, 2001. OSA had issued a second call for participation for technology providers addressing the specialized demands of global enterprises and service providers. That effort covered the following technology segments: -- Strategic intelligence applications for global enterprises -- Operations platforms for service providers -- Rich-media tools and services -- Next-generation customer interaction applications -- Design collaboration applications and services The Crossroads A-List Award Program recognizes technology companies whose products or services meet two key criteria: -- They address today's most critical business priorities -- determined by primary research with business decision makers -- They are newly proven to deliver real business results to customers in the field -- determined by a second round of primary research with lighthouse lighthouse, towerlike structure erected to give guidance and warning to ships and aircraft by either visible or radioelectrical means. Lighthouses were long built to conform in structure to their geographical location. Until the beginning of the 19th cent. (installed) customers. Business and technology executives at user organizations use the Crossroads A-List Awards to make faster, better-informed technology purchase decisions. The financial marketplace uses the Awards as a tool for translating the value delivered for customers to superior value for investors. Previous winners of the Crossroads A-List Award include: Bowstreet, eRoom Technology, Inc., HP 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. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : HWP HWP Height (and) Weight Proportionate HWP Half-Wave Plate HWP Highway Patrol HWP Height Weight Proportional HWP Hewlett-Packard Corporation (stock symbol) HWP Hydrolyzed Whey Peptides ), IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Corporation (NYSE: IBM), Kabira Technologies, Inc., SeeBeyond (NASADAQ: SBYN), and Verity ver·i·ty n. pl. ver·i·ties 1. The quality or condition of being true, factual, or real. 2. Something, such as a statement, principle, or belief, that is true, especially an enduring truth: (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 : VRTY). Crossroads 2002 A-List Award winners will be recognized at the ninth annual Crossroads Conference to be held March 17-20, 2002 in Phoenix, AZ. Interested parties should contact Kevin Ruane (617.859.0859 or kruane@crossroads-osa.com) for additional details. Further information is also available online at www.crossroads-osa.com. About Open Systems Advisors, Inc. Founded in 1989, Open Systems Advisors, Inc. (Crossroads-OSA) provides a real-world perspective on using new technology in business. OSA's research is based on an ongoing and in-depth dialogue with hundreds of seasoned IT executives and business leaders who are using emerging technologies to achieve business results. OSA reports the Crossroads Decisions, awards the Crossroads A-List and produces the Crossroads Conference. (R)Crossroads is a registered trademark and Crossroads A-List, Crossroads Decisions and bizno-tech are trademarks of Open Systems Advisors, Inc.; any other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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